Friday, October 26, 2007

Remembrance Day

Today is a Remembrance Day in Libya in honor of the thousands of Libyans deported to Italian dreary islands during the Fascist era for their role in the Resistance at the time. As Grazziani, the Italian well-known General of the time, said that he had only three options for Libyans not accepting Rome’s supremacy, and these are; the gallows, the concentration camps or the boat for the islands. Thousands were deported and most of them perished away from home in a hostile land, the remainders who came back bore scars of sufferance for the rest of their lives.
Meantime, Benghazi had its own sad gloomy day, as the worst sand storm of the season raged in the area, leaving the streets empty and dusted.