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You are a fucking moron. He committed direct human rights abuses, had a "let them eat cake" moment when his people were dying from famine, and like Saddam Hussein, basically encouraged his sons to be fucking psychos as well.
Good riddance, and fuck you.
Can you provide the evidence of these human right abuses?
Are you joking? You can Google. If you spout off with that "EVERYONE ELSE IS A LIAR" bullshit, you're an idiot, buddy. Fuck right off.
Multiple human rights groups, many nations, the ICC, Interpol, The Red Cross, Amnesty International...tell me how they ALL got it so, so wrong, and suddenly one of the most brutal DICTATORS IN HISTORY is now suddenly a super swell and awesome dude.
If you're not somehow related to that asshole-who I am very glad is fucking dead-then you're an apologist for an ideology that is also long dead, and you're just equal parts idiot and fool for trying to be hip and bring it back. Go back to your commune and circle jerk there, bud.
Gaddafi violence against Libya civilians exaggerated, says British group https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/19/gaddafi-violence-exaggerated-british-group
In other circumstances they could have been a group of British package tourists, clad in identical T-shirts, clambering on and off buses with cameras hanging around their necks.
But Libya has no tourists now, let alone of the package variety. And the 13 Britons who toured the west of the country over eight days, had a self-declared mission: to "find facts" about the situation in Gaddafi-controlled Libya to counter what they described as the manipulation and distortion of the western media.
The group, calling itself British Civilians for Peace in Libya, had found each other through word-of-mouth and the internet. They were, they said, academics, lawyers, a doctor, humanitarian campaigners and "independent journalists", collectively outraged about the attacks on Libyan government forces by "the biggest military force in the world" - Nato.
For some, it was their first visit to Libya. The delegation's leader, David Roberts, 55, from Leicester, said he had been several times before. A Dave Roberts, also from Leicester, is quoted in a web report as addressing a youth conference in Tripoli in 1999, ending his speech with a rousing cry of "Long live Muammar Gaddafi."
At a press conference at the Rixos hotel in Tripoli, before the group left for the Tunisian border, Roberts and his colleagues set out their "interim conclusions".
They had received numerous reports of civilian fatalities caused by Nato bombing, they said, although they presented no evidence. They had uncovered nothing that suggested anti-government protests or dissent, dismissing extensive footage of demonstrators being shot which was obtained and broadcast by the BBC. They had "witnessed substantial support for the government by broad sections of society", while admitting that they had been accompanied by government officials in whose presence no opposition-sympathising Libyan can speak openly.
The group had not visited Misrata, the rebel-held enclave under siege by Gaddafi forces, nor had it investigated the issue of detainees. It had not asked to visit any prisons, and had chosen not to examine the case of Iman al-Obeidi, the Libyan woman who claimed she had been raped multiple times by Gaddafi troops.
Most of the delegation's venom was directed at representatives of the British media sitting before it, who were accused of distortion, manipulation and of "failing in their duty to report the conflict truthfully".
Members of the delegation queued at the microphone to attack the British media, saying it was partisan towards the Nato military action. "Some of the reports from Benghazi and Misrata are totally one-sided," said one. "There is a very high degree of distortion," an Italian film-maker who accompanied the delegation said.