Gaddafi killed as Libya’s revolt claims hometown
(Reuters) - Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi died of wounds suffered on Thursday as fighters battling to complete an eight-month-old uprising against his rule overran his hometown Sirte, Libya's interim rulers said. His killing, which came
(Reuters) – Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi died of wounds suffered on Thursday as fighters battling to complete an eight-month-old uprising against his rule overran his hometown Sirte, Libya’s interim rulers said.
His killing, which came swiftly after his capture near Sirte, is the most dramatic single development in the Arab Spring revolts that have unseated rulers in Egypt and Tunisia and threatened the grip on power of the leaders of Syria and Yemen.
“He (Gaddafi) was also hit in his head,” National Transitional Council official Abdel Majid Mlegta told Reuters. “There was a lot of firing against his group and he died.”
Mlegta told Reuters earlier that Gaddafi, who was in his late 60s, was captured and wounded in both legs at dawn on Thursday as he tried to flee in a convoy which NATO warplanes attacked. He said he had been taken away by an ambulance.
There was no independent confirmation of his remarks.
An anti-Gaddafi fighter said Gaddafi had been found hiding in a hole in the ground and had said “Don’t shoot, don’t shoot” to the men who grabbed him.
His capture followed within minutes of the fall of Sirte, a development that extinguished the last significant resistance by forces loyal to the deposed leader.
The capture of Sirte and the death of Gaddafi means Libya’s ruling NTC should now begin the task of forging a new democratic system which it had said it would get under way after the city, built as a showpiece for Gaddafi’s rule, had fallen.
Gaddafi, wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of ordering the killing of civilians, was toppled by rebel forces on August 23 after 42 years of one-man rule over the oil-producing North African state.
NTC fighters hoisted the red, black and green national flag above a large utilities building in the center of a newly-captured Sirte neighborhood and celebratory gunfire broke out among their ecstatic and relieved comrades.
Hundreds of NTC troops had surrounded the Mediterranean coastal town for weeks in a chaotic struggle that killed and wounded scores of the besieging forces and an unknown number of defenders.
NTC fighters said there were a large number of corpses inside the last redoubts of the Gaddafi troops. It was not immediately possible to verify that information.
(Writing by Jon Hemming and William Maclean; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
Semhar October 21, 2011
Barentu,
You seem to have identity crises!
Meninet kiliulaw zeleka timesil.
Highi Indaba (the law of our land in Eritrea), it gives all Eritreans at their father’s village the rite to own a land for farming and a land to build your house for free. That has been and will always be the law of our land. For those who are born outside Eritrea there will be land reserved for them at their father’s village when they return home. This land cannot be sold or exchanged. We only can pass it to the next generation.
Barentu,
Yes we will stop you from taking our people’s land in Barka and allover Eritrea.
Those of you who are taking our land and our property illegally you will pay the price just like Colonel Gaddafi Soaked in blood and looking empty eyed into the camera lens –soon will be your image.
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shakazoolu October 21, 2011
i want tos see isayas body be draged in asmara street.
Barentu October 22, 2011
Semhar,
Eritrea belongs to the people who shed their blood, not to people who traded in their tounges. Eritrean tegadeltis have every right to live and to work wherever they wanted. They or their fathers and mothers paid in blood while you were hiding in London or Libanon in Kuwait or Sandiago.
If you are “proud of Higi endaba”, why did you burn text books written in Tigre? Why are you ashamed of your Tigre-Tigrinia? If you are proud of your past identity and history, why do you worry about an Italian invented fascist map? Why do you worry about a blue Cherqi handed to you by the UN’s Antze Matheonzos?
Identity! What identity do you have except slavery for others?Is kneeling down to Arabs an identity?
Semhar October 22, 2011
Baretu
-Eritrea belongs to all Eritreans. The majority Eritreans has participated and paid deer price by sacrificing their love one for the national straggle for independence.
– You said “Why do you worry about a blue Cherqi handed to you by the UN’s Antze Matheonzos?”
For you it’s cherki, but for dekebat Eritrea it’s our glory, it’s our identity. Eritrean assembly tailored this flag. Eritrean assembly officially adopted the first flag of ERITREA on September 15, 1952.
In 1962 Ethiopia took down our flag and replaced it by Ethiopian flag…. it took us 30 years to raise our flag all over Eritrea again. Our flag represents our people our land and our culture. We raised our flag from the beginning to the end of our straggle (we won in 1991).
In 1993, the dictator took down our flag and replaced it by his own flag. Instead of raising our original freedom flag at the United Nations he gave them his own flag (HIGDEF’s flag).
It’s clear now than ever Isayas and his worshipers have dismantled our flag, our land, our culture, and our people.
Eritrean martyrs had only flag that is our original flag. They stared our revolution and ended with victory with our original flag.
The first thing Isayas changed 1993, three years after our independence was our flag and replaced it by his own flag. He did this to divide and rule our country.
Semhar October 22, 2011
Barentu,
The second thing he changed was our provinces and he replaced them by his zobas. He did this to dismantle the law of our land (Highi Indaba). He did this to take over the land of indigenous (native) Eritreans.
It’s clear now than ever Isayas and his worshipers will continue to dismantle our land, our culture, and our people.
Highi Indaba (the law of our land in Eritrea), it gives all Eritreans at their father’s village the rite to own a land for farming and a land to build your house for free. That has been and will always be the law of our land. For those who are born outside Eritrea there will be land reserved for them at their father’s village when they return home. This land cannot be sold or exchanged. We only can pass it to the next generation.
Barentu,
Yes we will stop you from taking our people’s land in Barka and allover Eritrea.
Those of you who are taking our land and our property illegally you will pay the price just like Colonel Gaddafi Soaked in blood and looking empty eyed into the camera lens –soon will be your image.
Our martyrs did not die to crown the tyrant.
We must reclaim our flag, our constitution, Highi Indaba, our land (our original provinces), our people
Gaddafi is dead his flag is replaced by their original flag!
Isayas is next! Our original flag will replace his flag!
DISTROY the PFDJ the terrorist organization where ever they are.
Eritrea will be free soon.
Barentu October 22, 2011
semhar, If you have real and worthy identity, why do you need a white fascist European to tell you about your map, identity, zobas and cherqi?
You said about old “Higi endabas”, leave that to historians and archeologists to dig and worry about. Lets worry about justice, democracy and fairness now. There may be some good starting points in some Higi endabas, as there are outdated, unjust, and old Higiendabas in some.
Think modern, efficient and accountable ways to govern, not too old ideas. We need to grow up and move forward. Forget the past, learn to move forward.
Eritrea belongs to the people who shed their blood, not to people who traded in their tounges. Eritrean tegadeltis have every right to live and to work wherever they wanted. They or their fathers and mothers paid in blood while you were hiding in London or Libanon in Kuwait or Sandiago.
If you are “proud of Higi endaba”, why did you burn text books written in Tigre? Why are you ashamed of your Tigre-Tigrinia? If you are proud of your past identity and history, why do you worry about an Italian invented fascist map? Why do you worry about a blue Cherqi handed to you by the UN’s Antze Matheonzos?
Identity! What identity do you have except slavery for others? Is kneeling down to Arabs an identity?
PFDJ(Popular For Dictatorship and Jail) October 24, 2011
can any one answer this question..
Why Eri-TV didnot report or cover any news about the death of Isayas’s best friend, Gadafi?
and why Eri-Tv says: “Tententi,tententi ” rather than explicitly use the source?
the motto” Serving the truth” i hope truth for Hgdef is not the truth everyone knows.
Isayas… is counting his death…