THE bloody end of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was as brutal and ruthless as his 42-year iron rule of the oil rich North African country.
However, Gaddafi is not the only dictator who met a violent end because history shows that iron-fisted rulers have met a similar fate, and in most cases, with the same brute force they used to assume power.Gaddafi is the victim of the Arab Spring, the popular uprisings which swept across Arab countries and forced out former Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt.
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