Some Libyan facts:
1. There are no electricity bills in Libya; electricity is free for all its citizens.

2.
There is no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens at 0% interest by law.

3. Homes are considered a human right in Libya – Gaddafi vowed that his parents would not get a house until everyone in Libya had a home.
Gaddafi’s father has died while him, his wife and his mother are still living in a tent.

4. All newlyweds in Libya receive $60,000 Dinar (US$50,000) by the government to buy their first apartment so to help start up the family.

5. Education and medical treatments are free in Libya. Before Gaddafi only 25% of Libyans are literate. Today the figure is 83%.

6. Should Libyans want to take up farming
career, they would receive farming land, a farming house, equipments, seeds and livestock to kick-start their farms – all for free.

7. If Libyans cannot find the education or medical facilities they need in Libya, the government funds them to go abroad for it – not only free but they get US$2,300/mth accommodation and car allowance.

8. In Libyan, if a Libyan buys a car, the government subsidized 50% of the price.

9. The price of petrol in Libya is $0.14 per liter.

10. Libya has no external debt and its reserves amount to $150 billion – now frozen globally.

11.If a Libyan is unable to get employment after graduation the state would pay the average salary of the profession as if he or she is
employed until employment is found.

12. A portion of Libyan oil sale is, credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens.

13. A mother who gave birth to a child receive
US$5,000

14. 40 loaves of bread in Libya costs $ 0.15

15. 25% of Libyans have a university degree

16. Gaddafi carried out the world’s largest irrigation project, known as
the Great Man-Made River project, to make water readily available throughout the desert country.



How was Libya doing under the rule of Gadaffi? How bad did the people have it? Were they oppressed as we now commonly accept as fact? Let us look at the facts for a moment.

Before the chaos erupted, Libya had a lower incarceration rate than the Czech republic. It ranked 61st. (SA: 30th) Libya had the lowest infant mortality rate of all of Africa. (Libya 18 per thousand, SA 44 per thousand) Libya had the highest life expectancy of all of Africa. (74 years; SA 49 years) Less than 5% of the population was undernourished. In response to the rising food prices around the world, the government of Libya abolished ALL taxes on food. (On 12 Jan, 2011).

People in Libya were rich. Libya had the highest gross domestic product (GDP) at purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita of all of Africa. (About $15,000; SA about $10,000). The government took care to ensure that everyone in the country shared in the wealth. Libya had the highest Human Development Index of any country on the continent. The wealth was distributed equally. In Libya, a lower percentage of people lived below the poverty line than in the Netherlands. (About 7%; SA about 50%).

On July 7, 2011 1.7 million people assembled in Green Square in Tripoli in defiance of the Nato bombing. That was 95% the population of Tripoli,
1/3 the population of the country. It has come out that the people were paid 4 million each by the US to falsely testify about the 1990's Lockerby Pan Am bombing. Paid to lie and have since recanted their evidence. So now what do you
think about what we are being told about Libya?

Which any other "dictator"
has done so much good for his people?

Give us a break, we have had and heard enough of this former dictator.Libyans think otherwise.That you can't change .If you feel Gaddafi was good, go to Libya and ask libyans to give you a mandate to be anaother gaddafi .Your hero long is gone/dead.
Gaddafi had another very close ally Robert mugabe you can lobby for him to take the position if this hero

You sound like a hater. Go on, continue worshiping the Mashogas and ujienjoy.

Rink

Am not sure what to believe but the one thing I keep asking is: if he was all that good, why did his countrymen rise against him in such huge numbers?