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Second Italo-Senussi War

This article is about the conflict between Italian forces and indigenous rebels in 1923–1932. For the genocide of Libyans in 1929–1934, see Libyan genocide (1929–1934).
Second Italo-Senussi War
Part of the interwar period

Senussi rebel leader Omar al-Mukhtar (the man in traditional clothing with a chain on his left arm) after his arrest by Italian armed forces in 1931. Mukhtar was executed in a public hanging shortly afterward.
Date26 January 1923 – 24 January 1932 (8 years, 11 months, 4 weeks and 1 day)
Location
Italian Tripolitania, Italian Cyrenaica
Result Italian victory
Belligerents
 Italy Senussi Order
Tripolitanian rebels
Fezzan rebels
Commanders and leaders
Fascist Italy Benito Mussolini
Omar al-Mukhtar Executed
Yusuf Burahil †
Salem en Nebi
Mohammed ben Hassel Surrendered
Seif en Nasser
Casualties and losses
2,582 casualties in Tripolitania[1] 40,000–70,000 deaths[2]

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 Somalia)[3] and indigenous rebels associated with the Senussi Order. The war lasted from 1923 until 1932,[4][5][6] when the principal Senussi leader, Omar al-Mukhtar, was captured and executed.[7] The Libyan genocide took place during and after the conflict.

Events leading to World War II
 1910s
 1920s
 1930s

Fighting took place in all three of Libya's provinces (Tripolitania, Fezzan, and Cyrenaica), but was most intense and prolonged in the mountainous Jebel Akhdar region of Cyrenaica.[8] The war led to the mass deaths of the indigenous people of Cyrenaica, totalling one quarter of the region's population of 225,000.[9] Italian war crimes included the use of chemical weapons, execution of surrendering combatants, and the mass killing of civilians,[10] while the Senussis were accused of torture and mutilation of captured Italians and refusal to take prisoners since the late 1910s.[11][12][13] Italian authorities forcibly expelled 100,000 Bedouin Cyrenaicans, half the population of Cyrenaica, from their settlements, many of which were then given to Italian settlers.[14][15]

  1. ^ Gooch, John (2020). Mussolini’s War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935–1943. Pegasus Books. p. 2. ISBN 9781643135496. ... 2,582 Italians dead, wounded and missing
  2. ^ Del Boca, Angelo; Shugaar, Anthony (2011). Mohamed Fekini and the Fight to Free Libya. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 5. ISBN 9780230116337. between 40,000 and 70,000 deaths due to forced deportations, starvation and disease inside the concentration camps, and hanging and executions
  3. ^ Arielli, Nir (2015). "Colonial Soldiers in Italian Counter-Insurgency Operations in Libya, 1922-32". British Journal for Military History. 1 (2): 47–66. ISSN 2057-0422.
  4. ^ Cooper, Tom; Grandolini, Albert (19 January 2015). Libyan Air Wars: Part 1: 1973-1985. Helion and Company. p. 5. ISBN 9781910777510.
  5. ^ Epton, Nina Consuelo (1953). Oasis Kingdom: The Libyan Story. New York: Roy Publishers. p. 126.
  6. ^ Stewart, C. C. (1986). "Islam". The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 7: c. 1905 – c. 1940 (PDF). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. p. 196. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 August 2017.
  7. ^ "Regio Esercito - MVSN - Riconquista della Libia 1923-1931". www.regioesercito.it.
  8. ^ The Second Italo-Senussi War https://countrystudies.us/libya/21.htm retrvd 2-1-20
  9. ^ Mann, Michael (2006). The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing. Cambridge University Press. p. 309. ISBN 9780521538541.
  10. ^ Duggan, Christopher (2007). The Force of Destiny: A History of Italy Since 1796. New York: Houghton Mifflin. p. 497. ISBN 9780618353675.
  11. ^ Gaston Leroud, Matin Journal edition August 23, 1917
  12. ^ John Gooch (19 June 2014). The Italian Army and the First World War. Cambridge University Press. pp. 44–. ISBN 978-0-521-19307-8.
  13. ^ Gerwarth, Robert; Manela, Erez (3 July 2014). Empires at War: 1911-1923. Oxford University Press. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-19-100694-4.
  14. ^ Cardoza, Anthony L. (2006). Benito Mussolini: The First Fascist. Pearson Longman. p. 109. ISBN 9780321095879.
  15. ^ Bloxham, Donald; Moses, A. Dirk (2010). The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. 358. ISBN 9780191572609.
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