the remains
of detainees killed by colonial muammar
qaddafi's forces
they had opposed his regime 50 people
were shot
and their bodies were burned i nearly
escaped
the same fate i had been locked up in
this place
along with two bbc colleagues
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been jailed and subjected to beatings
and mock executions
the events took place we were held in a
secret prison
on a military base it was run by
qaddafi's son
fierce fighting broke out and six months
later
qaddafi had been beaten back to his
hometown
sir after a month of fighting
his convoy was hit by nato jets
he was captured alive but was later
killed
in murky chaotic circumstances
in the 10 years since i've been back to
libya many times
and watched with her as the country has
fallen apart
the rebels split into many factions
and the most organized of these were the
islamists
it's very sad to look back now ian
martin
was the un envoy to the new libya the
legacy of gaddafi was
even worse than any of us realized the
divisions that
he had played upon to maintain his own
power but i think the biggest problem
the one that has
haunted libya ever since was the
inability to
deal with the armed groups and the
fragmentation in the security
sector one of these groups attacked the
american consulate in benghazi
killing the ambassador and three u.s
citizens
by 2013 tripoli was under the control of
islamists
and other militias they imposed a law
excluding anyone associated with the
qadhafi regime
from taking part in the new political
scene
it was a turning point libyans who felt
excluded
united behind the new leader general
khalifa
i spoke to him in 2015 just before he
formed the libyan national army
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he took control of eastern libya and
started fighting the extremists
in 2019 at talks in morocco the various
factions
signed a political agreement to form a
new government
but four years later general haftar
launched an offensive to take tripoli
displacing hundreds of thousands of
civilians
the country descended into false civil
war which raged for over a year
a ceasefire was agreed in geneva in
october
libyan writer jeremiah bukleb was
imprisoned for 10 years
by the qadhafi regime he has followed
the chaos
and bloodshed from london i asked him if
the toppling of qadhafi
was worth the heavy price his country
has paid
i was damaged by al qaeda's regime
i couldn't see an end people were
hopeless under his rule
despite the current chaos there's still
some hope that we'll get to a
reconciliation soon
ten years on from the uprising elections
are promised
for later this year many hope
that libya can finally find peace
fearas kidani dbc news
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