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In this power 20th century, almost every nation
in the world has at some time been in conflict,
the empresses and the empresses, the victors and the vanquished
The people of war are tragic entightment of our civilization.
At time, when much of the world was looking
for ways to increase their influence, power and riches.
Full of dreams for the restoration of the glory that was Rome.
In 1911, Italy joins the hunt for territory.
Libya on the other side of the Mediterranean sea is the target.
Landings were made at Tripoli.
then Ghazi, Zvona, Cert, Derna and Tobruk.
The local population fighting on many fronts,
made fierce and resolute resistance to the
invaders thus bringing the war to a stale-mate.
1922 saw a dramatic change in Italy.
The beginning of Mussolini's era of dictatorship.
The conflict in Libya escalated as more and more fascists might
was thrown against the scithening resistance of the local population.
We will overcome earth
and then we will take the fact of fascism to the Rome.
Ready charge.
More... More... I don't understand.
If we defeated the Bedouins, why are we still hanging them?
Why do I have to fort troops into a victory I already won?
How I wish my generals were right, two different dispatches,
one telling themselves of their glorious victories
and one telling me of their defeats.
Can't go on.. I will not let it go on.
Here.
This green, this subtle green..
That's your prize, the rest is brown paper.
Just need someone bold enough to roll it up.
Graziani.
Come with me.
20 years.
20 worthless years we wasted on this war.
I sent 5 governors to Libya in 5 years.
Not... no military logic of fascism will not be compromise.
Its wrong with Alway, Giada, Bayonets, Bannu, Don.
What we are fighting in reality is just tribesmen, ghosts,
I want their leader brought here,
I want them brought to me and I want the revolution crushed.
- What's his name? - Omar Mukhtar
- Omar? - Omar Mukhtar.
Omar Mukhtar.
You know general,
those colonists that we sent over especially from the south,
they cost us leader for leader almost
as if we put them up at the grand hotel.
Now something must be wrong.
No... I will have a handful of Bedouins stop
the progress of a forty million Italians.
I'll give you Libya then,
at least you have a name that will frighten them.
May I say my duty shed when I crush the rebellion,
I do so without clear conscience of a soldier.
What did Mukhtar do before the rebellion?
He was a Teacher.
- A Teacher? - Yes.
I was a Teacher.
Be careful you don't end up as the five who went before you,
taught by him.
Well, I'm the man who likes action... Go to Libya.
General,
bring me back Mukhtar.
Bribe him or break his neck.
In the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful
It is the God of Mercy who has man known the Qur’an,
he created man and told him speech.
He set to the sun and the moon in their courses.
He raised the sky up and set the balance of whole things.
Stop right there
Why do we think we begin every chapter of the Qur’an with
God, the merciful?
Because, one of the names of God is mercy
That's right.
And how.. how does God show his mercy?
He taught.. taught people how to speak.
How to speak.. that's right.. yes.
And then there was something else in what we read,
Can anybody... anybody... can you tell me what that was?
- It was... it was... - Here, let me give you a hint,
- It was the what? - It was the balance.
That's right.. that's right, the balance.
Then why.. why did God set that balance?
Boys... Boys... why did God set the balance?
Because.. without the balance everything would fall.
Here.. let me see that much you read...
Everything did fall apart though.
Take it to your father.
Peace be upon you.
Where's Siddik Omar?
Yes Bu-Matani, what is the news?
A new governor.. again?
They always come here like lions and go home like worn-out goats.
- Well, who is it this time? - Graziani.
- The butcher of the Zion. - Graziani...
It was only a question of time before they let him loose on us.
It will mean a new offensive.
My father used to say: Bellows that don't break your back,
strengthen it.
We will show Graziani some spine.
They tells me that Graziani loves blood?
I don't like to believe those stories.
And yet I do.
- When is he expected? - They decorates in Benghazi for you.
Senatore, Senori, his excellency,
General Graziani, governor of Sirinika,
his royal highness, prince of aAadione, duke of Pausta.
Gentlemen, thank you. But the ladies are present,
we should be at our ease. Let the dancing continues.
General. Colonel Sarsani.
Senore Tomelli.
Colonel Diodiece sir.
Ah yes...Diodiece
I read reports on you.
They say that you could make friends with Bedouins with a hand-shake.
I'm not so sure that I like that it implies that
the rest of them are strangled them in order to make peace.
