THIRTEEN
You had been exempted from the military training course since you were a professional soldier, but you were obliged to participate in all the other programmes with the rest of the members, the most important of which were the political edification programmes and the regular shifts in the office, in addition to being on guard duty one day every month.
The other members were about to attend a lecture on politics, so you found yourself forced to attend it too. You entered a large hall where a crowd of black shirts were sat in front of a screen. As you looked around, you noticed the incompatibility between the black shirts and the Libyans’ skin colour, most of whom were dark, some of them to the point of being black. You were certain that the founders of the Fascist Party had never
