A Brief History of Muammar Gaddafi
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2024
- From his extravagant robes, to his signature sunglasses, and his band of female bodyguards, Muammar Gaddafi was as eccentric as he was enigmatic. Embraced by South African President Nelson Mandela for his support for various black liberation movements both within and outside of Africa, but dubbed the ‘Mad Dog of the Middle East’ by American President Ronald Reagan for his defiantly anti-Western foreign policies, Gaddafi’s 42 year reign as Libya’s Leader would see him win the allegiance and adoration many African leaders while simultaneously becoming a universal figure of hate all around the Western world.
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Written by: K.B. Taiwo & Wame Gabaake
One of our key sources for this video was : Pondi, Jean-Emmanuel. Life and death of Muammar Al-Qadhafi: what lessons for Africa? Yaoundé: Éditions Afric'Eveil, 2013
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Thanks a lot. Can you guys give your sources for this video?
Thank you my Nigeria brother
This what Muammar bulit in 42 years
330 thousand housing units instead of tents, barracks and camboats.
* 24 thousand km paving roads inside and outside the cities
* 800 medical hospitals in all cities, with all their equipment and stores.
* Building 3000 thousands of schools and adding 30,000 new classrooms in basic and secondary education only.
* Building 20 universities, 25 colleges, and 80 institutes between medium and high.
* 50 major power plants, including gas and steam.
* 600 clinics and medical complexes within the urban neighborhoods.
* A high pressure network for electricity along a 2,000 square kilometer.
Establishing an Islamic Da`wah Association, which has built nearly 5,000 mosques inside and outside Libya.
* The artificial river water network over 4000 km
* 40 airfields between civilian and military and more than 60 emergency runways throughout Libya.
* 10 sea ports for export and import.
* The cheapest country in the world in the price of necessities for living gasoline, water, electricity and bread due to subsidy.
* 5 The most powerful army in the Arab world, 7 Africa and 53 globally until 2011.
* Social security is a basic right for all citizens, unlike most countries in the world.
* Social security is a basic right for all citizens, unlike most countries in the world.
* Nationalization of the 6 largest American and British oil companies and transferring their ownership in full to the Libyan state.
* The largest cement joint-stock company has 6 factories to produce in Libya and is considered the cheapest globally.
* The largest iron and steel factory in North Africa in Misurata
* The largest agricultural projects in the middle of the desert, from Gallo to Bed, south through Al-Wad, in Al-Jafra, to the Faruj Project in the far south.* The 6 largest public companies for self-sufficiency contain major factories and warehouses on the level of Libya from the General Dairy Company .. General Plastic Company .. General Company for Tractors .. General Mills Company .. General Company for Electronic Devices .. General Company for the Production of Juices and Soft Drinks and For male only:
Al-Naseem Misurata Factory for the manufacture of ice cream and dairy products, located in the city of Misurata, and this company has the Libyan quality mark
Al-Rayhan Company for Food Industries, headquartered in Benghazi, and this company holds the international quality mark ISO 9001
Al-Taibat Food Industries Company is headquartered in Benghazi, and this company is awarded the international quality mark ISO 9001
Al-Sunbulah company, based in Tripoli
The farm company for food industries, based in Tripoli - Al Falah Road Happy Day Food Company - www.alyoumalsiad.com - located in Tripoli, specialized in trading basmati rice, medium grains and European dairy products.
Al Waha Company for Foodstuff Industry - Founded in 1987 in the city of Benghazi
* External investments amounting to 40 billion dollars are sufficient to guarantee a decent life for future generations, all of which are owned by the Libyan state.
* The only country in the whole world, after America and Russia, has full sovereignty over its land, sea, and air, and for 40 years there has been no western base on its soil.
* The largest country where North African workers resort without a visa, as they number 6 million workers.
* The largest support provided to support the Arabs and the Egyptian army in 73 was 1 billion dollars, and three times more than Saudi Arabia, as it provided only 300 million dollars, although it outperformed Libya production 14 times.* The Libyan dinar is only 250 dirhams away from the dollar, to become parallel to the price of the largest currency in the world. And the salary was 200 dinars = 160 dollars, and at 6 dinars per dollar, now the salary reaches 960 Libyan dinars.
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And you can, with some rationality and away from demagoguery, to know the size of the country that was built from nothing and without loans from the World Bank and debts = zero, i.e. Libyan capabilities and dependence on national national income and a surplus of 400 billion dollars and 180 tons of gold reserves .. And finally 40 individual bread
Think y'all need to get that gold back stolen by Hilary Clinton. Her brother was murdered. So, get Libyas gold back.
What's the name of the music
This is the content RUclips needs.
Wow! Thank you!
Didn't expect this, what a great surprise
Wow, this is impressive
Agreed
Agreed
Humanity needs more historical reporting like this- you've managed to talk about such a divided topic in a very neutral manner. God Bless.
Thank you for watching! 🙌🏾
I agree i in an era of agenda behind pretty much anything we need people like him
@@NewAfrica For real, this made me subscribe. Very good work!
He molested countless girls why didn't you mention that?
@@NewAfrica Neutral reporting is the backbone of a healthy democracy. Sadly it's also relatively rare! Thank you so much for these high quality videos!
Many have already said it, but this is the best explanation of Gaddafi I have ever seen. Everyone else depicts him as a either a monster or a saint, but you did a great job of remaining unbaised. Amazing.
Nah, he was an animal who stole wealth from Libyan he opened fire on peaceful protestors. He had to pay billions in damages for victim families of Libyan Government sponsored terrorist attack that destroyed mid air jetliner with hundreds of people. Only uneducated degenerates who are not even Libyans, would suppord Gaddafi
BS. They totally avoid actually discussing his involvement with terrorism. Infact it’s totally whitewashed, and they tiptoe around it by saying these people were “designated as terror organizations by western governments”. WHAT?
I would he was simply a human that was not fit to lead the country of Libya.
