Libya finds collectors with bodies of about 50 migrants, refugees Refugee news

Rights and UN agencies have documented systematic abuse against immigrants and refugees in Libya, including torture, rape and extortion.

The Libyan authorities have revealed nearly 50 bodies of collective wipers in the southeastern desert of the country, in the last tragedy that includes people seeking to reach Europe across the country of North Africa.

The security directorate said in a statement on Sunday that a mass grave was found on Friday at a farm in the southeastern city of Kofra containing 19 bodies. The remains were taken to dissect the body.

Mohamed Al -Fadil, head of the security room in Kofra, said that a second mass grave was found with at least 30 bodies in the city after the authorities raided the migrant detention center.

He added that, according to the survivors’ accounts, nearly 70 people were buried on this site and the authorities were still searching for the area.

Al -Aben, a charitable institution that helps immigrants and refugees in eastern and southern Libya, said that some of the people in the mass graves were killed and killed before their burial.

The mass graves containing the bodies of asylum seekers in Libya, which is the main transportation point for immigrants from Africa and the Middle East in an attempt to reach Europe.

Last year, the authorities discovered the bodies of at least 65 migrants in the Choueivev region, south of Tripoli, the capital.

Human traffickers have benefited from more than a decade from instability, smuggling migrants and refugees throughout the country’s borders with six countries, including Chad, Niger, Sudan, Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia.

For years, rights and UN agencies have documented a methodology of asylum seekers in Libya, including forced work, beating, rape and torture. The abuse often accompanies the efforts to extort the money from families before allowing them to leave Libya on the boats of the travelers.

Those who were intercepted and returned to Libya are being held in the government -run detention centers where they suffer from abuse, including torture, rape and extortion, according to rights and United Nations rights groups.

The country fell into chaos after a NATO uprising that overthrew and killed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. The oil -rich nation was sentenced to most of the past decades by the competing governments in eastern and western Libya, each of which is supported by a group of fighting groups and foreign governments.