Further afield, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission was holding services at its cemeteries in Libya in Tripoli, Benghazi and Tobruk.
Islamist extremists seem particularly active in the east, including such towns as Derna and Tobruk, though their numbers may be exaggerated.
In Tobruk and Beida protesters kept the anti-aircraft cartridges as evidence, but four deaths and 80 people injured only spurred larger numbers onto the streets.
In Tobruk, demonstrators chanted the same slogans that were heard in recent days in Tunis, Tunisia, and Cairo, Egypt: "The people want to topple the regime!"
When a similar demonstration -- without violence -- occurred at the same time in the eastern city of Tobruk, security forces evacuated the staff and closed the office, he said.
Last week, the Interior Ministry closed the Imsaed border crossing with Egypt to any foreigners, officially to discourage illegal immigration, and began air patrols over the border out of Tobruk.
But Sarir and Mislah were damaged early in the conflict, and the regime has destroyed a pipeline booster station halfway to the port in Tobruk from where oil is exported for refining.
Rallies also took place in two other Libyan cities, Benghazi and Tobruk, with hundreds of activists denouncing the armed thugs and decrying what they describe as political maneuverings by the nation's Muslim Brotherhood.
Half of the deserters take orders from General Suleiman Mahmoud, based in Tobruk, north-east of Benghazi, and another 1, 000 or so special forces are led by Colonel Qaddafi's former interior minister, Abdel Fatah Younis.
"Camouflage nets baffle the Hun, " declared a British poster on show but vast nets were only part of it: at Tobruk, the British would decorate strategic buildings with fake shell-holes and rubble to make them look as if they had been bombed in air raids.
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