“If you have a conscience, if you are a Libyan... resign.”

Libyan anti-regime protesters in Malta calling on Ambassador Saadun Suayeh to follow in the footsteps of other diplomats and resign.

“I think he acted very correctly in a difficult situation.”

Foreign Affairs Minister Tonio Borg defending the Libyan Ambassador and saying the embassy had done its utmost to help Maltese nationals flee the country.

“Let us not fall in the moral trap of refusing Libyans escaping Libya.”

Nationalist MEP Simon Busuttil saying his priority was the “genocide” taking place; the possibility of an influx of immigration was secondary.

“He bit me on my face.”

A Libyan passenger, who is married to a Maltese, recounting how a policeman assaulted him forwanting to leave his country.

“Enough is enough. We defeated fear and we are not turning back.”

Libyan National Movement general secretary Muftah Lamlum, who lives in the UK and has a brother in Malta, on how people were willing to pay in lives and blood for Libya’sliberation.

“Sporadic gunfire got louder and closer.”

Adrian Borg, who was working on a construction project for the Libyan government, describing the journey to Tripoli airport.