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2021-01-24 Africa North
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10 More Bodies Found in Libya Mass Grave
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[AnNahar] Forensics teams in war-shattered Libya have discovered 10 more bodies in mass graves in a once militia-controlled town outside the capital Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
, the Government of National Accord said on Thursday.
"Three bodies were blindfolded and their wrists bound," the GNA's interior ministry said in a Facebook post on the latest grisly find at Tarhuna, 80 kilometers (50 miles) southeast of Tripoli.
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The mass graves were first discovered last June. Since then more than 120 bodies have been exhumed there, including women and kiddies, following the latest finds.
The discovery last June came a day after the withdrawal of forces loyal to eastern Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly...
from the town.
Haftar had used Tarhuna as the main staging point for an ultimately failed attempt
...Curses! Foiled again! ...
to seize the capital in a military offensive launched in April 2019.
New York-based Human Rights Watch has said more than 300 people had been kidnapped or reported missing in the past in Tarhuna, which is now back under GNA control.
Residents had reported that the local al-Kani militia had "often kidnapped, detained, tortured, killed and disappeared people," said the rights watchdog.
Libya has been wracked by violence since a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
-backed uprising toppled and killed longtime dictator Muammar Qadaffy
...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest...
in 2011.
The conflict pitted the GNA, recognized by the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
and backed by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
 ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
, against the eastern-based administration of Haftar, supported by Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Russia.
A ceasefire was signed in October, and the rival camps have since agreed to a U.N.-sponsored political dialogue, with presidential and legislative elections scheduled for later this year. 
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