0:00:03.738,0:00:08.147 What connects the town of Ainata to Tripoli of the West? 0:00:08.732,0:00:21.418 In this small town, a woman called Aziza was once one of Gaddafi's bodyguards. 0:00:25.751,0:00:36.389 Aziza Ibrahim comes to us bearing only her memories. 17 years following her return from Libya 0:00:36.389,0:00:42.167 the "revolutionary nun" as Gaddafi calls his bodyguards 0:00:42.167,0:00:47.114 decided to speak out about being one of these women. 0:00:47.276,0:00:56.633 She has no photos or evidence, but we have to believe her, because she knows more than she should. 0:00:56.633,0:01:05.148 "If you want to be a bodyguard, you don't marry, because he calls them nuns and nuns don't marry." 0:01:06.656,0:01:14.483 "Secondly, she has to have a strong personality, have no need for her family." 0:01:19.720,0:01:22.100 "She might have to kill her family." 0:01:22.201,0:01:28.149 "One guard for example, Jamile Gurnan, she used to terrify us, 0:01:28.386,0:01:35.156 she killed his cousin Hassan Shkal, Shkal are also Qaddadfa (of his tribe)." 0:01:35.302,0:01:38.963 "He raised his voice against Muammar in a discussion 0:01:38.963,0:01:45.264 in front of us all, as soon as he raised his voice, she shot him, in front of Muammar." 0:01:47.090,0:01:58.515 In 1982, after the Israeli invasion of Beirut, Aziza travelled to Libya with a Nasserite student group 0:01:58.515,0:02:04.784 As events turned out, she met Muammar, and accompanied him in his first visit to China 0:02:04.784,0:02:09.521 as one of his chosen guards. 0:02:09.521,0:02:22.292 "The real guards who are with him, if you notice, some are black and have a certain rank, and the other ten or so 0:02:22.292,0:02:32.462 were there to give the appearance that all his guards are women. That women guard him not men 0:02:32.462,0:02:40.543 This is intended to lift women's standing, to show he believes women are equal to men 0:02:40.543,0:02:46.626 Equal in all duties and rights. As he said in his Green Book, "the woman is female and the man is male." 0:02:46.626,0:02:49.041 [Laughs.] That's the only difference between them. 0:02:49.041,0:02:51.767 "And the woman bears children and the man doesn't." 0:02:51.859,0:02:53.131 This is in the Green Book, the social section. 0:02:53.623,0:02:59.834 One day, the Popular Commitee took Aziza and other bodyguards and students 0:02:59.834,0:03:04.622 to a university campus where Gaddafi was giving a speech. 0:03:04.622,0:03:08.334 What happened there couldn't be imagined. 0:03:08.334,0:03:11.123 "They brought in the students they wanted to hang." 0:03:11.123,0:03:16.139 "One was from law school, his accusation was that he called someone he knew in Iraq." 0:03:16.139,0:03:24.777 "Another was an economics student. They were four hanged altogether." 0:03:24.777,0:03:39.127 "The first person, he didn't die. They pulled on his legs till he died, and I was sat there frozen." 0:03:39.127,0:03:54.777 "At 2 am they came to us and said you need to go to the sport stadium. They took us to the winter arena." 0:03:54.777,0:04:00.953 "He executed 17 people, students, shooting not hanging." 0:04:00.953,0:04:07.780 "17, in front of us, in this gym so the sound was amplified." 0:04:07.780,0:04:11.449 "You weren't allowed to scream. You had to chant." 0:04:11.449,0:04:18.136 "These are traitors. One of them, he wasn't even the traitor, his cousin was a defected pilot." 0:04:18.136,0:04:20.500 "They couldn't arrest his cousin so they took him instead." 0:04:20.500,0:04:29.607 Aziza watches the man she used to guard face the end of his rule and wishes he would die 0:04:29.607,9:59:59.000 She says if she was still his bodyguard, she would have killed him herself.