21. A Terrible End for a Terrible Tyrant
As Muammar Qaddafi changed in and out of silly uniforms multiple times a day, he was the closest real-life depiction of a James Bond villain. The Libyan dictator’s cartoonish villain look was further enhanced by his all-virgin female bodyguard, who was officially designated the “Revolutionary Nuns”. They were more commonly known as the Amazonian Guard. Beneath the buffoonish look and cuckoo philosophy, however, was a terrible dictator whose regime engaged in repression, torture, murder, and sundry human rights violations.
Among Qaddafi’s less amusing vices was his habit of ordering women, including teenaged girls, kidnapped off the street and taken to one of his many palaces. One of them was imprisoned in his basement for six years. He forced her to watch explicit videos while doing drugs with him, and repeatedly violated her, urinated on her, and subjected her to sundry perversions. He was finally overthrown in popular a revolt in 2011, and went on the run. He was captured by rebels, who tortured Qaddafi before killing him.
