Mass graves

Mass graves

Soon after our  Freedom fighters liberated Libya city by city  we started to hear of  the shocking discoveries of mass graves  being discovered all over the country. Libyans all over the country watched in horror as mass grave sites were exhumed one grave after another. All that was left of once cherished persons was a pitiful stack of bones and partially decayed clothing.

It seems that during Gaddfai’s reign of terror he has littered the whole country with these mass graves and what is so sad that Libya does not have the DNA testing technology needed to identify these remains and also the absence of a data base of missing persons, though some Libyan youth groups have started to build a missing persons data base,  but it’s a daunting task ,knowing how brutal the regime was this list will stretch out to include hundreds of thousands.

This tragedy unfolding before us should outline the plight of the families of the missing especially the mothers and wives who may be still hoping against the odds that their loved ones will walk through the door or they may have given up hope long ago and are grieving for the son that was snatched away from them to never come back not even for his funeral it is the absence of closure that makes every day in the lives of these people a challenge.

Losing a son or a sibling in normal circumstances such as an illness or an accident is a traumatic experience that will haunt the bereaved for a long time if not forever. So to just disappear without a trace and to only leave silence where there was life is an inconsolable loss that many have not been able to cope with. Countless parents have died of a broken heart as a result.

As unbelievable as it may seem it is the ones who received a body are the lucky ones, the uncertainty of the fate of the missing people is a form of torture of Gaddafi has chosen to torment these people’s relatives with.

When the time came for “The dawn of the Mermaid” the military operation conducted to liberate Tripoli from Gaddafi’s grasp(Tripoli is also known as the mermaid in Arabic), the first thing on the Freedom fighters list  was to free the prisoners of Abu Saleem and other infamous Gaddafi hell holes in Tripoli as soon as they moved from within and from the outside of the city in case of reprisal killing of prisoners by Gaddafi’s forces.

Some of the prisoners released have spent the last thirty years in prison and stared in wonder at never seen before cell phones and the white mushroom like satellite dishes that adorned the Tripoli sky line .

Unfortunately it was too late to save some of the prisoners such as those found in a smoldering hanger near the Yoromok military barracks, what a horrific site it was as people followed by reports from global networks transmitted the Gaddafi cruelty for millions to see and witness only the skeletons and the ashes spread about them where flames have eaten away all the flesh from the bodies.

It’s the legacy Gaddafi has chosen to be remembered by. A disgraceful criminal who extracted his sick hatred and vengeance on his own people.