Libya on Monday marked one year since the death of scores of cadets in a UAE-backed drone strike of Khalifa Haftar's forces, which targeted The Military College in Tripoli.
The Military College honoured the parents of the victims in a memorial ceremony held at its premises yesterday.
Students who had survived the bombing pledged, in a statement to hold those responsible for the attack accountable and to resist any coup against the state.
"There is no place for putschist between us" the students stressed in their statement, indicating that they were bombed while seeking to build a truly national army to secure a modern civil state.
On January 4, 2020, at least 30 people, most of them students, were killed and dozens of others wounded in a lethal attack on The Military College in the Hadaba area south of Tripoli.
The raid struck as cadets gathered on a parade ground before retiring to their dormitories, leaving bodies scattered across the ground.
The UN-backed government blamed Khalifa Haftar's militias for the attack. The allegations were later confirmed by a UN report and the BBC, which uncovered that a drone operated by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) -a key supporter of Haftar's aggression against Tripoli- was behind the attack.