Gadafi's Sex Slave Speaks Out

A personal account from one of Muammar Gaddafi’s former sex slaves published in the New York Post today sheds even more light on the strange and terrifying lifestyle of Libya’s  former dictator. Soraya was just 15 years old in April 2004  when she was handpicked by Gaddafi to become one of the many sex slaves in his  harem. French journalist Annick Cojean details  Soraya’s life as a sex slave in a new book titled: ‘Gaddafi’s Harem: The Story  of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya’ due out this September from  Grove Press. Soraya was just 15 years old when she met the Gaddafi on a visit to her school, and he hand-picked her to be a sex slave in his harem. Gaddafi made a visit to her school and she was chosen to present him with a bouquet.  ‘You can’t imagine the excitement,’ she said.  ‘To see Gaddafi in person…His face had been known to me since I was born.’ Their first exchange was innocent. Her heart raced as she handed Gaddafi the flowers, knelt and kissed his hand. He tapped her head and then she left. She said she felt like she was on a cloud. But that tap was more meaningful than Soraya could possibly comprehend. That tap meant that Gaddafi had chosen her to be his sex slave. The following day three members of his Amazonian guard – an all-female group – arrived at her mother’s upscale salon and said that Gaddafi wanted to see Soraya. Her mother reluctantly agreed, knowing she didn’t have a choice. Soraya was whisked away in a speeding SUV to a remote outpost where she was taken into a tent to meet the dictator. He didn’t acknowledge her as he surfed the channels on his TV, but commanded the female guards to ‘get her ready.’ This included shaving her down, administering a blood test, measuring her for clothes, and changing her into a G-string and white slip. When she was ready, Soraya was escorted into Gaddafi’s bedroom where he was waiting naked on the bed. ‘Turn around you whore!’ Gaddafi yelled at the young girl. ‘Whore’ would be the only name Soraya was ever called by the dictator. Then he yanked her hair and made her look into his eyes. ‘Don’t be afraid,’ he said. ‘I am your Papa – that’s what you’ll call me, isn’t it? But I am your brother as well, and soon I’ll be your lover. I’ll be all of that to you. Because you’re going to stay here and be with me forever. ‘Soraya was confused. She was told that after she met with the dictator that she could go home. Being so young, she didn’t quite understand what the dictator wanted with her. After that, Soraya was held captive as a sex slave until Gaddafi’s demise.  Along with his many other slaves, she lived in a windowless basement room stuffy with...

mold and sweat. Their single role in life was to fulfill Gaddafi’s sexual appetite, as he would have sex at least four times a day and it had to be with different women each time. This came as quite a shock to Soraya who, like many other Libyans, thought of Gadaffi as a feminist in many ways. After Soraya’s first time with the dictator, she bled for 36 hours straight. In a report published as the revolution, Gaddafi’s chef told The Times of India that many of his sex slaves suffered such serious injuries from intercourse that ‘they went immediately from his bedroom to the hospital.’ Soraya hated the way he ate garlic cloves for breakfast, chain-smoked, got drunk off of Johnnie Walker Black and was constantly high on cocaine. ‘He was repulsive and he was the president of my country,’ Soraya said.After years of sex slavery, she says Gaddafi completely deformed her body. ‘Because they had been pushed, crushed and bitten, my breasts were drooping and very painful,’ she said. ‘[I] had the chest of an old lady.’ One time he urinated on her and another time he raped her right after having sex with a slave infected with hepatitis. In one instance she was brought into his bedroom while he was having sex with a young man while another man dressed like a woman was forced to dance. After he was finished he moved onto Soraya. Eventually Soraya gained some freedoms, like the ability to use a cell phone or take a brief trip home. Many of the sex slaves used these liberties as a way to escape, but most were eventually found and brought back. Years of containment made Soraya relish the freedoms, so she never dared try to leave. ‘The few hours outside the compound gave me such a boost that I never asked any questions,’ Soraya said. ‘I wasn’t even thinking of escaping anymore. I was a long-forgotten girl without any sort of future.’ Then Tripoli fell in August 2011, and two months later Gaddafi was killed. The world was opened up to the atrocities Gaddafi had committed, and the weird lifestyle he kept.