TRIPOLI: The widow of ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi has urged the United Nations and the European Union to help her recover the remains of her husband and their son Mutassim.
In a letter published on the website of Voice of Russia radio on Sunday, Safia Farkash (pictured), also called on the African Union to investigate the deaths of the two men. Gaddafi and his son were captured and killed by rebel fighters on October 20, 2011 during the uprising that toppled the long-ruling strongman. Their bodies were displayed in the port of Misurata and then buried in a secret location.
“All the members of the UN Security Council, the European Union and everyone who has direct or indirect connection with this murder must tell where the remains of these martyrs are and allow their relatives to bury them in a proper way,” Farkash wrote in the letter marking the second anniversary of Gaddafi’s death.
Farkash also demanded that the African Union launch an investigation into the killings, and appealed to the international community to help her contact her son Saif Al Islam, who was captured by rebels in November 2011 in southern Libya.
“I demand that the world community should help me to come in touch with my son Saif Al Islam, who has been isolated from all members of our family from the moment of his arrest,” she wrote.
AFP
