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NARRATOR: Evil...

..powerful...

..uncompromising...

..ruthless.

Behind closed doors, a private hell.

- Tyrants often deviate in their sexual behaviour.

- He fantasised about older women.

- He puts make-up on.

- He had thousands of concubines.

- They were this glamorous, gun-toting sex objects.

MAN: Fire on designated targets.

NARRATOR: The psychological insights of the degenerate and deviant.

WOMAN: He was obsessed with aphrodisiacs.

- It's typical of somebody who's sexually repressed.

- (gunfire)

NARRATOR: On October the 20th 2011,

Muammar Gaddafi, the deposed leader of Libya,

was captured by revolutionary forces

and shown merciless mob justice.

- He was found in a drainage area.

And the mob set upon him.

They literally ripped him apart.

Uh, they beat him up, they brutalised him

using a bayonet. He quite literally died by the sword.

A really bloody and brutal end to this dictator's life.

NARRATOR: Brutal in the extreme.

But for the young women of Libya, it meant they were finally safe

from a serial sexual predator

who had gone from being a revolutionary liberator

to a violent letch.

- I think he was terrified by women

and he was terrified by his own sexuality.

And that's what led to these deviant, almost perverted, paths.

- He portrayed himself as a revolutionary, as a hero.

Um, and that quickly changed into

becoming a supporter of terrorist networks.

NARRATOR: After the tyrant is toppled,

and the cathartic celebrations have calmed,

the United Nations-led transition force

closes off Gaddafi's private residences

to preserve the evidence.

- (male reporter) We realised we were underneath a collapsed palace,

an underground luxury apartment.

NARRATOR: When cameras were finally allowed

into Gaddafi's inner sanctum,

they revealed the former Libyan leader's secret life.

- Look what we have got here.

Wow. (pants)

Luxury, pink, fitted-out bathroom.

And that is some bath.

NARRATOR: Beyond the garish fittings and kitsch furnishings,

deeper underground were hidden dungeons

and gynaecological equipment.

The playground of a sexual monster.

For two decades, Gaddafi had ordered the abduction

and forced imprisonment

of countless young women, girls, and boys.

- He did horrific things to women, to children.

Uh, he was very violent.

He actually had a torture chamber

that was hidden away in a basement.

And in this location, he would torture women.

He would force them to watch him torture other people.

NARRATOR: The man who called himself the 'Brotherly Leader'

and 'Guide of the Revolution' was in fact

spiriting victims to his hell-hole palace

and inflicting sexual violence upon them

for weeks, months, even years.

- When we look at the narratives of sexual deviance,

and Gaddafi 100% fits that profile,

we can see that this is not something

that just comes out of nowhere.

NARRATOR: What were the behavioural red flags,

the psychological signs and signifiers,

that may have alerted the outside world

to Gaddafi's secret life of sexual abuse?

What were the formative experiences,

the nature and nurture, that would create a man

capable of such callous and sadistic crimes?

NARRATOR: Muammar Gaddafi was born in the early 1940s,

on the outskirts of a rural town called Sirte.

(man on film) Tripoli, in whose streets

the past mingles with an uncertain future.

NARRATOR: Libya was barely a country.

Colonised by Italy in the early 20th century,

they were under occupation until the fall of

Mussolini's fascist regime at the end of World War Two.

- Gaddafi was born in an anti-Western,

anti-colonial atmosphere.

Libya has been colonised by Italy for a number of years,

and Gaddafi was born into that anti-western sentiment.

NARRATOR: Living a nomadic subsistence existence

herding goats and camels, Gaddafi is the only son

in a traditional Bedouin family.

Seen here aged ten, Muammar is very much the favoured child.

Even more so once he grew into adulthood.

- He was young, attractive, powerful.

He became rich.

And women flocked around him.

- (yelling)

NARRATOR: Gaddafi listened to stories of his heroic grandfather,

who was killed by the Italians when they invaded in 1911.

