Tripoli, 26 December:
Libya’s postal company set about erasing traces of the former regime yesterday morning by burning millions of stamps bearing Qaddafi’s face or “glorifying his image”, according to a statement on the Ministry of Communications’ Facebook page.
The page said that the company had burned 259,434,634 stamps printed by the former regime at a factory in the Al-Sawani area of Tripoli as part of efforts to rid Libya of “the black baggage that Libyans lived with through 42 years” of Qaddafi’s rule.
Other recent efforts by companies and enterprises to break links to the previous regime include Afriqiyah’s choice of a new logo last week.
Afriqiyah picked the new design after they abandoned the company’s Qaddafi-era logo commemorating the date of the Sirte Declaration on 9 September 1999, which created the Organisation of African Unity. [/restrict]
