you bet wrong. But yes, I know only as much as reading the guardian, indepedent and al jazeera regularly informs me. I am a little better informed with the syrian and egyptian situations as I have syrian and egyptian friends here in Melbourne, whose families have lived in those regions most of their lives. I am aware that you are from the middle east...have you spent any time in Libya? If so, I would gladly welcome some education on the matter. I am extremely malleable, and open to factual improvement in my opinions on countries I have never visited, let alone lived in. For example, I was carried along on a wave of revolutionary zeal when the egyptian crisis began, having held a rather critical view of mubarak for many moons. However, spouting my stance to my egyptian lady friend, was met with shock and horror and anger. It was incredibly refreshing and illuminating to get a different set of facts straight from the horses mouth...so please, if you have first hand knowledge of Libya, first hand knowledge of the rebel factions, then share and educate.
Mate, I'm Libyan through and through
If you look at UN reports, Libya is second last in terms of freedom of speech, freedom of press etc. Second only to North Korea. Gedaffi has been responsible for the killing of thousands of Libyans even before the revolution. Attempting to create political parties, or any form of opposition to Gedaffi is punished by hanging. In the 70's and 80's Libyan State TV used to air live, public hangings of opposition figures in Tripoli and Benghazi. In fact, we have a member here on these forums whose uncle was hanged live on TV, his only crime and the only accusation leveled against him was that he participated in activities which opposed Gedaffi while in the United States, he didn't die immediately when he was hanged, so one of Gedaffi's loyalists, hanged on his feet and pulled so that he broke his neck. This of course was on Live TV. Of course he was never put on trial.
The biggest crime Gedaffi has committed was the Abu Slim prison massacre in 1996. Abu Slim is a prison that is used to jail political prisoners, most of them are educated people and intellectuals, and of course the majority were never put on trial. In 1996 prisoners protested against the terrible and inhumane circumstances of the prison, they were rounded up in the front yard and were riddled with machine gun bullets, 1300 prisoners died in 3 and a half hours. We have tens of thousands of political prisoners in Libya, who are never put on trial. I personally have a few close relatives that are in jail, and have been in jail for over 10 years, and still have not been put on trial.
In 15 February 2011, the relatives of the victims of Abu Slim massacre, went out on an organized protest asking the government to admit to the crime and to give the bodies of the victims to their families. They were met with live ammunition, courtesy of the Libyan government. 16 February more people came out, not only the victims families, they were met with live ammunition too and there were many deaths. On the 17th of February, thousands came out in the cities of Benghazi, Misrata, Zintan, Tobrok and el Baytha. This time the government was even more ready for them, they used anti aircraft weapons, 14.5mm anti tank weapons to disperse the protesters, in Benghazi alone over 300 died that day. Saif el Islam, Gedaffi's son came out on TV and threatened that he will turn Libya into a blood bath if this continued. This is when the Libyans understood, that the only way this regime would be toppled is by force. So in 18th February, the Libyan rebels started raiding weapon storages, and the conflict became an armed conflict.
Benghazi was liberated in the 22nd of February, many attempts to regain it were unsuccessful. So in March, Gedaffi started using another option, bombardment by air and by sea. Hundred were dying all over Libya, while Gedaffi the mad dog was bombing his own people. Worse thing is, even on live tv, he didn't deny any of this(like the Syrian president would), instead he warned that he will hunt down the opposition and cleanse Libya of them. In mid March, thousands of Gedaffi's forces marched on to Benghazi with heavy weapons, if they got Benghazi back, there was absolutely no doubt that a huge massacre would happen ala the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia. That is when the international community intervened, if the coalition forces had been late only a day or two more, there would have been no doubt that a huge massacre would have happened in Benghazi.