Detainees killed by colonial Moammar Qaddafi's forces.

They had opposed his regime.

50 people were shot on.

Their bodies were burned.

I narrowly escaped the same fate.

I have been locked up in this place along with two BBC colleagues.

Good evening.

BBC team in Libya have been jailed and subjected to beatings and mock executions.

Way were held in a secret prison on a military base.

It was run by.

Qaddafi's son.

Feels fighting broke out on Six months later, Gadhafi had been beaten back to his hometown, sir.

After a month of fighting, his convoy was hit by NATO jets.

He was captured alive but was later killed in murky, chaotic circumstances.

In the 10 years since, I've been back to Libya many times on watch with her.

As the country has fallen apart, the rebels split into many factions.

On the most organized off.

These were the Islamists.

It's very sad to look back now.

Ian Martin was the U.

N.

Envoy to the new Libya.

The legacy of Gaddafi was even worse than any of us realized.

The divisions that he had played upon to maintain his own power.

But I think the biggest problem.

The one that has haunted Libya ever since was the inability to deal with the armed groups and the fragmentation in the security sector.

One off these groups attacked the American consulate in Benghazi, killing the ambassador on three U.

S citizens.

By 2013, Tripoli was under the control of Islamists on other militias.

They imposed a low excluding anyone associated with the Gadhafi regime from taking part in the new political scene.

It was a turning point.

Libyans who felt excluded united behind the new leader, General Khalifa Haftar.

I spoke to him in 2015, just before he formed the Libyan National Army.

He took control of eastern Libya on started fighting the extremists in 2019.

At talks in Morocco, the various factions signed a political agreement to form a new government.

Yeah, but four years later, General Haftar launched an offensive to take Tripoli, displacing hundreds of thousands of civilians.

The country descended into full civil war, which rate for over a year.

A ceasefire was agreed in Geneva.

In October, Libya writer Jim Abu Clip was imprisoned for 10 years by the Qaddafi regime.

He has followed the chaos and bloodshed from London I asked him if the toppling of Qaddafi was worth the heavy price his country has paid on a e was damaged by al Qaddafi's regime.

I couldn't see an end.

People were hopeless under his rule.

Despite the current chaos, there's still some hope that we'll get to a reconciliation soon.

10 years on from the uprising, elections are promised for later this year.

Many hope that Libya can finally find peace.