Sir, there are 5,000 displeased Bedouins outside my force.
I have no food for them.
I've difficulty in controlling them and I need.
...what you need Colonel. What you need..
is to be a little bold for that colonel.
Who is that man?
Sharif El Gariani.
He's quite useful to us, old friend of Omar Mukhtar.
- Useful you say? - Yes.
Bring him here.
I think you will find that you can rely on him.
General Graziani, may I present his excellency, Sharif El Gariani.
I understand that you did you know Omar Mukhtar..
I did.
What would it take to get him to surrender?
I don't know. Even as a boy, he was terribly stubborn.
But if I could be of help in any way, I should be very willing to agree.
You'll find that we can be terribly generous.
Lt. Graziani, urgent message sir.
Can't it wait? You see you're disturbing my guests.
Excuse me gentlemen.
They say, the flagman has lost his manner while sleeping on his dispatch.
What is this? Another wasted maneuver?
How many dead Italians? 20 dead, 50 wounded sir.
And they let him go again.
Yes, sir.
- But, this time, he was seen. - He was seen?
How do they know he was seen? Nobody knows him,
How do they knew he was seen?
It was only for a moment sir. But they are sure. It was Mukhtar.
I suppose I should decorate them just for bravery of seeing Mukhtar.
There could be.. There could be.. Could be anywhere..
Tomelli, I want you to use it, fast, hard hitting force
until you forgets how Omar Mukhtar looks like.
We're all obsessed but we have never seen him.
Go for his blood. Go for his circulation.
Go for the revolution that is inside every Bedouin.
Mukhtar's been fighting turns, 3 months we run with him,
and next 3 months it'll peaceful times.
Tomelli, no peace.
Hameed, take your brother.
The women must hide.
Round up the man.
Those 3 at the end there.
...and ...and ...and
You two at the back.
...and ...and ...and
Yes...
Let the young go definitely...
Some of you have conscript,
instead of going 3 months ...with Mukhtar.
You go one year to useful labor.
While you be out of food.
Burn the half they give to Mukhtar.
Burn half of everything.
It's a bullet wound sir.
You were shot running with Mukhtar, weren't you?
What have you to say?
You do?
Well, you brought it on yourself. Execute him.
Not, not over there. Here! Let them see it.
In the name of God, give him time to pray.
You're warned, be careful.
Saleem.
Murderer killers.
Aisha.
- Mother, I must do something. - Poor Aisha.
Oh God.
I must do something.
Hameed, they burnt his tree.
I saw what happen, my brother and Aisha
and look, my father. I'm going to Siddik Omar.
It's not your turn yet.
I became old enough today mother.
Please God,
I need you.
They must pass through here.
That's our ground.
Out there, that is it.
But you can't hide there's a desert out there.
Siddik Omar..
It's all clear sir.
Check the other side.
Sir, at last we got them where we want them.
Let's crack it of them, move it.
Let's go.
They're here.
Mount.
They're running. Get your foot down.
They're laid a trap, we must warn Tomelli.
Did you hear that?
Could be Lt. Sandrini sir.
What the hell is he doing?
Maybe warning shots sir.
Nulll stop.
Stop.
Do you see anything?
No, nothing sir.
Nothing.
They're getting away. We have them in our hands.
Full pursuit.
- Look at those machines. - Siddik Omar.
We do not kill prisoners. They do it to us.
They are not our teachers.
He's a boy.
Here.
Tell your general it does not belong here.
My husband?
I have...
I brought his book home.
Never turned his back on it...
Come here.
- What is your name? - Ali.
Oh, yes Ali.
This is yours.
This is your book now.
You tell your mother to keep it for you.
Do not let him see you crying too much.
One day they will carry on the fight.
He truly should remember him strong, with confidence.
Never broken.
Go inside.
Let us go and see the camp, Ali.
There he is.
This is my friend, Ali.
This is Bu-Matari. He is a little boy just like you.
He is in Kufr, that's far away, in the desert.
He misses me. Now, we have some work to do.
Be careful...
Oh... Is that supposed to be me? How do I look?
You've to give it back to me. Otherwise, I cannot win.
You go... you go see where the people work.
Wiped out.. one Lieutenant...
and one scout car...
That is all its left of the fighting force.
I did not come to Libya to be stunned by Bandits.
Senore Tomelli is one of our finest officers.
