BENGHAZI - Tens of thousands of people gathered Friday in the Tahrir Square in downtown Benghazi, an eastern city where the upheaval against the country's former leader Muammar Gaddafi first started one year ago, to celebrate the victory of their "revolution" with expectations for improved living conditions and a better future for the country.

The gathering began Friday afternoon with thousands of people marching to the square. Chanting slogans and singing songs, the participants expressed hopes that their life will be improved and the rule of law would be established in the war-torn country.

Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Rahim Al-Keab, who also attended the occasion, pledged in a speech that the new government would take care of those who got wounded in the conflicts, pay attention to families of the victims, prosecute "fugitives from the ousted former regime," and "continue to entrench the principles of transparency and build state institutions and the law."

He called on Libyans to stick to the principles of diversity and plurality, and to continue dialogues as the means to build a state of law and democracy.

However, some analysts pointed out that the new Libyan authorities are facing a number of challenges in restoring order to the country, such as the spread of weapons, conflicts among factions and tribes, and the growing security problems at the borders.

Moataz Nice, a veteran journalist in Libya, told Xinhua that the revolution had only dealt with problems at "the moral level," while many issues were yet to be tackled.

A Libyan political activist named Khalid's Andar told Xinhua that he hoped the government would improve the education and health systems, speed up reconstruction, and bring back people with expertise who were displaced from the country during the past years.