Libyans interviewed by Reuters on Tuesday say they're eager to consign Gaddafi to history, no matter how he died.

With every car that drives along the coast road, every tea served in a cafe and every child who toddles down its streets with no knowledge of the huge figure who has just been buried, Tripoli is doing its best to put Gaddafi and his legacy well behind it.

"Throw him in a hole, throw him in the sea, throw him in garbage. No matter," Ali Azzarog, a 47-year-old engineer, said near the port, where ships' horns earlier blared their approval of the news.

"He is lower than a donkey or a dog and only foreigners say that they care about how we killed him. And they are lying."