Syrian mercenaries into new tricks to escape Libya

Mustafa Kamel

Syrian mercenaries in Libya are into a new trick to return to their country.

They are fabricating reports about their health condition to disqualify for their presence in the battlefield in Libya where they were brought by Turkey to fight alongside the troops of the previous Government of National Accord (GNA) which controlled Libyan capital Tripoli.

Deep under the desire of the mercenaries to leave Libya and return home is the failure of the GNA to pay them their overdue salaries.

The new technique by the mercenaries also shows that those who brought them to Libya do not have a plan to take them out as agreed, according to some rights groups.

They revealed that one of the armed factions operating in Syria is now preparing a new list of mercenaries who will receive training in the coming period before they are flown to Libya.

There is anger, meanwhile, among the Syrian mercenaries because of the failure of the authorities in Tripoli to pay them their salaries, ones they agreed with their Syrian commissioners.

Some of the mercenaries have to grease the palms of their commanders to speed up the payment of their salaries.

A few days ago, two Syrian NGOs revealed that some of the mercenaries had been swindled by their commanders in the Free Syrian Army which is backed by Turkey.

They added in a joint statement that the commanders had stolen the salaries of the mercenaries.