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Secret Sex Lives of Tyrants S01E04
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00:08Evil, powerful, uncompromising, ruthless, behind closed doors, a private hell.
00:21Tyrants often deviate in their sexual behavior.
00:26He fantasized about older women.
00:30He puts makeup on.
00:32He had thousands of concubines.
00:34They were this glamorous, gun-toting sex objects.
00:39Fire on designated targets.
00:41The psychological insights of the degenerate and deviant.
00:45He was obsessed with aphrodisiacs.
00:48It's typical of somebody who's sexually repressed.
00:52Power can change somebody.
01:07On October the 20th, 2011, Muammar Gaddafi, the deposed leader of Libya, was captured by revolutionary forces and shown merciless
01:19mob justice.
01:23He was found in a drainage area and the mob set upon him.
01:29They literally ripped him apart.
01:32They beat him up.
01:34They brutalized him using a bayonet.
01:36He quite literally died by the sword.
01:39A really bloody and brutal end to this dictator's life.
01:45Brutal in the extreme.
01:48But for the young women of Libya, it meant they were finally safe from a serial sexual predator who had
01:55gone from being a revolutionary liberator to a violent lech.
02:02I think he was terrified by women and he was terrified by his own sexuality.
02:08And that's what led to these deviant, almost perverted paths.
02:13He portrayed himself as a revolutionary, as a hero.
02:17And that quickly changed into becoming a supporter of terrorist networks.
02:23After the tyrant is toppled, and the cathartic celebrations have calmed, the United Nations-led transition force closes off Gaddafi's
02:35private residences to preserve the evidence.
02:40We realized we were underneath a collapsed palace, an underground luxury apartment.
02:46When cameras were finally allowed into Gaddafi's inner sanctum, they revealed the former Libyan leader's secret life.
02:56Hey, look what we've got here.
02:58Wow.
03:01Luxury, pink-footed-out bathroom.
03:05And that is some bath.
03:08Beyond the garish fittings and kitsch furnishings, deeper underground were hidden dungeons.
03:16And gynecological equipment.
03:18The playground of a sexual monster.
03:23For two decades, Gaddafi had ordered the abduction and forced imprisonment of countless young women, girls and boys.
03:33He did horrific things to women, to children.
03:39He was very violent.
03:42He actually had a torture chamber that was hidden away in a basement.
03:48And in this location, he would torture women.
03:53He would force them to watch him torture other people.
03:56The man who called himself the brotherly leader and guide of the revolution was in fact spiriting victims to his
04:08hellhole palace and inflicting sexual violence upon them for weeks, months, even years.
04:18When we look at the narratives of sexual deviance and Gaddafi 100% fits that profile, we can see that
04:28this is not something that just comes out of nowhere.
04:32What were the behavioural red flags, the psychological signs and signifiers that may have alerted the outside world to Gaddafi's
04:42secret life of sexual abuse?
04:45What were the formative experiences, the nature and nurture that would create a man capable of such callous and sadistic
04:56crimes?
05:05Muhammad Gaddafi was born in the early 1940s, on the outskirts of a rural town called Serte.
05:13Tripoli, in whose streets the past mingles with an uncertain future.
05:19Libya was barely a country.
05:22Colonised by Italy in the early 20th century, they were under occupation until the fall of Mussolini's fascist regime at
05:30the end of World War II.
05:33Gaddafi was born in an anti-Western, anti-colonial atmosphere.
05:38Libya has been colonised by Italy for a number of years and Gaddafi was born into that anti-Western sentiment.
05:48Living a nomadic subsistence existence, herding goats and camels, Gaddafi is the only son in a traditional Bedouin family.
05:58Seen here, aged 10, Muama is very much the favoured child.
06:04Even more so once he grew into adulthood.
06:07He was young, attractive, powerful.
06:13He became rich, and women flocks around him.
06:21Gaddafi listened to the stories of his heroic grandfather, who was killed by the Italians when they invaded in 1911.
06:30The seeds of hatred for the West were sown.
06:35Muama Gaddafi was very much a product of the Arab world when he grew up.
06:41And at that stage, the Arab world had a massive inferiority complex.
