IT has been more than two years since the capture and
death of Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan dictator whose reign subjected an impoverished people to four decades of murder and terror.
But it can now be revealed that the most heartbreaking of Gaddafi’s victims include hundreds, possibly thousands of
teenage girls who, throughout his 42-year reign, were beaten, raped and forced to become his sex slaves.
Many were virgins kidnapped from schools and universities and kept
prisoner for years in a specially designed secret sex lair hidden within
Tripoli University or his many palaces. In the 26 months since he was
deposed, Gaddafi’s den – where he regularly raped girls as young as 14 –
has remained locked. But today its gaudy interior, where the colonel
brutalised his victims, can be seen for the first time in photographs
from a hard-hitting BBC4 documentary.
