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Execution of Omar Mukhtar, Soluch 1931
The Soluch concentration camp was an Italian
concentration camp in
Suluq (also known as Soluch) in the
Italian colony of Libya during the
Pacification of Libya that took place from 1928 to 1932.
[1] It was here that the famous
Senussi anti-colonial rebel leader
Omar Mukhtar was executed.
[1] The camp is recorded as having a population of 20,123 people.
[2]
See also
References
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b Geoff Simons. Libya and the West: From Independence to Lockerbie. Oxford, England, UK: Centre for Libyan Studies, 2003. P. 12.
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^ Michael R. Ebner. Geoff Simons. Ordinary Violence in Mussolini's Italy. New York, New York, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2011. P. 261.