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In Libya, mass murder and the sin of silence Updated: May 9 Print article TARHUNA, Libya - When the militiamen abducted Abdul Ali al-Falus and his four sons last year, their family had every reason to fear the worst. By then, the Kaniyat militia had killed scores and perhaps hundreds of civilians in this pastoral town, many of them shot multiple times at close range, often blindfolded, handcuffed and with legs tied, according to officials and community leaders. And no one had stopped the militiamen or held them to account. Not Libya’s internationally recognized government, which was ...

By Sami Zaptia. London, 16 January 2021: Seventy percent of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) roadmap has been accomplished, and ‘‘significant progress’’ has been made in the ongoing Advisory Committee talks, UNSMIL Spokesperson Jean Alam said during a press briefing yesterday on the ongoing LPDF Advisory Committee talks taking place in Geneva. In what sounded like a farewell roundup of UNSMIL progress made specifically under Acting head Stephanie Williams in view of news of the appointment of Ghassan Salame’s successor, Jan Kubic, Alam gave a roundup of the progress achie...