New Mass Grave Found in South Libya may Go Back to 1987
9/8/2013 8:35:48 AM
A mass grave holds at least 500 bodies has been found in southern Libya at Al-Sarra air base over a thousand kms south of Tripoli, a local council official in Kufra city told the Libyan news agency.
Ali Abou Raqeeq said the mass grave found a few days ago and it could belong to Libyan soldiers who had been killed in the Libya-Char war in 1987, during the regime of dictator Gaddafi.
Abou Raqeeq said there are more mass graves at Wadi Addoum area for other Libyan soldiers who probably were surrounded at the time by the Chadian army for three days.
The Dead dictator Muammer Gaddafi denied in the eighties that there was a war between Libya and Chad telling the Libyan people in his speeches that reports in the media about it were pure lies.
In the so-called ‘Toyota War’ that started in January of 1987, the Chadian forces that were support by Libya in the civil war were crushed and Gaddafi was forced to evacuate northern Chad and abandon the Libyan-built Ouadi Doum air base losing hundreds of Libyan soldiers’ lives in the process.
In 5 September, the Chadian army lead by Hussain Habre succeeded to invade the key Libyan air base, Maaten al-Sarra, inside Libyan borders in which a large number of Libyan soldiers were massacred.
Ali Abou Raqeeq said the mass grave found a few days ago and it could belong to Libyan soldiers who had been killed in the Libya-Char war in 1987, during the regime of dictator Gaddafi.
Abou Raqeeq said there are more mass graves at Wadi Addoum area for other Libyan soldiers who probably were surrounded at the time by the Chadian army for three days.
The Dead dictator Muammer Gaddafi denied in the eighties that there was a war between Libya and Chad telling the Libyan people in his speeches that reports in the media about it were pure lies.
In the so-called ‘Toyota War’ that started in January of 1987, the Chadian forces that were support by Libya in the civil war were crushed and Gaddafi was forced to evacuate northern Chad and abandon the Libyan-built Ouadi Doum air base losing hundreds of Libyan soldiers’ lives in the process.
In 5 September, the Chadian army lead by Hussain Habre succeeded to invade the key Libyan air base, Maaten al-Sarra, inside Libyan borders in which a large number of Libyan soldiers were massacred.