“Nobody has the right to make the lives of their people a living hell,” says the broadcast, heard by Reuters on a Libyan army radio taken by fighters in the Western Mountains.

“Stop fighting against your own people,” it continues, saying that the Libyan leadership has lost control and recruited non-Libyan mercenaries “and allowed them to rape your people.” The threat of rape and the role of foreign mercenaries are issues frequently brought up by refugees who have fled fighting in the Western Mountains and by the fighters who stayed behind.

NATO warplanes, acting under a United Nations mandate to protect civilians, have stopped government troops advancing on fighters’ strongholds but not silenced their guns, and Qaddafi remains in power.

Meanwhile, fighters inside the Libyan city of Misrata said Monday that they drove Qaddafi’s forces from another key point on the outskirts of the country’s third-largest city..

A video posted Sunday on the Libyan fighters’ Facebook page showed more than 200 SUVs and fighters’ vehicles at the southeastern gate of the city, which has become the main opposition stronghold in western Libya. It would give the fighters tighter control of the access points into the city.

The video showed fighters firing into the air in celebration.

Abdel Salam, a opposition militia fighter, told The Associated Press on Monday that opposition forces were able to advance on the location after NATO bombings in recent days.

Reporters have had a difficult time reaching the city, and it was not possible to verify the claims independently.

Misrata has been the focus of an international aid effort to help thousands of civilians caught in the fighting.

In Benghazi, the opposition administration’s military spokesman, Col. Ahmed Bani, told The AP that fighters defeated two brigades of Gadhafi forces that were based in the city of Zlitan, just 140 km southeast of Tripoli, in weekend battles.

“In Zlitan, the revolutionaries have forced them (Qaddafi fighters) out of their camps — there were two big brigades — and are on the highway, fighting them,” Bani said. He said the clashes were taking place Monday 20 km from Zlitan.

He said, “liberation army revolutionaries” from Zlitan and Misrata were coordinating their fighting Monday. It was not immediately clear if that meant the Libyan forces were caught between fighter units.