06:47We are just colonies for the West, for the capitalists, for America, for the Anglos.
06:52And we are regarded in a very poor light.
07:00So after the Italians were ousted in World War II from North Africa, Libya became the first new nation under
07:07the United Nations in 1947.
07:10But though the new nation had driven out their Italian overlords, the return to monarchy must have felt like a
07:17backward step to the young Gaddafi.
07:21Gaddafi was born and grew up in a Libya that had been part of the Italian Empire, part of a
07:28fascist regime.
07:30And this really became a driving force for the way that Gaddafi would develop as a person and the way
07:37that his ideals would develop as he tried to shake off the shackles of imperialism.
07:42Nevertheless, Libya was a nation emerging from colonial chaos with optimism.
07:51Education was expensive and far from accessible for his humble, illiterate Bedouin family.
07:59A young Gaddafi was the first in his family to receive any formal education.
08:04So there were two major driving forces behind Gaddafi, the first being an anti-West feeling, anti-colonialism, independence, and
08:14the second was the creation of an Arab state.
08:18At primary school, Gaddafi was already laying the foundations for his ambition, making friends that would be at his side
08:26when he took power two decades later.
08:29We can say this with some certainty, he was not a stupid man.
08:34In many ways, he was quite intelligent.
08:36So you would say, well, he had enough intelligence to look and say, hmm, this is over the top, this
08:43is not getting me anywhere.
08:44But his own grandiose, manic sense always overruled that.
08:50The young Muama gave no clues to the sexual deviants and proclivities to which he inclined in later life.
08:58Did the power corrupt the person or was the person already corrupt and had this narcissistic, out-of-reality kind
09:05of persona?
09:06It could, it could be perhaps be both in the case of Gaddafi, because you do have reports about his
09:12wit attitude, his smart attitude, and so on.
09:15But then you see the kind of person he carried himself.
09:18He did portray himself as a hero.
09:21And to some extent, he did believe himself to be the answer to Libyan's calls and maybe to their prayers
09:26and God's prayers.
09:28When, as a teenager, he witnessed military officer Gamal Abdel Nasser overthrow the Egyptian monarchy in the name of pan
09:37-Arab nationalism, that became his role model.
09:42And this is what was really food and drink to Gaddafi when he was growing up.
09:49One day we will reassemble the Arab empires and we will take our revenge for the way we have been
09:55treated,
09:56because we are the great, we are the Muslims, and we deserve to really control the world.
10:05During a demonstration in October 1961, an 18-year-old student, Gaddafi, was expelled from school for breaking the windows
10:15of a hotel that sold alcohol.
10:18Later in life, dictator Gaddafi indulged his taste for Western whiskey and cocaine.
10:26But for now, the would-be revolutionary was keen to target Western decadence as the source of all the world's
10:33evils.
10:35He was determined to stand up and say, the West is corrupt, it's decadent, you've treated us badly, I'm going
10:41to show you what a real Arab leader is like.
10:52It was at the University of Libya in Benghazi that Muammar Gaddafi determined he would become a leader of his
11:00people.
11:02Inspired by his hero, Egypt's General Nasser, and devouring books on the French Revolution and Pan-Arab nationalism,
11:10he resolved to plot the overthrow of the colonially installed government of King Idris.
11:17On graduation, he joined the military.
11:21Gaddafi was laying the groundwork for a new Libya.
11:24If we go to the beginning of his life, he is a sincere, honest military officer
11:33who is helping his country become independent of foreign powers
11:43and trying to help the people of his country.
11:51In 1966, he was sent by the army to England for advanced signals training.
11:58The contrast of hips swinging London to his dusty home of Tripoli could not have been more stark.
12:05Later, Gaddafi claimed he was bullied by the British for wearing traditional dress.
12:11Sorry, you have annoyed me in England, therefore you got me no chance to learn English.
12:17Whatever happened left an indelible mark on Gaddafi's psyche,
12:22which he later expressed with anti-English and anti-Semitic views.
12:45Well, I think he was a product of what you would call a tribal society and tribal values.