This young boy saved have our honor, he brought back with the flag.
But sir...they gave us the flag.
Yes yes yes, you will be decorated with the medal of honor.
I never in my career lost a flag.
Gentlemen, I will repeat one simple fact to you,
We’re not merely fight Mukhtar or
200 of his men here or 50 of his men there,
we are fighting a population.
We have Rome to answer to.
I am therefore taking the first 3 final steps.
Strive to eliminate rebellion in this colony.
Its really quite simple and really should
have been thought out before.
I propose to concentrate the Bedouins.
Concentrate them?
Yes, put them behind wire, camps and keep them there until
we find them prudent and safe to release them.
No I don't want any pity for them,
they have brought this upon themselves.
We will fill their wells, we will burn their fields,
we will destroy their trees, we will turn their land brown.
Now, if they cannot live with it, they'll leave it.
And.. if we meet the resistance?
You answer it prompty with your own punishment for rebellion.
That's the message.
Turn around.
As mutinier and rebels, you will be decimated.
One... Two... Three... Four...
Five... Six... Seven... Eight... Nine... Ten...
They've taken everybody.
Who can fight such a war?
Not against army but against innocent people.
Those people will be dying in those camps and compounds.
People will be dying without fault, without any choice.
or was it our fault, our choice?
Look what they did..
Raised the sky up and set the balance of all things.
It's Siddik Omar.
No.
They will be massacred.
You have a chance to get away. Take it.
Go with Ismail. Don't think of me.
Go... Go...
Ali.
Hurry! Go back!
Up behing me, Ismail. Up behind me.
Go back.. Go back for that boy.
The horse won't take two. Ismail knows that.
Hurry up Siddik Omar.
So, you're the brave young man.
The brave young man who saved Mukhtar from me.
Why did you do it? You are young.
You had your whole life ahead of you.
Tell me, don't you want to live?
Come on.
I want him to live more.
You'd make a fine soldier.
Would you think of joining us?
You are more ruthless than I am Prince.
You will corrupt him.
Get him out of here.
Give him what he asked for, fruit, honey..
Whatever.
and don't harm him. Hang him, in the morning.
Does it ever worried you general, that in
our most casual acts we make history here,
even if it's just a small paragraph in a newspaper in Rome.
- You touch my strength Prince. - You see I didn't care.
A day in the mind of the Rome is more important
to me than a generation of the memory of Libya.
And what happens I wonder, if we are forgotten in Rome and
you are remembered in Libya?
Don't you worry your royal head about that.
You see, we will write the history.
- Libya is our crown of thorns. - Nonsense.
Libya is a career.
Look at it.
It's always the same. We can never persue them in the desert.
I must conquer the desert to march on Kufra.
From here to here.
Simple.. isn't it?
No, it's not.
But, its only empty desert.
There's nothing there, just wind and sand,
not even much opposition.
What can you get from it? Glory for Rome.
An extension of the Emperor and finding a revolution to that mountain.
My name, a new page in military history.
You see, it quite useful your piece of the desert isn't it Prince?
I will surprise you.
Come in.
Diodiece, now it's your time. Please, sit down.
Thank you.
The man who can make peace with a hand-shake.
Do it now....
Hands across the desert.
I wish to instigate peace talks with his excelleny.
Omar Mukhtar.
That will not be so easy now. No, but you will do it, won't you?
And what are the pre-conditions for talks with Omar Mukhtar?
No pre-conditions. The whole of Libya is open to discussion.
Look at it.
Look at it
We go to the conference table with an open mind, did we not?
He fought us for 20 years. We are an enemy, he knows.
He have heard all our promises.
20 years is too long. I mean can you imagine escaping hanging
for 20 years knowing you can't win this,
hopping to keep on?
It's the war that hope man to be mad
on his high horse about past promises.
When may I... your excellency's may sit down with him?
You're too eager.
When you talk to Omar Muktar, it must be with the speed of dictation.
Regress whether he wants talk or not. You test him, you try him.
Yes, I will try.
Thank you very much.
Thank you for coming at very short notice. It was very kind of you.
Thank you.
Well, let's settle this. Diodiece is not the right man.
He will offer. But Mukhtar can't take.
and Muktar will ask what he can't give.
Which makes me think, you want things go long.
No.
That's unfair of course I want peace of course. I want to win that peace.
