Living Under Gaddafi
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2018
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In September 1969, a military coup in Libya brought Muammar Gaddafi to power. Louise Hidalgo has been speaking to award-winning writer Hisham Matar about life in Libya in the first decade of Gaddafi's rule, his family’s flight from Libya and how his father, Jaballa Matar, became one of Gaddafi's most prominent opponents in exile and paid the ultimate price.
Picture: Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli on September 27th 1969, shortly after the bloodless coup that brought him to power (Credit: AFP FILES/AFP/Getty Images)
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| 1:10.6 | In September 1969, Libyanydian army officers overthrew the king and declared Libya a republic. |
| 1:17.0 | One of the coup leaders was a young captain called Muamma Gaddafi, |
| 1:20.0 | who'd rise to become Libya's erratic and repressive ruler for the next 42 years. |
| 1:26.0 | I've been speaking to Hisham Mata, whose father, Jabala Mata, would be one of Gaddafi's most prominent opponents. |
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