Libya: 105 Children Kidnapped in Misrata Orphanage

Libya: 105 Children Kidnapped in Misrata Orphanage

Posted: 2011/07/13

From: Mathaba

World silent as Libyan children abducted and disappear abroad to unknown fate

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TRIPOLI (mathaba)—“Libya´s Social Welfare minister Ibrahim Sharif has denounced that 53 young girls and 52 boys were kidnapped from the Misrata Orphanage,” said Telesur TV special envoy to the Northern African nation, Rolando Segura.

International news agencies reported that Libyan authorities launched a probe to find out what happened with the 105 children, who were kidnapped following a bombing of the city some weeks ago, the minister said.

“Those orphans were kidnapped in Misrata, a city controlled by the groups operating under the command of other countries. They were taken to an unknown place,” said minister Sharif.

On his tweeter page, the Telesur reporter said that “several sources have affirmed that the 105 children were taken out of the country in a ship that could be Turkish, French or Italian.

In this regard, the Libyan minister explained that “some witnesses said to have seen the children onboard a Turkish boat, while others talked of an Italian or French ship. We want to know the truth and those countries are responsible for the fate of those kids, who are neither soldiers nor armed people.”

The Libyan official added that local authorities have a list with the names of the minors. According to reporter Segura, the armed forces captured a Libyan man residing in Germany who said to have seen the children being kidnapped.

A doctor with the rebels, who was arrested by Libyan authorities said that the children had been taken to Italy and France, Sharif added.

The Venezuelan reporter with Telesur noted that the Libyan government had said that the children were seen for the last time on Al Jazeera TV.

Following the approval of the UN Security Council resolution allowing the imposition of a no-fly zone over Libya, imperial powers have indiscriminately attacked the population and the country´s infrastructure resulting in over 900 people dead and thousands wounded. -- mathaba/LC #

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