Col Muammar Gaddafi - Who's M.A.D?

Muammar’ mad-dog Gaddafi must be cursing the missed opportunity of voluntarily relinquishing power, leaving his people on amicable terms and slipping off quietly to plunder the billions of state money he has salted away. With the issue of a warrant, for his arrest, by the International Criminal court, it is of little surprise the Libyan leader has announced "We shall not leave. We shall not surrender. We shall not sell it," and added. "We welcome death. Martyrdom is a million times better.

Do not be fooled by his precarious perm, blunt rants and outlandish fashion sense- rumoured to be heavily influenced by, the now deceased, Michael Jackson. Col Gaddaffi, was once a revolutionary hero; in a bloodless coup, he snatched power from Libya’s King Idris and quickly addressed the unfair exploitation of the country by Western oil companies by aggressively re- negotiating oil prices.

He considered himself a great political philosopher and put together his ‘ green book’; said to solve the contradictions inherent in capitalism and communism and to put the world on a path of political, economic and social revolution and set oppressed peoples free everywhere. Gadaffi introduced free education at all levels, including university and post-graduate study and women flourished educationally under his reign.

Subsequently, he went on to rule his people for a period of sixty years ‘liquidizing’ any opposition to his rule, both at home and abroad. Political conversations with foreigners became a crime punishable by three years of prison; foreign languages were removed from the school curriculum; prisons were run with little or no documentation of the inmate population, offence or length of the sentence and the government executed dissidents publicly with the option of watching the televised repeat on the weekend.
What could have been –if Muammar had followed a more honourable path?

 

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