\n The International Criminal Court's (ICC) chief prosecutor has met families of victims of alleged killings by a notorious militia at the site of mass graves in western Libya.\n<\/p>\n
\n Near the town of Tarhuna, southeast of Tripoli, Karim Khan inspected mass graves on Monday at a landfill and a local farm where dozens of bodies have been discovered since the summer of 2020.\n<\/p>\n
\n Khan later told victims' relatives of \"his commitment to accelerate work in the Libya situation\", the ICC said Tuesday on Twitter.\n<\/p>\n
\n Khan arrived in Tripoli on Saturday and is the first ICC prosecutor to visit Libya in a decade.\n<\/p>\n
\n The visit included talks with several Libyan officials, including Presidential Council head Mohamed el-Manfi, Justice Minister Halima Ibrahim and the military prosecutor.\n<\/p>\n
\n On Wednesday, Khan is scheduled to brief the UN Security Council on the situation in Libya, the ICC said.\n<\/p>\n
\n More than 270 bodies have so far been discovered in mass graves around Tarhuna by international teams.\n<\/p>\n
\n The first mass graves were discovered in June 2020, following the withdrawal of forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar, a strongman from eastern Libya who led an abortive campaign to capture the capital Tripoli between April 2019 and June 2020.\n<\/p>\n
\n But the abuses began in 2015 when the town fell into the hands of a particularly violent local militia, known as the Kaniyat.\n<\/p>\n
\n The ICC has a long history of investigating crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Libya, as well as human rights violations suffered by migrants.\n<\/p>\n
\n Before taking over as the ICC's lead prosecutor, Karim Khan defended Seif al-Islam Kadhafi, son of slain dictator Moamer Kadhafi, whose arrest the ICC is seeking for \"crimes against humanity\".\n<\/p>\n
\n Libya descended into chaos following the NATO-backed revolt that brought down Kadhafi's regime in 2011 -- with rival administrations based in east and west and a myriad of armed militias and foreign mercenaries scattered across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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