Rescued Bangladeshi tells of his Libyan nightmare - BBC

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Ataur Rahman, a 28-year-old electrician from Bangladesh, is enjoying every moment with his four-year-old son in his native village of Maloncha, about 60km (37 miles) from the capital Dhaka.

Just a few days ago, he thought he would never see his family again. He was afraid he would die in Libya, where he went to work in a construction firm in the eastern city of Darnah in December 2008.

Mr Rahman is among the thousands of Bangladeshi workers who have fled the country and managed to return home safely.

When the conflict started in Libya, official figures said there were more than 60,000 Bangladeshi nationals working in foreign construction firms, oil companies and other businesses in the country.

Officials say up until mid-March, about 20,000 workers have returned from the country, mostly with the help of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).
'Scared of death'
"In mid-February, about 2,000 Libyans attacked our construction project at midnight. They looted our money, mobile and other valuables. They beat us up severely. We were held hostages in a madrassa," recollects Mr Rahman.

"They gave us only one piece of bread a day. There was severe water shortage. We were scared of death all the time. In Darnah, I saw many dead bodies."

After spending days in captivity, Mr Rahman says, they managed to bribe some locals and reached Libya's border with Egypt. With no money and no travel documents, they languished in desert camps in extreme weather conditions.

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I don't like gaddafi regime but these people are clearly not up to their revolutionary objectives, murdering, killing others is not revolution. It clearly shows it was a long preparation by west to plan another trouble or short term invasion of libya. I welcome a wrath by the west upon libyans so that they taste what they sow they will reap.

 

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I don't like gaddafi regime but these people are clearly not up to their revolutionary objectives, murdering, killing others is not revolution. It clearly shows it was a long preparation by west to plan another trouble or short term invasion of libya. I welcome a wrath by the west upon libyans so that they taste what they sow they will reap.

Can you tell me how the sequence of even would have been, if it were tunisia inspired fight against dictatorship. How do you expect the world to react when an unpopular dictator fights against its own people.
Also, west does not need to remove qaddafi, he already sells oil, stopped his nuclear program. He is completely tamed dog, who barks sometimes.
Do you really think he posed a threat to western interest, the way saddam did.

 

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Is it revolution against a dictator to kill outsiders? All i saw was loot and murders I don't see common libyan focused on revolution. And Guess what those being glad for US/Allies help got their first surprise in the form of 98 civilians dead by Allied Air Strikes, now they'll be wished we didn't invite sky larks.

gaddafi should have played well but as always arabs-africans governing bodies are stupid, He should have called for election and played everything in the background politics bringing his own man in power someone who showed he is pro west as well as pro arab. Now time for gaddafi to pack his bag for another trip to dimension in hell.