all while libyans are rejoicing that the colonel is finally gone. abc's jeffrey kaufmann reports from tripoli. >> reporter: libya is free after decades of tyranny and months of bloody revolution, sunday afternoon thiscountry has declared itself liberated. incredible moment. the electric the atmosphere. people telling us they never thought they would live to see libya without gadhafi. but of course all that is possible now that gadhafi loyalists have been vanquished and gadhafi himself is dead. just how he died and how he is being treated in death is a source of comb controversy internationally. but there is no controversy here. people are going to visit his body in a refrigerated meat storage facility in the city. they're not going to pay their respects, they told us, they're going to see with their own eyes that he really is dead. now, with a declaration of liberation, the move towards democracy steps in gear.