Colonel Gaddafi Part 8: The Arab Spring
Real Dictators
Gaddafi Runs Away From Tripoli
Gaddafi's bloody corpse is taken to the town of Miss Rata, up the coast. Thousands will file past to witness the demise of the tyrant for themselves. Some pose for selfies with the semi-frozen bodies in a mixture of ecstasy and sheer disbelief. Libyans were just absolutely fed up with 40 years of this brutal, repressive, chaotic, arbitrary dictatorship. Gaddafi somehow seems to have believed himself to have been invincible - he was running scared.
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