12:51So tribal values are you appreciate loyalty in those close to you
12:56and everybody else is a potential enemy, so you stand up against them.
13:02One person Gaddafi did trust, at first, was this woman, schoolteacher Fatiha al-Nuri.
13:11They married in 1969, but it wouldn't last long.
13:16Weeks later, when Gaddafi was denied a military promotion, he made his move for power.
13:23On September 1st, 1969, he staged a bloodless coup with his Free Officers Movement.
13:31King Idris, overseas in Turkey at the time, was ousted,
13:35and Gaddafi and his fellow officers formed the Socialist Libyan Arab Republic.
13:42Gaddafi promoted himself to colonel
13:45and appointed himself chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council,
13:50alongside 12 of his closest friends.
13:53The colonel loses few opportunities to be present at a ceremony
13:57that will boast his regime's achievements.
13:59And waiting to see him, those who had just moved into their new flats
14:03and who were out on their balconies
14:05with a fixed rent of only 50p a week to find.
14:08The early years of Gaddafi's presidential reign promised great hope.
14:13Gaddafi enacted real change for his people.
14:17With foresight, he grasped that oil was to become the currency of the world.
14:22Libya was sitting on huge oil reserves
14:25owned by foreign commercial entities.
14:28He took them on, called their bluff at the negotiating table
14:32and nationalised the oil industry.
14:37Libyans finally got to enjoy the proceeds
14:40of their own country's natural resources.
14:43He had some good plans to revive the Libyan economy,
14:47to use some of the oil resources to modernise.
14:52He's running Libya.
14:54He's got more money than Croesus could ever have dreamed about.
14:58And he sees himself not just as an Arab nationalist,
15:02but as the Arab nationalist.
15:05He's picking up from Nasser,
15:07and then he's going back way into Arab history.
15:10And, of course, the megalomania is running amok.
15:14Perhaps it was the brutal past lessons learned from his Italian oppressors,
15:18or perhaps the Bedouin creed of not trusting anyone.
15:22Gaddafi quickly purged any opposition,
15:26even those close to him.
15:29His young wife, Fethiye, learned the hard way not to defy him.
15:34They divorced after only a year,
15:36and she was never seen again.
15:38He was a humble Bedouin
15:44who moved to absolute power
15:49and became totally corrupt
15:53and also corrupted his own people.
15:59Loyal friends who had paved Gaddafi's path to power
16:04were now being removed one by one,
16:07many of them disappearing without any trace.
16:11Any opposition is suppressed.
16:15Over 300 Libyans at a time were given the death sentence,
16:20many executed by public hanging.
16:26When these men have convinced those around them
16:29that they are the superior being,
16:32the best person for the job,
16:34and they're surrounded by yes-men,
16:37then it becomes very difficult to say no,
16:39and that's where the tyrant is born.
16:41When people start to resist, people start to fight back,
16:44that person will not accept that,
16:47and this is where the kind of dictatorship,
16:50the mistreatment of the people comes in.
16:52Anyone who resists is going to find themselves
16:55in a lot of trouble.
16:57Taking a leaf from Mao Zedong's Little Red Book,
17:01Gaddafi created the Green Book,
17:04Guide to the Libyan Arab Creed.
17:12He saw himself almost as a messiah.
17:17He wrote a book which he believed to be the answer to the world's problems.
17:25He forced people in schools, all the kids in schools,
17:29had to read his book and memorise it and were tested on it.
17:34By the mid-1970s, Libya was swimming in oil dollars.
17:39With money and power, Gaddafi could spread his ambitious tentacles,
17:44while in public, he feigned humility and abstinence.
17:48Do you think there's a good chance that Colonel Gaddafi can be leader of a united Arab world?
17:54I am not searching for the role of leader or president or empire or something like this.
18:02I am doing my duty towards my nation.
18:08But in some ways, Gaddafi appeared to be a genuine progressive.
18:13While the Western world wrestled with women's lib,
18:17the Green Book speaks of the emancipation of women,
18:20their freedom and enlightenment.
18:23The president appoints women as his elite bodyguard.
18:28It's only in hindsight that we now know his true motives
18:32for surrounding himself with the opposite sex.
