Seven unidentified bodies have been discovered in Tarhouna, where dozens of mass graves have been uncovered since the summer of 2020, the Libyan authority in charge of the missing announced on Monday.
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement that accountability efforts for the killings, enforced disappearances, and acts of torture that occurred in Tarhouna and other areas south of Tripoli – during the attack on the capital by Khalifa Haftar’s forces in April of 2019 – should be expedited.
The General Authority for the Search and Identification of Missing Persons has announced the discovery of a new mass grave in the in Mashru’a Al-Ziraai area, in Tarhuna city.
A United Nations-appointed mission to Libya has said there are “probable mass graves” yet to be investigated, possibly as many as 100, in a town where hundreds of bodies have already been found.
Two men suspected of committing Kidnapping and murder in the western city of Tarhuna are in the army’s hands, the 444 Brigade of the Libyan Army said on Wednesday.
The Brigade 444 of the Defence Ministry said Monday it has arrested a man it believes is involved in the killing and kidnapping of several victims that ended up in the mass graves in Tarhuna.
The Libyan army has hunted down members of the pro-Haftar Kaniyat militia accused of committing human rights abuses in the western town of Tarhuna.
The 444th Brigade has arrested Mohamed Abdel Hakim Haniyeh, nicknamed, The “Drama,” wanted for his alleged involvement in the mass graves of Tarhouna.
The General Authority for the Search and Identification of Missing Persons has revealed that 278 bodies were recovered from mass graves and individual graves in the city of Tarhuna during the year of 2021, 109 of which were identified after conducting DNA tests.
Authorities in Libya’s Tarhuna are planning to reactivate a criminal case regarding mass graves found in the northwestern town last year and bring perpetrators to justice.
