"They spared no child, no woman, no old man," said Mohamed Amer, mourning those murdered during a reign of terror by six brothers who ruled a Libyan town with bloodshed. A funeral for 12 people found in mass graves in Tarhuna town, southeast of the capital / © AFPThose they did not kill they cowed into submission. The brothers paraded through the town in shows of force -- with a pair of leashed lions roaring at the crowd. - Hundreds missing -An abandoned villa complex used by the Kaniyat brothers / © AFPNow the brothers are gone, toppled from power last year, but their shadow still hangs over the town. Multiple mass graves have been unearthed in the farming town some 80 kilometres (50 miles) southeast of the capital Tripoli.

Source: Libya Today April 02, 2021 02:26 UTC