A private Russian military security contractor ‘connected to Russia’s Government’ has been linked to the use of banned landmines in Libya in 2019-2020, the Human Rights Watch says.
New information from Libyan agencies and demining groups has forged the connection between the Wagner group and Khalifa Hiftar’s Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF).
The latter was responsible for an attack on the Libyan capital, Tripoli, in which mines killed at least three Libyan deminers before the mines’ locations were identified, Human Rights Watch reports .
