GENEVA (AP) — U.N. human rights experts say hundreds of people have disappeared in Libya in recent months, with some vanishing after going to anti-government demonstrations.
The global body’s five-member working group on enforced disappearances says if government forces are found to be carrying out systematic abductions this could amount to a crime against humanity.
The group’s chairman, Jeremy Sarkin, told The Associated Press that some people disappeared from their homes, others from their workplace.
Sarkin said in an interview Thursday that the number of disappearances recorded in the last 2-3 months dwarfs the 11 cases reported from the North African country over the previous 30 years.
Protests against Moammar Gadhafi’s regime turned into an armed rebellion last month.
