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Detainees killed by colonial Moammar Qaddafi's forces.
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They had opposed his regime.
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50 people were shot on.
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Their bodies were burned.
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I narrowly escaped the same fate.
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I have been locked up in this place along with two BBC colleagues.
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Good evening.
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BBC team in Libya have been jailed and subjected to beatings and mock executions.
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Way were held in a secret prison on a military base.
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It was run by.
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Qaddafi's son.
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Feels fighting broke out on Six months later, Gadhafi had been beaten back to his hometown, sir.
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After a month of fighting, his convoy was hit by NATO jets.
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He was captured alive but was later killed in murky, chaotic circumstances.
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In the 10 years since, I've been back to Libya many times on watch with her.
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As the country has fallen apart, the rebels split into many factions.
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On the most organized off.
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These were the Islamists.
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It's very sad to look back now.
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Ian Martin was the U.
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N.
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Envoy to the new Libya.
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The legacy of Gaddafi was even worse than any of us realized.
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The divisions that he had played upon to maintain his own power.
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But I think the biggest problem.
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The one that has haunted Libya ever since was the inability to deal with the armed groups and the fragmentation in the security sector.
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One off these groups attacked the American consulate in Benghazi, killing the ambassador on three U.
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S citizens.
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By 2013, Tripoli was under the control of Islamists on other militias.
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They imposed a low excluding anyone associated with the Gadhafi regime from taking part in the new political scene.
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It was a turning point.
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Libyans who felt excluded united behind the new leader, General Khalifa Haftar.
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I spoke to him in 2015, just before he formed the Libyan National Army.
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He took control of eastern Libya on started fighting the extremists in 2019.
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At talks in Morocco, the various factions signed a political agreement to form a new government.
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Yeah, but four years later, General Haftar launched an offensive to take Tripoli, displacing hundreds of thousands of civilians.
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The country descended into full civil war, which rate for over a year.
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A ceasefire was agreed in Geneva.
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In October, Libya writer Jim Abu Clip was imprisoned for 10 years by the Qaddafi regime.
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He has followed the chaos and bloodshed from London I asked him if the toppling of Qaddafi was worth the heavy price his country has paid on a e was damaged by al Qaddafi's regime.
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I couldn't see an end.
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People were hopeless under his rule.
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Despite the current chaos, there's still some hope that we'll get to a reconciliation soon.
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10 years on from the uprising, elections are promised for later this year.
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Many hope that Libya can finally find peace.