Casual historian made some good highlights as well, like how Gaddafi basically just decided to annex a sea at one point which was in violation of international law
False. It will invariably exhibit bias unless it tells the complete narrative. This was not achieved as the creator is clearly lacking tonnes of information. The individual in question was a psychopathic monster. You would know what I am discussing if you and your family experienced his regime as a general civilian (not someone who was employed by the regime). That's not to say Libya is any better now.
"Gaddafi's Libya was not indebted to any international financial institutions" - probably one of the biggest reasons that he needs to be eliminated.
Just like TZ president John magufuli ....RIP.
That and his currency backed by gold that he was planning
Yes, I think so. This would have probably caused the other developed countries.
Also a vision to make “United States of Africa”.
Romania also payed it’s debt in the 1980’s, I wonder why the government was overthrown, I guess we’ll never know
@@TCraig00 GADDAFI IS WORLD BEST HERO LIBYAAAAAAA
I've lived in Libya for 17 years, and this is the first time I have seen someone explain Libya and Ghadaffi in an unbiased and educational way. Thank you for this.
Has it sprung back or a total wreck there?
Liberia
@@Blakelikesfood the gdp dropped by 75%
@@Blakelikesfood and they are in a civil war
@@walaloo1845 It is much more peaceful now, particularly in East Libya or Tripoli
I can't imagine how heart wrenching life must be like for the Libyan people . The depression that comes from being at the top of the world and then watching it all crumble down. Prayers out to the Libyan people. May God be with you and turn the situation around for the greater
They wanted revolution to bring him down. They got it, so let them suffer
That’s what your country do all the time and you people come out to say pray to God to watch over them have you people campaign against your government for doing evil oh gosh Africa must unite before we see you people take our prophets that wants this continent a better place we Africans will fight until our last breath
@MarkAmo-ku4le uhm I'm a black African woman.
@@MarkAmo-ku4le but even if she was american, the people aren't responsible for their government's actions
@vyhozshu I don't necessarily agree, I think the people can challenge governments but ultimately you don't have much influence on foreign policy. I'm from west Africa and I disagree with a lot of my government's measures in foreign policy but I can't really do anything about it. ofc there's a difference tho, my government isn't manipulating foreign powers and plotting murders
honestly this is such amazing journalism. No fake news, shows the good and the bad, Im studying to be a journalist and this is what I strive for. Amazing job man
Great goal and attitude.
All the best in your studies and career!
You not need to be JOURNALIST TO UNDERSTAND MUSLIMS ARE BAD MANAGERS ASK THEIR WOMEN..
"fake news" doesn't really apply here either way because it's not news. I think "unbiased" would be a more appropriate term
@@tomlxyz @tomlxyz the word "fake" is in general over- and missused in the modern media word. Not enough people see the nuances of commentary, satire, hate, talking around issues, lying about issues, censoring media, missing an unimportant fact etc.
If you want to be a good journalist you must live and love one word...TRUTH...
Gaddafi was a legend ..respect from Ireland 🇮🇪
Gaddafi gave a lot to the Irish people
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter .......Libya is destroyed today cos of terrorist number one Hillary Killary ,and Europe is being destroyed by d fallout from Libyas capitulation thru mass migration crime n drugs
@Chiptux "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter"
You've given such a balanced argument to a westerner, not to mention a very relaxing voice; you've earned yourself a subscriber, sir.
Yep!
Agreed. The West was blamed but not exclusively. Gaddafi aimed to be, I guess, a benevolent dictator in a region where principled oppositional discourse was probably in short supply.
Maybe that's my Western chauvinism about how most violent conflict has been kept to the fringes, for the most part, and then managed either with some appeasement or some degree of state repression or both.
I think even the infamous COINTELPRO didn't rise to the level of murdering 1200 prisoners. Even prison uprisings and takeovers don't lead to mass annihilation.
I am partly coming from hope that people involved in our 2020 uprisings in America, can gain insight. There was initially some justification, and plenty of nonsense, that people guilty of crimes are innocent victims of racism, that racism is unique to America (it is relatively rare), but they get increasingly bizarre. Their actions have led to FAR MORE DEATHS already. This, over infrequent instances of somewhat serious to very serious police brutality.
Those people supporting these uprisings have NO IDEA the likely culmination of what they are aiming to unleash. Should they achieve whatever revolutionary utopia they think they want, the bloodbaths that arise are typically in the many thousands or millions, with decades of violent repression and counter-violence .. especially towards the top insiders when different factions arise.
Same here. I`m from Switzerland and it was very informative and pleasant to watch. Because of how people talked about him here, I was under the impression he was bad. I`m glad that, thanks to you, I got the chance to learn about who he really was. SUBSCRIBED!
Yes I miss the balance. I’m pretty sure It’s been decided.... at least be a large portion of our media and governments that it’s better that we don’t hear both sides. Too dangerous.
Ian Austin so much for being brainwashed by bbc
He had his flaws but he was far more competent than the average African leader to put it mildly.
Okay, so will you call his murder of thousands of innocent prisoners and burying them without alerting their families a "mistake"? My aunt's mother in law went every single day to deliver her husband food, for two entire years only to discover that her husband had been thrown into a ditch, long dead, along with thousands of other innocents, with torture marks, missing fingers and nails and feet. Gaddafis guards would take the food she brought and eat it. Him and his men raping young girls? There are testimonies. It's indisputable, he was a dirty man. How will you justify him lynching students in front of classmates for no reason other than they had a family member critique him? He exiled those who were talented, any one that had the potential to exceed him in fame... He made his daughter a throne of pure gold while I had teachers at school that hadn't been paid a penny in 9+ years. Before you left the country, you LITERALLY HAD TO SIGN A DOCUMENT THAT YOU WOULDN'T SAY ANYTHING BAD ABOUT HIM. I could go on. And on. And on.
@@jiminici3351 I ain't saying that Gaddafi was a good man either, sure as hell not. Yet we also gotta see that no matter how much of a screwup he was, the situation of his country still wasn't as bad under him as it was after the west killing him.
