A militia leader in the city of Misurata raised the issue of the location of the grave of the late Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi, who was buried there nearly 10 years ago after his arrest and killing.
Salah Badi, the commander of the so-called ‘Al-Samoud Brigade’, one of the participants in the burial of Gaddafi and his son Mutassim, said that he was ready to reveal the place where Gaddafi’s body was buried after his death on Oct. 20, 2011, after a bloody battle in the city of Sirte.
UN-sanctioned Salah Badi, whose forces played a key role in preventing the National Army from entering Tripoli two years ago, was speaking in an interview via Clubhouse about the Feb. 18 revolution, which broke out in 2011, and the following events that led to the overthrow of the regime.
Despite the passing of 10 years since the killing of Gaddafi, some Libyan cities, especially in the south, still express their grief at his loss. His supporters demand to know the location of the grave in which he was buried along with his son, Al-Mutasim Billah, according to a legal case which was previously brought by Libyan lawyer Adnan Argaa Al-Urfi before the Benghazi Court of First Instance.
Supporters of the former regime seemed to disregard Badi’s statements, but one of the Gadhadhfa tribe sheikhs demanded, in a statement to Asharq Al-Awsat, that he should be tried internationally for his crimes, adding that Gaddafi’s burial place must be revealed.
Gaddafi and his son were killed in the city of Sirte. However, people from Misurata took their bodies to their city, before burying them in an unknown location. Since then, supporters of the former regime have launched lawsuits to reveal the burial place, without reaching any concrete response to their quest.
