article_snippet.sent: Gaddafi ruled for almost 42 years, after Gaddafi took control in a coup d'etat in 1969.
article_snippet.sent: Following an uprising as part of the Arab Spring in 2011 and ensuing civil war, Gaddafi was hounded out of Tripoli and killed by members of the National Transitional Council.
article_snippet.sent: Growing up Gaddafi's children enjoyed Gaddafi's children own fairground within the palace in Tripoli yet millions of Libyan people suffered under Gaddafi reign .
article_snippet.sent: At a safe distance from Gaddafi people, Gaddafi lived behind fortified walls with Gaddafi wife, their children, close advisers and guards.
article_snippet.sent: Apart from the bedouin tents on which Gaddafi prided Gaddafi and which accommodated Gaddafi on travels abroad, the compound once showcased a zoo, an indoor pool, countless murals and a fairground in its gardens.
article_snippet.sent: We dreamt of a better life after the fall of Gaddafi, but here We are in Gaddafi ruins,' said Mohammed Suleiman, 43, surrounded by children.
article_snippet.sent: If Gaddafi had given us freedom and treated us with dignity, with a decent standard of living, Gaddafi would still have been here.'
article_snippet.sent: In 2012, the Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia which the United States has branded a terrorist organisation occupied Gaddafi's Benghazi home and turned the Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia which the United States has branded a terrorist organisation into the Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia which the United States has branded a terrorist organisation headquarters.
article_snippet.sent: the Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia which the United States has branded a terrorist organisation was pulverised in air strikes launched last October by anti-Islamist forces loyal to the internationally recognised Libyan government based in the country's far east.