Annick Cojean > Quotes

“So many Libyans felt they’d been avenged by this symbolic gesture. Before his appointment with death, the rapist was raped.”
― Annick Cojean, Gaddafi's Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya

“Who would dream of bringing charges against the devil when you are in hell?”
― Annick Cojean, Gaddafi's Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya

“He’s going to open you. From here on in you will be his possession and you’ll never leave him. So stop making that face. It’s no use resisting or wishing things were different—that won’t change anything here!”
― Annick Cojean, Gaddafi's Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya

“موقعی که شما در جهنم هستید ,چگونه میتوانید شیطان را متهم کنید؟”
― Annick Cojean, Gaddafi's Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya

“before the lynching, the bodies, the bullets, the crush, a rebel violently shoved a wooden or metal stick between the buttocks of the fallen dictator, who immediately began to bleed. “Raped!” one of the two women said without an ounce of regret.”
― Annick Cojean, Gaddafi's Harem: The Story of a Young Woman and the Abuses of Power in Libya