Deadly Libya Bombing May Be War Crime
The bombing in Libya’s capital that killed at least 44 people, with some reports saying as many as 55, and injured more than 130 on Tuesday night may amount to a war crime, according to a United Nations envoy in Tripoli. Outside the suburban Tripoli detention center early Wednesday, survivors watched investigators pick through the rubble after a long night outside with barely any food and water. “We just want peace,” said one Somali woman, taking cover under a tree as investigators searched for bodies well into the afternoon. “We went from Somalia to Yemen, then to Sudan and then came here. This is just like Somalia.” At the morgue in the Libyan capital, bodies were wrapped and prepared for forensic examination while injured people in the hospital were treated, some barely conscious. Bags with bodies of migrants who died after an air strike hit a detention center for mainly African migrants in Tajoura are seen in Tripoli Central Hospital, Libya, July 3, 2019. Survivors said the attack occurred about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday and that they had regularly heard drones hovering over the detention compound in recent weeks. “At the beginning we heard faraway clashes, then we heard this strong bomb,” said …