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| Morgue from Al Qathafi Era Discovered In Tripoli Hospital |
| 2011-10-18 |
| [Tripoli Post] On Saturday, NTC fighters reportedly broke into a locked part of Tripoli's central hospital and discovered the remains of 17 people, including a baby, in what staff said was a secret morgue for the former Libyan leader's opponents, Rooters has reported. Officials told Rooters they suspect most of the bodies were the victims of executions that followed an attempted coup against the now runaway former Libyan leader in 1984. But some doctors fear they will never know for sure as the bodies are already in a very advanced state of decomposition and come with no personal belongings or documents. Doctors at the hospital said that the part that was broken into had a separate entrance to the rest of the building and staff were banned from even speaking to the men who carted bodies in and out. "One of the worst people, the man in charge of Abu Salim , controlled around 30-40 cabinets there. We were never informed about the bodies and we never learned who the guards were," Nouri Al Habab, who works at the main hospital morgue, told Rooters. Several of them appeared to have been shot, with what looked like bullet holes in the skulls, and some had been there so long, they had almost mummified yet the morgue was kept scrupulously clean and polished. In its report, Rooters went on to say that a Tripoli pharmacist who was at the morgue but does not work at the hospital, and who did not want to be named, is leading a group trying to identify the bodies of 167 other people killed in one neighbourhood during the battle for Tripoli in August. The pharmacist said that mobile phones play an important role in identifying bodies and finding missing people, because Al Qadaffy ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years... 's soldiers often stole them from people they killed or transferred the balance to their own numbers. Officials claim that many phones confiscated from soldiers after the conflict also contained footage, filmed by members of Al Qadaffy forces, of people being killed. The recordings will be used as evidence against captured loyalists and could help in the search for buried dead. The 167 bodies found after the fighting in Tripoli were later buried. Notices pinned to the wall of the main morgue list numbers corresponding to their graves, and where possible, a photograph and any other information linked to the body. There's no such information, as yet, on the 17 bodies discovered in the secret room. Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow... NTC fighters in Sirte also uncovered the remains of more than two dozen men face down in the dirt and with their hands bound behind them, with their blood-spattered backs riddled by bullet holes. The corpses were discovered last week. According to fighters the men were recent victims of supporters of runaway Libyan Muammar Al Qadaffy, and they were executed by loyalist forces in a paroxysm of Dire Revenge™ and fury as the NTC fighters advanced into the city |
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| #1 Kosovo rides again. |
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