Gaddafi's Revolutionary Committees and Hit Squads

The Revolutionary Committees were Gaddafi’s ruthless tool of terror, not popular democracy. These handpicked squads turned Libya into a surveillance state, spying on citizens, intimidating People’s Congresses, and enforcing ideological purity through mass arrests, extrajudicial killings, and revolutionary courts with no appeal. Acting as vigilante enforcers of the Green Book and Gaddafi’s cult of personality, they crushed dissent until the regime’s final days in 2011. Far from empowering the masses, they delivered fear, tribal favoritism, and totalitarian control. A chilling look at how “people’s power” became dictatorship.