Reply #92: The Epic Martyr Sadeq Hamed Shwehdi ! [View All]

[tabatha]

Thomas Eliot once said: “There are some things about which nothing can be said and before which we dare not keep silent.’’ When I decided to write a piece about the martyr Sadiq Hamed Shwehdi, I didn’t know how to start it because it hurts in every level. Sadeq wasn’t one of the thousands heroes who got the chance to fight for freedom in Libya or to smell freedom Libya; he didn’t get the chance to even start a life in Libya. Sadeq Shwehdi was more than a martyr or a hero. Sadeq Shwehdi was an epic martyr who does not need a sculptured marble to his memory or engraved stone to bear record of his deeds, for his remembrance will be as lasting as the land he honored- Libya. Sadeq Shwehdi dreamt about the 17Feb Libyan revolution long since 1984, but death was much closer to him than to his dream. Many if not all know about the notorious execution of Sadeq Hamed Shwehdi in April 1984 in Benghazi in front of thousands of students who were bussed into Benghazi’s basketball stadium to witness a frightening hanging of a young man with curly hair and beard kneeling with his hands bound behind his back, his legs crossed and his eyes echoing sadness and fear of what is to come. Sadeq pled for his life and then when he felt his execution is inevitable, he kept begging Gaddafi’s thugs to see his mother for the last time but his request was coldly denied.

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