No. 1/12 LIBYA - Gaddafi last state run television broadcasts Sunday August 21, 2011

40 years HISTORICAL FACT: Regardless of Gaddafi’s murderous reputation, the historical facts are that under King Idris, 94% of Libyans were illiterate, infant mortality rate was 40%, and out of each 2 newborns one died within the first year. In the 1950s the total population of Libya was a little over 1 million, with Fezzan almost uninhabited. When Libyans open a water tap, the water is from his Great Artificial River project, bringing underground water to the Sahara desert. See video No. 9, at 1:43 minutes for a documentation of this. --- The series of protests and demonstrations across the Middle East and North Africa has become known as the “Arab Spring“. It was sparked by the first protests that occurred in Tunisia on 18 December 2010 following Mohamed Bouazizi’s self-immolation in protest of police corruption and ill treatment. With the success of the protests in Tunisia, a wave of unrest struck Algeria, Jordan, Egypt, and Yemen, then spread to other countries, with the largest, most