According to the diary The Libya Observer reported today, the General Authority for Research and Identification of Missing Persons revealed that the three burial mounds were found in areas near the town and one of these had four bodies.
It also pointed out that the exhumation work in two other mass graves will be completed during the next few hours, although it did not provide the number of bodies buried in them.
For its part, prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, of the International Criminal Court (ICC), indicated in June the possible inclusion in its investigations into Libya of the discovery of mass graves in Tarhuna and its surroundings after the withdrawal of opposition forces.
Haftar, with the backing of the authorities based in Tobruk, launched an offensive in April 2019 to take Tripoli militarily, but the government militias repelled it.
Since 2011, the war unleashed by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Arab allies against the government of the assassinated leader Muammar Gaddafi plunged Libya into chaos, leading to institutional duplicity and the persistent struggle for power with an authority present in Tobruk and another in Tripoli.
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