Sidi Ahmed el-Magrun concentration camp
 
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Location of Sidi Ahmed el-Magrun in Libya |
The concentration camp Sidi Ahmed el-Magrun in the Libyan city of Al Magrun was an Italian concentration camps of fascist Italy . It was founded in September 1930 to intern the subdued and deported parts of the population during the Second Italo -Libyan War and thereby deprive the rebellious Sanūsīya of Cyrenaica under their leader Umar al-Muchtar with a genocidal warfare. Around 13,000 people were interned in the camp, around 4,500 of whom died as a result of poor care, torture, poor hygienic conditions or as a result of executions. The camp was disbanded in October 1933. The camp's guards consisted of Esercito , Carabinieri , Eritrean Askari and indigenous Zaptié .
See also
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 Sidi Ahmed el-Magrun on I Campi Fascisti
Individual evidence
- ^ Aram Mattioli: The forgotten colonial crimes of Fascist Italy in Libya 1923-1933 . P. 218 f.
- ^ Campo di Concentramento Sidi Ahmed el-Magrun on I Campi Fascisti, accessed March 22, 2017