@@minimistmoehre6400 Agreed, the comment is sating he was a *competent* leader, and a more *competent* than other African leaders.
@@jiminici3351 Would you have Libya stay as the poorest country in Africa? If everything you say is true how does he stand up to any other Muslim ruler?
You sound like a leftist all solutions must be perfection or it's shit while you people offer no solutions at all.
No one is saying he was a saint far from but to dismiss all the good things he did is childish and typical of the leftist's.
Basing the whole economy off of one source doesn’t sound too competent, at least in long-term thought
The moment he mentioned “nationalization of oil” I knew instantly what happened to Gaddafi
Interesting stuff. Gaddafi is also famously the voice of Garfield in the Arabic release of the film Garfield (2004). So a man of many talents you could say.
wait really??
😆You have to be lying to me.
I need a source for this. I so want to believe you
wait really 😂😂😂😂😂
horse sh it.
I saw the VICE's video where a protesting Libyan said "I fought against Gadaffi, but if i knew this was the outcome I would've gladly fought FOR HIM!"
Too bad he was killed by his own people, now they pay for their stupidity.
Knight of Christianity , sure they are stupid but, don't forget the US and NATO activities in the region, it's more than "his people killed him"
@@knight1506 his own people (Libyans) were just a minority of the rebels who ousted him. There were other rebels from various Arab nations involved too. There was also mercenaries from Latin America involved. All backed by the US and NATO
@@samishaniyy I think in the end it's their own fault. They had a good life, didn't appreciate that but they want more, it's never enough for Libyans. They chose to kill him with foreign assistance, not the other way around.
@@knight1506 actually it is the other way around
I was 15 when Gaffafi was killed and I remember the UK media painting him as a mad tyrant whose death should be unambiguously celebrated. This one video has taught me more than countless hours of news coverage ever could. Amazing channel
Gaddafi bombed a plane over Scotland and shot a police woman using diplomatic immunity. He was unequivocally a terrorist for the UK.
rat thrower But is a plane over Scotland or a police woman worth the lives of all the Libyans that got caught in a civil war after his death?
Gaddafi was the only one able to make sure all of Libya didn’t go back to the Stone Age. Its a very unsustainable system, yes, but no one has given any better alternatives.
@@alexanderchristopher6237 maybe it's not, but the UK media was right to paint him as a mad tyrant whose death should be celebrated
@@alexanderchristopher6237 Yes, it's absolutely worth it. They had the choice to get rid of him themselves but they chose to support his terrorism, so no pity for those fuckers. It's good they are dead. This is justice. They carry out attacks on us, they die. Don't pretend that they are innocent and Gaddafi is solely responisble of the bombings. He commanded it, BUT HIS PEOPLE carried it out. Death on in his people and every Western traitor that supports his terrorist legacy.
@JoshuaNorton what about the justice of the countless millions of lives lost because of the British empire, it’s widely known of Churchill letting millions of bengals starve to death, no one is perfect, nor is any country, every country has links to terrorist attacks and have blood on there hands, but to be content with the death of thousand of innocent people is in no way justified.
This is depressing. I was only taught he was an evil dictator on school. Only after I found out that Nelson Mandela had kind words about him I thought I should find out a bit more about him. This video explained a lot of things to me. I will get myself some (hopefully unbiased) information on him now. Thank you!
Yeah.. Those guys have always been against any individual trying to make Africa great! From Kwame Nkrumah to Gadahfi
@@osahene1607
How about idi Amin?
He is still an evil dictator, he had an all female personal guard who were his sex slaves
@@osahene1607 Kwame Nkrumah's plan for a united Africa was extremely unrealistic, same with Gaddafi
There was just no way all 54 countries, all with their own tribal and regional differences could unite under one leader like they had envisioned. That was just unfeasible for a continent of 30 million km², over 1 billion people, over 500 languages, tribes and cultures, different climates and economic situations and a huge desert splitting the North and the South.
A common market maybe, but not an African superstate with one leader at the head like what Nkrumah and Gaddafi had envisioned
@@mike.n.n.7723 no the problem is. It’s vry much possible as long as outside forces mind their business. A unified Africa was a loss for nobody IN Africa. Only outside of it. And it wud have been an incentive for other blakk ppl to take watevr they have bakk to with them. Kreating more political power outside Africa. That in itself is dangerous in a Eurocentric world
I have a lot of respect for Gadaffi. He really wanted to improve the lives of Irish people who where being treated as second class citizens in a supposed “equal” democracy. Those who where involved in his cowardly death will be judged accordingly
Edit: There is a very famous mural dedicated to him in Ireland
I can't have respect fot Gadaffi knowing that he openly sponored terrorist atracks on Isreali athletes.
I know its hard to judge him in black and white terms, but given his track record of sponoring rebel groups of neighbouring nations, i think he was only doing to weaken the UK.
Now granted, many western nations are also responsible similar crimes, but with Ghadafi bring the sole dictator, he can be entirely responsible.
I don't know man, i don't mean to jump down your throat, but its hard to find him admirable given that he had so much power over his local government and still resorted to voilent oppression. In Iraq, I know that Suddam Hussien had to keep a alot of competing ethnic groups and religions in check (though he was still detestable), but given this was less of an issue in Libiya and Ghadafi's insane local popularity after he cemented his power, he should not have had to resort to the voilence and oppresion to such an extent.
And yeah its weird, i feel admiration towards his economic policy, his ablility to not be indebted to foreign influences and his vision of a more cooperative Africa that he legimately worked towards in an African way. But I think he had delusions of grandeur, and began putting his vision infront of human lifes.
But what do I know, i just a rando on youtube.
@@strikemasterice2004 I think your comment is well put but I don't really agree with your view on his helping the irish, as much of mobster as he became I do truly believe he was anti imperial and wanted freedom for the irish
@@pebystroll Yeah fair enough. Humans can be complicated and nuanced. Its one of the reasons why i love learning history. I don't know about his relationship with the Irish, I should probably look into it get a better understanding before judging.
