tarhuna massgravar

A new body was recovered from a mass grave in the city of Tarhuna, south of the capital Tripoli, Libya Observer reported on Thursday. In March, the Libyan government said it had a list of 3,650 missing people in various Libyan cities, including 350 in Tarhuna, which was a stronghold of Putist general Khalifa Haftar before being defeated and forced to leave the city in June 2020. According to official Libyan sources, Haftar's forces and affiliated militias committed war crimes and genocide during the…

Another nine bodies were found in a new mass grave on Wednesday in Libya's Tarhuna province, which was liberated from forces loyal to Putist general Khalifa Haftar. The General Authority for Research and Identification of Missed Persons said in a statement that the mass grave was discovered in an agricultural area in Tarhuna. Tarhuna, a strategic city about 65 kilometers (41 miles) southeast of the Libyan capital Tripoli, was under the control of the al-Kaniyat militia, which gained a reputation for…