Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of Lybian dictator Muammar Gaddafi, has come out of hiding after vanishing six years ago and announced his intention to re-enter politics and take back control of Libya. Before his father's death in 2011 at the hands of of militia, Gaddafi was the presumed successor to rule Libya. Saif al-Islam is the second sun of dictator Muammar Gaddafi who ruled Libya with an iron fist from 1969 to his brutal death in 2011. He was found in southern Libya after his father's regime had collapses, and held prisoner by a militia group in Zintan city. However, the militia group refused to hand him over to the ICC in The Hague, which has indicted him for war crimes allegedly committed during the civil war.

Source: The Nation July 31, 2021 11:03 UTC