ARAB NEWS: MISRATA: Libyans lining up in dozens to view Muammar Qaddafi’s body on Saturday shared none of the West’s qualms about the fact he was killed while in the hands of the fighters who captured him.
They said if he had stayed alive, he could still have rallied his supporters to continue an insurgency against Libya’s new rulers, and that the International Criminal Court would have given him just a few years in prison.
Qaddafi was captured in his home town of Sirte on Thursday in the final act of a violent rebellion against his 42-year rule. Amateur video footage showed a dazed and bloodied Qaddafi being manhandled by an angry crowd.
Minutes later he was dead, prompting suspicions — denied by Libya’s new government — that he was killed by his captors.
Asked if it would not have been better for him to stand trial, Abdulatif, a pilot, said: “What would he tell the mother whose children were killed or the girls who were raped?“
“If he lived and was killed a thousand times that would still only be a trifle,” he said outside the metal cold storage container in Misrata, 200 km (130) miles east of the Libyan capital, where Qaddafi’s body was on public view.
“If you give him to the international court he will be living in luxury in Switzerland and then maybe he will be given a sentence of 10 years in prison. So it is better that he was killed.” » | RANIA EL GAMAL | REUTERS | Saturday, October 22, 2011
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