Tarhouna Victims Association welcomed the International Criminal Court's (ICC) issuance of arrest warrants against some of the people accused of committing the city's mass graves crimes, especially Abdul Rahim Al-Kani.
The Association said in a statement that the arrest warrants are a real test for the Libyan authorities in their quest to arrest and hand over the wanted persons, saying Libyan authorities should have been the one that brought them to trial.
It expressed its reservations about Egypt's sheltering and protection of wanted persons, especially since a number of their victims are Egyptian citizens who were unjustly and treacherously killed by members of that gang, according to the statement.
The Association called on the Libyan and Egyptian authorities, and every country that those criminals enter, to work seriously and assume their moral and humanitarian responsibilities and what they have pledged in international conventions, and to hand over the wanted persons to the competent authorities in Libya or to the International Criminal Court. It stressed that the families of the victims would spare no opportunity or means, no matter what, to achieve their goal.
