Daily comment: Gaddafi gone - questions remain
It should be obvious to anyone reading this that Gaddafi has been killed by rebels in Libya. If you do not know this then you have been living under a rock for the last 24 hours and need to get out more and take notice of what is going on around you.
Yesterday rebels in Gaddafi's home town of Sirte captured the ex-Libyan leader and professional nut job when he was hiding in a storm drain (sound familiar?). He was dragged through the streets before being formally executed by the people with a gun shot to the head. For a truly people led rebellion perhaps this sort of street justice was required for the people to feel it had been worth it. Perhaps if he had been dragged off to the Hague to face a war tribunal then the people who led this revolution would have felt somewhat cheated. As bloody and terrible as his end may seem to the Western World, this was justice carried out in a way that seemed somehow to fit with the rebellion and the way Gaddafi ruled.
We have to remember that the way he treated the people in Libya in the 42 years he ruled was terrible. The trouble is that we may never know the answers to important questions now that he is dead. Answers to questions such as: 'what happened at Lockerbie?', 'what happened with the treatment of the Libyan people?', etc.
This was a quick and clean end to Gaddafi's life and rule, but it will pose more questions in the future. One that remains to be answered by the rebels though, is where do they take Libya from now on. The people fought this revolution and now it is up to them to shape the Libya they want to live in.
Yesterday rebels in Gaddafi's home town of Sirte captured the ex-Libyan leader and professional nut job when he was hiding in a storm drain (sound familiar?). He was dragged through the streets before being formally executed by the people with a gun shot to the head. For a truly people led rebellion perhaps this sort of street justice was required for the people to feel it had been worth it. Perhaps if he had been dragged off to the Hague to face a war tribunal then the people who led this revolution would have felt somewhat cheated. As bloody and terrible as his end may seem to the Western World, this was justice carried out in a way that seemed somehow to fit with the rebellion and the way Gaddafi ruled.
We have to remember that the way he treated the people in Libya in the 42 years he ruled was terrible. The trouble is that we may never know the answers to important questions now that he is dead. Answers to questions such as: 'what happened at Lockerbie?', 'what happened with the treatment of the Libyan people?', etc.
This was a quick and clean end to Gaddafi's life and rule, but it will pose more questions in the future. One that remains to be answered by the rebels though, is where do they take Libya from now on. The people fought this revolution and now it is up to them to shape the Libya they want to live in.
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