It is thought that hundreds of people were buried in mass graves following the Libyan uprising
Libyans Struggle With Secrets Of Mass Graves -- BBC
As the Libyan authorities try to secure the extradition of the former head of intelligence, Abdullah al-Senussi, the BBC has been told that there could still be more than 8,000 missing or disappeared people in the country, from both sides of the conflict, as the BBC's Wyre Davies reports from Tripoli.
On a sandy stretch of waste ground a few miles outside Tripoli, a small crowd of militiamen gather almost excitedly around a large yellow earthmover. The digger is excavating a huge hole in the ground.
From the pile of earth at the side of the hole a few bones are sticking out. Bones that are immediately recognisable as belonging to humans: long leg bones and pieces of skull. This is a mass grave.
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My Comment: I suspect that once the civil war is Syria is over and the Assad family are long gone .... the mass graves that they will find in the deserts of Syria will dwarf what they are now finding in Libya.