@@strikemasterice2004 he supplied the IRA with explosives and guns and I presume money but I'm not sure, I believe this mostly took place during the 1980s at the height of the troubles
@@strikemasterice2004 your love of history and its nuances are very clear from you first comment, I think it is very well written
one thing i can say about him is, his united Muslim nations is temporary, but his drip is forever
Drip is for eternity
he do be drippin' tho'
Man can be destroyed, but never his drip...never his drip. Amen.
Lmao
Undying drip 💧, but ngl he copied Stalin
in the US we only heard horrible things about him.
That is what they did to all Africa leaders who seized them from stealing Africa wealth and killed him so that everyone will begin to hate him
He was not the villain that America and Europe painted him out to be.
It's a tactic used by the U.S. to give the go to go over and destabilize another nation, it been performed across the world by the United states.
Feliź Kodie brainwashing is USA tactics to the general population. Hence ,while I’m here in NYC I watch,read and was brought up on news from my country and others outside of USA!
They use Obama to cover up and kill Gaddafi. They will influence your people and use them against you. Obama has always regretted for the death of Gaddafi. He was in power. He should have lifted that banned and go in terms with him to use his power to build Africa but sit on the seat and supported his killing. If not America who else will do this diabolical life
I saw Libyan students in Europe and around the world,and they were the highest payed students by their government,more than any other country.
And your leaders said hell no how can this man have so much then we must steal instead coming for trade now see how they do it they call him a dictator just for his own people to betray him
Not they weren't, stop pushing propaganda. Gaddafi was an animal who executed student on live TV go type in RUclips
Amazing channel. I love how detailed yet impartial you are about so many topics. You’ve got a great skill story telling and narrating
GADDAFI’S LAST FORMAL SPEECH
“ In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful…
For 40 years, or was it longer, I can’t remember, I did all I could to give
people houses, hospitals, schools, and when they were hungry, I gave
them food. I even made Benghazi into farmland from the desert.
I stood up to attacks from that cowboy Ronald Reagan, when he killed
my adopted orphaned daughter, he was trying to kill me, instead he
killed that poor innocent child. Then I helped my brothers and sisters
from Africa with money for the African Union.
I DID ALL I COULD TO HELP PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT
OF REAL DEMOCRACY, WHERE PEOPLE'S COMMITTEES RAN OUR
COUNTRY. But that was never enough, as some told me, even people
who had 10 room homes, new suits and furniture, were never satisfied,
as selfish as they were, they wanted more.
THEY TOLD AMERICANS AND OTHER VISITORS THAT THEY
NEEDED ‘DEMOCRACY’ AND ‘FREEDOM’, NEVER REALIZING IT
WAS A CUT THROAT SYSTEM, WHERE BIGGEST DOG EATS THE
REST. But they were enchanted with those words, never realizing that in
America there was no free medicine, no free hospitals, no free housing,
no free education, and no free food, except for when people had to
beg or go to long lines to get soup.
No, no matter what I did, it was never enough for some, but for others,
they knew I was the son of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the only true Arab and
Muslim leader we’ve had since Salah-al-Deen, when he claimed the Suez
Canal for his people, as I claimed Libya, for my people, it was his footsteps
I tried to follow - to keep my people free from colonial domination - from
thieves who would steal from us.
Now, I am under attack by the biggest force in military history, my little
African son, Obama wants to kill me, to take away the freedom of our
country, to take away our free housing, our free medicine, our free
education, our free food, and replace it with American style thievery,
called "capitalism".
But all of us in the Third World know what that means, it means corporations
run the countries, run the world, and the people suffer. So, there is no
alternative for me, I must make my stand, and if Allah wishes, I shall die by
following His path, the path that has made our country rich with farmland,
with food and health, and even allowed us to help our African and Arab
brothers and sisters.
I do not wish to die, but if it comes to that, to save this land, my people, all
the thousands who are all my children, then so be it. Let this testament be
my voice to the world, that I stood up to crusader attacks of NATO, stood up
to cruelty, stoop up to betrayal, stood up to the West and its colonialist
ambitions, and that I stood with my African brothers, my true Arab and
Muslim brothers, as a beacon of light.
When others were building castles, I lived in a modest house, and in a tent.
I never forgot my youth in Sirte, I did not spend our national treasury foolishly ,
and like Salah-al-Deen, our great Muslim leader, who rescued Jerusalem
for Islam, I took little for myself…
In the West, some have called me "mad", "crazy", but they know the truth,
yet continue to lie. They know that our land is independent and free, not in
the colonial grip, that my vision, my path is, and has been clear and for my
people and that I will fight to my last breath to keep us free, may Allah
almighty help us to remain faithful and free".
My brothers and sisters let's start loving more of each other and stop killing
each other cause Europe America and other western world will never
want to see sunshine for Africans..”
✊🏽🖤👑
✊✊✊✊
VERY WELL SAID
👏👏👏
Damn some truth to that.
My dad's a Yugoslav aircraft engineer. He travelled to Libya by business, and he really remembers Libya fondly - back then Yugoslavia was the biggest partner to many developing countries, especially Libya, Egypt, Iraq, and China. Our engineers practically built their infrastructure. He always said how different Libya was than other Arab countries he visited - clean streets, peace and calm, and people living pretty well. I wasn't aware of everything in relation to Gaddafi, but this video gave me such a great insight into his entire body of work! No leader is without mistakes, and no leader is without blood on his hands. The Americans know this very well, but they can still afford good photoshop, press and suits. Love and peace to all Africans, and prayers for Libya to become a country again.
Thank you for this great video, subscribing!
Bulgaria was side by side with Libya too
@@user-ix3xh4lk8f Cool, but do you mean the years before the fall of Berlin wall, or afterwards?
@@vvkth2500 Пре тога за време Живкова
In cairo we have a street called Josef Tito he was a legend to us. Infrastructure is definitely failing but my grandpa did appreciate the Yugoslav and soviet weapons during the 1973 Arab Israeli war
That's why they went after yugoslavia too!!! They want us all to be slaves
As a viewer from the UK, it's extremely refreshing to see a balanced presentation of facts presented by an African channel. I'd love to see more high-quality videos like this. Subscribed.
