With Gadhafi Dead, What Does Future Hold for Libya?
22 October 2011
Libyans celebrate at Martyrs Square in Tripoli on Thursday after hearing the news about Muammar Gaddafi
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.
Moammar Gadhafi ruled Libya for forty-two years. He was killed Thursday after fighters loyal to the National Transitional Council, the NTC, captured him in his hometown of Sirte. People celebrated in Tripoli, including this engineer who gave only his first name, Osama.
OSAMA: "All the people go outside and they celebrate and feel so happy about the end of this Gadhafi's regime and everyone, even the families, the children, the old people, all are out to celebrate this moment. This moment is very happiness moment now."
Questions about how the Libyan leader died have raised the possibility of an international investigation.
Moammar Gadhafi was twenty-seven when he took power in nineteen sixty-nine after a military overthrow of Libya's king. He once declared himself Africa's King of Kings.
This Nigerian social worker, Mary Ene, says other African leaders who want to stay in power forever should learn something.
MARY ENE: "This is a lesson to our leaders in this part of the world to know that power belongs to God and that God can take power from anybody anytime. It is time for our leaders to look beyond trying to grab all the things that belong to the public for their own pockets, for their own families."
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