Execution of Omar Mukhtar, Soluch 1931
The Soluch concentration camp was an Italian
concentration camp
A concentration camp is a prison or other facility used for the internment of political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or ethnic minority groups, on the grounds of national security, or for exploitati ...
in
Suluq
Suluq () is a town in the Benghazi District of the Cyrenaica region in northeastern Libya. It is located about 53 kilometers to the south-east of Benghazi.
Italian Libya
Suluq is the site of a former Italian concentration camp for the nomadic t ...
(also known as Soluch) in the
Italian colony of Libya during the
Pacification of Libya
The Second Italo-Senussi War, also referred to as the pacification of Libya, was a conflict that occurred during the Italian colonization of Libya between Italian military forces (composed mainly by colonial troops from Libya, Eritrea, and S ...
that took place from 1928 to 1932.
[Geoff Simons. ''Libya and the West: From Independence to Lockerbie''. Oxford, England, UK: Centre for Libyan Studies, 2003. P. 12.] It was here that the famous
Senussi
The Senusiyya, Senussi or Sanusi () are a Muslim political-religious Sufi order and clan in Libya and surrounding regions founded in Mecca in 1837 by the Grand Sanussi ( ''as-Sanūssiyy al-Kabīr''), the Algerian Muhammad ibn Ali al-Sanusi.
...
anti-colonial leader
Omar Mukhtar
ʿUmar al-Mukhtār Muḥammad bin Farḥāt al-Manifī (; 20 August 1858 – 16 September 1931), called The Lion of the Desert, known among the colonial Italians as Matari of the Mnifa, was a Libyan revolutionary and Imam who led the native res ...
was executed by hanging on 16 September 1931.
The camp is recorded as having a population of 20,123 people.
[Michael R. Ebner. Geoff Simons. ''Ordinary Violence in Mussolini's Italy''. New York, New York, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2011. P. 261.]
See also
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Libyan genocide
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The Holocaust in Libya
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Italian concentration camps in Libya
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Italian Libya
Libya (; ) was a colony of Fascist Italy (1922–1943), Italy located in North Africa, in what is now modern Libya, between 1934 and 1943. It was formed from the unification of the colonies of Italian Cyrenaica, Cyrenaica and Italian Tripolitan ...
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Second Italo-Senussi War
The Second Italo-Senussi War, also referred to as the pacification of Libya, was a conflict that occurred during the Italian colonization of Libya between Italian military forces (composed mainly by colonial troops from Libya, Eritrea, and Som ...
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