After decades of Qaddafi's bizarre and repressive rule, key institutions — to the extent that they operate at all — are largely incapable of meeting ordinary people's needs.

在卡扎菲荒诞，高压式的的数十年的统治之后，利比亚重要的职能机构，这些机构在一定程度上掌管国家一切，在很大范围内已经无法满足普通民众的需要。

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The revolution was meant to end a repressive rule.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

The U.S. has been a prime mover in urging Mr. Thein Sein, who became an elected head of state in 2011, to introduce reforms after five decades of repressive military rule.

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