Reply #37: Fears for Libya's disappeared

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As many as

30,000

men are missing after Libya's six-month revolution, a doctor at a hospital in Tripoli has told Sky News.

Dr Aman Hamad said she feared they might never be traced – and many were probably now dead.

Relatives of Libya's "disappeared" have begun posting pictures of their loved ones at hospitals.

Dr Hamad is coordinating efforts to try to trace the men, and only now with the fall of Gaddafi can they hope to find them.

They put up pictures of men whom they believe were abducted, arrested or killed by Gaddafi's forces during the uprising.

Sky's Lisa Holland spoke to the family of Mohammed Shaibi, who was part of the opposition movement.

He went to join the fight for Tripoli and never came back. His wife Zeinab said she had no idea what happened to him.

Holland met Zeinab and the couple's two young daughters Rawasi and Sama at their home in Zawiyah, about an hour from Tripoli.

Mohammed's picture is in the window and his car is in the drive, unused since he disappeared a few weeks ago.

http://news.sky.com/home/article/16062681