The Tripoli based Libya Ministry of Interior of the Abd Alhamid Aldabaiba government announced yesterday the discovery of 9 unidentified bodies and a bag of body parts kept, according to the Ministry, by the Stability Support Agency militia (SSA) in the mortuary refrigerators at Abusleem’s Al-Khadra Hospital.
The hospital was under the control of the SSA militia. The SSA’s former 2011 civil war warlord militia leader, Abdelghani Ghnewa Al-Kikly, was killed in contested circumstances last week during or after a meeting with Aldabaiba security commanders.
His death triggered a series of events, including the disbanding of the SSA, the takeover of its bases, militia clashes with government security forces and violent, fatal demonstrations. There was an attempt to bring down the Aldabaiba government.
The Interior Ministry confirmed the initiation of procedures with the Public Prosecutors after, it reported, it had received several reports regarding these bodies.
The SSA replies
The demobilised SSA, still in control of its social media accounts, posted after the corpses’ revelation, that these corpses – totalling 45 between Al-Khadra and Abusaleem Hospitals – are those of mercenaries killed that were being used by Khalifa Hafter during his war on Tripoli.
.
