Libya, never a stranger to tragedies, has witnessed quite the most horrendous carnage on Wednesday, indeed the deadliest outrage on the human condition. The 44 migrants who perished and at least 130, who were severely injured in the bombardment of a detention centre in Tripoli, were not potentially murderous militants. Forty-eight hours before the attack, the LNA had warned that it was stepping up air raids on the capital in response to recent military reverses. The detention centre is close to a military supply depot for militia working to protect the GNA. While condemning the outrage as “a war crime and odious bloody carnage”, the United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, has called for an independent inquiry, which hopefully will be conducted without prevarication and indecisiveness that had marked the Western intervention against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 05, 2019 06:11 UTC