18:36Gaddafi surrounds himself with these Amazonian women.
18:40Now, it says something of how he was influenced by the society he was in,
18:46that maybe in the Arab society, that says,
18:51wow, this is really sexualised imagery.
18:54But in Western society, it's seen as crude, almost pornographic.
18:58But it also constantly hints at his own sexual ambiguity and insecurity.
19:11In 1981, Gaddafi opens one of the world's first female-only military academies.
19:25He publicly calls for the release of women imprisoned across the Arab world.
19:32He labels himself the friend of women.
19:36But in private, the women he enlists to protect him
19:40will be trapped in his secret cell of sexual violence.
19:47So, Gaddafi surrounded himself with female bodyguards.
19:51From the outset, that looks quite positive, you know,
19:54employing women, equal opportunities.
19:57These women were beautiful, heavily made up, coiffured.
20:02But there is a darker side to this,
20:04that they were Gaddafi's effectively sex slaves.
20:09He called them bodyguards, but they were really sexual slaves to Gaddafi
20:16and his proclivities towards sexual violence.
20:20But it is particularly interesting that he chose to clothe these women
20:26in a military-type fashion.
20:29So, he had fetishized the military vibe.
20:35And these women embodied that fetish.
20:40Away from the cameras, a truly horrific scenario was playing out.
20:45In his Tripoli residence, he shared with his second wife,
20:49Sophia Farkash, and seven children,
20:5230 young women, including girls from the age of 15,
20:57were imprisoned in a secret basement apartment.
21:01Here, they are coerced to perform every sex act their leader can conceive of,
21:08forced to take drugs, submit themselves to be raped,
21:12even to be urinated on.
21:13And in turn, they were expected to facilitate the virgin rape
21:17of other young Libyan girls.
21:22Gaddafi, any kind of sexual relationship that he had
21:27really wasn't sex at all,
21:29because none of it was consensual.
21:32He was a sexual sadist.
21:35He was a violent person.
21:38His experience with women could only be categorized as rape.
21:45Gaddafi had reached the depth of his depravity
21:48at the height of his power.
21:50But he wanted more.
21:53Much more.
22:02Through the 1980s, Libya's livid leader,
22:06Muammar Gaddafi, was playing a dangerous, high-risk game.
22:10At the height of his power, he felt that he had the ear of the world.
22:15He was bankrolled by millions of dollars in oil,
22:18and he even declared himself the king of Africa.
22:23The king of Africa.
22:26For a while, Gaddafi, because of oil money,
22:31had become highly influential in parts of Africa.
22:37And he even went as far as to crown himself as king of Africa.
22:44But again, this was delusional because other African nations didn't see him that way,
22:52although some of them were very happy to accept his oil money.
22:57He loved the publicity.
22:59He loved the attention.
23:00He was a real showman.
23:02So I think he genuinely believed that he can be actually the ruler of Africa.
23:11He embraces the pomp and grandeur,
23:14slowly but surely manifesting his own cult of personality,
23:19designing his own uniforms replete with the many metal jackets,
23:23garish, colour-matched ensembles,
23:26intensely dyed hair, rock star sunglasses and make-up.
23:30As he got older, his shows became more and more extravagant,
23:38and he became more and more divorced from reality.
23:44He had illusions about how people loved him,
23:48and how women loved him,
23:50and that every woman would be honoured to sleep with him.
24:01Gaddafi's personal bodyguards,
24:03enticed into service by the promise of career advancement,
24:06receive insufficient training to hold their own among their male compatriots.
24:12In fact, they are selected, taken from their families,
24:16and pressed into service on the basis of their looks
24:20and their president's personal desires.
24:25That was part of the propaganda,
24:27is to try to show himself as a brother leader,
24:28to show himself as a supporter of women's rights,
24:32but deep down, I don't think he cared so much about women's rights
24:35and about the women's status in Libya in general.
24:38I think he used that as a facade or a veneer
24:41to hide his really interests in exploiting women sexually or otherwise.
24:48It's a little bit like what the Nazis did.
