On Sunday, the Human Rights Committee of the Libyan Parliament in Tripoli agreed with a group of civil society women on a "joint action plan" to document all the "war crimes" committed by the forces of retired Major General Khalifa Hifter.
This came during a meeting held by the committee, chaired by MP Loay Najib Al-Ghawi, with a group of women from civil society concerned with human rights, according to a statement published by Parliament on his Facebook page.
On June 4, the Libyan army was able to liberate all areas controlled by the Haftar militia in the areas around Tripoli, the seat of government.
With the withdrawal of Haftar's forces, the Al-Wefaq government found 11 mass graves containing the remains of hundreds of dead, including women and children, which made the Libyan Foreign Ministry, on Sunday, invite the UN Security Council to assume responsibility and provide war criminals to the International Criminal Court.
The statement of the Human Rights Committee stated that the meeting comes within the framework of the committee's follow-up to the civil society’s activity in documenting human rights violations, since the beginning of the Haftar forces’s attack on Tripoli in April 2019, and the latest reports collected and documented by civil society groups.
He stated that the two societies discussed all the work they had done to build a conscious and keen society for the stability of his country, in addition to discussing local and international positions regarding human rights violations caused by Haftar's forces.
He added that among the crimes that the committee agreed to document include those related to abusing, torturing, killing and planting mines, what was exposed to medical crews, field hospitals and rescue teams, and the damage to buildings, facilities and infrastructure.
The statement did not address the details of the joint work plan that was agreed to document "war crimes" in Tripoli.
International Criminal
This coincided with the Libyan government’s call on Sunday for the Security Council to assume its full responsibilities in accordance with the United Nations Charter, and to refer the mass graves order that was discovered in Tarhuna to the International Criminal Court.
The Libyan Foreign Minister, Mohamed Siala, said in a message to the Security Council that the Council's silence and its disregard for previous calls by the Al-Wefaq government to take a firm stand against the aggression on Tripoli led to crimes and the discovery of mass graves in Tarhuna.
Siyala called on the International Criminal Court to take the necessary and urgent measures to investigate the crimes of Haftar and his militia in Tarhuna, and make efforts to hold accountable and punish the perpetrators and their leaders before the international court, and ensure that they do not escape punishment.