The Libyan adventure - strange facts about Gaddafi

Motto: ''Those who do not learn their history, are doomed to repeat it. ''

 

 

As i was exchanging ideas with someone knowing quite a bit about life under the dictator Gaddafi, here are some facts that i found out about:

During Gaddafi regime:

1. Every citizen, according to the Green Book, should have a home that needs to be owned by him and not by others. 

2. Education and healthcare was free. 

3. Electricity was free.

4. Petrol was $ 0.14 per litre.

5. Libya was the home of the 8th wonder of the world - an irrigation project covering almost the whole country, which is now almost completely destroyed, as it was intensely targeted in the war. Somebody wanted Libyans to be hungry and without food. 

6. A mother will receive a $5000 equivalent allocated for her and the child. 

7. If you wanted to make a farm, you will receive house, land, livestock and seeds needed to start. 

8. During Gaddafi, the number of illiterate Libyans wend down from 75% to 13%. Education was very important. 

9. Libya has their own national bank, which provided loans to population atr zero interest rate (as they use to be one of the few countries with no external debt.) The highest level ever reached was 6.47% GDP in 2011. This is a very low level, even now, after a was raged free in the whole country. Fun fact, another country with no external debt was Romania, with zero external debt in 1978, and highest level ever - 75% GDP external debt in 2011. U.S. external debt in 2019 is 84% of GDP. 

10. He tried to make the United States of Africa before European Union project, with a single African currency backed by gold called gold dinar. This will probably give unprecedented freedom and power to whole Africa, and some believe this was the real reason of being ousted out of his throne. 

Also, he was a good friend of Nelson Mandela, and declared Osama bin Laded terorist and wanted man three years before 9/11, condemning what was later known as ISIS.

Sometimes life is indeed stranger than fiction. And i know, he was also doing a lot of questionable things as president, and i lived under a Comunist Party to know better when your freedom finish and where it starts. But, why did they destroy all the good work of the Libyan people?