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Soluch concentration camp

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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 by hanging on 16 September 1931.[1] The camp is recorded as having a population of 20,123 people.[2]

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  1. ^ a b Geoff Simons. Libya and the West: From Independence to Lockerbie. Oxford, England, UK: Centre for Libyan Studies, 2003. P. 12.
  2. ^ Michael R. Ebner. Geoff Simons. Ordinary Violence in Mussolini's Italy. New York, New York, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2011. P. 261.