24:51The Nazis had these beautiful uniforms
24:54uniforms that screamed out S&M designed by Hugo Boss,
24:58and all the marching around had very hyper-sexualised images,
25:04and that's exactly what Gaddafi did.
25:07What does it say?
25:08It wants to say something about you,
25:11look at my manhood,
25:12but it also hints at,
25:15boy, am I insecure beneath it all.
25:17His victims were silenced by shame,
25:21and they weren't limited to young girls.
25:26He even had a group of young boys
25:29that he would also sexually abuse.
25:32They were known as the services group
25:35to service his every need.
25:39Gaddafi's bisexual predilections
25:41were well-known among his inner circle,
25:43just as they were to foreign intelligence services,
25:47both of allies and enemies.
25:51He was a paedophile.
25:53I'm not sure what he did with men,
25:54but he certainly did it with boys.
25:57And I don't think there's any better way
25:59of confirming his absolute sexual insecurity and ambiguity.
26:08What you get is the same mentality of the rapist.
26:13Namely, this is power, this is violence.
26:16The actual sex act is almost secondary.
26:19And on top of that,
26:21you get somebody who we've got good evidence
26:24was sexually tremulous.
26:26He wasn't certain of his sexuality
26:28and what he should be.
26:29And he knew in the Arab world,
26:32no matter what you say in public,
26:35if the knowledge comes out
26:36that you are having sex with boys,
26:38your image is shot.
26:40In many situations,
26:41these boys were also kidnapped,
26:43and taken from their families,
26:46never to be seen again,
26:47here just to service Gaddafi,
26:50ultimately until they matured
26:53and grew up and became men
26:54and were no longer of interest to Gaddafi.
26:58This is not something that just comes out of nowhere,
27:01that his bizarre, sexual, sadistic,
27:07scary interest in sex were likely something
27:11that he had developed during puberty.
27:15And it was only when he was able to achieve the power that he did
27:20that he was actually able to design an entire world of sexual sadism around him.
27:28As he flouted his power and rumours of his private corruption and depravity began to spread,
27:35whispers of dissent grew louder.
27:39Assassination attempts followed.
27:41In the centre of town we stopped and there almost strolling along the main street was Colonel Gaddafi.
27:48It was particularly unexpected since only yesterday there had been an attempt on his life.
27:53He projected a certain image onto the West and he came to believe that image.
28:01He projected an image of himself as the champion of third world nations,
28:08particularly in Africa.
28:09And he came to believe in that image,
28:13but he didn't realise nobody else believed it.
28:19Gaddafi was volatile and unpredictable and that scared the West.
28:25This is the moment Libya became a pariah state.
28:29On the 17th of April 1984,
28:31a group of anti-Gaddafi protesters gathered outside the Libyan embassy in London.
28:36Shots were fired at the protesters from inside the embassy.
28:40Eleven were wounded.
28:42And police constable Yvonne Fletcher, aged just 25, killed.
28:49Gaddafi predictably denied everything.
28:53No, no, our people there are innocent people.
28:58In the face of Western condemnation, Gaddafi doubled down as anti-West.
29:04Reagan is the biggest terrorist in the world.
29:07And upped his anti-Semitic rhetoric.
29:10Do you think that Libya has an important role to play
29:14in trying to get a Middle East peace settlement involving the Israelis?
29:19There is no possibility for peace.
29:25Because Israelis or Jews, they deny there is a people,
29:31which is a Palestinian people.
29:34Gaddafi showed a natural affinity with the Global Tyrants Club.
29:38Shaking hands, leveraging notoriety to further inflate his own.
29:44We know that he was a very ambitious man.
29:46We know that he wanted to create influence around the world.
29:48And he made that through money, through supporting terrorist networks,
29:53through supporting armed militias and so on.
29:56Gaddafi used his oil dollars to fund international terror groups,
30:01including the IRA.
30:03Britain would argue that you support organizations like the IRA.
30:09We believe the cause of Ireland is just cause.
30:17And we support this just cause.
30:20Support for IRA is just one tactic that he used to put pressure on the British government.
30:26This is when he was trying to portray himself as an anti-Western leader.