The seeds of hatred for the West were sown.

- Muammar Gaddafi was very much a product

of the Arab world when he grew up.

And at that stage, the Arab World

had a massive inferiority complex.

We are just colonies for the West,

for the capitalists, for America, for the Anglos.

And we are regarded in a very poor light.

FARIDA: So after the Italians were ousted in World War Two

from North Africa, Libya became the first new nation

under the United Nations in 1947.

NARRATOR: But though the new nation

had driven out their Italian overlords,

the return to monarchy must have felt like

a backward step to the young Gaddafi.

- Gaddafi was born and grew up in a Libya

that had been part of the Italian empire, part of a fascist regime.

And this really became a driving force for the way that Gaddafi

would develop as a person and the way that his ideals would develop

as he tried to shake off the shackles of imperialism.

NARRATOR: Nevertheless, Libya was a nation

emerging from colonial chaos with optimism.

Education was expensive and far from accessible

for his humble, illiterate Bedouin family.

A young Gaddafi was the first in his family

to receive any formal education.

- So there were two major driving forces behind Gaddafi.

The first being an anti-West feeling,

anti-colonialism independence,

and the second was the creation of an Arab state.

NARRATOR: At primary school, Gaddafi was already

laying the foundations for his ambition, making friends

that would be at his side when he took power two decades later.

- We can say this with some certainty, he was not a stupid man.

In many ways, he was quite intelligent.

So you would say, 'Well he had enough intelligence

to look and say "Hm, this is over the top

because it is not getting me anywhere".'

But his own grandiose, manic sense always overruled that.

NARRATOR: The young Muammar gave no clues

to the sexual deviance and proclivities

to which he inclined in later life.

FARIDA: Did the power corrupt the person

or was the person already corrupt

and had this narcissistic, out of reality kind of persona?

It could perhaps be both in the case of Gaddafi

because you do have reports about his wit attitude,

his smart attitude and so on.

But then you see the kind of person he carried himself.

He did portray himself as a hero.

And to some extent, he did believe himself to be the answer

to Libyan's calls and maybe to their prayers and God's prayers.

- (cheering)

NARRATOR: When, as a teenager, he witnessed

military officer Gamal Abdel Nasser

overthrow the Egyptian monarchy

in the name of pan-Arab nationalism, that became his role model.

KAPLAN: And this is what was really food and drink

to Gaddafi when he was growing up.

One day we will reassemble the Arab empires and we will take our revenge

for the way we have been treated because we are the great,

we are the Muslims and we deserve to really control the world.

NARRATOR: During a demonstration in October 1961,

an 18-year-old student Gaddafi

was expelled from school for breaking the windows

of a hotel that sold alcohol.

Later in life, Dictator Gaddafi

indulged his taste for Western whiskey and cocaine.

But for now, the would-be revolutionary

was keen to target Western decadence

as the source of all the world's evils.

- He was determined to stand up and say,

the West is corrupt, it's decadent, you've treated us badly,

I'm going to show you what a real Arab leader is like.

NARRATOR: It was at the University of Libya, in Benghazi,

that Muammar Gaddafi determined

he would become a leader of his people.

Inspired by his hero, Egypt's General Nasser,

and devouring books on the French Revolution

and pan-Arab nationalism,

he resolved to plot the overthrow

of the colonially-installed government of King Idris.

On graduation, he joined the military.

Gaddafi was laying the groundwork for a new Libya.

MOGHADDAM: If we go to the beginning of his life,

he is a sincere, honest military officer

who is helping his country become independent

of foreign powers

and trying to help the people of his country.

- (swinging sixties music)

NARRATOR: In 1966, he was sent by the army

to England for advanced signals training.

The contrast of hip, swinging London

to his dusty home of Tripoli could not have been more stark.

Later, Gaddafi claimed he was bullied by the British

for wearing traditional dress.

- Sorry, you annoyed me in England

therefore you got me no chance to, uh, learn English.

