Dictators must fail

The death of the ousted Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi shows that dictators will always fail in the end, writes the editor in chief of the liberal daily Gazeta Wyborcza, Adam Michnik: "One should never be happy about someone's death, even if he was a tyrant guilty of inflicting suffering on thousands of others. For that reason I feel no joy at the death of Muammar al-Gaddafi. But it does prompt me to reflect on the world we share with dictators. Gaddafi seemed unassailable. He deceived and humiliated the whole world. He terrorised the Libyans with an iron fist and at the same time reached an understanding with the West after years of conflict. ... But he miscalculated. Those under him finally recognised that it was time to say: enough! ... That was a signal to other people living under tyranny: dictators never go unpunished, dictators are not immortal."

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