Editing Muammar Gaddafi (section)

==Reception and legacy==
{{Main|Reception and legacy of Muammar Gaddafi}}

Supporters praised Gaddafi's administration for the creation of a more equal society through domestic reform.{{sfnm|1a1=Blundy|1a2=Lycett|1y=1987|1p=19|2a1=Kawczynski|2y=2011|2pp=196–200}} They stressed the regime's achievements in combating homelessness, ensuring access to food and safe drinking water, and to dramatic improvements in education.{{sfnm|1a1=Blundy|1a2=Lycett|1y=1987|1p=19|2a1=Kawczynski|2y=2011|2pp=196–200}} Supporters have also applauded achievements in medical care, praising the universal free healthcare provided under the Gaddafist administration, with diseases like [[cholera]] and [[typhoid]] being contained and life expectancy raised.{{sfnm|1a1=Blundy|1a2=Lycett|1y=1987|1p=19|2a1=Kawczynski|2y=2011|2pp=196–200}}

Gaddafi's government's treatment of non-Arab Libyans came in for criticism from human rights activists, with native Berbers, Italian colonists, Jews, refugees, and foreign workers all facing persecution in Gaddafist Libya.{{sfn|Kawczynski|2011|pp=202–203, 209}} Human rights groups also criticized the treatment of migrants, including [[asylum seekers]], who passed through Gaddafi's Libya on their way to Europe.{{sfn|Zoubir|2009|p=409}} During the Civil War, various leftist groups endorsed the anti-Gaddafist rebels—but not the Western military intervention—by arguing that Gaddafi had become an ally of Western imperialism by cooperating with the War on Terror and efforts to block African migration to Europe.{{sfn|Castro|2011|p=309}} Gaddafi was widely perceived as a terrorist, especially in the US and UK.{{sfnm|1a1=Haynes|1y=1990|1p=58|2a1=Boyd-Judson|2y=2005|2p=91}}

===Posthumous assessment===
International reactions to Gaddafi's death were divided.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/10/obama-team-tracks-news-of-gadhafi/1 |title=Obama: Gadhafi Regime Is 'No More' |first=David |last=Jackson |website=USA Today |date=20 October 2011 |access-date=20 October 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111223095732/http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/10/obama-team-tracks-news-of-gadhafi/1 |url-status=live |archive-date=23 December 2011}}</ref> Gaddafi was mourned as a hero by many across sub-Saharan Africa but was widely condemned elsewhere.<ref>{{cite news|last=Kron|first=Josh|title=Many in Sub-Saharan Africa Mourn Qaddafi's Death|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/world/africa/many-in-sub-saharan-africa-mourn-qaddafis-death.html|access-date=29 June 2012|website=The New York Times|date=22 October 2011|url-status=live|archive-date=2 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120102115400/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/world/africa/many-in-sub-saharan-africa-mourn-qaddafis-death.html?_r=1}}</ref>

Following his defeat in the civil war, Gaddafi's system of governance was dismantled and replaced by the interim government of the NTC, which legalized trade unions and freedom of the press.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.libyaherald.com/2012/10/20/on-the-first-anniversary-of-qaddafis-death-is-libya-better-off-a-year-on/ |title=On the First Anniversary of Qaddafi's death&nbsp;– Is Libya Better off a Year On? |first=Sami |last=Zaptia |date=20 October 2012 |newspaper=Libya Herald |access-date=17 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131205013514/http://www.libyaherald.com/2012/10/20/on-the-first-anniversary-of-qaddafis-death-is-libya-better-off-a-year-on/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 December 2013}}</ref> In January 2013, the GNC officially renamed the ''Jamahiriyah'' as the "State of Libya".<ref name="Herald_StateofLibya">{{cite news |first=Sami |last=Zaptia |title=GNC Officially Renames Libya the 'State of Libya'&nbsp;– Until the New Constitution |url=https://www.libyaherald.com/2013/01/09/gnc-officially-renames-libya-the-state-of-libya-until-the-new-constitution/ |access-date=9 January 2013 |website=Libya Herald |date=9 January 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130323183928/https://www.libyaherald.com/2013/01/09/gnc-officially-renames-libya-the-state-of-libya-until-the-new-constitution/ |archive-date=23 March 2013 }}</ref> [[Gaddafi loyalism|Gaddafi loyalists]] then founded a new political party, the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Libya]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Walsh |first=Declan |title=Hijacking Ends Peacefully After Libyan Airliner Lands in Malta |date=23 December 2016 |website=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/23/world/europe/libya-malta-hijack-afriqiyah-airways.html|access-date=22 March 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161223125732/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/23/world/europe/libya-malta-hijack-afriqiyah-airways.html?_r=0 |archive-date=23 December 2016 }}</ref> Led by Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the Popular Front was allowed to participate in the [[Next Libyan general election|future general election]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2018/3/19/gaddafis-son-saif-to-run-for-libya-president|title=In Saif Hands: Gaddafi's Son to Run for Libya President|work=alaraby |publisher=The New Arab|date=19 March 2018|access-date=6 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006154841/https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2018/3/19/gaddafis-son-saif-to-run-for-libya-president|archive-date=6 October 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>