NARRATOR: Whatever happened left an indelible mark on Gaddafi's psyche,

which he later expressed with anti-English and antisemitic views.

- Well, I think he was a product of

what you would call a tribal society and tribal values.

So tribal values are you appreciate loyalty in those close to you

and everybody else is a potential enemy so you stand up against them.

NARRATOR: One person Gaddafi did trust, at first, was this woman,

school teacher Fatiha al-Nuri.

They married in 1969. But it wouldn't last long.

Weeks later, when Gaddafi was denied a military promotion,

he made his move for power.

On September 1st 1969,

he staged a bloodless coup with his Free Officers Movement.

King Idris, overseas in Turkey at the time, was ousted.

And Gaddafi and his fellow officers

formed the Socialist Libyan Arab Republic.

Gaddafi promoted himself to colonel

and appointed himself Chairman

of the Revolutionary Command Council,

alongside twelve of his closest friends.

- (male reporter) The Colonel loses few opportunities to be present

at a ceremony that will boast his regime's achievements.

And waiting to see him, those who have just moved into their new flats

and were out on their balconies

with a fixed rent of only 50p a week to find.

NARRATOR: The early years of Gaddafi's presidential reign

promised great hope. Gaddafi enacted real change for his people.

With foresight, he grasped that oil

was to become the currency of the world.

Libya was sitting on huge oil reserves

owned by foreign commercial entities.

He took them on, called their bluff at the negotiating table

and nationalised the oil industry.

Libyans finally got to enjoy the proceeds

of their own country's natural resources.

- He had some good plans to revive the Libyan economy,

to use some of the oil resources to modernise.

KAPLAN: He's running Libya. He's got more money

than Croesus could ever have dreamed about,

and he sees himself not just as an Arab Nationalist

but as THE Arab Nationalist.

He's picking up from Nasser

and then he's going back way into Arab history.

And of course, the megalomania is running amok.

NARRATOR: Perhaps it was the brutal past lessons

learned from his Italian oppressors

or perhaps the Bedouin creed of not trusting anyone,

Gaddafi quickly purged any opposition, even those close to him.

His young wife Fatiya learned the hard way not to defy him.

They divorced after only a year and she was never seen again.

- He was a humble Bedouin

who moved to absolute power

and became totally corrupt,

and also corrupted his own people.

NARRATOR: Loyal friends who had paved Gaddafi's path to power

were now being removed one by one.

Many of them disappearing without any trace.

Any opposition is suppressed.

Over 300 Libyans at a time were given the death sentence,

many executed by public hanging.

VIGURS: When these men have convinced those around them

that they are the superior being,

the best person for the job,

and they're surrounded by 'yes' men, then it becomes very difficult

to say no, and that's when the tyrant is born.

When people start to resist, people start to fight back,

that person will not accept that

and this is where the kind of dictatorship,

the mistreatment of the people, comes in.

Anyone who resists is going to find themselves in a lot of trouble.

NARRATOR: Taking a leaf from Mao Zedong's Little Red Book,

Gaddafi created the Green Book,

Guide To The Libyan Arab Creed.

- He saw himself almost as a messiah.

He wrote a book which he believed to be

the answer to the world's problems.

He forced people in schools... All the kids in schools

had to read his book and memorise it and were tested on it.

NARRATOR: By the mid-1970s, Libya was swimming in oil dollars.

With money and power, Gaddafi could spread his ambitious tentacles,

while in public, he feigned humility and abstinence.

- (man) You think there's a good chance that Colonel Gaddafi

can be leader of a united Arab world?

- I am not searching for role of leader or president

or empire or something like this.

I am doing my... My duty towards my... My nation.

NARRATOR: But in some ways, Gaddafi appeared to be

a genuine progressive.

While the Western world wrestled with women's lib,

the Green Book speaks of the emancipation of women,

their freedom and enlightenment.

The President appoints women as his elite bodyguard.

