Bir al-Osta Milad
Coordinates: 32 ° 51 ′ 11 ″ N , 13 ° 19 ′ 32.8 ″ E The Bir al-Osta Milad ( Arabic بئر الأسطى ميلاد, DMG Biʾr al-usṭā Mīlād ; also Bir el-Osta Milad , German about "the spring rising in the middle"), known as the "cemetery of the nameless" or "cemetery of the unknown", is a cemetery in Libya at the gates of the capital Tripoli . It was created for the many nameless dead, while trying as asylum seekers from the coastal city of Tripoli on the Mediterranean Sea to Europe are to get drowned.
Several hundred Mediterranean refugees - nameless men, women and children - have already been buried in the makeshift cemetery, which is looked after by the Libyan Red Crescent . The first graves were already occupied in 2012.
As soon as the identity of the dead has been determined by forensic medical examinations, their relatives should be notified and their remains should be transferred to their home countries. Until then, the individual graves will be provided with a plate on which the registration number, the date of death and all other available data of the unknown deceased are recorded. Since you have to work without the instrument of DNA analysis and very few dead people have identification papers with them, the identification of the drowned people takes a long time.
Another 300 graves for the next dead migrants have already been dug (as of December 2015).
Web links
- Mohamad Ali Harissi: Cemetery of Unknown Migrants. Südwest Presse , December 29, 2015, accessed on December 16, 2019 .
- Libya's capital Tripoli: “Cemetery of the Nameless” for drowned refugees. In: FAZ Online. December 28, 2015, accessed on December 16, 2019 (video report, 1:30 min).
- Through their eyes: refugees' own accounts of abuses in Libya. Amnesty International, August 15, 2016, accessed December 16, 2019 (picture of the cemetery at the bottom of the article).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Mohamad Ali Harissi: Cemetery of the Nameless , Berner Zeitung of December 29, 2015, accessed on bernerzeitung.ch on December 30, 2015