Gaddafi Finally gets a taste of his own medicine By: Adam Trapp Pd. 6 (not the medicine)

Green may not be the appropriate color…

1. The people in the country were upset with the way they were treated by the government. 2. They put up with it for a long time before they decided to try and make a change. 3. They protested peacefully at first and were rewarded with military violence and even more oppression. 4. They created an organized fighting force and attempted to overthrow the oppressive government through military action once peaceful attempts had failed. 5. They were critically outnumbered and outgunned at the beginning of the revolution. 6. The rebel sentiment in the country kept the fighters motivated even though Gaddafi had the superior military. 7. The rebels got help from NATO just like the colonists got help from France. 8. Many of the small towns were not affected very much. Most of the fighting took place in the major political and economic locations. A large portion of the population’s daily lives saw no change, especially in small, rural towns. 9. The Libyan revolution was largely organized over facebook. The extremely fast communication of information undeniably shaped the revolution, just as the printing press shaped the American revolution by providing a never before seen ease of communicating ideas

1. The Libyan Revolution took place in 2011, while the American Revolution took place in the 1770’s. This means that almost all of the technologies are different, from airplanes and missiles and machineguns to cell phones and cars. 2. The Libyans were rebelling against the government of their home country, whereas the colonists were rebelling against a far away country that just had control over them. 3. The rebels actually overthrew the government instead of merely breaking off from it. 4. The Revolution came from the people directly instead of from established local governments 5. The rebel army didn’t just have to annoy Gaddafi’s army into leaving like the colonists had to do to the British expeditionary force, the rebels actually had to defeat the far superior army. 6. A lot of Gaddafi’s army defected to the rebels; this was not the case in the revolutionary war. The Regulars from Britain stayed very loyal to the crown.

 On Monday, October 17, 2011, rebel forces reached Green Square (the main commercial center in Tripoli, Libya) and declared victory.  On Tuesday, Gaddafi was boasting that the rebels had fallen into a trap.  And on Thursday, Oct 20(my Birthday), Moammad Gaddafi was captured and killed by the rebel forces, spelling the true end of the revolutionary war in Libya.

The rebels finally managed to capture and kill Gaddafi. Here is the link to a video of his capture: This video show Gaddafi being captured and beaten by the rebel fighters. However, It does not show him being executed.

1. Libya did a good thing rebelling against the oppressive government, but there are serious questions as to where the country is going as a whole. 2. Libya just went through an eight month long civil war following 42 years of dictatorship, It will be no easy task to rebuild the country from the destructions of the war; it will be an even more difficult task to rewire the entire country’s system of operation. Most people in Libya only know what it is like to live in a tyrannical country, they have no idea how to live in a democracy. 3. They must quickly set up a representative government and start working on all the critical issues in the country like security, education, food and water, and of course the economy. 4. If the new government fails to address these issues in a quick and fair fashion, there might be another revolution on the way. Also, if the government is not set up correctly and it becomes corrupt, that could be a spark for another revolution as well. 5. However, with all of the help and attention that the other countries of the world are giving to Libya, they cant really help but set up a decent democracy.

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