Well I have been reading in different articles that Gaddafi was a dictator & he has been compared with Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Stalin & the likes. All over the newspapers for 2, 3 days, they keep on painting him as a bad guy which only reflects their own agenda.
This is what someone has posted on FB (in fact Dirgha Raj Parsai is the one who mentioned all these points in his write-up ‘A Great Nationalist Hero- Muammar Gaddafi’) & I would very much like people to know it. Although I’m sure the question that will pop up is: if he did so much, why did people kill him? The answer is simple. People take everything for granted. They are so literate & everything was so easy that now they want to become another Afghanistan on this globe.
Anyhow here are these are the points that not a single newspaper had any time to cover cause they were more busy in choosing badly injured Gaddafi & how he was humiliated at his last moment.
1. There is no electricity bill in Libya; electricity is free for all its citizens.
2. There is no interest on loans in Libya as banks are state-owned.
3. Home is considered a human right in Libya.
4. All newlyweds in Libya receive $60,000 Dinar (US$ 50,000) by the government just to help them start up a new life.
5. Education and medical treatments are free in Libya. Before Gaddafi only 25% of Libyans are literate. Today the figure is 83%. In fact under Gaddafi's 'jamahiriya' direct democracy regime, the country's literacy rate rose from 10% to 90%, life expectancy rose from 57 to 77 years, employment opportunities were established for migrant workers, and welfare systems were introduced that allowed access to free education, free healthcare, and financial assistance for housing.
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. In addition, financial support was provided for university scholarships and employment programs.
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 gives birth to a child receives US $5 ,000
14. 40 loaves of bread in Libya costs $ 0.15
15. 25% of Libyans have a university degree
16. The Great Manmade River was also built to allow free access to fresh water across large parts of the country. It has been the world’s largest irrigation project.
17. The country was developed without taking any foreign loans. As a result, Libya was debt-free under Gaddafi's regime.
18. The Economy of Libya was centrally planned and followed Gaddafi's socialist ideals. It benefited greatly from revenues from the petroleum sector , which contributed most export earnings and 30% of its GDP. These oil revenues, combined with a small population and by far Africa's highest Education Index gave Libya the highest nominal GDP per capita in Africa. Between 2000 and 2011, Libya recorded favourable growth rates with an estimated 10.6 percent growth of GDP in 2010, the highest of any state in Africa. Gaddafi had promised "a home for all Libyans" and during his rule, new residential areas rose in empty Saharan regions.
If this is how you terrorize your people, then Gaddafi deserved this kind of death.
This is the man who has been called a tyrant & a cowering rat at the time of his death by the media. Some of the headlines have been: ‘End of Tyrant,’ ‘No Mercy for Merciless Tyrant’ ‘That’s for Lockerbie,’ ‘A tyrant meets his end,’ ‘Death of a dictator’ etc etc.
One of the papers says:
"For 42 years Colonel Gaddafi terrorized his own people..and the world. Yesterday, he died as he lived, shown no mercy as he pleaded for his life.."
They have very correctly said that he was a dictator for all those imperialists who wanted to capture Libya. Of course Gaddafi had faults just like anyone else but one shouldn’t forget what he did for his country.
Please check out these 3 links:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2051552/Gaddafi-dead-Videos-worlds-infamous-dictators-violent-deaths.html
A Great Nationalist Hero-'Muammar Gaddafi'
Gaddafi's death - how the papers covered it, and what they say...
