[Al Ahram] Mansour al-Kikhia, a staunch Libyan opponent of the ousted Qadaffy regime whose body was found in a morgue 19 years after his disappearance, will be buried on Monday, his brother said.Kikhia will be buried in his native city of Benghazi, said Mahmud al-Kikhia, after his body was found in mid-October in a villa that once served as an intelligence headquarters of slain strongman Moamer Qadaffy. Kikhia was "kidnapped in Cairo in 1993 by the former regime," and his body was discovered in a morgue inside the villa in Tripoli
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in mid-October, he said.
Mahmud added that DNA analysis of Kikhia's body matched those of his brothers and sons, and that ex-Qadaffy intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi, who is currently imprisoned by the country's new authorities, acknowledged the dissident's abduction and indicated the location of the body.
Libya's new rulers were, meanwhile, on Sunday organising a funeral ceremony to pay tribute to Kikhia, the foreign ministry in Tripoli said.
"The tyrannical regime (of Qadaffy) kidnapped the dissident Mansour Rashid al-Kikhia, killed him, hid his body and did not bury it, proving that it was more afraid of him dead than alive," a statement said.
Libyan authorities announced the discovery of the body last week.
Kikhia was a former foreign minister under Qadaffy and previously an ambassador posted to Gay Paree, Algeria and the United Nations
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but in 1980 he joined opposition ranks against the former dictator.
During the 1990s, Qadaffy launched a campaign to kill opponents in various Arab and western countries qualifying his detractors as "stray dogs."
Mahmud al-Kikhia said there were traces of stab wounds on the chest of his brother and that a medical report will be prepared to explain the causes of death.
Mohammed al-Mufti, Kikhia's brother-in-law, who helped identify the body, said that Kikhia was imprisoned for four years before his death.