But sometimes Prince when you are strong,
peace takes on the nature of conquest is not.
He won't give me peace. But he will give me is time.
What I need is time.
So that's what he looks like.
After all these years, we are the first to see him.
The Old Lion!
Peace be upon you.
- Colonel Diodiecei? - Yes sir.
Please.
This side.
Colonel Barillo, military governor of Merch!
This is Commissioner Roberto, who has come directly from Rome
to advice and assist us.
Look, you invited us here to talk.
We are here.
You Excellency, it is my one wish
to see the Italian and the Arab together in the Solopian interest.
I foresee a future of common cause,
a give and take of character and skill,
our civilization and your culture in marriage of virtues.
I want observators from the government of Tunisia and Egypt
to witness any agreements between us.
... as for as I am concerned...
Out of the question.
He is seeking international recognition,
as if the Bedouins were an independent nation which they are not.
They are subjects within our province.
Our arguments are not within nations, but between Italians.
We cannot permit outside interference in our internal affairs.
They why must you represent this.
We are not Italians so do not tell us that we are.
We were born where we were born only by the will of God
and only by our own mothers. We are not you.
And who will come as foreign observators later uh?
As yet, nothing written, nothing witnessed.
But, we have written.
- We must have muslims schools.. - Oh, yes.
No question. Freedom of education, no question.
The schools will be re-opened.
We must have some form of national protection.
We must have our National Parliament..
Your Parliament is a matter for Rome.
This tent is not the place.
Why not?
You pitched it, no conditions you said, no limits, no exclusions,
everything open on this table in this tent.
Let us say that, at present we will note your demand for the parliament.
Mark it well.
The confiscated lands must be given back.
Well...
Now, I wouldn't say confiscated lands.
I would say lands reserved for settlement and cultivation,
lands to be developed.
To be developed by Italians?
I tell you there is no escape 20 years, 40 years,
the land will be back to it's people.
Why do you think we fight you?
But, the new settlements will provide employment.
As long as you take our lands for as long we're able,
We must fight you.
- Must? - Yes, must.
But, I have it on religious authority that your
Qur'an does not allow you to fight a war you cannot win.
Now, you are going to interpret our religion for us...
The Book leaves no doubt.
It is our duty to God to defend ourselves
against those who have driven us out of our homes.
I think this might be a good time to adjourn.
We are in no hurry.
Why are you delaying?
Your excellency, we are obliged to refer your demands to Rome.
But at our next meeting,
we will give you their answer and make our proposal.
At least.. At least we know that we all want
the blood-shed between us to end.
An Italian invasion...
The first use of aircraft in combat,
The first to put tank in the desert.
History will mark that gentlemen.
What we need was time. Now, we have achieved that time,
with talk peace with eloquence.
1. Omar Mukhtar's men will come under the command of Italian Officer.
Go on...
2. The Italian Government will pay monthly salary to these men.
Go on.
Go on...
The Government reserves the right to punish
any persons who committed a crime before this agreement.
Omar Mukhtar will have no right to protect such persons.
4.
- These terms mean dis-honour. - Absolute surrender.
That even subjects for discussion.
The Italian Government undertakes to pay
Omar Mukhtar a pension of 50,000 Lirahs a month.
and to provide him with a comfortable house.
Do I deserve so much?
I've been so successful to offer me 50,000 Lirahs a month?
You know, by offering me bribes, you are insulting me.
Your excellency, I made that proposal.
Believe me..
It was not an attempt to bribe you.
Only to make your retirement comfortable.
How can I be comfortable when my people are in concentration camps?
and where is this General who bombs and burns and hangs?
Why has be never come here?
Once he agrees the agreement between us,
General Graziani will be happy to see you.
I do not want to see him. I want to see the last of him.
And why is he landing troups? Where is he going, to the last Oasis?
6,000 drums of water.
He is going to Kufra.
He never wanted peace. All you wanted was time.
We will be with Graziani.
If you will not come to terms,
I'll promise you immediate and terrible war.
Oh I know the power of your Government,
the power you threatens us with...
We've stood against you for 20 years ... and with the help of God,
we will stay with you till your end.
I knew this conclusion....
Poor folks, they think they can ride against the Golden Army.
It's Kufra, no question.
Thousands of soldiers and machines, all going to Kufra.
Graziani is doing what no one has ever done.
He's putting tanks in a desert.
