About dictators
I have received many questions after the publication of my write-up in your esteemed daily. The most common question was regarding my statement that "the Libyan dictator's death satisfied the understandable desires of not only Libyans for revenge as well as others who live and govern in the West."
Reserving my respect for the question raised, my sincere response is dictators brim with self-confidence and freedom. They are also unrepentant liars. They are cunning, cruel, flamboyant and eccentric. For example, Colonel Gaddafi liked to be known as “Brother Leader and Guide of the Revolution.” Many dictators try to create a cult of personality and like grandiloquent titles.
The late Libyan leader abolished all ranks above colonel to discourage coup plotters. The same instance we might see in Bangladesh while General Zia and General Ershad were in power. In life, the dictators had unequivocally admitted their guilt by paying restitution to the victims. And they would undoubtedly have stood before the court claiming innocence. Whoever might have put a bullet into his head did, in fact, deliver justice perfectly, simply by denying them the opportunity to do it themselves, which would have been their final insult to our collective humanity.
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