pleading for his life and yet being killed. but i also saw, unlike all the other tapes that we d watched in which the regime was attacking the people, here it was the people attacking the regime. which was very unusual. the video of gadhafi s capture and death shocks the world. it also alters people s perception of the rebels and their revolution. people looked at that and they saw the brutality. but before this, they re being reported on as rebel heroes, these civilians fighting for freedom. and then people see this video, which is very graphic and very disturbing, and it changed the way people viewed them. many of us tried to remind people who gadhafi had done to libyans. not as a way to justify his murder, because it is murder, but as a way of saying remember what gadhafi had been doing to people for 42 years. coming up angry rioters
push police into retreat. and then the protesters came onto our side, and it was amazing, their numbers. nora s footage, like so many of the powerful images that are captured during those first weeks of revolution, ends up on youtube and inspires others in egypt and beyond to join the revolution. i think it was really the most documented event in our lives. just 18 days after it begins egypt s revolution succeeds in pushing hosni mubarak from power when on february 11th, 2011 he resigns. thousands of egyptians celebrate the end of his regime. but for many egyptians the situation does not improve. mubarak is merely replaced by a council of military rulers. and in a few months time
but i also saw, unlike all the other tapes that we d watched in which the regime was attacking the people, here it was the people attacking the regime. which was very unusual. the video of gadhafi s capture and death shocks the world. it also alters people s perception of the rebels and their revolution. people looked at that and they saw the brutality. but before this, they re being reported on as rebel heroes, these civilians fighting for freedom. and then people see this video, which is very graphic and very disturbing, and it changed the way people viewed them. many of us tried to remind people who gadhafi had done to libyans. not as a way to justify his murder, because it is murder, but as a way of saying remember what gadhafi had been doing to people for 42 years. coming up angry rioters
it began with protests, as in many of the arab countries, inspired by egypt and tunisia. people started protesting for more freedom. but the reaction from the gadhafi regime was to shoot protesters, to try and stop these protests with violence. the violence that gadhafi unleashed on them was a violence of another order altogether. we re not talking now mubarak s security forces. we re talking about mercenaries. we re talking about jets. we re talking about tanks. so with the libyan revolution the idea of non-violence had to be laid to rest for the sake of libyans. the war rages for months. in late august 2011 the rebels, with the help of nato forces, gain the upper hand and advance on tripoli, libya s capital. tripoli just fell. within three days they had control of the entire city, which no one had expected. and gadhafi and his whole family
the images of her beating provoke outrage and appear in newspapers around the globe. her story also sparks widespread condemnation of the egyptian military. in the end the ability of ordinary citizens to upload their videos and share them with a global audience is one of the most powerful tools of the arab spring. before we had access to the internet, before we had the ability to upload these videos, you had to somehow be able to gain access to the media, to the regime. and so the people who most benefited from the internet or video are the most marginalized because what it s done for them is it s allowed them to say i count. and when all these is unite together against the regime, that s when you know the revolution succeeds. because for the longest time the regime has worked very hard to tell them you don t count, none of you count, i count. now the people are saying it, and that s why the revolution will succeed. coming up the occupation is here to