I tried reading about him on net and watch documentaries on you tube, he really got miserable death and tht video was very disturbing. but wht I am not able to find is why he did wrong tht ppl went so against him. I know he was a dictator, but still wants more details.
the only thing I read on net was he was very famous for his styling/clothes
his ladies security guards.
there are mostly his personal stuff all over net.
I heard his one of the speech in which he was saying US killed sadam , we might be next.
I want to know more about his rule, his relation wth his ppl.
Remember, that Libya had no external debt and its reserves amounted to $150 billion -which are now frozen (i.e. being stolen) globally.
Libya did not charge for electricity; reliable power was free to all citizens.
It was enshrined in law that every Libyan should have a home and home ownership was considered a basic human right.
Newly married couples would receive a free 60,000-dinar (i.e. $50,000) grant to get them on the property ladder and have a comfortable start to married life.
Libya had a free national health service.
Libya provided free education for all citizens.
If any Libyans had other exceptional medical or educational needs, the government would fund their visits abroad, giving them $2,300 per month for accommodation and travel.
Libyans who wanted to work the land were given some acres to farm, a little house, tools, livestock and seeds to begin their careers.
The government would pay half the cost of every Libyan citizen’s first car.
The price of petrol in Libya was $0.14 per litre.
If a Libyan graduate was unable to find a job in his or her chosen profession, the government would pay the average salary of their desired job until they were in full time employment.
A portion of every Libyan oil sale was credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens.
At home, Gaddafi had terrorized and intimidated Libyans.
“Qaddafi’s ability to have survived so long rests on his convenient position in not being committed to a single ideology and his use of violence in such a theatrical way,” said Hisham Matar, the author of “In the Country of Men,” a novel that depicts the devastation of normal life under Qaddafi.
In the late 1970s and early ’80s, he eliminated even mild critics through public trials and executions.
Kangaroo courts were staged on football fields or basketball courts, where each of the accused was subjected to intense interrogation, often begging for mercy while a crowd howled for death. The trials were televised live to make sure no Libyans missed the point.
Under Gaddafi, strikes or unauthorized news reports resulted in prison sentences, and illegal political activity was punishable by death.
Western books were burned, and private enterprise was banned.
Libyan intelligence agents engaged in all manner of skulduggery, reaching overseas to kidnap and assassinate opponents.
Libya has also a law forbidding group activity based on any political ideology opposed to Gaddafi’s rule.
“He deliberately tried to create a campaign that would terrorize the population, that would traumatize them to such an extent that they would never think of expressing their thoughts politically or socially,” said Matar.
