Colonisation & Resistance: Libya (1911-1932)

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As unrecognized as it is, the Italian invasion of Libya is undoubtedly one of the most violent colonial experiences of the modern era. For the glory of " The new Rome " And reconstituting the empire of the Caesars, it was necessary to make the country a large settlement colony: from 1911 to 1932, liberals and fascists would go there with the same zeal and the same cruelty ...

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As unsung as it is, the Italian invasion of Libya is undoubtedly one of the most violent colonial experiences of the modern era. For the glory of " The new Rome " And reconstituting the empire of the Caesars, it was necessary to make the country a large settlement colony: from 1911 to 1932, liberals and fascists would do so with the same zeal and cruelty.

Throughout the two bloody decades begun by the unspeakable massacres of Tripoli and concluded by the total war of Graziani, nothing will be spared to a Libyan people decimated without pity: Massive internment in concentration camps, the systematic elimination of Muslim institutions and elites, the expedient justice that beaches families, barbed wire that makes the entire country a gigantic open-air prison where the planes dump their combat gases at leisure.

For in this interminable conquest of the war of extermination, the Italian armies would find each time in the face of them irreducible opponents of freedom: The Ottomans first, uniting Turkish volunteers and Arab tribes in a great pan-Islamic brotherhood, the brotherhood of the Senussis, then, and especially the legendary figure of ' Umar al-Mukhtrial, the archetype of the chivalrous rebel celebrated even of his enemies ... It is the narrative of this stubous resistance, often desperate, still heroic, that this book narre. As usual, the author also returns very largely to the lies of the propaganda of war, the basing of information and, above all, the reality of the arguments of the protagonists-between " Barbarity " And " Civilisation ".