The tanks... is on our side.
Graziani is marching south to Kufra We, attack North. We throw him back.
But we must fight him for Kufra.
Sometimes, it is braver not to die. What is lost count as lost.
We know your family is there.
But, to defend Kufra is to die there.
I must go.
Yes, yes you must.
- Are you ready to patter them? - Yes sir.
Good...then, give them hell.
Lt. Sandrini, open fire.
Fire!
Go now.
Fire everything on them.
Bom it to the front.
Murderers.
- What are you doing? - Consolute Graziani orders.
No retreat, we fight and die here.
Fire!
Gentlemen, this is Kufra.
The seizure of Kufra has hurt us deeply.
It has closed the south.
The only road for military supplies is across the Egyptian Border.
We are in desperate need of supplies, food...
3 Italian cars coming up the Merch Road.
- How many? - Three. They are flying white flags.
Let them in.
We will finish later.
Sharif El Gariani.
To come through, we had to use the Italian cars.
- You found them comfortable? - We want to talk to you alone.
What we have to say annot be said in public.
Then, it is not to be said to me.
Omar, why do you not surrender?
We've obtained the best terms you can from the Italians.
Mohamed will re-direct a safe conduct out of the country.
- Safe conduct? Where to? - Egypt.
To Egypt... To hide with his brother.
You are the only sonusi left in this country.
and I look at you, just..
Just look at him.
But, my people have fought to defend your own privileges.
Where are you now?
Omar Mukhtar... The Italians are asured us,
You better get back to them.
My friend.. they are the government of this country.
No, they take this land by day,
but by God we take it back by night.
Omar Mukhtar, you are alone,
cut off from the rest of this country, isolated from the rest of the world.
In the legal nations, it will not speak.
and if they should not listen, no one would care.
This battle is not being fought in the league of nations,
this battle is being fought here on this land.
Omar, you cannot win this war.
Your blood against their metal?
Every man has two days, his own day... and his children day.
Your children are starving, dying in the concentration camps.
Dying... because you persist in fighting.
Yes... yes they are... hostages of war.
but not one of them betrays me.
Not one has asked me to surrender because
they know and I know that if I surrender, I betray them.
Omar, we grew up together.
Don't you remember 70 years ago, we were boys together.
Yes, yes I remember.
Look how far apart we have grown.
This may be the last chance you have for seeking an honourable peace.
They steal our land, they destroy our homes, they kill innocent people
and you call it peace?
I will not be corrupted by that man's peace.
- Perhaps we should go. - Yes, I think you should.
Yes you should.
- Mabrouka? - Yes.
You're alive...
Yes with Siddik Omar.
I prayed for you.
When he sees malik showed him the back, he gave it to me.
My boy.
My baby.
Was he a brave boy?
Will you be back?
Yes.
But not for some time.
Go.
Go now.
Up you get, come on, out.
The child is sick sir. I don't want him. I don't care.
You are accused of giving aid,
comfort and sustainance to the rebels in the mountain.
Do you admit these capited crimes?
So, you are admitting your guilt?
You will all hang by your necks,
until you are dead.
As the holder of the Silver of Honour Leutinant,
you will have the privilege of giving the order for the execution.
No.
What did you say? You will do your duty Leutinant.
I did not join the army to hang women, sir.
Very well...
Lt. Sandrini, you will consider yourself under arrest.
Thank you God for the lives that you have given.
What am I to do? You refuse your duty.
In-subordination is a very serious offence.
When your officer starts crype consciences,
you had done well to land here.
I'm prepared to answer to the Court Marshall sir.
Indeed... and I am not prepared to loose one of my colonists news here.
The hero I created.
I will not give you the pleasure nor the
publicity of a Court Marshall Sandrini.
As an officer, you were taught to obey orders not to questions orders.
- Yes sir, but.. - Do not dispute with me.
The State has needs that out-way the conscious of an individual,
the demand that goes beyond individual intelligence,
don't you agree?
Yes sir.
You will report to Sarsani for duty in the mountains.
I will give you the honour of dying that you deserve.
Get this stuff loaded.
Saleem take care of the tanks.
I will blow up the Benzene.
Gentlemen, this time he won't get away.
First, we take the bridge,
get our armour behind him, artilery in front of him.
then we pound him into submission.
About the bridge sir, I'm surprised that Mukhtar hasn't tried to cut it.
