NEW MASS GRAVE DISCOVERED IN LIBYA’S TARHUNA

Sun 08 August 2021:

On Sunday, Libyan officials excavated ten dead bodies from a mass grave in Tarhuna, a city south of Tripoli, Anadolu Agency reported.

According to Lutfi Tawfiq, director of the General Authority for Research and Identification of Missing Persons, the mass burial was discovered on Saturday in a large agricultural region known as Mashrou’ Alrabet in the city.

He said the grave is the second to have been discovered in the city in the past 10 days.

In March, the authority said it has lists of 3,650 missing persons in different Libyan cities, including 350 in Tarhuna, which was a stronghold for Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar before being defeated and forced to leave the city in June 2020.

According to Libyan official sources, Haftar’s forces and affiliated militias committed war crimes and acts of genocide in the period between April 2019 and June 2020.

On March 16, a new transitional unity government headed by Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh was approved to lead the country to elections this December.

Libyans hope that the move will end years of civil war that have engulfed the country since the ouster and killing of strongman Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

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