Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is dead and his body is being taken to the city of Misratah, National Transitional Council spokesman Abdullah Berrassali has told Sky News.
There have been conflicting reports about how the alleged capture of the ousted Libyan leader happened.
Earlier National Transitional Council (NTC) military commander Abdel Majid he was taken from a convoy near Sirte. But another commander, Abdel-Basit Haroun, said Gaddafi was killed in a Nato airstrike.
An anti-Gaddafi fighter who claimed he witnessed Gaddafi’s capture said the former Libyan leader was shot in the stomach
A spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights says shaky amateur videos showing a captured Gadhafi first alive, then dead, were “very disturbing.”
Rupert Colville told reporters in Geneva on Friday that an existing U.N. panel investigating human rights abuses in Libya would likely examine the death. He says it might recommend a national or international probe.
LIBIYA
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.
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 desert country.
Which other dictator has done much good to his people besides
REST IN PEACE Gaddaffi
Human beings should be respected and death of one should not be celebrated. Vengeance is for God even if one has wronged you.
It is a wicked world which encourages killings of other people by supporting wars or uprisings and shamelessly take pride in death of a fellow leader. If no international law can be used to stop superpowers’ abuse of power, rules of natural justice should haunt us.
Shame on world leaders that include Obama, Cameron, Sarkozy, Ban kin Moon and in particular, the UN. Gadaffi did not leave Libya in debt like the outspoken nations. There was no quarrel or debate of university fees, or issue of drinking water despite the country being in a desert.. What is democracy if it cannot manufacture good livelihood for its people. Did any one compare the life in Libya and in any of sub-saharan countries? The list goes on.
Dont hide in twisting of words at the UN. To the contrary the disposed Libyan Leader tried his best though he could have accepted reforms much earlier on.
Good lesson to would be dictators including our own.
Enough of the gaddafi drama, africa needs a fresh breath of air. Peace and Love africans!