While Libya has been quick to shake off 40 years of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's legacy, his children are still waiting for justice. The lawyer of the late leader's daughter has been telling RT why his brutal live murder in October still hasn't been investigated.
Aisha Gaddafi has hired Nick Kaufman, an Israeli lawyer, to force the International Criminal Court to investigate the full circumstances of her father's death.
RT: Why have you agreed to take on the case of Aisha Gaddafi?
Nick Kaufman: Aisha has a legitimate complaint. Her father was murdered, murdered in a brutal fashion -- the whole world saw it. The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has an obligation to investigate all aspects of the conflict which have been referred to him by the United Nations Security Council, and that would include also the murder of Muammar Gaddafi. Especially since the prosecutor himself has stated that this is a war crime. Source
While Libya is going through a tough period of post-revolutionary development, after its infrastructure was badly damaged, countries which first bombed Libyan cities are cashing-in on rebuilding them. They may have helped bring down the house, but they were very careful not to burn bridges. As Libya rises from the ashes of civil war, the countries that poured oil on to the fire are now lining up to cash in by undoing the damage. The belief that Russia benefited a great deal from trading with the Gaddafi regime is very widespread in Tripoli, but it is simply false. In 2010, Moscow was number 17 on the list of Libya's main trading partners, accounting for just 0.4 per cent of its international trade. The countries that had the largest trade volumes with Gaddafi's Libya are precisely the ones that spearheaded the campaign against him -- the European Union, the United States and Turkey. And they all are now jostling for contracts to rebuild Libya. American business style is still a bit of an oddity here, but is already catching up. Construction firm owner Richard Peters arrived in Tripoli just before the uprising to seal a multimillion dollar contract with Gaddafi's government. The war and Peters' subsequent incarceration threw him off track, but now he hopes to make up for it.
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