30:31This is when he started his propaganda and he started his narrative
30:34as an Arab leader and presenting himself as the potential Arab leader
30:41for the rest of the Arab world.
30:45But eventually, Gaddafi's terrorist funding grew too much for Western governments.
30:51Words and threats to get him to desist were clearly not enough.
30:55The only deterrent he understood was direct military aggression.
31:00The evidence is now conclusive that the terrorist bombing of La Belle Discotheque
31:06was planned and executed under the direct orders of the Libyan regime.
31:15He counted on America to be passive.
31:19He counted wrong.
31:20Tripoli exploded with heavy anti-aircraft fire twice during the day.
31:26A night-time barrage the heaviest so far.
31:30The raid on Colonel Gaddafi's headquarters in Tripoli
31:34had blasted his home and family, killing an adopted daughter.
31:38Even with the loss of family, Gaddafi remained defiant.
31:44Leader Gaddafi, how has your country changed after the American attack?
31:49President Gaddafi's headquarters in Tripoli
31:50We got benefits from this aggression.
31:53Our people is aware now.
31:57And all the Arab nation
32:05came around us.
32:08And all the peoples in the world supported us.
32:13They lose and we won.
32:19Gaddafi survives the Reagan bombing at the helm of a rogue state.
32:23But his world is about to come crashing down.
32:28This mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution.
32:44Winter, 1988. Four days before Christmas, a full Pan Am Flight 103 explodes in midair over Lockerbie in Scotland.
32:56On all the hillsides surrounding Lockerbie, stretcher parties were at work.
33:01Firemen and rescue services have spent Christmas Eve working round the shattered cockpit of Flight 103, sifting through the wreckage.
33:08The crash site is declared a crime scene.
33:13259 victims. Murdered by an act of terror.
33:20Less than a year later, a French passenger airliner is downed in Central West Africa.
33:27170 people dead, including the wife of an American ambassador.
33:35Intelligence links both bombings to Libya.
33:38The international community imposes trade embargoes.
33:44Gaddafi is under pressure.
33:46At the UN, ambassadors are hopeful these limited sanctions will be enough to persuade Libya to hand over the two
33:53Lockerbie suspects and renounce support for terrorism.
33:56When it became clear that Gaddafi was little more than a mob leader funding terrorism, especially in the wake of
34:03the Lockerbie disaster,
34:05when sanctions were brought against Libya affecting the people that he was supposed to be leading, supposed to be helping.
34:12Things started to unravel for him.
34:14His popularity started to wane.
34:19While his people suffer with the mounting sanctions, Gaddafi shoots family vacation videos.
34:28What his camera doesn't show is his pathological addiction to sex, requiring a supply of four or five young victims
34:37per day.
34:40And then you started hearing stories, horrible stories about his exploitation of women, boys using sex or using rape as
34:51a weapon by himself or the people that work with him.
34:56Gaddafi even began to use sex as an internal political weapon, a way of shoring up his personal power base.
35:04For Gaddafi, his ultimate sexual prize, the conquest that he was most proud of, were the wives and daughters of
35:15his comrades, of his peers.
35:18It was so exciting to him that he could dominate women from his own circle while also dominating women that
35:29he really shouldn't have access to.
35:31But because he was so violent and powerful, he was even able to do that.
35:47As the shocking live images of 9-11 seared the world's retinas, Gaddafi saw the writing on the wall.
35:57The global war on terror escalated overnight, and the Libyan dictator chose this moment to change sides.
36:09In the wake of 9-11, when it was clear that there was going to be a global war on
36:15terror, Gaddafi tried to realign himself and this time to align himself with the West.
36:21So he wanted to protect himself and protect his ruling, but tried to siding with the West and the US
36:29once again by saying that Libya will disarm its weapons of mass destruction.
36:34It's willing to take admission and to take responsibility of the Lockerbie attack in Scotland, and then to pay compensation
36:44for that.
36:45Now, after 30 years in power, and having utterly transformed himself from the anti-Western pan-Arab nationalist leader he
36:55had once positioned himself as,
36:58he was now willing to turn himself into a creature of the West if it would help him stay in
37:05power.
