The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, will brief the UN Security Council on the situation in Libya on Wednesday from Tripoli, where he has been on an official trip since Monday.
Khan went as part of his visit to investigate war crimes in the country, along with the mayor of Tarhuna, to a landfill site in the town 80 kilometers southeast of the capital, Tripoli, to visit a mass grave with more than 50 bodies.
Since the liberation of Tarhuna in June 2020, the commission for the Search and Identification of Missing Persons has discovered hundreds of mass graves left by the Kaniyat militia, an ally of Khalifa Haftar’s forces, but only some of those victims have been identified and received by their families.
«Prosecutor Khan expressed his appreciation to the Prosecutor General for supporting his visit to the site and underlined the OTP’s commitment to support the forensic activities conducted by the Libyan authorities, in accordance with the Rome Statute,» the ICC’s official account said in a message on Twitter.
On the second day of his official visit to Libya, the ICC prosecutor met with Abdoulaye Bathily, special representative for Libya of UN Secretary General António Guterres, as reported by ‘The Libya Observer’.
