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HoR condemns: ‘liquidation’ of LNA war prisoners, injured and Turkish participation in fighting
2019-07-01
[Libya Herald] Libya’s internationally-recognized parliament, the House of Representatives (HoR), condemned what it referred to as the "liquidation" of Libyan National Army (LNA) war injured and prisoners in Gharian.

The condemnation statement released yesterday came in reaction to claims of the "liquidation" of some LNA troops by pro internationally recognized Libyan government forces.

This allegedly took place after the pro Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
forces pushed back the pro Hafter forces from the mountain city of Gharian in a surprise attack.

In its statement, the HoR said it "strongly condemned the cowardly terrorist crime" carried out by the "extremist terrorists" of the Faiez Serraj government for the "liquidation of LNA forces in Gharian hospital" in a move it called "totally removed from humanitarian values".

The HoR also condemned Ottoman Turkish "intervention" and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
’s "declaration of war" on Libya through its participation in the operations of the forces of Evil militias by fighting against the LNA and through its supply of arms and logistical support.

The HoR also noted the "sorry silence" of the UN and international community on the matter.

The HoR said that the support of Turkey and Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
for the bully boy, terrorist militias of Tripoli will not stop it from pursuing and cleansing Libya of terrorism, extremism and the public money-grabbing, people-smuggling militias ‐ as they did in Benghazi, the oilfields, Derna, south Libya and western Libya.

This effort, the HoR statement added, is in pursuit of an honourable life for Libyans and the establishment of security and stability and the re-establishment of the state.

The Faiez Serraj-led Presidency Council and Government of National Accord, meanwhile, has denied the allegation. It said that its Emergency Committee visited Gharian hospital where LNA troops were receiving normal medical treatment.

It accused the Hafter side of fabricating the accusations as a distraction from its heavy defeat in Gharian.

It invited international independent observers to visit Gharian to establish the facts.

It will be recalled that while the HoR accuses the Tripoli government of receiving military and logistic help from Turkey and Qatar, the Khalifa Hafter led forces are also accused of receiving military and logistic help from Egypt and the UAE.

Equally, the LNA forces have also been accused over the years of conduct that falls below "humanitarian values" in its war efforts in Benghazi and Derna.

For example, on 8 May 2019, ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda told the UN Security Council that Libya’s "Failure to arrest and surrender persons against whom warrants of arrest have been issued can result in real harm".
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