CAIRO (AP) – The Libyan authorities discovered nearly 50 organizations of two mass carts in the southeast desert of the country, announced Sunday, in the last tragedy involving people seeking to reach Europe through The North African country struck by chaos.
The first mass grave with 19 bodies was found on Friday in a farm in the southeast town of Kufra, the security department said in a statement, adding that the authorities had taken them for the autopsy.
The authorities have published images on his Facebook page showing police officers and doctors dig into the sand and recover corpses that were wrapped in blankets.
Al-Abreen’s charitable organization, which helps migrants in the east and southern Libya, said that some had apparently been slaughtered before being buried.
A distinct grave of mass, with at least 30 bodies, was also found in Kufra after having descended in a trafficking center of human beings, according to Mohamed al-Fadeil, head of the security chamber in Kufra. The survivors said nearly 70 people had been buried in the grave, he added. The authorities were still looking in the region.
Later Sunday, the authorities said they had released 76 migrants from the traffic center and arrested three people – one Libyan and two foreigners – suspected of holding and torturing migrants. Prosecutors ordered the suspects to remain in detention awaiting investigation.
The massive migrants are not uncommon in Libya. Last year, the authorities found the bodies of At least 65 migrants In the Shuayrif region, 350 kilometers (220 miles) south of the capital, Tripoli.
Libya is the dominant transit point for migrants from Africa and the Middle East who are trying to go to Europe. The country was plunged into chaos following an uprising supported by NATO which overthrew and killed for a long time Autocrat Muammar Gaddafi In 2011. Libya rich in oil was judged for most of the last decade by rival governments in the east and west of Libya, each supported by a range of foreign militias and governments.
Human traffickers have benefited from more than a decade of instability, the smuggling of migrants across the country’s borders with six nations, including Chad, Niger, Egypt of Sudan, Algeria and Tunisia.
Once on the coast, traffickers are packing desperate migrants who are looking for a better life in Europe in poorly equipped rubber boats and other ships for risky trips on the perilous central road of the Mediterranean Sea.
Rights defense groups and United Nations agencies have a systematic abuse of migrants in Libya for years, including forced work, blows, rapes and torture. Abuse often accompanies efforts to extort money from families before migrants were allowed to leave Libya on the ships of traffickers.
Those who have been intercepted and returned to Libya – including women and children – are detained in detention centers managed by the government where they also suffer from violence, including torture, rape and extortion, according to groups Defense of UN rights and experts.
