This archive report was first published on 24 June 2020.
On June 10, a team of experts from the Libyan General Authority for Research and Identification of Missing Persons discovered four mass graves in Tarhuna that had been tampered with by unidentified individuals.
According to Lutfi Al-Misurati, director of the Department of Search for Remains, 10 bodies were recovered from one of the sites.
"On June 10, a team of experts was present with all its logistical and technical equipment and found four sites that had been tampered with by unidentified individuals. 10 bodies were recovered from this site," Al-Misurati told Xinhua.
The discovery was made in the city of Tarhuna, which is located about 90 kilometers south of Tripoli, the capital of Libya.
Libya's eastern-based army and the UN-backed government were engaged in a deadly armed conflict for more than a year in and around the capital Tripoli, which ended recently with the UN-backed government announcing the withdrawal of the rival eastern-based army.
Tarhuna was the eastern-based army's main military operations center before it was taken over by the UN-backed government.