It's only in hindsight that we now know his true motives

for surrounding himself with the opposite sex.

KAPLAN: Gaddafi surrounds himself with these Amazonian women.

Now, it says something of how he was influenced by the society he was in

that maybe in the Arab society that says,

wow, this is really sexualised imagery.

But in Western society, it's seen as crude, almost pornographic.

But it also constantly hints at

his own sexual ambiguity and insecurity.

- (military music)

NARRATOR: In 1981, Gaddafi opens

one of the world's first female-only military academies.

He publicly calls for the release

of women imprisoned across the Arab world.

He labels himself the "Friend of Women".

But in private, the women he enlists to protect him

will be trapped in his secret cell of sexual violence.

- So Gaddafi surrounded himself with female bodyguards.

From the outset, that looks quite positive.

You know, employing women, equal opportunities.

These women were beautiful, heavily made-up, coiffured.

But there is a darker side to this.

That they were Gaddafi's effectively sex slaves.

- He called them bodyguards but they were really sexual slaves

to Gaddafi and his proclivities towards sexual violence.

But it is particularly interesting

that he chose to clothe these women

in military-type fashion.

So he had fetishised the military vibe

and these women embodied that fetish.

NARRATOR: Away from the cameras,

a truly horrific scenario was playing out.

In his Tripoli residence he shared with his second wife,

Safia Farkash, and seven children,

thirty young women, including girls from the age of 15,

were imprisoned in a secret basement apartment.

Here, they are coerced to perform every sex act

their leader can conceive of,

forced to take drugs, submit themselves to be raped,

even to be urinated on.

And in turn, they were expected to facilitate

the virgin rape of other young Libyan girls.

- Gaddafi, any kind of sexual relationship that he had

really wasn't sex at all because none of it was consensual.

He was a sexual sadist, he was a violent person.

His experience with women

could only be categorised as rape.

NARRATOR: Gaddafi had reached the depth of his depravity

at the height of his power.

But he wanted more, much more.

NARRATOR: Through the 1980s,

Libya's livid leader, Muammar Gaddafi,

was playing a dangerous, high-risk game.

- At the height of his power, he felt that he had the ear of world.

He was bankrolled by millions of dollars in oil

and he even declared himself the King of Africa.

# The king of Africa #

MOGHADDAM: For a while, Gaddafi, because of oil money,

had become highly influential in parts of Africa.

And he even went as far as to crown himself as King of Africa.

But again, this was delusional.

Because other African nations didn't see him that way,

although some of them were very happy to accept his oil money.

VIGURS: He loved the publicity, he loved to the attention.

He was a real showman.

FARIDA: So I think he genuinely believed

that he can be actually the ruler of Africa.

NARRATOR: He embraces the pomp and grandeur.

Slowly but surely manifesting his own cult of personality.

Designing his own uniforms,

replete with the many medalled jackets,

garish colour-matched ensembles,

intensely dyed hair, rock-star sunglasses and make-up.

MOGHADDAM: As he got older,

his shows became more and more extravagant.

And he became more and more divorced from reality.

He had illusions about how people loved him

and how women loved him.

And that every woman would be honoured to sleep with him.

NARRATOR: Gaddafi's personal bodyguards,

enticed into service by the promise of career advancement,

receive insufficient training to hold their own

among their male compatriots.

In fact, they are selected, taken from their families,

and pressed into service on the basis of their looks

and their president's personal desires.

FARIDA: That was part of the propaganda. To try to show himself

as a brother leader, to show himself as a supporter

of woman's rights, but deep down, I don't think he cared so much

about women's rights and about the women's status in Libya in general.

I think he used that as a facade or a veneer

to hide his real interests in exploiting women,

sexually or otherwise.

- It's a little bit like what the Nazis did.

The Nazis had these beautiful uniforms that screamed out

S&M designed by Hugo Boss.

And all the marching around had very hyper-sexualised images.

