Some times I wonder whether the good done by men lives after them.Also do people remember it? But generally I find the bad is highlighted and the good hidden. This is the case of Maummar Gaddafi, the Libyan dictator who was sodomized and done to death. Did he do any good ?
Despite sticking my neck out, I must high light a few points which the TRA ( transitional authority) is trying to suppress.
a) Gaddafi raised the percapita income of Libya to almost $15000, the highest in Africa.
b) He emancipated women against the grain of hard line Islamic parties by doing away with polygamy, giving women equal rights, allowing then to work and even join the elite body guards.
c) All Libyans on marriage were given a grant of $50,000 to set up home and house. In addition when a Libyan bought a new car he was given a 50% subsidy.
d) Education was free for all including medical treatment in government hospitals
e) There was no inflation and petrol cost 14 cents. In addition Libya had no foreign debt and had reserves running into billions of dollars.
There is much more and one can see that Libya was moving ahead.More important he was against Al Qaeda. Not many know that Libya issued a arrest warrant for Osama bin Laden in 1998 , 3 years before 9/11.
Yet as I said he was overthrown, as the western powers led by the USA could not tolerate a Libya with billions of reserves in oil. They wanted the oil and a subservient Libya. They won't get it because the regime that will emerge is an Islamic regime. The west would have cooked its own goose.
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