You think you are smart
This is the content RUclips needs.. Thanks for a balanced and detailed history of this man's life..
I really like the neutral tone of this documentary - this is true journalism - keep it up
Thank you Rashmi!
Agreed
Lying is the truth of the day
Neutral tone? It’s a lot of people suffering in Libya….
One man's terrorist, another man's freedom fighter summed up the presentation. Again a very well balanced presentation on the channel. The best thing I like about your work is you guys don't end up "passing a judgement" unlike most popular media.
History is complex, history is chaotic. 🤘
Exactly, just a neutral perspective based on facts covering good and bad without trying influence any political sides.
Sadly a rare thing in modern day media.
Great way to sum it up-history is chaotic. Gadaffi did a lot of bad things, but also a lot of good things. Humans want to put a label on everyone but it's not all black and white.
Even his own people didnt have freedom. He only cared about himself.
@@tubester4567 yeah and now his people don't even have food
Oh, don't take it too far. I've never killed another human being in cold blood, and I will go out of my way to avoid supporting anything that will facilitate that. I would need to be faced with preventing the deliberate death of another to make me kill, and short of that I'm not into killing to solve problems. There's nothing wrong with calling out the less sanguine actions of 'freedom fighters'. Forgetting to mention those events in favour of more pleasant ones and justifying it with trite statements such as 'life isn't all black or white' isn't taking a measured historical perspective: it's someone actually taking a position that they are willing to overlook certain crimes if they like the outcome. You do you, but be honest about it.
thank you for making this video, as someone who is broadly ignorant about things outside my specific area your channel has been a godsend for learning about African history
I really love seeing an African man run a successful channel about African history. This is a channel I can get behind
Really love New Africa... African history told by an African!!. Thats what we want broo... 🇿🇼🇿🇦🇿🇲🇬🇭🇩🇿🇪🇬🇰🇪🇱🇸🇳🇬🇳🇦🇸🇳🇺🇬🇸🇿
Can it still happen
@@tn2113 I hope so
Someone once said, "Not all democracies are good, and not all dictatorships are bad." It is sad to see a once great country like Libya in ruins. He had his flaws, but I believe that they were better off with him. I am genuinely interested on learning more about Haile Selassie, another controversial leader, a video on him would be good.
There have been a couple 'dictators' who were in the end good for the country. Like Gaddafi and our very own Josip Broz Tito. It's easy for westerners to say 'democracy good, brings prosperity' when they live in prosperous countries. For others, democracy is a commodity, living standards are a necessity. And it's a fact that authoritarian regimes have better potential for economic growth. I would support a dictator who could give us a better life.
you can't blame them for striving for a better life. I don't think any of them thought that this will be the result.
Its the same with saddam hussein
After Gaddafis demise it is a shame that Lybias ruling class can't get their shit together to share power and wealth. They would still make enough money 🧐
@@puschelhornchen9484 That's what happens when selfish, arrogant aristocrat wannabes all try to seize power and wealth.
This channel has become part of my TOP 10 !! ❤❤💖
Man you have got a fan for life from me. This is very very good work!
The lack of bias is a breatbe of fresh air
As an American, we get very little news or history about Africa, I find all of your content very informative and easy to follow. Keep up the great work.
@Mickeymickstein But all the Western media reports about Africa is negative news. Why should they? What is their buisness with Africa?
@@game_boyd1644 for real, that's the prob
Europe and America hardly report good news about Africa unless it favour then
Again the US is a totalitarian government at least to other governments. If you disagree with them they’ll use their military and propaganda to strike you down. If America is such a great country on its own then why is it always invading other countries?
@@game_boyd1644 no the news Harley talks about you tbh. The only time y’all are relevant is when some crazy guy is killing children or the rape / aids / disease that happen .
You did an amazing job. you gave such an unbiased, unemotional report. It was exactly what i needed and was looming for. Thank you. God bless.
Great video thank you for this even handed overview. I'm looking forward to getting more into your channel and learning more about Africa
As a Westerner I only read and heard about Ghaddafi's atrocities, like he was some kind of cartoon villain. This video shed some light on the whole perspective of his regime and policies
I still believe he was a crazy dictator, but it was nice to see where he came from and what he was trying to accomplish. Great video as always
@Koolkid what about obama
@Koolkid > 4 years
> dictator
yeah keep coping
@@erickrasniewski567 A dictator that peacefully transferred power after a winning 2 democratic elections? Kind of a lame dictator if you ask me.
@Koolkid Wouldn't be a dictator if he can't make economic laws in the Congress with a majority
Koolkid He wishes to be but not gonna be
Gaddafi was a very imperfect leader with blood on his hands because he was a dictator but the way NATO (U.S and France) intervened and completely destroyed the country is completely inexcusable.
They should be ashamed of themselves.
Lybia under Gaddafhi had some of the highest living standards of Africa and was a constant reproach and example not only to neighboring countries but also western countries.
Such a shame.
shame does nothing to them. in fact, they rather achieved their aim. they couldn't accept that something better could come from Africa.
@@etornamtsyawo6407 wasnt the country already crumbling to pieces. It was fighting a civil war.
@@etornamtsyawo6407 Justice will come in due time. I truly believe that.
French interests were paramount in the overthrowal of Gaddafi. I explain how the West lied in order to overthrow Gaddafi and how the current Libyan Civil War unfolded in my latest video.
@@BrownDusky I guess, but the point is that western powers were the ones who sponsored Gaddafi opponents. Just think if the new currency would truly take down us dollar.
This was very well done. All news should be like this. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing this with us
I'm from India and I feel overwhelmed by the kind of insightful and unbiased content you guys are disseminating to the audience. I would like to congratulate you this channel for doing commendable work..
i've seen indian news/channels. Its become very hindutva dominated.
@@StreetDrilla Yeah it's a circus here.
@@StreetDrilla we have to watch independent journalists to get the real news.
