Italy on the reconquest of the Libyan colony?

From Orizzonti Geopolitici blog di Luciano Bonazzi Resistenza 3.0. Reading, translating and re-sharing:

In the equivocal comedy of the theater of politics, the first actor Matteo Renzi declared that in Libya “Italy will do its part”, then – as soon as the Pentagon announced that Italy will assume the “leading role” – he added: “The Italian military mission in Libya is not on the agenda”, while in fact it is already begun with the special forces that the Parliament has arranged for Premier orders.

Before to give the official start, he expects Libya to form “a ultra-solid government to avoid the mistakes of the past.” While waiting that in the Libyan desert someone may let appear the mirage of a “ultra-solid government”, we shall take a look at the past. Because remember the past help us foresee the future.

In 1911 Italy occupied Libya with an expeditionary force of 100 thousand men. Shortly after landing, the Italian army shot and hanged 5 thousand Libyan and deported thousands.

In 1930, by order of Mussolini, half the population of Cyrenaica (about 100 thousand people) was deported in fifteen concentration camps, while the air force, to crush the resistance, did bomb villages with chemical weapons and the whole area was fenced with 270 km of barbed wire.

The resistance leader, Omar al-Mukhtar, was captured and hanged in 1931. Then begun the demographic colonization of Libya, seizing the most fertile lands and the population relegated in drylands.

In the early Forties, Great Britain and the United States followed the defeated Italy in Libya. The Emir Idris al-Senussi, put on the throne by the British in 1951, granted to these foreign Powers to the use of air, naval and land bases. Wheelus Field, on the outskirts of Tripoli, became the main aviation and nuclear US base in the Mediterranean.

King Idris concluded an agreement with Italy in 1956, that exonerated it from damage caused to Libya and allowed the Italian community to maintain his heritage. The Libyan oil fields discovered in the 50s ended up in the hands of the “British Petroleum”, the US “Esso” and the Italian “Eni”.

The rebellion of the nationalists, harshly repressed, resulted in a bloodless coup implemented in 1969 – on the “Nasser model” – by the “Indipendent Officers” led by Muammar Gaddafi. Abolished the monarchy, the Libyan Arab Republic forced the US and Britain to evacuate the military bases and nationalized the foreign properties.

In the following decades, Libya reached, according to the World Bank, “high human development indicators”, with a GDP growth of 7.5% per annum, an upper-middle income per capita, universal access to primary and secondary education and 46% in the higher education. Two million African immigrants were working there, along with hundred thousands of Asians.

This state, which was a factor of stability and development in North Africa, had favored with its investments the birth of organisms that would create financial autonomy and an independent currency for the African Union.

US and France – as demonstrated by the recovered emails of Hillary Clinton – decided to block “Gaddafi’s plan to create an African currency”, as an alternative to the Dollar and the CFA franc.

For this and to seize the Libyan oil and territory, NATO under US command launched the campaign against Gaddafi, to which in Italy participated in first row the “opposition of Left.” This demolished with war the Libyan state, attacked also from inside with special forces and terrorist groups.

The resulting social disaster, which has killed more people than the war itself, especially among migrants, has opened the way for the re-conquest and partition of Libya. Where also Italy takes a step, trampling the Constitution, and returning to its colonial past.