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  • 10 years on the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi's four decade rule has shaped the lives of those who joined it, as have Libya's splits and frontlines ever since.

  • Like Osama Ali Allegory, he was an unemployed graduate in the eastern city of Benghazi when the uprising began there in February 2011.

  • He soon joined E Thought I was fighting with the youth of the battalion against the injustice that we were told about from our fathers and grandfathers.

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  • That summer he got a bullet in the leg from Gadhafi's forces.

  • When he joined the assault on Tripoli.

  • His comrade was killed, and he is now paralyzed from the waist down.

  • A jury who buys themselves livestock wanted more for Libya from those sacrifices.

  • The February 17 revolution was stolen from the honorable Thea Honorable are dead and buried.

  • Those leading us now are the filthy ones who didn't even want the country.

  • Shell and shrapnel holds scar Libya cities.

  • This is Misrata, which Malik Sealy, Malmo Jai, then age 20 fought to defend against attack by Gadhafi's forces.

  • He, too, was wounded that July losing a leg, he says few care now whether people like him get the help they need.

  • Unfortunately, there was more attention in the beginning.

  • There was excitement of the revolution, But then the wars happened and nobody cared anymore about those injured.

  • In 2011, progress has stalled on education and the economy, he says, as well as healthcare.

  • Unfortunately, the situation is how you see it.

  • After 10 years of wars, the politicians who were entrusted with the task were not up to the standard.

  • Shamal Windy came from a family that did well under Gadhafi.

  • His father was a diplomat, but he joined.

  • The fight on was among those who stormed Gadhafi's Tripoli compound.

  • He was interviewed on television that day wearing an item had found that is known to all Libyans, Gadhafi's military hat, and he briefly became one of the faces of Libya's uprising.

  • Windy now works in Tunis, and he is hopeful for change.

10 years on the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi's four decade rule has shaped the lives of those who joined it, as have Libya's splits and frontlines ever since.

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