@@StreetDrilla anything's better than liberal dominated MSM
@@StreetDrilla not to forget librandu oriented left channels like NDTV
Let’s be get real here, whenever a leader wants to untie a country and get rid of foreign interference, it’s the West and Russia, ect, all the superpowers we know will try to take that leader down, and break the country to pieces again, yes Gaddafi was a bit cocky at times but besides that he did want to unite.
They were afraid and they killed him just because of power
Supporting Terrorist, shooting Protesters is more than a bit cocky
It's good to know the Western world is such an effective scapegoat that there's no liability for the negatives but plenty of praise for the things Gaddafi supposedly wanted to do. I guess it's an example of how we judge others by their actions and we judge ourselves by our intentions. But don't think for a second people like Gaddafi care for you personally. At best you could be useful to them. No one should like their leaders that much.
They killed Saddam for that too
A bit cocky at times: murders thousands of his own people.
Amazing mann. Keep it up.
Such a brief story. Appreciate the work 🙌🏽
Where has this channel been all my life. South African here and you have just shown me how little I know about my continent. Wish I could subscribe twice!
Thank you!
This is truly awesome content. I'm a 43 year old black American woman who never knew about any of this. And I totally agree with wishing I could subscribe twice. Definitely making my kids watch this!
🇿🇦 South African in America 🇺🇸 our historical moments thank you
The fake country of South Africa.... now with extra “cultural enrichment” for the white farmers there lol
@@chartreusecircle1546 What? By that logic most modern countries are fake. Stability aside as well, whites can’t be blamed for all modern problems at this point. Mandela didn’t condemn the afrikaners after the end of the apartheid regime and the Zimbabwean economy collapsed after attempting to take land of the whites there. People living now shouldn’t really be blamed for their grandparents crimes. Otherwise, you’d be surprised the number of people who’d need to apologise to themselves
As an Irish person I was very surprised to see Gaddafi was linked to the IRA. I've been looking to learn more about African history and honestly this channel is so comprehensive and informative. It's hard to expect people to be objective but you even get that right!! One of the best history channels on RUclips.
Did you know that Dublin has a 🌙 in its flag? It a tribute for the donation of the ottoman sultan for the great Irish famine where the queen of England donated a measly sum and only him had the "courage" to offend her by donating more
The IRA ... Revolutionaries of increasingly questionable judgement the further you trace their history from the Easter Rebellion to the Good Friday Agreement.
That link to Gaddafi for international arms dealing combined with a number of their bombings with civilian victims really made it difficult for people who supported the civil rights and Republican cause back in the 1960s to continue supporting them. Especially after Lockerbie.
For people like Thatcher, such actions made it so much easier to treat them as unredeemable criminals.
There were other options - other strategies - that they could have chosen, if they had been a little less amoral when it came to violent tactics.
Libyan here! This is very good and high quality video. Please keep up the amazing work. 👍🏽
This was a great, unbiased and very informative breakdown. Thank you!
Why i STOPPED thinking OBAMA WAS with ONE OF us- Africans !!! R.I.P my Hero Gaddafi.
Did you not even watch the video? Or any part that talked bout the intervention?
@@salokin3087 this video isn't much different to BBC reports, this is what you would put out if you want Africa to keep being looted
@@conorspence5332 how? What parts of the video were wrong?
Paints anti-colonial fighters as terrorists and repeats a lot of lies and accusations made by Western media as the truth. Lockerbie, prison massacre, saying he was a dictator etc. It doesn't mention what kind of opposition they had in Libya it just so happens to give the sort of description the CIA may even pay for. Anything positive was represented as either opportunistic or not that important, the achievements were always played down.
Salokin Gaddafi was a true African hero. Was he an angel, of course not. Did he have blood on his hands, yes. But he committed way less crimes then the likes of Obama and Bush. The only reason he was so heavily antagonised because he refused to be a puppet to the west, as some other oil rich countries had done. What's worse is that the people who rebelled against him thought they were betraying him but now look at the country, they deceived themselves. The way he died is painful to think about.
As a westerner this was incredibly informative. Thank you
Thank you for watching
YOu westerners are slowly killing africa
I love how everything has been reported plainly without being bias. Thanks for the info
70 years of history in 20 minutes... Thanks for the great work
He was no angel but he meant good for Africa
He made too for his fellow Arab not all Africans
French interests were paramount in the overthrowal of Gaddafi. I explain how the West lied in order to overthrow Gaddafi and how the current Libyan Civil War unfolded in my latest video.
Maybe for the berbers but definitely not for Subsaharan Africans.
He supported the killing of Thomas Sankara.
That was all show
*Gaddafi: 'Hey, let's bypass the Petrodollar and use gold dinar'*
*Clinton: "We came, we saw...he died!"*
Basing ones currency on gold is peak economic illiteracy
@Peter A. "far more successful"? Lol what? A basic macro economics unit or textbook will outline why. Gold doesn't have much use, its only valuable because we say it is. Currencies issued by countries has value based on the Government policies and goods and services produced by the country. Some countries use fixed systems to overvalue or undervalue their goods and services whilst others have a flexible system to meet demand and supply
@@salokin3087 Gold, as far as we know, is the most radiation resistant thing in the universe. That's why we use the gold plated disc in Voyager trips, because the scientists believed that the gold disc survived 22,500 years in outer space before landed on a presumeably living solar system.
@@VictoryDay-qe7vm I guess this is true, but that doesn't make gold actually worth much as a commodity, unless people are building space ships
@@salokin3087 Hmmm...nice statement...but in the near future, if we somehow build thing in spaces, i'd think gold bricks and gold foil would be one of the building materials, yet it is very rare here on earth...and petrodollar itself is based on oil right? If solar powered cars become widespread in the future, oil would lose its value. That's why this anti global climate movement exists, to just simply defend the usage of oil so that the petrodollar is still worth it.
I studied history and politics as an undergraduate in the UK. I did a module on Libya. And yet, this 20-minute video did more than my whole research could! Thank you - please keep them coming.
