In Libyan Tripoli, discovered a huge mass grave
At that time there were several thousand political prisoners in the penitentiary. At the end of June, 1996, in one of the prison blocks, prisoners captured a guard and fled from their cells. They protested against inhuman conditions of detention and restrictions on family visits. The administration of Abu Salim entered into negotiations with prisoners, but the very next day the riot was suppressed by force. According to the testimony of the surviving prisoners, the wounded were finished off by the soldiers of the government army who came to the scene of the event. The bodies of the dead were transported in refrigerators in an unknown direction, no one else saw them.
Over the next five years, the authorities of the Libyan Jamahiriya denied the fact of the massacre, and only in 2001, the families of the victims began to receive letters on behalf of the government, which reported on the death of their relatives. The place of burial and the cause of death were not mentioned in them. The fact of massacre of prisoners was recognized by Muammar Gaddafi only in 2004 year. According to medical staff, they intend to identify all the victims with the help of DNA analysis, which may take years.
It is worth noting that this is not the first promulgated "skeleton in the closet" of the colonel. It became known earlier that after taking Sebha, where Muammar Gaddafi was allegedly hiding, the forces of the Transitional National Council discovered several warehouses with weapons, prohibited by world conventions, reminds ITAR-TASS.
"We found weapons that can be attributed to those prohibited by international treaties. Now it is completely under our control. Libyan experts are already working with them, and we are ready to invite foreign specialists before taking any further steps," said PNS head Mustafa Abdel Jalil.
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