On 15 February 2011, against the background of the so-called Arab Spring protests rocking much of the Middle East at the time, protesters descended on the Libyan city of Benghazi armed with stones and petrol bombs to protest the detention of a local activist. Clashes escalated, eventually engulfing the country in a foreign-backed civil war.
Monday marks the tenth anniversary of the start of the Libyan ‘Revolution’ – a series of uprisings that culminated in a NATO intervention and the country’s division into a number of unstable statelets. In an exclusive interview with Sputnik Arabic, Ahmed Gaddaf al-Dam, cousin and close aide to former President Muammar Gaddafi, recalled the events of 2011 that turned his country from one of the most prosperous African nations into a failed state.
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