Gaddafi’s fate - Make him face a court

EVERY revolution has its casualties and the fate of deposed tyrants may not always be a priority for those who deposed them.

After the Russian revolution the ruling Romanovs, on the orders of Lenin and Sverdlov, met a grim fate in Yekaterinburg. Their executions fuelled royalist wishful thinking for generations and the legend of a single survivor kept hopes of a new monarchy alive amongst their supporters.

One of the most enduring images of the Second World War are the bodies of Italian dictator Mussolini and his mistress swinging from a street lamp.