MUAMAR EL GADAFFI, WAS IT FAIR?

As we’ve heard in the news and other communications systems, Gadaffi, Lybia’s dictator until now, died last month murdered by rebel militants during the revolution of this country.

The ruler was in Sirte, one of the last places loyal to the dictatorship and his hometown, running away in a little convoy of two vehicles when NATO fighter bombers attacked what was supposed to be a “menace” for the population. I think we haven’t been told all the truth about this attack: obviously, letting him run away would have been a mistake, but it’s difficult to understand why planes are needed to stop two 4x4.

Then, hurt and hidden in a great pipe in the middle of the desert, he was found by rebels who, as we can see in several videos taken with mobile phones, lynched and executed him by shooting him in the stomach and head, the same thing happened with one of his sons and his defense minister. I know Gadaffi was a heartless man, who had driven his country to poverty and war while he was surrounded by luxury, and also a merciless ruler who had committed several serious crimes. Despite all these facts, in my view, Gadaffi shouldn’t have been killed, he should have been treated as a war prisoner in order to judge and prosecute him for his crimes. In my opinion rebels should have tried to keep him alive.

If the dictator's death hadn’t been recorded with mobile phones, we would probably only know the first official announcement by rebels: Gadaffi died in an ambulance on his way to hospital. For me, the explanation is that the transition government of the country was trying to hide the truth.

After his death, the ruler’s body and the bodies of the ones who were with him were exposed in a fridge room so that everyone could see them. From my point of view, that’s absolutely awful, unpleasant and disrespectful: they were decomposing and was very nasty to show corpses that way. In my opinion, bodies should have been respected and buried as soon as possible. A picture of the dictator dead would have been more than enough.

Finally, it’s said that Gadaffi was buried in a secret place, somewhere in the middle of the desert, even though his will said he wanted to be buried in Sirte, his hometown. If that’s really true, I agree, that way the corpse will be respected and the place won’t become a pilgrimage place for the dictatorship supporters.

To sum up, I believe that we will never know completely all the truth about the death of Muamar El Gadaffi, but we know that, despite the fact he had never been fair in his life, his death should have been.