And that's exactly what Gaddafi did.

What does it say? It wants to say something about you.

"Look at my manhood." But it also hints at,

"Boy, am I insecure beneath it all."

NARRATOR: His victims were silenced by shame

and they weren't limited to young girls.

WORTHEN: He even had a group of young boys

that he would also sexually abuse.

They were known as the Services Group to service his every need.

NARRATOR: Gaddafi's bi-sexual predilections

were well known among his inner circle.

Just as they were to foreign intelligence services,

both of allies and enemies.

- He was a paedophile. I'm not sure what he did with men,

but he certainly did it with boys.

And I don't think there's any better way

of confirming his absolute sexual insecurity and ambiguity.

- (chanting)

KAPLAN: What you get is the same mentality of the rapist.

Namely, this is power, this is violence.

The actual sex act is almost secondary.

And on top of that, you get somebody

who we've got good evidence was sexually tremulous.

He wasn't certain of his sexuality and what he should be.

And he knew in the Arab world,

no matter what you say in public,

if the knowledge comes out that you are having sex with boys,

your image is shot.

- In many situations, these boys were also kidnapped

and taken from their families, never to be seen again.

Here just to service Gaddafi, ultimately until they matured

and grew up and became men

and were no longer of interest to Gaddafi.

This is not something that just comes out of nowhere.

That his bizarre, sexual,

sadistic, scary interests in sex

were likely something that he had developed during puberty.

And it was only when he was able to achieve the power that he did

that he was actually able to design an entire world

of sexual sadism around him.

NARRATOR: As he flouted his power,

and rumours of his private corruption and depravity

began to spread, whispers of dissent grew louder.

Assassination attempts followed.

- (male reporter) In the centre of town we stopped.

And there, almost strolling along the main street,

was Colonel Gaddafi. It was particularly unexpected

since only yesterday there had been an attempt on his life.

MOGHADDAM: He projected a certain image

onto the West and he came to believe that image.

He projected an image of himself

as the champion of third world nations,

particularly in Africa. And he came to believe in that image

but he didn't realise nobody else believed it.

NARRATOR: Gaddafi was volatile and unpredictable,

and that scared the West.

- (chanting)

- (male reporter) This is the moment Libya became a pariah state.

On the 17th of April 1984, a group of anti-Gaddafi protestors

gathered outside the Libyan embassy in London.

NARRATOR: Shots were fired at the protestors from inside the embassy.

Eleven were wounded and Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher,

aged just 25, killed.

Gaddafi, predictably, denied everything.

- No, no, people there are, are innocent people.

NARRATOR: In the face of Western condemnation,

Gaddafi doubled down as anti-West.

- Reagan is the biggest terrorist in the world.

NARRATOR: And upped his anti-Semitic rhetoric.

- Do you think that Libya has an important role to play

in trying to get a Middle East peace settlement involving the Israelis?

- There is no possibility for peace

because Israelis or Jews,

they deny there is a...a people which is Palestinian people.

NARRATOR: Gaddafi showed a natural affinity

with the global tyrants' club.

Shaking hands, leveraging notoriety to further inflate his own.

- We know that he was a very ambitious man,

that he wanted to create influence around the world.

And he made that through money, through supporting

terrorist networks, through supporting armed militias and so on.

NARRATOR: Gaddafi used his oil dollars to fund

international terror groups, including the IRA.

TREVOR: Britain would argue that

you support organisations like the IRA.

- We believe the, the cause of, uh, of, uh, Ireland

is a just cause and we support this just cause.

FARIDA: Support for IRA is just one tactic that he used

to put pressure on the British government.

This is when he was trying to portray himself

as an anti-Western leader. This is when he started his propaganda

and he started his narrative as an Arab leader

and presenting himself as the potential

Arab leader for the rest of the Arab world.

NARRATOR: But eventually, Gaddafi's terrorist funding

grew too much for Western governments.

Words and threats to get him to desist were clearly not enough.

