Huda the Hang Woman Arrested



Huda Ben Amer
(Tripoli, Libya) Revolutionaries arrested one of Gaddafi's ruthless favorites on Friday. Huda Ben Amer, 57, is known as "the executioner" and "the vampire."

“If the revolution fails, Huda ben Amer will hang all of us,” one of the revolutionaries said on television, referring to one of the most formidable members of the Qaddafi regime, a woman who had for 27 years been considered one of the main participants in the Libyan leader’s atrocities against his people.

Amer, whose house in Benghazi was burned down a week after the start of the February 17 Revolution, was known for her role in several hangings of Qaddafi opponents, which is why she is known as “Huda al-Shannaga,” which literally translates to “Huda the hang woman.”

In her early twenties, Amer started earning her fame as Libya’s monstrous executioner when she took part in the violent clampdowns on dissident students, which began in 1972 and ended in 1985.

As a favorite of Gaddafi, Ben Amer became one of the richest and most powerful women in Libya. Arguably, Ben Amer is the poster girl for unmitigated evil, reportedly once assembling a stadium full of schoolchildren to witness the hanging of a political foe of Gaddafi.

Companion post at The Jawa Report.