Uncovered: The macabre sex chamber of Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi where he raped girls – and boys – as young as 14
- Colonel Gaddafi kept several sex dungeons at his palaces
- He forced hundreds of young girls to become his sex slaves
- He also had a ‘harem’ of young men called the services group
- He visited schools and chose his victims with a pat on the head
- He was killed in October 2011 after 42 years of dictatorship
Gadhafi was killed because he wanted to sell oil for gold instead of dollars and step up a rival banking system. Sadam was killed because he started selling oil for Euros instead of dollars. The elite have a long tradition of destroying their opponents by portraying him either as mad or a perverted, if Gadhafi was either who knows. What is for sure, if he wasn’t, they still say he was..
Uncovered: The macabre sex chamber of Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi where he raped girls – and boys – as young as 14
by Olga Craig and Nikki Murfitt
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2545819/Uncovered-The-macabre-sex-chamber-Libyas-Colonel-Gaddafi-raped-girls-boys-young-14.html
It has been more than two years since the capture and death of Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan dictator whose reign subjected an impoverished people to four decades of murder and terror.
When the bedraggled former leader was hauled out of a drainpipe and shot in October 2011, his death ended the bloody Nato-led civil war that had ravaged the country since the start of that year.
The full horror of his brutality has been slow to emerge, with many Libyans still fearing retaliation by those who continue to be loyal to their late leader. But it can now be revealed that the most heartbreaking of Gaddafi’s victims include hundreds, possibly thousands of teenage girls who, throughout his 42-year reign, were beaten, raped and forced to become his sex slaves.
Many were virgins kidnapped from schools and universities and kept prisoner for years in a specially designed secret sex lair hidden within Tripoli University or his many palaces. In the 26 months since he was deposed, Gaddafi’s den – where he regularly raped girls as young as 14 – has remained locked. But today its gaudy interior, where the colonel brutalised his victims, can be seen for the first time in photographs from a hard-hitting BBC4 documentary.
Inside the small, nondescript single-storey complex, the girls were forced to watch pornography to ‘educate’ them for their degrading treatment at the hands of Gaddafi. And even those who did manage to escape were often shunned by their deeply religious Muslim families who believed their family honour had been tainted.
When the dictator’s body was dragged through the streets by a baying mob, just hours after he was beaten and shot in the head, the hastily convened transitional government moved swiftly to seal off the sex dungeon. They feared the full extent of Gaddafi’s debased and lewd lifestyle would horrify the Western world and cause deep embarrassment to Libya.
One of the rooms holds little more than a double bed, lit by an orange lamp. Its 1970s decor and grimy Jacuzzi – all left exactly as they were when Gaddafi last used it – give it a seedy and gloomy air. But even more chilling is the clinical gynaecological suite in an adjoining room. It was here, on two beds fitted with stirrups behind a table laden with surgical instruments, that Gaddafi’s young victims were examined to ensure they had no sexually transmittable diseases. And here they were forced to undergo abortions if they became pregnant.
They, however, were the lucky ones. Other young victims were so badly abused that they were dumped in car parks and on waste ground, and left to die.
Gaddafi’s modus operandi was to tour schools and universities where female students were invited to his lectures.
As he spoke before his hushed audience, he would silently scan the room seeking out attractive girls. Before leaving he would pat those he had ‘selected’ on the head.
Within hours his private bodyguards would round up those chosen and kidnap them. If their families tried to keep them from Gaddafi’s clutches, they were gunned down.
One teacher at a Tripoli school recalled how the girls were all very young. ‘Some were only 14,’ she said. ‘They would simply take the girl they wanted. They had no conscience, no morals, not an iota of mercy even though she was a mere child.’
One mother, whose daughter was a student, said the community around Tripoli University lived in fear when a visit from the colonel was announced. ‘The girls he wanted would be rounded up and sent to him,’ she said.
‘One just disappeared and they never found her again, despite her father and brothers searching for her. Another was found three months later, cut, raped and lying in the middle of a park. She had been left for dead.’
Even today, the Libyan people are afraid to speak openly about Gaddafi’s depravity, fearing reprisals from his former henchmen.
But one woman – who was repeatedly raped by the despot over seven years from the age of 15 – has anonymously spoken of how he terrorised and abused her. She had been chosen to present the colonel with a bouquet when he toured her school in his home town of Sirte on the Mediterranean coast, 350 miles east of Tripoli.
When he patted her head afterwards, in an apparently paternal gesture, she thought she had pleased the man she and her fellow Libyans were forced to call ‘the Guide’.
The next day three woman dressed in military uniform arrived telling her parents she was needed to present more flowers. Instead, she was driven at high speed to Gaddafi’s lair. Once there, he barked at his women soldiers: ‘Get her ready.’
The girl was stripped, given a blood test and shaved of all but her pubic hair. She was dressed in a G-string, forced into a low-cut gown and had thick make-up plastered on her face. When she was shoved into Gaddafi’s room, to her horror he was lying naked on the bed. When she tried to run out, the women soldiers grabbed her and flung her back on the bed.
She was raped repeatedly during the seven years she was held captive, eventually escaping when a door was accidentally left unlocked.
Fuelled by cocaine and alcohol – and often Viagra – Gaddafi abused her horribly. ‘I will never forget that first time, that moment,’ she says. ‘He violated my body and pierced my soul with a dagger. That blade will never come out.’
It took the documentary-makers months of negotiations to be allowed access to information on Gaddafi as Libya remains secretive and hide-bound by bureaucracy.
Comment by Fiddler On The Roof, Leeds, United Kingdom:
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I doubt the DM will print this but here goes. Gadhafi was killed because he wanted to sell oil for gold instead of dollars and step up a rival banking system. Sadam was killed because he started selling oil for Euros instead of dollars. The eIite have a long tradition of destroying their opponents by portraying him either as mad or a p erverted, if Gadhafi was either who knows. What is for sure, if he wasn’t, they still say he was..
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カダフィの性的奴隷スキャンダルは、あっという間に広まってしまった。ウガンダの Joseph Kony、リベリアの Charles Taylor、グアテマラの Efrain Rios Montt、などなど、多くの独裁者が性的奴隷の疑惑を持たれてきた。
“Shackled by the Dictator” などのフィクションは、現実を描写した記事には絶対にかなわない。フィクションにはいつも多少のファンタジーが含まれてるが、ノンフィクションにはファンタジーはない。
このようなことを書かれてしまう独裁者は、みんな「前独裁者」か「元独裁者」だというのも気になるところだ。「独裁者」でいるうちに、こういうスキャンダルが出てくることはない。
人権団体のキャンペーンのなかでは、独裁者が善であることはない。『「イスラムの教えは性的奴隷を禁じていない」とクウェートの政治家が言った』と人権活動家が言った時、真実のにおいはしない。
現在のリビアの状態はひどいもので、カダフィの頃を懐かしむ人がいてもおかしくはない。必要なのは、カダフィはひどいやつだったという話、カダフィは狂っていたという伝説なのだろう。
記事が微に入り細に入りカダフィの異常さを伝えれば、というか伝えようとすればするほど、その記事はうそ臭くなる。
21世紀に独裁者をするのは、簡単ではない。誰かが「毎日のように性的奴隷にこんなことをしている」と言えば、次の日には世界中の人たちがそれを信じている。「そんなことはない」という声は誰にも届かない。
独裁者はその存在が悪なのだろう。いるだけで悪いと言われてしまうのだから、たまったものではないだろう。