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How an Indian young man's desperate appeal for help launched one of the biggest rescue ops of all time - a Thread: (1/n) 
In the early 2010s, a series of popular uprisings rocked the Arab world that subsequently came to be known as the Arab Spring. It started off with the Tunisian revolution in January, 2011 and soon spread to Egypt and then Libya (2/n)
The latter had been under the autocratic rule of Muammar Gaddafi since 1969. The unrest began in early 2011 as protests by citizens against the draconian Gaddafi regime but soon spiraled into a full-fledged civil war that ravaged the nation for months (3/n)
