Agedabia concentration camp
 
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Location of Agedabia |
The KZ Agedabia in the Libyan town Ajdabiya was an Italian concentration camps of fascist Italy . It was founded in March 1930 to intern the subdued and deported parts of the population during the Second Italo-Libyan War and thereby deprive the rebellious Sanusiya of Cyrenaica under their leader Umar al-Muchtar with a genocidal warfare. Around 9,000 people were interned in the camp, around 1,500 of whom died as a result of poor care, torture, poor hygienic conditions or as a result of executions. The camp was disbanded in September 1933. The camp's guards consisted of Esercito , Carabinieri , Eritrean Askari and indigenous Zaptie .
literature
- Angelo Del Boca: Fascism and Colonialism - The Myth of the Decent Italians . Published in: Genocide and War Crimes in the First Half of the 20th Century . Ed .: Irmtrud Wojak and Susanne Meinl, Campus 2004, ISBN 3-593-37282-7 , p. 193 ff.
- Aram Mattioli: The forgotten colonial crimes of fascist Italy in Libya 1923-1933 . Published in: Genocide and War Crimes in the First Half of the 20th Century . Ed .: Irmtrud Wojak and Susanne Meinl, Campus 2004, ISBN 3-593-37282-7 , pp. 203 ff.
- Gustavo Ottolenghi: Gli Italiani e il colonialismo. I campi di detenzione italiani in Africa . Sugarco 1997, ISBN 978-8871983974 , (not accessed ).
Web links
- Campo di Concentramento Agedabia on I Campi Fascisti (Italian)
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Aram Mattioli: The forgotten colonial crimes of Fascist Italy in Libya 1923-1933 . P. 218 f.
- ↑ Campo di Concentramento Agedabia to I Campi Fascisti accessed, April 5, 2017