What atrocities did Qadafi perpetrate on his own people? $0.14 per gallon gas? $50k to married couples to get a house? A literacy rate of 83%? Did he have a rape room like Saddam? Did he gas his people from a different sect, like Saddam? Was it taking a stone age Italian protectorate under Mussolini to independence and the 21st Century?
What did he do for his own people except continually stand up for them in the world arena? He's not my kind of guy, but he is no Saddam, and Saddam got a trial. A kangaroo court, for sure, but he got a trial.
Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy
Qaddafi may have brought some good stuff for his people, but it came with a price tag.
from what I gather, Qaddafi's opponents and critics (anyone who spoke against the regime) were often jailed, beaten, and killed. I think they found mass graves of these victims who have disappeared.
This may have been the work of his loyalist and possibly his sons whos doing this under his name.
I'm reading that the revolutionaries are doing the something similar towards Qaddafi loyalists, mass execution in a number of areas.
there is a new theory that it was one of his loyalist who killed Qaddafi. thats a possibility. there is a claim by one of his bodyguard who claimed to have killed him to spare him the humiliation of a court trial. Smells like cover up to save their hides.