Destroyed buildings in Benghazi, where the Libyan revolution began in February 2011. (Credit: AFP archive photo)
Like an echo from the past. Waving the plain green flags of the Gaddafi era, tens of thousands gathered on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026 at the cemetery in Bani Walid, western Libya, to pay tribute to the “martyrdom” of Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of deposed dictator Moammar Gaddafi (1942-2011).Three days earlier, he had been assassinated under murky circumstances at his residence in Zintan, in the northwest. Long seen as a potential successor to his father, he was killed by a commando of four masked men who managed to enter the compound after disabling the surveillance cameras.At 53, he was deeply despised by many Libyans, who saw in him the embodiment of the ruthless dictatorship imposed by his father for more than four decades and of a bloody repression. Yet others, driven by nostalgia for a pre-2011 Libya they considered safer, supported him,...
Like an echo from the past. Waving the plain green flags of the Gaddafi era, tens of thousands gathered on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026 at the cemetery in Bani Walid, western Libya, to pay tribute to the “martyrdom” of Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of deposed dictator Moammar Gaddafi (1942-2011).Three days earlier, he had been assassinated under murky circumstances at his residence in Zintan, in the northwest. Long seen as a potential successor to his father, he was killed by a commando of four masked men who managed to enter the compound after disabling the surveillance cameras.At 53, he was deeply despised by many Libyans, who saw in him the embodiment of the ruthless dictatorship imposed by his father for more than four decades and of a bloody repression. Yet others, driven by nostalgia for a pre-2011 Libya they considered safer, supported...
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