Death toll in Lybia rising, Gaddafi slaughtering his people

Regarding the situation in Lybia, there is increasing evidence that the government has stepped up or at least sustained its violent crackdown on protesters. There are reports of 300 people having been killed since Thursday, others speak of 150 dead people in Benghazi alone in the last night. A spreviously in Egypt, Internet access in Lybia has partially been shut down with several sites also being blocked. As far as I know the number of foreign correspondents and the general presence of foreign media had been low in Lybia previous to the uprisings, so there is not many professional media accounts available. Thus we are left with messages as transmitted via facebook, twitter and youtube, and the death count in an spreadsheet. I give you some exmples below so you can start form your own opinion on what is going on:

„PLS HELP ME RAISE GLOBAL AWARENESS INTERNET HAS BEEN DC'D IN ALL OF LIBYA & IF UR LUCKY ENOUGH 2 GET A CONNECTION U'D HAVE 2 HACK IN 2 THE SYSTEM TO ACCESS BLOCKED SITES (FB) THE PPL OF LIBYA ASKED FOR THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS AND RECEIVED BULLETS IN RETURN. LIBYAN GOVT HAS KILLED OVER 300 LIBYANS IN THE LAST 3 DAYS WITH HUNDREDS LEFT IN CRITICAL CONDITION PLS SPREAD THIS MSG THE WORLD HAS NO CLUE WT IS HAPPENING HERE!“ (Found in facebook group „Europe Protests for Egypt 29 Jan“)

„@radicalahmad: Video: Libyans claim Gaddafi shipping in African mercenaries to crack down on protesters http://bit.ly/dK3ef3 #Libya“

@ShababLibya: Death toll to be confirmed in Libya. The world must intervene! END THE VIOLENCE! DOWN WITH GADDAFI!

@TheTruthNetwork: عاجل ليبيا: قصف بنغازي بالصواريخ والجثث هائلة أمام المنازل BREAKING : War planes are bombing #libya, Death toll: Unknown #arabrevolt

And a video of someone allegedly speaking from the coast of Lybia, Benghazi, where the largest protests and most violent crackdowns have taken place

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyIyz44oKQQ

With media coverage being sporadic at best, Gaddafi seems to accomplish what Mubarak failed to do/was prevented from doing/could not have done: he is "slaughtering his people in the dark" (I would like to give credits to my friend Makram here who used this expression when speaking to me about the internet crackdown in Egypt weeks ago.)

For an overview of the situation in Lybia, Bahrain, Yemen, I recommend this article on NY Times (though already published yesterday) by Anthony Shadid 
Cycle of Suppression Rises in Libya and Elsewhere 
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/world/middleeast/20mideast-protests.html?pagewanted=1