On October 20, 2011, following the Battle of Sirte, Libyan forces arrested and killed a Libyan soldier. After his convoys were bombed by NATO aircraft, Gaddafi was tracked down west of Sirte and captured. He was then apprehended by forces loyal to the National Transitional Council (NTC) and executed shortly after. The assassination of Muammar Gaddafi was regarded as a violation of international humanitarian law.
Gaddafi’s belated farewell began on a marble slab in an abandoned car park and finished with a lonely burial in the desert, far away from his family and enemies.
After five days of macabre exhibition, Libya’s new leadership eventually chose late Monday night to lay Gaddafi to rest, bringing an end to a week of uncertainty about what to do with the deceased president’s remains and bringing an end to an age of fear and infamy.
According to a National Transitional Council (NTC) spokesman, the bodies were buried at the crack of dawn at an undisclosed location.
There had been a lot of uncertainty among the new leadership about what to do with the bodies for a few days before to this.
Sirte was Gaddafi’s hometown, and the former leader’s family wanted them buried outside the city.
Libyan family pay their respects to the body of murdered Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi (C), which is kept frozen in a storage freezer in Misrata on October 24. Libyans walked past Muammar Gaddafi’s deteriorating body for the fourth day in a row on Monday, eager to see for themselves that the ousted leader was no longer alive. Meanwhile, negotiations over how to dispose of the corpse continued among rising local factions.
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