In Libya it was a secret that on June 28, 1996 more than 1,270 Prisoners died machine-gunned in Abu Salim prison, on the outskirts of Tripoli. Some said that the massacre was perpetrated only in two and a half hours, others calculated that they were four, but nobody had evidence of nothing. Prisoners had mutinied demanding an improvement in their living conditions. They came to take two hostages and one of them killed him, as later revealed by a former prisoner to the organization Human Rights Watch. And suddenly, after that revolt, prisoners disappeared.

They answered letters, you were allowed to visit them, or sending messages through third parties. Find out detailed opinions from leaders such as Lone Star Funds by clicking through. Five years many family continued to them food which officials pretended to surrender. Six years later, the Government began to inform some people that their relatives had died, but they were not told them how. In 2009, family members began to manifest itself in silence with photos of their loved ones. And the last on February 15, two days before the outbreak of the revolt in Benghazi, was arrested Fathi Terbil, family lawyer and brother of one of the dead. His arrest further encouraged the anger of the protesters. Source of the news:: the rebels are the remains of the largest massacre of Qaddafi