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UN PROBING REPORTED MASS GRAVE ON LIBYA-TUNISIA BORDER

By Emma Farge
July 9, 20247:09 PM GMT+2Updated 5 months ago
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 * Second mass grave found in Libyan desert
 * UN rights chief denounces abuses against migrants
 * Libyan justice minister defends its record
 * Investigation on Libya expired in 2023

GENEVA, July 9 (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights chief said on Tuesday that his
office was following up on reports of a mass grave in the desert along the
Libya-Tunisia border, after the bodies of at least 65 migrants were found at
another site this year.
Volker Turk denounced widespread violations against migrants and refugees in
Libya, which straddles a dangerous transit route through the Sahara Desert and
across the southern Mediterranean.
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Abuses against migrants were being "perpetrated at scale, with impunity" by both
state and non-state actors, Turk said, listing crimes including human
trafficking, torture, forced labour, extortion, starvation, detention and mass
expulsions.
"I urge the authorities to respond swiftly to our inquiries, and to investigate
these crimes fully," he told the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva in a speech
addressing Libya's record over the last year, where he noted "disturbing
developments".
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He gave no further details of the mass grave. A spokesperson at Turk's office
said: "We have not received information from the authorities but we are
continuing to follow up on this."
In March, at least 65 bodies of migrants were discovered at a mass grave site in
southwest Libya's al-Jahriya valley about 420 km (260 miles) south of Tripoli,
the U.N.'s International Organization for Migration said.

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Libya's Justice Minister Halima Ibrahim Abdulrahman stressed her country's
commitment to human rights and did not respond directly to Turk's comments on
the mass graves.
"Libya gives special importance to the rights of refugees," she told the
council, adding that some of Turk's points were "not in line with reality".
Tunisia's ambassador Sabri Bachtobji did not address Turk's findings in his
address.

Libya and Tunisia are vital partners in the European Union's efforts to stem the
flow of migrants across the Mediterranean from North Africa into southern
Europe.
A U.N. fact-finding mission on Libya has previously found grounds to believe
crimes against humanity such as torture have been committed against migrants.
The mission expired last year, however, Gambia has filed a motion at the ongoing
council meeting to provide assistance to help Libya improve its human-rights
record, a U.N. document showed.

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Additional reporting by Tarek Amara in Tunis and Ahmed Elumami in Tripoli;
editing by Matthias Williams, Mark Heinrich and Rod Nickel

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Emma Farge

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Emma Farge reports on the U.N. beat and Swiss news from Geneva since 2019. She
has produced a string of exclusives on diplomacy, the environment and global
trade and covered Switzerland’s first war crimes trial. Her Reuters career
started in 2009 covering oil swaps from London and she has since written about
the West African Ebola outbreak, embedded with U.N. troops in north Mali and was
the first reporter to enter deposed Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh’s estate. She
co-authored a winning story for the Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize on Russia’s
diplomatic isolation in 2022 and was also part of a team of journalists
nominated in 2012 as Pulitzer finalists in the international reporting category
for coverage of the Libyan revolution. She holds a BA from Oxford University
(First) and an MSc from the LSE in International Relations. She is currently on
the board of the press association for UN correspondents in Geneva (ACANU).

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