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Ramadhan Al-Aihury Mohammad

Benwair Al-Subaiy

Brief Biography:

Major Ramdhan was born to a wealthy family with the values of those days, and he was one of four brothers and three sisters. Italian fascist captured his grandfather Mohammad Benwair, during The Battle of Algardhabiah, 1915. He was one of thousands of Libyans taken prisoners to Italy, and whose whereabouts are not known.

During the Fascists’ besiege of the city of Baniwalid, the last stronghold of the Libyan resistance of the western part of our beloved country, his family fled the advancement of the cruel Italian forces and its African mercenaries. His aunt, Salima, was five years old when she was lost in the desert and killed by wild animals.  His grandmother was left alone in a very difficult time to raise her son, the one-year-old Al-Aihury.

After he graduated from The Military Academy, Ramadhan joined the Artillery and Missile Section in the Libyan Armed Forces, founded and led by the late Colonel Muftah Garroum Al-Warfally, a distinguished Libyan Officer. In those chaotic days in Libyan history, the young Ramadhan was the head of his family business and found himself in contact with oppressed Libyan business and intellectual groups. According to his friends, he was very sharp and hardworking with clear objectives in his life. He was also very proud of himself, but open minded for others’ views. By the late seventies Gaddafi’s grip suffocated the nation by crippling the economy and by banning free enterprise without a clear vision or proper economic plan in place. The Gaddafi sharpened his teeth and claws and murdered scores of Libyan citizens abroad and at home for no reason.

The nation lost the cream of its finest children, who were selfless and whose only crime was the love of their country and the refusal to be Shahed Al-Zoor, while this Gaddafi uses its great people as experiments for his sick mind.

In 1992, Major Ramadhan joined a group of civilian and military personnel of Libyans and tried to stage a coup d’etat to topple Gaddafi and his destructive regime. They contacted a Libyan exile group, for political guidance and cover, and that proved to be a fatal mistake. The names of Ramadhan and his comrades were passed away to Gaddafi and his killing machine. Ramadhan was arrested on October 13^th, 1993 with hundreds of Libyan citizens and was murdered by Gaddafi’s firing squad alongside seven others on January 2^nd, 1997. Ramadhan left behind six young children to be raised by their grieving mother as orphans in the same way their great grandmother raised Al-Aihry after his father was killed by the other Fascists, the Italians, and 85 years ago.

Four years later, Gaddafi’s henchmen executed Ramadan’s internally exiled brother, El-Barouni Al-Aihuri, a 43-year-old teacher, on February 2001.  Rahima-Allahu Ramadhan and all the Libyan martyrs who died for the love of Libya during the darkest days of Libyan history, under the both fascists, Gaddafi and Mussolini.

Saleh Mansour