Pakatan Rakyat will show solidarity with the people of Libya opposing their dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi with a peaceful gathering outside the Libyan Embassy in Kuala Lumpur after Friday prayers tomorrow.

At least 500 supporters, including a number of Libyan students studying in Malaysia and its embassy staff, will be taking part in the gathering in front of the embassy on Jalan Madge, off Jalan U-Thant in Ampang.

PAS international bureau chief Syed Azman Syed Ahmad said a memorandum would be handed to the Libyan ambassador calling for an immediate halt to the killings of innocent civilians.

NONE "We feel an urgency to support the Libyan people, as massive killings of innocents are uncalled for," he told Malaysiakini when contacted today.

The gathering will take place at 2.30pm, after the Friday solat , and is expected to last about an hour. Several NGOs will also take part.

Syed Azman said the Libyan ambassador to Malaysia is also likely to join the gathering outside the embassy.

PAS central committee member Mohamad Sabu called on all Malaysians to take part in the gathering outside the embassy.

'Oppose violent killings of innocent people'

"Everyone should come tomorrow to show their opposition to the violence and killings of innocent protesters," Mohamad said.

On Tuesday, Libyan embassy officials in Kuala Lumpur joined many of their colleagues around the world in condemning Gaddafi for the killings of many who took part in anti-government protests in their country.

Some 300 Libyans in the country, most of them students, had then demonstrated peacefully outside the embassy.

The protesters burned a portrait of their dictator of more than four decades during the two-hour demonstration, before the police ordered them to disperse.

An embassy official, Osama Ahmad, distributed a statement supporting the anti-government movement.

According to reports by AFP today, the Libyan military, police and militiamen have been killing unarmed demonstrators indiscriminately, even to the point of air force planes strafing civilians.

NONE Libyans are also fleeing their country, with a United Nations spokesman saying about 5,000 people have arrived at the border with Tunisia and 15,000 at the border with Egypt.

China, India, South Korea, the European Union and the United States, among others, have scrambled to evacuate people from the turbulent nation, with the international community expressing outrage at the crackdown.

UN chief demand international action

UN chief Ban Ki-moon demanded international action against attacks on civilians and warned that Libya was now at a dangerous juncture. He also welcomed moves to set up an "international inquiry into events in Libya".

Peru has suspended diplomatic ties with Libya, the first nation to do so, and numerous ministers, diplomats and military officers in Libya have announced their support for the rebellion against Gaddafi.

The turmoil in Libya, which has Africa's largest oil reserves and is the continent's fourth-largest producer, has resulted in many Western oil companies suspending operations and sent crude prices soaring.

Todate, some 173 civilians have been killed, with hundreds more injured.

Gaddafi has ruled Libya as "Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution" since overthrowing the monarchy in 1969.

Following the retirement of former Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro in 2008 and the death of Gabon President Omar Bongo in 2009, Gaddafi is the world's longest ruling non-royal head of state.

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