{"id":811,"date":"2012-03-12T18:26:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T18:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gay.blogs.cam4.com\/?p=811"},"modified":"2012-03-12T18:26:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T18:26:15","slug":"gays-and-the-libyan-revolution-before-and-after-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/2012\/03\/gays-and-the-libyan-revolution-before-and-after-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gays and the Libyan revolution, before and after"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following the removal of Colonel Gaddafi\u2019s dictatorship, Khaleed, like many Libyans, is full of hope and concern for their future. Their country, society and cultures are now going to start to forge a new identity which was so forcefully bound up with the Gaddafi family the ruled Libya with an iron fist for over 40 years.<\/p>\n

Khaleed is clear he is \u2018more hopeful now\u2019. He has good reasons to be, Libyans know they have great resources as the world\u2019s eighth-largest oil reserves and hope the damage from the bloody seven months civil war can be fixed quickly. Everyone hopes that its resources can be exploited and lead to a rapid economic development.<\/p>\n

It is clear that this is no easy journey, last year in early November many of the local militia leaders who helped topple Colonel Gaddafi (killed 20 October 2011) have not heeded the pledge they made earlier to give up their weapons. They said that they intended to preserve their autonomy and influence political decisions as \u2018guardians of the revolution\u2019 and sources indicate there are over a quarter of a million of such heavily armed militiamen.<\/p>\n

The issue of the militias is one of the most urgent facing Libya\u2019s new provisional government, the Transitional National Council. And Khaleed agrees this is the \u2018biggest issue facing us\u2019. The second is building civil society, law and order and stabilising the economy.\u00a0 Read More <\/a><\/p>\n

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