Gaddafi, the man who has ruled Libya with an iron fist and vowed to rule for life, has been flashed out of his concrete bunker in Tripoli and is now on the run. It is just a question of days if not hours before he is caught. Libyans are free at last; free to shape their own destiny, free to breathe, dream and hope! It is a wonderful and glorious feeling after decades of stifling heat of tyrannical oppression.
Gaddafi, like all dictators never thought his reign would come to an end. Even with the whole nation up in arms against him, he still talked of “my people” will chase out the “rats” out of Tripoli.
After decades of autocratic rule the people of Libya face a difficult task of setting up a democratic government. Gaddafi had undermined the Police, Judiciary, Parliament, etc. so that he was the only power in the land. There will be many in the Police who would happily enforce the law selectively, for example; old habits die hard.
The coming months and years, the formative stage, will be important for Libya; what the people do now will decide whether the country becomes a democracy or slip back into the nightmare of totalitarian rule. We pray that the dramatic events of this week will mark the dawn of freedom and liberty for all the people of Libya and not a brief moment in the sun.
There going on in Libya was bad news for Mugabe and his cronies; each of them must e worried whether they will be next. Tsvangirai got the Mugabe dictatorship off the hook in 2008; that is not going to happen again. Yes Mugabe, your days of oppressive rule are numbered!
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