Tripoli – The Association of Mass Graves Victims in the city of Tarhuna revealed the identification of 12 bodies exhumed last month, from several locations in the city.
According to what the association published on its official page, the families of the victims in the city accuse what is known as the “al-Kani” militia, which controlled the city of Tarhuna in the past years, of committing these crimes amid widespread local and international condemnation, demanding that those involved in it be held accountable.
The Victims Association stated that the 12 bodies, including 6 cases from Tarhuna, 2 from Qasr Bin Ghashir, and the same from Tripoli, and one from Souq Al-Khamis, and the same from Bani Walid.
The association indicated that the corpses whose identities have been identified, including “Faraj Al-Sharif Masoud Al-Tarhouni”, born in 1989, worked for a catering company at Tripoli Airport, and belonged to Qasr Bin Ghashir.
It said that Al-Kani militia kidnapped him in June 2019 from his home, then he was forcibly disappeared until he was found in the mass graves in Tarhuna in mid-October 2021.
The Association of Victims of Mass Graves also revealed that the identity of “Abdul Hakim Muftah Saad Doma”, born in 1976 in the city of Tarhuna, was also identified, and he worked as an employee in the education sector, before he was kidnapped by the Al-Kani militia in August 2019, then he was forcibly disappeared until he was found in the mass graves. Batrouna at the landfill site, on October 4, 2021.
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, had previously expressed his deep astonishment at the large number of mass graves that he had examined in the city of Tarhuna, on the eighth of last month.
When the mayor of Tarhuna municipality quoted “Khan” during his listening to the families of the victims of the cemeteries, that he had not seen such crimes before, and throughout the wars in the world, in reference to the large number of corpses that were found in those cemeteries.
The Public Prosecution in Libya is still investigating these crimes, and is listening to the families of the missing or those whose remains are found in graves, while the so-called “al-Kani” militia is accused of killing hundreds of civilians.
Source: Libyan News Agency