"For most Africans, Gaddafi is a generous man, a humanist, known for his unselfish support for the struggle against the racist regime in South Africa. If he had been an egotist, he wouldnât have risked the wrath of the West to help the ANC both militarily and financially in the fight against apartheid. This was why Mandela, soon after his release from 27 years in jail, decided to break the UN embargo and travel to Libya on 23 October 1997. Mandela didnât mince his words when the former US president Bill Clinton said the visit was an âunwelcomeâ one â âNo country can claim to be the policeman of the world and no state can dictate to another what it should doâ. He added â âThose that yesterday were friends of our enemies have the gall today to tell me not to visit my brother Gaddafi, they are advising us to be ungrateful and forget our friends of the past."
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Jean-Paul Pougala, writer of London Evening Post, quoted in The New York Times (18 April 2011)
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Muammar Gaddafi
Muammar abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (7 June 1942 â 20 October 2011) was the leader of Libya from 1969, when he overthrew the monarchy in a bloodless coup, until 2011 when he was overthrown by a NATO-backed internal rebellion. He declared Libya a directly democratic state (jamahiriya) in 1977, and stepped down from government office two years later, although he remained the effective center of power. Gaddafi pursued an anti-colonial and pan-African foreign policy that the United States and European cou
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