TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya on Saturday marked the 20th anniversary of a U.S. bombing raid that killed an estimated 40 people by renewing a demand that Washington apologize and pay compensation.
A statement by the official news agency JANA also repeated a call that relations between the two countries, now undergoing a gradual rapprochement after years of turmoil, be conducted on an equal footing and without violence.
Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan ordered the 1986 overnight air strikes in response to a bombing of a West Berlin discotheque used by U.S. servicemen that killed three people and wounded up to 200. Washington blamed the bombing on Libya.
"The Libyan people renewed their call for an apology," the statement said of the raid, in which Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's 15-month-old adopted daughter Hanna was killed.
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