Libya witnessed another day of chaos on Wednesday, as a defiant Muammar Gaddafi refused to step down in the face of widespread protests, calling instead for his supporters to "cleanse" the country "house by house".<br /><br />Calling those who stand against him "rats" and "mercenaries", he said during a televised address on Tuesday that he would fight to the last, and that he would rather die "a martyr" than quit office.<br /><br />On Wednesday, Franco Frattini, the Italian foreign minister, said that reports of 1,000 people being killed in a violent anti-government crackdown on protests that has raged since February 17th were "credible". <br /><br />Al Jazeera's Lawrence Lee reports.