37:06Tony Blair met Libya's Colonel Gaddafi, reopening trade links between the two countries.
37:13Who would have believed it? Libya and Britain, Gaddafi and Blair, shoulder to shoulder in the war on terror.
37:20But it was too late, he'd effectively burnt all of his bridges, nobody was going to support him, and effectively
37:27he just started to run out of friends.
37:31In his final years in power, Gaddafi's paranoia grew, as did his vanity and his sexual depravity.
37:41He had to force himself on women because he was no longer attractive, he was no longer young.
37:48So his sexual deviations became greater and greater.
37:54Gaddafi flew a cosmetic surgeon from Brazil to give him a facelift.
37:59He refused to be under the anaesthetic because, you know, he didn't want to be unconscious.
38:05And he suffered through the whole operation being fully conscious.
38:10And that shows you the level of trust he has of the loyalty of people around him.
38:15He thought they would kill him when he was unconscious.
38:20And as shadows grew longer over his dictatorial rule, his depravity grew ever darker.
38:27Gaddafi had bizarre sexual practices.
38:32He did horrific things to women.
38:36He actually had a torture chamber that was hidden away in a basement.
38:42And in this location, he would torture women.
38:47He would force them to watch him torture other people.
38:51The sexual violence was unthinkable.
38:56He even had a team of nurses on call to treat bite marks, fractures and internal injuries suffered by his
39:04victims to try and keep a lid on his appalling crimes.
39:09He gave no value at all to other people's lives.
39:15He didn't have any empathy for them.
39:19The tyrant was out of control.
39:25In 2010, popular uprisings began erupting across the Middle East and North Africa.
39:32Dubbed the Arab Spring, Gaddafi would not be spared.
39:37Colonel Gaddafi, is your army deserting you? Is your army deserting you? Do you believe?
39:43I forgot your language.
39:47Ironically, it was Arab nationalism that brought him to power and the same forces that brought him down.
39:57With defeat inevitable, he tries desperately to reinvent himself once more as a firebrand Arab revolutionary.
40:18An audience encouraged to attend by Gaddafi's remaining lawyers,
40:23and the same forces that brought him to the Arab nationalists in the military.
40:26What made Gaddafi distinctive was that he started off as an Arab nationalist.
40:33And this wasn't necessarily a bad thing.
40:35Arabs needed good leaders who would look after their people.
40:39But in the end, his megalomania overcame him.
40:44He got caught up by this idea of taking on the whole world rather than sticking to his own patch.
40:53And this led to his destruction.
40:55He's just another dictator who took it too far and got his just desserts.
41:04For his victims, his downfall and death in October 2011 released a complex raft of emotions.
41:15Fear.
41:17The chaotic savagery on their screens.
41:20A violence they were subjected to daily would spread and fine them.
41:27Impotent rage.
41:29Their persecutor would escape trial for his heinous crimes.
41:33Above all, there was a shared sense of just vengeance.
41:40Because before the crush of the crowd, before the brutal beating, before the bullets, there was footage shared among the
41:54victims of Gaddafi's secret life of sexual abuse.
41:57Footage of the moment their brotherly leader was violently penetrated by a bayonet.
42:05The moment their rapist was raped.
42:11There is a gruesome irony to his ultimate end in which his people overthrew him in a very violent and
42:20brutal way.
42:21He was sodomized with a bayonet, an ultimate way to show deference and to procure his own power away from
42:32him by treating him as a sex object in a very violent and brutal way.
42:43Today, we are told that Gaddafi is dead.
42:47Today, Libya, Libya's future begins.
42:53Gaddafi, a black era, has come to an end forever.
43:01We've seen reports about women who were found just by the side of the road, raped and just dead.
43:07These could be some of his victims, but we don't know.
43:12Gaddafi seized power in order to overthrow tyranny, but he ended up becoming a tyrant himself.
43:20He projected an image as the champion of third world nations, particularly in Africa.
43:28and he came to believe in that image, but he didn't realize nobody else believed it.
43:36If ever there was a leader who had pride before the fall, it was Gaddafi.
43:40Gaddafi?
43:46Gaddafi?
44:07Gaddafi looks like people say to him.
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