Stop 🛑 praising Gaddafi
Gaddafi helped train Charles Taylor in #Libya 🇱🇾 while he was already a known fugitive and wanted by #Liberia 🇱🇷 and Foday Sankoh.
Gaddafis ideas of Arab nationalism and revolution would ruin the lives of countless Africans.
#Africanhistory a Thread🧵… ImageImageImage
After mysteriously being released prison from the United States enroute to Liberia Charles Taylor went to Libya where he received training in warfare along with Foday Sankoh, the founder of the notorious RUF rebel group of Sierra Leone. ImageImage
Gaddafi backed these two people because he saw them as part of a greater scheme to attain Pharonic control of Africa, but Charles Taylor was difficult to control after he took over Liberia.

Politics aside Gaddafi armed rebel groups responsible for thousands of deaths. Image
Such a disastrous foreign policy record should disqualify any leader of praise.
Gaddafi also had a terrible domestic record.
Russian bots praise Gaddafi as a pan African revolutionary, but he actually persecuted the southern black Amazigh tribes of Libya and black migrants. ImageImage
Gaddafi would often play different ethnic groups against each other, oppressing indigenous southern Amazigh groups like the Tebu and the Twareg and consolidating power among Arab Libyans.
Libyas often touted economic development under Gaddafi only benefited the Arab in group. ImageImage
Gaddafi was hardly about too achieve the United States of Africa before his death.
On the contrary Gaddafi was a staunch Arab supremacist .
Many people on this app atribuye his death too NATO, but in fact Gaddafi’s death came at the hands of beber rebels whom he had oppressed. Image
Gaddafi is also primarily responsible for the situation Libya is in today.

The political and ethnic divisions that are bloody spilling out are divisions Gaddafi created and exploited to stay in power.
He put no effort into establishing proper rule of law,a civil society or a… Image
Proper national identity or a loyal military for Libyans to properly work with.
The Arab Spring in 2011 made Gaddafi’s fall inevitable. NATO did provide weapons to the rebels leading to his death, but Gaddafi’s regime and Libya would have fallen regardless.
The best case… Image
Scenario for Gaddafi would have been to end up like another Assad.
To cling on to power by brute force while destroying your country and becoming and international pariah.

If Gaddafi where around today he would have destroyed Libya just as Bashar Al Assad destroyed Syria 🇸🇾 ImageImage
Gaddafi was also a narcissist who would change his attitude and policies of off petty feelings.
He was basically a proto Donald Trump in North Africa.
The pan African phase Gaddafi underwent was just to gain prestige and spite his Arab rivals. His African identity was paper thin. Image
Gaddafi is an antiblack Arab Supremacist dictator who presided over a bad petro state. He oppressed minorities and armed groups that would kill thousands.

They’re many other African leaders who are worthy of praise. There are even better African autocrats! Stop praising Gaddafi! ImageImage
End of thread 🧵
Gaddafi was just an awful human being who deserved what he got.

Dumb white communist and Russian bots might come and cry but I don’t care, this page doesn’t support horrible anti black dictators just because they’re anti NATO.

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