By Ashraf Abdul-Wahab.
Tripoli, 13 September 2013:
A group of young people from the area around Bir-Lashha, east of Tobruk, have completed maintenance . . .[restrict]work on a memorial in the cave reputed to be the birthplace of the celebrated Libyan resistance leader Omar Mukhtar. The head of the committee organising the ceremonies marking the anniversary of the execution of Omar Mukhtar, Mohamed Gharib, said that some acts of vandalism of the memorial and the cave had been perpetrated over the past year but that the damaged had been repaired and the site was now being maintained.
Thursday, 11 September, was the 82nd anniversary of Omar Mukhtar’s arrest by the Italians. He was executed on 16 September 1931. This year, on 19 September, the committee is organising a concert to commemorate the anniversary of Omar Mukhtar’s death and it will be attended by several members of Congress and the government.
The guest of honor will be Omar Mukhtar’s 92-year-old son, Hajji Mohamed Omar Mukhtar.
