At least 163 bodies found in Libya mass grave
Libya: A Libyan committee on missing persons said on Sunday
that it had recovered the bodies of 163 people who were killed in the
2011 conflict that toppled the regime of Moamer Kadhafi. “The discovery
of 163 bodies out of 400 missing from the regions of eastern Libya is an
incredible achievement,” Maher Warfalli of the committee of missing
persons told AFP, without specifying when the grave was found.
Committee chairman Omar Abdelkhalek Obeidi, who is also a forensics
expert, said the bodies had been extracted from a “mass grave” in the
desert town of Bin Jawad, east of Sirte, where Kadhafi was captured and
killed on October 20.
“The bodies belong to rebels who lost their lives between February
and March 2011 in Brega, Ras Lanuf, Bin Jawad and even on the outskirts
of Sirte,” he said.
He added that some of the people showed signs of having been executed
while others had died in combat pitting lightly armed rebels against the
superior military power of forces loyal to Kadhafi.
The exhumation was carried out with the assistance of the United
Nations and in cooperation with the ministry of martyrs, wounded and
missing people, Warfalli said.
AFP
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