That's because he's an artful fighter, not an educated one.
He didn't go to military academy like you gentlemen.
Now is the time, we tangle the bait.
Check the bridge.
Sargeant, check the bridge.
All clear.
Right, check the next bridge, I will hold this one here.
He is careful.
He is showing his naive.
That is bait. We should have blown up the bridge.
No.
The scout cars, we must stop him.
Give the signal.
Did you see?
Look the mice,
they could never resist the cheese, could they?
Prepare the artilery to open fire.
Blast them.
Now, send in the army.
Now, he has made his move. Let's go.
Look, over there.
Ambush!
Now.
He is good.
This old man is good.
My dear General
My dear dear General.
I hoped you are the man who share some of
your credit but that after all, I chose you.
- I hope to say that I can... - You can have anything you want.
You're the most fortunate man in this room.
I have physically moved the war from the desert into the mountains.
The last remant of the enemy has now run into holes,
we find ourselves into a position whereby we are
are forced to pull them out by their necks one by one.
Deutsche, I didn't know..
I know.
You are having difficulties.
You're having problems with them being in the mountains.
I don't seem to have an enemy to fight, yet they attack and assasinate.
I mean, they have no form,
if they have form, I could beat them with form.
But they have no continuity of movement, no fixed point of position.
I haven't however have to come to my Deutsche to remind him.
I have a radical solution.
A New Hadrian's Wall.
Except..
That Adrian used his walls to shut the Barbarians Out.
Which is mine is to shut them in.
I propose my Deutsche to fence in Libya.
To run a war in an impossible wire across the desert,
from the Mediterranean to the shores of this sea of moving sand.
It will cut the enemies off from his supplies out
of Egypt and cut him off from his retreat into Egypt.
Deutsche, my Deutsche! Hundreds of miles of barbed wire?
But, is it possible to know the cost?
Why do you question Adrian's Wall?
Remember, it was Adrian's Wall that kept
the Romans in Britain 100 years longer.
- How many bullets have you? - 12.
At this rate, we will be soon down to fighting them with stones.
How long can we last?
Till doomsday.
Nothing has got through for months.
We are fighting barbed wire.
The wire will win when it tears our spirit.
Only then.
Yes yes the wire is menace.
It is... It is around our neck.
But it is God, not Graziani that decides what becomes of us.
What is the will of wire compared to the will of God?
They have 8 million men, we have one that matters.
They are going out to be corpse sir.
They were trying to get through wire cutters and 5,000 arms of ammunition.
Well..
This is that.
Now, he has is to trickle from the concentration camps.
We will dry it up gentlemen.
We will dry it up.
Go.. Go... We will hold them off.
It's suicide sir.
They tied their legs so that they cannot run.
No.
Don't beg boy, don't beg.
You're taken in arms.
You, shoot him.
There are more in there. Follow them up.
Go on.
You took him. Shoot him.
You idiot. I said... shoot him.
Where is he?
Well?
Yes.
I confirm with the identification.
He's Omar Mukhtar.
I don't trust I am seeing him like this.
How can you say that?
He lead the rebellion against us for 20 years.
As a gallant ememy,
Omar Mukhtar should be treated by us with dignity and with respect.
With respect?
He should have been whipped all the way here.
You forget yourself sir.
Sir?
Is there anything I can do for you?
If you will allow me a little water, I can make myself ready for prayers.
Of course.
- and the chains while I pray. - Out of the question.
- He only wants to pray. - I am too old to climb walls sir.
To fight bare-handed.
Remove his chains for an hour
On your own personal responsibility sir?
Yes.
Bring the water.
Thank You.
No.
No need.
Omar Mukhtar...
I have come a long way to meet you.
Now, you must wait.
I want to ask you one question.
Why did you keep going this alone?
I'm sure you that you cannot try it out because of the religion.
Did you?
We fought you.
That was enough.
But you care nothing about the ruination or your country?
You are the ruination of my country.
What would you do if someone occupied your land?
Did you ever think your attacks will seem to us as, the ambush?
Murder by night. Deception by day.
Threats against the farmers. Farming our land.
Libya is not your country.
You have no right in it, not to a pasture of one cow, not one minute of right.
Italy has as much right as anybody else.
England has right to Egypt France to Tunicia and Algeria.
Spain to Morocco.
but none of them care to agree.