Obama knew exactly what he was doing… also. American knew what they were doing when they made Obama president.
In this life if you don’t listen you will feel.
The Libyan people did their leader Gadafi dirty and now you are weeping what you sowed.
That man has been the best thing to happen to Libya and Africa.
And now look the west have gotten exactly what they wanted.
Even with his imperfections and his mistakes I’ll always choose Gaddafi over the vast majority of African leaders.
May God bless his soul and grant his highest blessing.
Long live Gaddafi ✊🏽
This man was a visionary he even predicted today's Europe migratory crisis.
He predicted covid-19
@Will DeMarco Yeah it was part of his 2009 UN speech. He was silenced because he knew too much. In an odd twist of fate, one of the leaders of the 2011 rebels Mahmoud Jibril died of covid in April.
Uhh... predict? He received millions upon millions of dollars and euros from all over Europe to stop migrants from crossing his borders to get to EU.
He literally threatend and terrorised EU with refugees, demanding 5 billion euro annually to be deposited into his pockets, otherwise "Europe will turn black", implying he will just open his borders to anyone who wants to cross the waters to enter EU. People from all over Africa always tried to move to Europe, he just weaponized it (gee, wonder why they didn't like him)
Exactly. His death was the worst thing that couldve happened to Europe
@@glimmerxp there's a difference between an agreement or a contract and a blackmail. Gaddafi though he was holding all the aces in his sleeve and had to smear it all over their faces while in reality he lived in a glass castle and once European leaders got tired of him constantly throwing stones, they threw one back and he ended up dead and humiliated alongside his countrymen. To think people consider him a great leader is bizzare; I agree he managed to stabilize a very unstable region which was huge, but besides that he was basically Hugo Chavez of Africa, spending oil and gas money frivolously instead of investing into his own country so it wouldn't be dependent on oil in the future.
As of Europe, check the actual stats. At first Gaddafi's death caused a turmoil, if I remember correctly 2015 or 2016 was the worst. Since then they learned how to handle it and the amount of illegals in Europe dropped drastically, from like 2 mil each year to like 200.000. Come to find out Gaddafi wasn't as important as he claimed to be.
Visited Tripoli back in 1998...
Safest, fairest, cleanest, happiest city in Africa!
Now that city is sand and scary
@@nightblueblue8563 rip chadaffi
Yeah, but now libia (Trípoli) is very dirty and poor
That's a lie, Gaddafi was white and stole all the good stuff from black Africans
@@edsnotgod 1) gadaffi is arab not white
2) did you even watch the video?
This is the best documentary ever. Thank you.
Very informative video. Thank you. Studying this right now.
Heartbreaking.... you die a hero or live long enough to become a villain
And, he died a hero.
@@belkYT villain
Mugabe is another prime example
Live long enough to be MADE a villain
@@rumchata6569 I don't think anyone made him rape women and oppress the population of Libya.
He was a REAL leader now Africa has a bunch of sellouts, We remember him all over Africa.
Ahman
Please stop this. He murdered and mutilated and tortured thousands. This is so painful.
jiminici let people think want they want to think, what you are doing is not ok,.
All crying now for one second of his time . I am writing now there is black out in All Libya power failure for more than 15 hrs and electricity issue still prevailing for 10 years now during his Time I never see this. I think this example enough .
Paul Kigame and Julius Malema seem to have their ducks in a row
The Gaddafi I was taught 👏🏾👏🏾, despite the flaws was the man that wanted good for Africa
Greetings from Brazil
Thank you for this amazing work.
I bet those people who were tricked into hating him wish he was there now
As a libyan, the majority of Libyans will give anything to get pre 2011 libya back.
Too late..............his country betrayed him and believe American lies.
You can’t kill a powerful leader without a plan to fill the power vacuum it causes. Idk why nations don’t think it through, I think some just try to play god think it’s better to have a destabilized country so they don’t have to worry about a possible enemy
No one was "tricked", he shot protesters and the people revolted
@@salokin3087 He shot traitors.
As a Libyan who worked with high level government officials during Ghaddafi's regime, and a close friend of many who decided to rise against him, I would like to say this video report is the most accurate and the closest to the Libyan reality.
Libya was safe, prosperous and good place for business. The rule was simple. Don't put your nose in Ghaddafi's affairs and you can live how you want to live.
But Libya was good for a foreign expat because the money was good while locals made peanuts in comparison. There was a strong resentment among many Libyans towards Ghaddafi's foreign investments in African Union and other international projects. Especially when other Oil rich Arab nations like UAE where investing in their people, Libyans grow resentful and apathetic towards their home.
Instead of correcting the mistakes of Ghaddafi, they should their true nature which is their desire to rule and amass wealth by any means even if it meant destroying their homes.
Gaddafi improved many schools and hospitals whilst improving the quality of life for Libya? Surely this is investing in his own home
@@naeemmujeeb4581 Let me clarify that for you. A foreign investor in pre-2011 Libya meant one thing. An international company selling services to Libyan government bodies without any emphasis on protecting local labor or demanding a certain percentage of labor force in these companies to be manned by Libyans. People had to scrape around the table by offering whatever they can offer to officials and rich expats. Infrastructure was OK but far behind less rich countries Like Tunisia and Morocco. It was safe but it there was no love or care or since of patriotism among majority of Libyans. we felt we are some housemaids working for a feudal lord.
Fake narration to please Muslims 👌👌👌👌
@@pralhadgh What is your point?
@thomas jefferson Not an actual house but received a lawn that was enough to build a small house and people rarely repaid it. His help for Africa was not to help her poor people out of kindness, but was an ambitious geopolitical move to kick french and British influence out of the continent.
Excellent. Very informative
This is incredible. Great reporting and video. Thanks for creating this, the world needs more direct history reporting instead of what the "winners" report.
this is a masterpiece
Agree.
He’s a true leader although he had his flaws, the western world were afraid of his plans in turning Africa into a super power continent RIP
That's it
He still wasn't a good person. He was a bad guy that did some good things and wasn't anywhere near as bad as the media made him out to be.