The only deterrent he understood was direct military aggression.

- The evidence is now conclusive that the terrorist bombing

of La Belle discotheque was planned and executed

under the direct orders of the Libyan regime.

He counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong.

- (male reporter) Tripoli exploded with heavy anti-aircraft fire

twice during the day.

A nighttime barrage the heaviest so far.

The raid on Colonel Gaddafi's headquarters in Tripoli

have blasted his home and family, killing an adopted daughter.

NARRATOR: Even with the loss of family, Gaddafi remained defiant.

TREVOR: Muammar Gaddafi, how has your country changed

after the American attack?

- We got benefit from this aggression.

Our people is aware now.

And, uh, all the Arab, uh, nation,

uh, came around us.

And, uh, all the peoples in the world supported us.

They lose and we, we won.

NARRATOR: Gaddafi survives the Reagan bombing

at the helm of a rogue state.

But his world is about to come crashing down.

REAGAN: This Mad Dog of the Middle East

has a goal of a world revolution.

NARRATOR: Winter, 1988.

Four days before Christmas,

a full Pan Am Flight 103

explodes in midair over Lockerbie in Scotland.

- (male reporter) On all the hillsides surrounding Lockerbie,

stretcher parties were at work.

Fireman and rescue services have spent Christmas Eve

working around the shattered cockpit of Flight 103,

sifting through the wreckage.

NARRATOR: The crash site is declared a crime scene.

259 victims murdered by an act of terror.

Less than a year later, a French passenger airliner

is downed in central West Africa.

170 people dead,

including the wife of an American ambassador.

Intelligence links both bombings to Libya.

The international community imposes trade embargos.

Gaddafi is under pressure.

- (male reporter) At the UN, ambassadors are hopeful

these limited sanctions will be enough to persuade Libya

to hand over the two Lockerbie suspects

and renounce support for terrorism.

- When it became clear that Gaddafi was little more than a mob leader,

funding terrorism, especially in the wake of the Lockerbie disaster,

when sanctions were brought against Libya,

affecting the people that he was supposed to be leading,

supposed to be helping, things started to unravel for him.

His popularity started to wane.

NARRATOR: While his people suffer with the mounting sanctions,

Gaddafi shoots family vacation videos.

What his camera doesn't show

is his pathological addiction to sex,

requiring a supply of four or five young victims per day.

FARIDA: And then you started hearing stories, horrible stories,

about his exploitation of women, boys.

Using sex or using rape

as a weapon by himself or the people that work with him.

NARRATOR: Gaddafi even began to use sex

as an internal political weapon,

a way of shoring up his personal power base.

WORTHEN: For Gaddafi, his ultimate sexual prize,

the conquest that he was most proud of,

were the wives and daughters of his comrades, of his peers.

It was so exciting to him that he could dominate women

from his own circle while also dominating women

that he really shouldn't have access to.

But because he was so violent and powerful,

he was even able to do that.

- (crowd screams)

NARRATOR: As the shocking live images of 9/11

seared the world's retinas,

Gaddafi saw the writing on the wall.

The global war on terror escalated overnight,

and the Libyan dictator chose this moment to change sides.

- In the wake of 9/11, when it was clear

that there was going to be a global war on terror,

Gaddafi tried to realign himself.

And this time to align himself with the West.

- So he wanted to then protect himself and protect his ruling

by trying to siding with the West and the US once again,

by saying that Libya will disarm its weapons of mass destruction.

It's willing to take admission

and to take responsibility of the Lockerbie attack in Scotland

and then to pay compensation for that.

NARRATOR: Now, after 30 years in power,

and having utterly transformed himself

from the anti-Western pan-Arab Nationalist Leader

he had once positioned himself as,

he was now willing to turn himself into a creature of the West

if it would help him stay in power.

- (male reporter) Tony Blair met Libya's Colonel Gaddafi,

re-opening trade links between the two countries.