We have hundreds of years of right here.
So, you will take everything from me and you want me to justify your tax?
No nation has the right to occupy another.
We are back here, that's all. No one can deny us.
Read the date on this coin.
It's a coin of the Cesars, dated, minted in Libya.
You will also find Greek, Turkish, Tunician coins
all over Libya you will find them,
buried in our sand.
Yes, I hadn't forgotten.
You are short sighted, aren't you?
Your spectacles I believe.
The day they brought them to me, I knew you wouldn't be too far behind.
My spectacles, we're both your prisoners.
I will not be trivial. Take them back. Here...
Yes, it does have an interesting past
but don't try to buy too much with it today.
The money like your glory is not permanent.
But I respect your past and you must respect ours.
We too have a history and science, mathematics and medicine.
In your dark ages, we lead the world to learn.
How many days will it take you to arrange the surrender of your men?
We will never surrender.
We win or we die.
and don't think that it stops there.
We will have the next generation to fight,
and after that the next, the next.
As for me, I will live longer than my hang-man.
What makes you think I'm going to hang you?
I made suit in my papers, better to pension you.
If I hang you, I run the risk of beating an open grave.
But, on the other hand, you are the prime example.
You can only do to me what God decides for me.
Those chains are uncomfortable?
Yes, uncomfortable effects.
Sit Down.
Thank You.
...Do you know...
I had always hoped that you and I... in-packable enemies, when
sit down on the day of your capture and discuss like Cesar ...
General Omar Mukthar cannot give you the conquest of Cesar.
I wanted you for so long.
I mean knowing each other so do an idea.
Can't we work together with peace?
and today's the day I work for you?
Why don't you ask me with your life,
I might give it to you, like that.
What do I give you?
My coloboration?
No.
You are too late for bargains Mukhtar.
You are far too late.
I have not asked you for my life,
do not tell the world,
in the privacy of this room I asked you for my life.
No, I will not do that.
I will not lie about you.
You are a man of courage.
Let jus hope you can keep that courage tomorrow.
Rope of your justice is always hanging in front of me General.
Have him fed now. I wish my enemies to be recorded.
Instruct the President of the Court that he
must be hanged in front of his people.
They must be there.
Omar Mukhtar, you are accused
of open rebelliong against the lawful Government of your country.
What age are you?
73.
Are you the head of the forces in Libya fighting against Italy?
Yes, I am.
Have you taken part in attacks on Italian Soldiers?
Yes, I have.
For how long, have you taken part in attacks on Italian Soldiers?
20 years.
How many attacks?
No... I... I couldn't remember the number.
You ordered the torturing and murdering of Italian Prisoners?
I did not.
Never.
You were captured with arms in your hands.
Yes, I was.
The enemy of Italian soldiers
In the field, I would reason it.
... but here.
I am obliged to.
I am appointed to defend him.
You are an old man.
Older, than all of us here.
and I will not abuse you with too many questions.
Did you ever submit to the Italian Authority?
I did not.
Did you ever receive money or other subsidy from the Italian Government,
as a condition of good behaviour?
I did not.
Never.
I declare,
that Omar Mukhtar never submitted to us.
Never took subsidy from us.
Never recognize our right to rule in this colony.
He cannot therefore,
illogic or justice betrayed by us as a rebel.
When we captured Omar Mukhtar, after 20 years of battles,
we are morally obliged to deal with him as a prisoner of war.
Silence in Court.
Captain Lontano, you were ordered to
defend this rebel against the charge of treason.
You have over-stepped your orders.
The sentence on you, Omar Mukhtar,
is that by hanging, in public, in the town of Sadook at 7 O'clock tomorrow.
The 16th of September, 1931.
You denign of the Fascist Era.
From God we come and unto God, we shall return.
In the name of the Government of the Italian Selanaica,
we execute this sentence as agreed by the military tribunal of Benghazi,
on the 15th day of September 1931 year 9 of the Fascist Theorm.
Omar Mukhtar, you have been found
guilty of high treason both morally and
materially on a staging the rebellion against
the Italian Government of this Colony.
Your sentence passed by the Court, death
hanging in a public place will now be carried out.
Thank you god for letting me died in the hands of the enemies.
Untie him.
We will never surrender.
We win or we die
We will have the next generation to fight,
and after the next, and the next.
As for me, I will live longer than my hang-man.
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