By TCN News,
Kochi: Around 60 Keralites reached Kochi on Wednesday from Libya, where people are carrying out a revolution against the ruling government of Col Gaddafi. The people told media persons about the cruelty of the soldiers and the anarchy prevailing in the country.
Three Keralites who had been working at a Kuwait-based road construction company relived their experiences. Many were tortured by soldiers, who also destroyed their mobile phones one morning. When the soldiers left, some Libyans looted them of several things including electronic equipments like laptop, phones and watches, money and even rice, refrigerator, etc. They had to pay more than 10 times the actual fare for taxi to reach a safer place. They reached the Indian embassy but had no food or water. They left to the airport with the flight tickets given from the embassy, but had to stay there also for two days without food. They got food and decent accommodation only after reaching Delhi where the authorities had arranged them. Food and other facilities were arranged by the NORKA in the Kochi airport also, they said.
Meanwhile, a Kuwait-based company named United Gulf Construction Company has reportedly got ready to give jobs to some of its employees who had lost jobs in Libya. The company’s stand was known when the human resource agency, through which the Keralites went to work in Libya, contacted the company in Kuwait on the return of the people.
More Keralites have reached New Delhi in the three airplanes that took Indians back home. The Malayalis staying in the Kerala House in Delhi will leave for Kerala today itself, according to reports. Indians are being brought back via Libyan capital Tripoli and Alexandria and Malta. The central Ministry for External Affairs expressed hope that all Indians in Libya could be brought back by March 15, according to reports.