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Gaddafi's harem: Dictator forced thousands of girls to work as sex slaves

New Delhi: A French journalist Annick Cojean has in her book, Gaddafi's Harem, revealed for the first time how women were abducted, imprisoned, raped and abused by the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi during his brutal

India TV News Desk Published : Oct 24, 2013 13:54 IST, Updated : Oct 26, 2013 14:01 IST


Mansour Daw, Gaddafi's former security chief, told Cojean the dictator's activities were so well known within the regime that officials sent their daughters to be educated overseas to avoid him.





Gaddafi also tried to woo performers, TV presenters and wives of foreign dignitaries with gifts.

‘He had his everyday prey but would also target this more precious kind,' Cojean says. ‘He used sex to humiliate, punish and reward. Rape was a weapon of war and sex was a weapon of power for him.'

Here we have mentioned about just two women, the book reveals the stories of Soraya in detail in the first half and in the second half it states about many other women who suffered such fate.

There were thousands of young Libyan girls and women who were kidnapped from their schools, homes or places of work and forced to be Gaddafi's sex slaves.

 

 
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