Watch rare pics of former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi

New Delhi: This Libyan tyrant ruled Libya for 42 years. Muammar Gaddafi was born in a tent near Qasr Abu Hadi, a rural area outside the town of Sirte in the deserts of western Libya. He seized power in a military coup in 1969. The end to his era in Libya started with the start of civil war in 2011 and finally in August 2011 Libya's rebel leaders declared an end to the "era of Gaddafi" and called on his militias in Tripoli to refrain from revenge attacks.After rebels finally took his home town of Sirte, the fallen dictator was killed in a firefight with militias belonging to the Libya's National Transitional Council. Gaddafi was hiding inside a pipe, when he was picked out and lynched by the rebels. There were reports that he was buried at a secret location in the Libyan desert along with his son Mutassim and the country's former defence minister.Watch some pics of this dictator: Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, circa 1985. Muammar Gaddafi on horseback in Tripoli,1975. Muammar in Paris, talking revolution. Muammar Gaddafi in Circa, 1969. French Minister Jacques Chirac with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, 1976. Gaddafi is seen here holding hands with Soviet Union ruler Leonid Brezhnev in 1981. Gaddafi in his early days. Muammar Gaddafi with Palestinian PLO leader Yasser Arafat in Tripoli, 1978. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (L) joking in Tripoli with a group of British hippies, 1973. Gaddafi is jostled by press and TV reporters outside the Élysée palace in Paris,1973. Gaddafi with Cuban leader Fidel Castro,1977. Gaddafi prays in the Libyan desert near Surt,1973. A young Muammar Gaddafi in army fatigues,1971. Muammar Gaddafi (L) waves to the crowd in June 1975 in Tripoli.