UN rights mission finds ‘probable’ mass graves in Libya
By Reuters
10 July 2022 |
7:27 am
A U.N.-appointed mission to Libya said on Monday (July 4) 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, and it urged Tripoli to keep searching.
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