Mohammed Bashir

By Imran Khan in Africa on December 28th, 2011
Rundown and bullet ridden, the Bani Walid neighbourhood looks like many others across the country.

At first glance, the neighbourhood looks like many in Libya: rundown and bullet ridden.

But, as I began to speak to people, I heard a chant that I hadn't heard since before the revolution.

"Muammar wbas", which translates as "Muammar, that's enough". It's a pro-Gaddafi chant, implying that now deceased dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is all Libyans need, or needed. 

The neighbourhood where I heard this slogan was in the city of Bani Walid. It was a stronghold of Gaddafi loyalists that fought hard against the rebels.

On a makeshift football pitch, young men dressed in jeans and flip flops kick a ball around.