( September
24, 2012 London, Sri Lanka Guardian) Colonel Gaddafi beat and raped kidnapped
schoolgirls he used as sex slaves in between checking his emails, according to
a new book.
French
reporter Annick Cojean gathered horrific accounts from the girls forced into
the former Libyan dictator's harem for the account published last week.
One victim,
named as Soraya, was 15 when she was abducted in 2004 by the late tyrant's
'talent scouts' after she was chosen to give him a bouquet when he visited her
school.
Gaddafi had
accepted the gift before placing his hand on her head, a sign she now realises
meant 'I want this one'.
The next day
women in uniform appeared at her mother's hair salon in Sirte and explained
Gaddafi or The Guide, wanted her for another 'bouquet ceremony'.
She was
driven for hours through the desert, had blood taken and her breasts measured
before being stripped and shaved.
After being
dressed in a thong and low-cut white satin dress, Soraya was escorted to
Gaddafi's bedroom and was shocked to find him naked.
'He grabbed
my hand and forced me to sit next to him on the bed,' she recounts, adding: 'I
didn't dare look at him.
'He said,
"Don't be afraid. I'm your papa. That's what you call me, isn't it? But
I'm also your brother and your lover. I'm going to be all that for you. Because
you are going to stay and live with me forever."'
Initially
she fought him off and was sent off for lessons from Mabrouka, a sour-faced
woman in charge of his 'harem'.
He had said:
'Teach her, educate her and bring her back.'
Describing
herself as a 'sacrificial lamb' Gaddafi repeatedly raped, beat and urinated on
the teenager during her five years in captivity, according to the book Les
Proies: Dans le harem de Kadhafi (Prey: In Gaddafi’s Harem).
Sometimes
other girls would join them. When another girl performed oral sex on Gaddafi he
would tell Soraya to 'Watch and learn,' while Mabrouka gave her porn films to
watch as 'homework'.
Another
victim, Houda, who was 18 when she met Gaddafi said he abused her for five
years after she agreed to have sex with him if he freed her brother.
Well known
as a tyrant, the women's accounts have helped to paint Gaddafi - or Papa
Muammar as he liked to be called - in an even more monstrous light, outing him
as a repugnant sadist for whom rape was a daily activity.
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| Horror: French reporter and author of the book Annick Cojean said compiling Gaddafi's women's testimonies had been one of her 'most painful investigations' |
One girl
describes how she was forced to wear lacy underwear and watch porn films. She
added that Gaddafi had 'needed' several girls every day.
He also
raped boys, sometimes in Soraya's presence.
The book
also reveals how Gaddafi's sex slave victims are still suffering after being
rejected by their families for having sex when they were not married.
Soraya says
she lives in fear of her brothers, who may want to kill her to 'wipe away the
shame'.
Female
visitors were routinely subjected to blood tests by Gaddafi's nurses to make
sure they were disease free in case he wanted to have sex with them.
Marie
Colvin, the Sunday Times journalist killed in Syria last year, reported that a
nurse had approached her with a needle when she was in Tripoli to interview
Gaddafi. She declined to give blood.
When he was
alive Gaddafi was always surrounded by uniformed women, but far from being
security guards they were his sexual playthings kept at the dictator's beck and
call, according to the book.
It also
describes how Gaddafi kept a secret flat at Tripoli University to 'entertain
students'.
Ms Cojean, a
reporter for French newspaper Le Monde, said the accounts is the book had been
one of her 'most painful investigations'.
In an
interview with France24, she said: 'For Gaddafi, rape was a weapon...a way of
dominating others - women, obviously, because it was easy, but also men, by
possessing their wives and daughters.'
Source: Daily Mail
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