I might not like America, but america has good decision on eliminating him.
Imagine Africa as a superpower and extremists manages to get control of it. What do you think will happen?
@@dejavudeckard I’m from Libya , fuck you. I can no longer go to my home
@@dejavudeckard I can already imagine an Africa controlled by Boko Haram/ISIS. Thank you for putting that image in my head (sarcasm).
You got a new subscriber my friend. Unbiased facts not influenced by the western media! Good job
I come back to this every other month because it’s that amazing and informative. It’s a beautiful story of finding the greater good and what you sacrifice for the good of your people and soon realize what you do ends hurting them. Rip to one of the best African leaders and may we remember his story for the future
Gaddafi was the perfect Harvey Dent "Either you die as a hero, or live long enough to become a villlain."
This is what we need an African story told by African ❤💯
Yep. Western news had me thinking that he was all bad.
@@natashakhumalo487 people only care about lies
5:15: Looks like a poster for an epic 80s action movie.
Amazing documentary! Please, keep it up!
Barrack Obama had him killed them spoke at the AU about how good Africa can be and how he’s a proud Kenyan descendant
Sarkozy with the help of his friend Obama killed him.
Gaddafi was a major contributor to Sarkozy's illegally funded presidential campaign he's currently being judged for, Sarkozy conveniently got rid of the most important witness.
As a Kenyan, he's a SHAME to us
@@Tetemovies4 Plus Gaddafi also publicly said Obama received illegal campaign funding from Qatar in 2008
@@thadramallama As a Kenyans as well he is more than a shame a TRAITOR
Nobody:
Gaddafi: let's have a United States of Africa
Clinton: Sheeeiiittt
Is that why they killed him cuz he wanted to make Africa a better country
@@Bsfnelz20 Africa isn't a country, it's a continent. Gaddafi wanted to implement an African currency entirely backed by Africa's enormous reserves of natural resources, namely gold, diamonds, uranium, platinum and oil to name but a few. And of course by doing this Africa wouldn't be dependent or tied down by the US dollar and when Obama and Hilary Clinton found out what he was planning to do, they set their sights on him by turning his own people against him. It's really sad, for one the entire African continent would be of 1st world standard by now if Gaddafi's wish came to fruition and secondly many African countries would be global powers, both militarily and in economies comparable to that of the West and they weren't about to let that happen.
@@3freeet948Every word is true.
@@3freeet948 This isn't at all how currencies are backed or how basic monetary policies work
stupid Westerners, they don't want a Superpower other than themselves
Great work, Ahk. I just subscribed.
Thank you for making this video! I subbed ;)
I'm South African and I've just realized how much of african history I dont know! Wikipedia is really not helpful! lol.... and I know so much western and eastern history! Aiii
Knowing western history isa good thing, its the most documented so its natural you know the most about it
The Roman Empire never died, their pedo ways are still around
I just love the fact that you brought the good parts & also the bad parts.
This is definitely the first video I have ever seen that has brought us both sides of Ghadaffi.
I thank you for being unbiased!
Great video, great channel. Keep up the good work, bro!
One of the best channels on RUclips god bless 🙌🏽
It's no wonder that Gaddafi was deposed, he literally had enemies on both sides.
Yeah, losing all allies and support of your own people and then not backing down when you can is a surefire way for a dictator to die since the begining of history.
@@TheoEvian Yeah, his countless abuses of power, terror tactics and constant shady meddling internationally finally caught up to him
@@TheCaptainZodo It does more often than one would think.
@@TheCaptainZodo what are you talking about? He single handedly created the strongest country in the world within 30 years... no shady business, no dodgy manouvres. Its quite simple. People hate you when you're winning🤷♂️
@@amirreyani9024 No shady business? LMAO
@8:19......that's why he was "removed"
Pretty much and for some reason people don't understand that
i would argue it's precisely @7:00 it's about the west losing control of oil, it's always about the oil and resources not being under western domination. Imperialists can't stand it when a country has sovereignty they don't control.
You are still forgetting his own people turned against him. Despite having an agressive antiwestern sentiment, oil profits were still controlled by the elites and not a democratic establishment like promised. It is not just a case of western imperialism, it is a case of authoritarian practices and corruption for the benefit of the longevity of the regime rather than the quality of life for the people, surfacing.
Not removed brutally murdered or executed is more appropriate. They killed him by stabbing a bayonet up his ass. Fucking terrible no one deserves that extreme.
@@rawrfawks5180 the west is africas biggest supporter, you forgot all the donations and NGOs?
You have earned a subscriber. Unbiased and lovely commentary.
Excellent video, very well researched, balanced, and presented. Subscribed.
Let's make African great again i love africa🙏❤
America don't like that way they are bad
europeans and americans will not let africa to be great again. (from a non african)
When was Africa great? North America sends more money to African countries than the countries make...
@@Broxty richest person in the world African, one of the greatest civilization Egypt etc
Thank you for posting this! It’s great to bring a focus to the Islamic, Arab side of Africa which has not been covered extensively in other videos
Thanks for your support! 🙌🏾
I'm glad I found this channel to get a better understanding of what happened without bias in the documentary. I don't know much world history outside of New snippets here and there from the US.
Greets from brazil, here we have a deep conection with africa, your content is amazing!
The good, the bad, and the ugly. Indeed! This essay has been very well done.
A fascinating and thoughtful watch, thank you,
Great documentary ❤
The first time I came on this app there was a lack of content on Africa and African history I wanna thank you for talking about Africa. Also it's be really dope if you made an episode about Liberia
Thanks for watching! 🙏🏾We’ll certainly look into it.
Mainly The wars of the 90s and early 00s
Excited for this one.
Wonderful documentary
Thank you for this.
An amazing video that explains the coming of one of the most mysterious leaders to his death. In detail showing the good, the bad, and the ugly. This video by far is the best in explaining all things with facts and sources, not with irrelevant rumors that are just for the attention. Please keep doing these videos the way they are supposed to be done.