Libya mass grave discovered near Misrata

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Source: The Guardian

Whoever buried the five men, discovered in graves a little way outside the Libyan coastal city of Misrata, had a sense of order.

The bodies were buried neatly in a row of shallow sandy scrapes, each wrapped in a green military blanket, the last one of them interred on the stretcher on which he was, in all likelihood, killed.

Someone – no one knows who — had marked the place, leaving a sign next to the grave site saying: "Five dead."

All of them were men, wearing civilian clothes.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/05/libya-mass-grave-misrata

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1. NTC discovers two mass graves containing up to 900 bodies near Tripoli

Last Updated: Wed Oct 05, 2011 23:14 pm (KSA) 20:14 pm (GMT)

By AL ARABIYA WITH AGENCIES
DUBAI AND TRIPOLI

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“Witness testimony has allowed us to uncover two mass graves of victims of the old regime,” Tripoli security chief Naji al-Issawi told a news conference in the Libyan capital.

A mass grave in Gargaresh, on the coast some seven kilometers (four miles) from the center of Tripoli, contained the bodies of about 200 people, Issawi said, thought to have died in the battles surrounding the rebel assault that ousted Muammar Qaddafi.

A second grave in Birasta Milad, a rural area 10 kilometers (six miles) from the city center contained an estimated 700, he added.

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More than a dozen sites have been identified as mass graves since Qaddafi was toppled, including one at the capital’s Abu Salim prison, site of a 1996 massacre of about 1,200 people that became a rallying point against Qaddafi in the early days of the Libyan uprising.

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http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/10/05/170384.html