October 20, 2011
Muammar Gaddafi was found hiding in a drainage culvert outside his hometown of Sirte, discovered when a NATO airstrike destroyed his convoy attempting to break out of the besieged city. Rebel fighters beat and abused him before he was shot. The International Criminal Court had issued a warrant for his arrest, but no one intervened. His killing was filmed on mobile phones and broadcast worldwide — a violent, undignified end for a man who had ruled Libya for 42 years and reimagined himself as the 'King of Kings of Africa.'
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