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Vladimir Putin expressed his disgust at global media for its graphic coverage of Kaddafi's death.

27 October,2011 03:11 am

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday expressed his disgust at the global media for its graphic coverage of ousted Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafis death.The overwhelming favourite in next years Russian presidential elections told an election campaign meeting that he found the television coverage of Kadhafis death immoral.Almost the entire Kadhafi family was killed. His body was shown on all the world channels. You could not watch without disgust, news agencies quoted Putin as saying.What is that? Putin exclaimed. They show a bloodied man, wounded, still alive but getting beaten to death. And they splash that all over the screen.The comments were Putins first on the death of the Libyan strongman.Disquiet has grown internationally over how Kadhafi met his end after National Transitional Coalition fighters hauled him out of a culvert where he was hiding following NATO air strikes on the convoy in which he had been trying to flee his falling hometown.Mobile phone videos show him still alive at that point.Russia had earlier condemned NATO for using its jets to attack the convoy Kadhafi had attempted to use to break through the National Transitional Council troops that surrounded his home town of Sirte on October 20.