Whose Dictator was he? Is this true about Libya?

[kaburwo]

1. There is no electricity bill in Libya; electricity is free for all its citizens.

2. There is no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens at 0% interest by law.

3. Home considered a human right in Libya – Gaddafi vowed that his parents would not get a house until everyone ...in Libya had a home. Gaddafi’s father has died while him, his wife and his mother are still living in a tent.

4. All newlyweds in Libya receive $60,000 Dinar (US$50,000) by the government to buy their first apartment so to help start up the family.

5. Education and medical treatments are free in Libya. Before Gaddafi only 25% of Libyans are literate. Today the figure is 83%.

6. Should Libyans want to take up farming career, they would receive farming land, a farming house, equipments, seeds and livestock to kick-start their farms – all for free.

7. If Libyans cannot find the education or medical facilities they need in Libya, the government funds them to go abroad for it – not only free but they get US$2,300/mth accommodation and car allowance.

8. In Libyan, if a Libyan buys a car, the government subsidized 50% of the price.

9. The price of petrol in Libya is $0.14 per liter.

10. Libya has no external debt and its reserves amount to $150 billion – now frozen globally. Great Man-Made River project in Libya… $27 billion

11. If a Libyan is unable to get employment after graduation the state would pay the average salary of the profession as if he or she is employed until employment is found.

12. A portion of Libyan oil sale is, credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens.

13. A mother who gave birth to a child receive US$5,000

14. 40 loaves of bread in Libya costs $ 0.15

15. 25% of Libyans have a university degree

16. Gaddafi carried out the world’s largest irrigation project, known as the Great Man-Made River project, to make water readily available throughout the year.

[destiny]

Why did Libyans want Gaddafi gone? Here are some reasons.

www.libyafeb17.com/2011/02/why-do-you-libyans-want-gaddafi-gone-here-are-some-reasons/

[kunadawa]

Oct 24, 2011 16:25:19 GMT 3 destiny said:

Why did Libyans want Gaddafi gone? Here are some reasons.

www.libyafeb17.com/2011/02/why-do-you-libyans-want-gaddafi-gone-here-are-some-reasons/

• Gaddafi committed some of the most brutal human right excesses in the late 70′s and early 80′s. Libyan students were hanged in universities, sport auditoriums and public squares simply for not adhering to the green book ideology.

• Abu Sleem prison massacre where he ordered the killing of over 1200 political prisoners

• Gaddafi’s agents killed WPC Ivon Fletcher outside the Libyan Embassy in London in 1984 and many other Libyan political dissidents through a campaign that he calls “Eliminating Stray Dogs

• Gaddafi waged pointless wars in Chad and Uganda where over 20,000 Libyans died. In addition, Gaddafi supplied chemical weapons to the late Somalian dictator Ziad Berri which caused thousands of deaths

[subsaharanite]

Gaddafi may have committed atrocities in the 70s and 80s, he however had his bright side.

1. He has aided most Subsaharan states even when the west could not

2. He bankrolled the AU which oversees several humanitarian interventions within Africa where the west has no vested interests.

3. You may call him a fanatic, but his quest to unite the Arab states was geared towards creating an economic power that could better negotiate with the west especially in those days when oil revenue was so low. He actually did not want to be the president, he just wanted to control the military. He later tried it with African states but again the west muttered the idea for their own interested. A divided Africa is easier to loot than a united one. Thats why DRC, the most resourceful country in Africa is always at war.

4. He offered to fund the purchase and deployment of several Satellites that could have seen Africa save over 500 US dollars yearly in communication costs.

5. He was the main force behind the creation of an African IMF like bank, an idea, the west opposed. We still do not know whether this will happen now that he is dead.

7. He had reformed his ways. He admitted liability to the PAN-AM Bombing, he stopped execution of his people and won a lot of admiration from many in the last 20 years.

The former Libyan leader truly had a checkered past. The question is, what out weighs the other? Sometimes its hard to make a distinction.