Gaddafi is a rare family name in Libya. The most famous is Colonel Mu'ammar al-Gaddafi who seized power in Libya in a military coup on 1st September 1969 and formed a Revolutionary Command Council to rule the country. On March 2nd 1977 Libya changed its name to the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and declared a "State of the Masses" with a novel form of direct participatory democracy that is outlined in The Green Book, attributed to the authorship of Mu'ammar Gaddafi. On April 15th 1986 Libya was attacked by the British and USA via aerial bombing, that killed hundreds of Libyans in Tripoli and Benghazi, included the adopted baby daughter of Mu'ammar Gaddafi. On June 11th 1988 a Great Green Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms was proclaimed and for a while human rights made some