Libya: 10 years after the death of Muammar Gaddafi, what remains of his legacy?
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Muammar Gaddafi.
© Louafi Larbi / REUTERS
By: Clémentine Pawlotsky
1 min
10 years ago, Muammar Gaddafi disappeared.
On October 20, 2011, in the wake of the Arab Spring, the then fugitive Libyan leader was captured by fighters near Sirte, in the north of the country, before being executed and his body displayed in a market.
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The death of Muammar Gaddafi, facilitated by a controversial international intervention under the aegis of NATO, marks the end of 42 years of authoritarian rule.
But also the beginning of a decade of chaos, violence and divisions from which the country is still struggling to recover.
10 years later, what remains of Qadhafism?
Does the shadow of the “guide” continue to weigh, in silence, on Libya?
Can the Gaddafi clan play a role in the upcoming elections, the presidential election scheduled for December 24, 2021 and the legislative elections of January 2022?
Decryption with:
- Virginie Collombier
, professor at the University Institute of Florence, specialist in Libya.
- Jalel Harchaoui
, researcher, specialist in Libya within the think tank Global Initiative in Geneva.
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