Although Muammar Gaddafi’s government was mostly categorized with numerous war crimes and mass human rights abuses, emails to and from Hilary Clinton during her time as the U.S Secretary of State which were leaked a few years back by Wikileaks revealed that the motive behind his assassination was far from just a humanitarian cause. Before Gaddafi’s death, the Libyan Central Bank which was wholely stated-owned had about 144 tons of gold in its vaults, which Gaddafi planned to use to introduce a gold-backed currency which he believed would have matched up to euro and dollar. However, the western powers saw this as a threat to their primary position in world affairs and aligned forces to take out Gaddafi and his promising plans for Africa which would have forced America and Europe to buy oil and minerals from Africa in the gold backed currency and in turn, given Africa’s economy a fighting chance at independence. Despite his war crimes, Muammar Gaddafi’s plans would have made a historic economic breakthrough for Africa.

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