Libyans anniversary of Day of Mourning of Italian occupation
Libya-Italy, Politics, 10/27/2005

"The Libyan People commemorate on Wednesday the 26th of October the anniversary of a sad and painful occassion it is the 94th anniversary of the biggest deportation operation that history has ever withnessed to which the Libyan people were exposed during the Italian occupation of Libya when thousands of Libyans were sent into exile against their will to remote and epidemic Italian islands in a very terrible and inhuman conditions where many of them died before reaching their exile destinations due to cold hunger and thirst on board the ships that carried them," JANA reported.

JANA added "The Italian occupation of Libya has begun on the 26th of October 1911 after invading Libya but they were confronted with great resistance by the Libyan freedom fighters who refused the occupation of the home land by foreign colonialist."

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