Pro-democracy campaigners said they believed Gaddafi would head to the southern town of Sebha, where he grew up and which he turned into a stronghold, to make his last stand. “Sebha is Gaddafi’s ancestral home, the place he was brought up and where the people will always be loyal to him,” said one. “If he is there, then there will be a bloodbath because his allies will fight to the last man to defend him.”