In Libyan city, mass graves evoke stakes of faltering peace push

FILE PHOTO: Families of victims hold signs as they demand justice for their missing ones and mass graves, in Tarhouna, Libya, Oct. 9, 2021. REUTERS/Ayman Al-Sahili

TARHOUNA, Libya (Reuters) - Workers in the Libyan city of Tarhouna have spent more than a year exhuming bodies from mass graves that show the cost of a decade of conflict and the high stakes of a fragile peace plan that has left victims on the sidelines.

Tarhouna was held by the local Kaniyat militia from 2012 until its capture last year by pro-Tripoli government forces, leaving a grisly legacy that symbolises the North African country's lost decade of anarchy and violence.