NCHRL: 416 Killed, 419 Injured in Libya in 2020

Hours ago, the National Committee for Human Rights in Libya (NCHRL) issued a statistic of civilian victims across Libya during the year 2020.

According to Libyan media sources, NCHRL confirmed that 416 people were killed, including 114 unidentified bodies, and 419 wounded, as a result of military operations and indiscriminate bullets, shells, mines, and remnants of war in Libya last year.

The committee monitored 105 cases of kidnapping and enforced disappearance of journalists, doctors, civil society activists, human rights defenders, and members of the judiciary in Libya during 2020.

NCHRL recorded 121 incidents of targeting and attacks on installations, facilities, and civilian targets in Libya. The census did not include victims and the injured people in car accidents that exceed these numbers.

Last week, Tunisia, president of the UN Security Council this January, expressed its hope that the council would issue “as soon as possible” a resolution whereby an international mission would be deployed to monitor the ceasefire which has gone into effect in Libya since the fall.

“We hope that the resolution will be adopted as soon as possible. There is momentum, but it is a bit fragile,” Tunisian ambassador to the United Nations Tarek El Adab, said during a press conference.

El Adab added: “We need to adopt this mechanism (monitoring the ceasefire) and this depends on the negotiations that will take place between the Libyan parties and the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) based on the proposals of the UN Secretary-General.”

Tunisia, a non-permanent member of the Security Council until the end of 2021, assumed the rotating presidency of the Security Council in early January. Yet, the council’s agenda for the end of the month does not include any meeting on Libya.