Apply to be a Chitika Publisher!
Buy t-shirts, mugs & gifts from my shop.

avast

avast
Download your 2012 Free Antivirus Streamlined. Light. Free. Security trusted on 170+ million devices.

2/03/2012

Bab Azizia .. Fort horror Libya previously



 Store / shop

Murad Muhammad bin
Is no longer a "door-Azizia" - the residence of Colonel Libyan late Muammar Gaddafi - surrounded by an aura of mystery about something to hide walls, The place which has been a fortress closed for many decades now become an open market is visited by young and old to discover and shopping since his downfall at the hands of forces, rebels February 17.
Is "Bab Azizia" heavily fortified in the heart of the capital Tripoli on an area of ​​six square kilometers in the center of neighborhoods popular site from almost all sides, and next to the highway leading to Tripoli International Airport.
Tripoli is not intended population or visitors to the place just shopping, they come motivated by love to look at and search for answers their questions Troy hungry to learn some secrets of "resident Azizia," which was not just a palace inhabited by Gaddafi in that it includes a number of military barracks and security.


FeaturesTo enter the door in its New Azizia you have to cross over the wreckage of three walls of concrete, broken fences behind the scene seem nested among the trees and houses and rubble overwhelming the place.
But the rubble did not prevent a number of traders from coming to display their goods, different, everything is available from the shoes and clothes, toys, household items and purposes used, to chickens and birds and dogs.
Shoppers walk around and examine the exhibits between this and ask for that price, and some of them take advantage of his coming to eat some snacks, which spreads sold in all the places between traders.
For most children it seems that they are not interested in those who lived behind the walls of Bab Azizia, Vallab which is the weapons are their top concern and the sounds of fireworks overwhelm the voices of traders who are calling for Bosaarhm.

Is it significantHe also spoke of sincere - a Libyan citizen was shopping with his children - of the island, standing in front of the door of the private hospital Gaddafi after he had finished his tour in the market, he says that "I think that this will ever perish, but Hallelujah here we wander in," he adds, "by virtue of closeness from where I lived and I have a curiosity to know what is going on inside this fort. "
He adds, "I preferred if they are not burning the palace is not anything here so as not to alter the features of the place could become a park or the palace museum for those who want to visit. Probably not important to visit the home of Gaddafi now, but after years it will be important to walk around our children here, especially When talking about a revolution February 17. "
Asked about the significance is to choose this place specifically as a market, said Ali Salem - a Thelatini works in the sale of equipment, copper - "Our presence is not agreement, but the semantics really, there is a secret today that a number of remnants of the former regime or the so-called" fifth column ".. Our presence here might remind them of climate conditions and lack of permanence and possibly bring them back to their senses and reminds them that the era of Gaddafi's been irreversible."
He says Salem, "do not hide that I had a fright in the beginning of the entry, and most importantly I had lessons and a lesson from this conclusion," referring to the ability of the general will of the people for change, he said, "In the past certain that the Abu Salim prison will not accommodate anyone who might think to roam in front of the door Azizia. "

The point of the family
And take advantage of families the opportunity to market to buy their needs at competitive prices, says Ahmed Abdul Salam, who return shopping of this place since the fall of the regime, "I live in Mansoura, means Gaddafi neighbor, but we did not know about this placesomething, and this is what I was hoping to see him before the revolution and this I am here not only to shop but I want to know how he lived? now I walk around in the hospitalnext to his house. "

For the same purpose came Abdullah Abdul Salam, a university student had the opportunity to enter the door Azizia before the fall of the regime, and notes "it is not easy todistinguish what it was this fort, fires destroyed the features of homes and the hospital, andas you can see there are no effects of house reception of guests, who was in the form oftent adjacent to the house of Gaddafi, who he calls home steadfast. "

According to Maher Ibrahim - a dealer in used cars for - "It is not easy to visit this placeand not more than Qnaatk that the money people to the people."

He adds, "I hope that the fences are removed completely, though I was the best if not the burning and destruction of the inside and turn the place to park."

At the door Azizia There are a number of Libyan families who lived here because they have no homes, and wrote on the wall that the store is dedicated to residential so do notworry about the visitors.
 

Source: Al Jazeera


No comments:

Post a Comment


powered by crawl-it