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Qaddafi and the People of Libya
For all of his rhetoric about like freedom and liberty, the people of Libya were brutally repressed whenever they spoke out. Qaddafi established a series of revolutionary committees across the nation made up of loyal young men who got super high off of having a little bit of power. For most of his reign, there was only one official channel, the state television channel, that ran like six or eight hours a day.