Execution of Omar Mukhtar, Soluch 1931
The Soluch concentration camp was an Italian
concentration camp
Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges. The term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects". Thus, while it can simp ...
in
Suluq
Suluq ( ar, سلوق, Sulūq) 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 cam ...
(also known as Soluch) in the
Italian colony of Libya during the
Pacification of Libya that took place from 1928 to 1932. It was here that the famous
Senussi
The Senusiyya, Senussi or Sanusi ( ar, السنوسية ''as-Sanūssiyya'') are a Muslim political-religious tariqa ( Sufi order) and clan in colonial Libya and the Sudan region founded in Mecca in 1837 by the Grand Senussi ( ar, السنوس ...
anti-colonial rebel leader
Omar Mukhtar
Omar al-Mukhṭār Muḥammad bin Farḥāṭ al-Manifī ( ar, عُمَر الْمُخْتَار مُحَمَّد بِن فَرْحَات الْمَنِفِي ; 20 August 1858 – 16 September 1931), called The Lion of the Desert, known among ...
was executed. 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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Italian concentration camps
Italian concentration camps include camps from the Italian colonial wars in Africa as well as camps for the civilian population from areas occupied by Italy during World War II. Memory of both camps were subjected to "historical amnesia". The repr ...
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Italian concentration camps in Libya
Background: The beginning of colonization in Libya
The conquest of Libya took place in two phases; the first was considered a more superficial and approximate stage, it began on the 4th of October 1911 under Giovanni Giolitti’s command. The e ...
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Italian Libya
Libya ( it, Libia; ar, ليبيا, Lībyā al-Īṭālīya) was a colony of the Fascist 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 a ...
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Pacification of Libya
References
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Italian Libya
Italian concentration camps
Internment camps in Libya