Who would have believed it? Libya and Britain,

Gaddafi and Blair, shoulder to shoulder in the war on terror.

- But it was too late.

He'd effectively burnt all of his bridges.

Nobody was going to support him.

And effectively, he just started to run out of friends.

NARRATOR: In his final years in power, Gaddafi's paranoia grew,

as did his vanity and his sexual depravity.

MOGHADDAM: He had to force himself on women

because he was no longer attractive.

He was no longer young.

So his sexual deviations became greater and greater.

NARRATOR: Gaddafi flew a cosmetic surgeon from Brazil

to give him a face lift.

FARIDA: He refused to be under the anaesthetic

because, you know, he didn't want to be unconscious.

And he suffered through the whole operation being fully conscious.

And that shows you the level of trust he has

of the loyalty of people around him.

He thought they would kill him when he was unconscious.

NARRATOR: And as shadows grew longer over his dictatorial rule,

his depravity grew ever darker.

WORTHEN: Gaddafi had bizarre sexual practices.

He did horrific things to women.

He actually had a torture chamber

that was hidden away in a basement.

And in this location, he would torture women.

He would force them to watch him torture other people.

NARRATOR: The sexual violence was unthinkable.

He even had a team of nurses on call to treat bite marks, fractures,

and internal injuries suffered by his victims,

to try and keep a lid on his appalling crimes.

- He gave no value at all to other people's lives.

He didn't have any empathy for them.

NARRATOR: The tyrant was out of control.

- (gunfire)

NARRATOR: In 2010, popular uprisings

began erupting across the Middle East and North Africa.

Dubbed the Arab Spring, Gaddafi would not be spared.

- (female reporter) Colonel Gaddafi is your army deserting you?

Is your army deserting you, do you believe?

NARRATOR: Ironically, it was Arab Nationalism

that brought him to power

and the same forces that brought him down.

NARRATOR: With defeat inevitable,

he tries desperately to reinvent himself once more

as a firebrand Arab revolutionary.

NARRATOR: An audience encouraged to attend

by Gaddafi's remaining loyalists in the military.

- What made Gaddafi distinctive was that he started off

as an Arab Nationalist, and this wasn't necessarily a bad thing.

Arabs needed good leaders who would look after their people.

But in the end, his megalomania overcame him.

He got caught up by this idea of taking on the whole world

rather than sticking to his own patch.

and this led to his destruction.

He's just another dictator who took it too far

and got his just desserts.

NARRATOR: For his victims,

his downfall and death in October 2011

released a complex raft of emotions.

Fear, the chaotic savagery on their screens,

a violence they were subjected to daily, would spread and find them.

- (yelling and gunfire)

NARRATOR: Impotent rage

their persecutor would escape trial for his heinous crimes.

Above all, there was a shared sense of just vengeance.

Because before the crush of the crowd,

before the brutal beating...

..before the bullets,

..there was footage shared among the victims

of Gaddafi's secret life of sexual abuse,

footage of the moment their 'Brotherly Leader'

was violently penetrated by a bayonet,

the moment their rapist was raped.

- There is a gruesome irony to his ultimate end

in which his people overthrew him in a very violent and brutal way.

He was sodomised with a bayonet.

An ultimate way to show deference

and to procure his own power away from him

by treating him as a sex object

in a very violent and brutal way.

- (yelling and gunfire)

- Today, we are told that Gaddafi is dead.

Today, Libya, Libya's future begins.

Gaddafi's black era

has come to an end forever.

- We've seen reports about women who were found

just by the side of the road, raped and just dead.

These could be some of his victims but we don't know.

- Gaddafi seized power in order to overthrow tyranny,

but he ended up becoming a tyrant himself.

MOGHADDAM: He projected an image

as the champion of third world nations, particularly in Africa.

And he came to believe in that image.

But he didn't realise nobody else believed it.

- If ever there was a leader who had pride before the fall,

it was Gaddafi.

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