A leading member of the Socialist Forum and managing editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr has reacted angrily to the death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi who was killed on Monday by Transitional Forces in Sirte, Libya. Kwesi Pratt says,“killing any head of state, whether he is a dictator or a democrat; what NATO has done is appalling, it’s disgraceful and needs to be condemned in the strongest possible terms. This is an assassination, this is illegal and this is an act of terrorism…” After some heavy gunfire exchanges and bombardment in Sirte, transitional forces are said to have captured the former despot who was hiding in a hole. Video footage on Aljazeera, BBC and CNN clearly show Transitional Forces manhandling the sexagenarian, with some media organisations claiming that he begged for his life. The CNN reports that Gaddafi was killed in a cross fire between his forces and the transitional forces, but the Transitional Prime Minister of Libya, Mahmoud Jibril, stated that when Gadhafi was captured, he was alive and unarmed. There is no clear indications as to how he died even though he is believed to have been killed by the transitional forces after he was smoked out of the hole. But speaking on Multi TV’s PM: Epxress programme on Thursday evening, Kwesi Pratt described the NATO-backed war against Gaddafi as a disgrace to the continent. He said “without the intervention of NATO, no force in Libya could have overthrown Gaddafi, let alone assassinate him. The rebels have been successful primarily because of the support they have received from NATO and that says something about the support that he has within Libya…” Asked whether this will mark a turning point in the lives of Libyans, Kwesi Pratt stressed that this will be no different from what has happened in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, where the legacy of an ill-intentioned war still plagues the people and the Americans. Touching on the memory of Gaddafi, Kwesi Pratt intimated that “Gaddafi was an enigmatic figure. He was full of contradictions. He opposed the monarchy; he overthrew the monarchy, and gained respect for that: and then he sought to become a [monarch],” adding, “Gaddafi will also be remembered as a person who worked hard to uplift the living standards of the Libyan people.” He said the creation of a man-made river and other social interventions have changed the lives of Libyans and these are can be attributed to Gaddafi's hard work. At the moment, the man who said he will die martyr before fleeing Libya seems to have gotten his wish.