Tarhuna, 27 Mass graves left behind by the invading forces during the war on Tripoli between 2019 -2020 have been discovered in Tarhuna, the latest was one found in the rubbish site in the city, an official body said.
The General Board for Identification of Missing GBIM said search for mass graves has yielded the discovery of bodies of men and women, in horrific scenes which revealed the ugliness of the war crimes committed in the country.
Hundreds of Libyans were missing as a result of the war crimes in Tarhuna, and southern areas of the capital Tripoli during the period from April 2019 to June 2020, it said.
The Board said the number of bodies retrieved from mass braves in different sites have reached 3560, while the number of specimen taken from their next of kin was 14000 kept in a data base of relatives.
GBIM said, through its chairman Kamal Al Siwei, that it was carrying on with the work assigned to it, including search and information gathering, in a bid to alleviate the suffering of families of the missing, who had to live the agony of being unable to identify their missing loved ones.
It said it was working on a plan to provide technical support to determine locations and identities of missing persons and to determine their destinies.
The UN fact-finding mission said it has got evidence of massacres being committed in Tarhuna between 2016 and 2020.
The Head of the mission Mohamed Ojar said in a press conference on Monday ‘investigations has concluded that parties to the conflict and mercenaries had violated the international humanitarian law by recruiting children to the conflict, and that they had evidence to support these claims.
Ojar said the mission has focused, in its first visit, on Tripoli and its suburbs, and that Benghazi would be the target of the second visit, to complete investigations which would be submitted to the UN Security Council.
Source: Libyan News Agency