.,Crimes of Italy,In 1911, Italy went to war with the Ottoman Empire and invaded Ottoman Tripolitania. One of the most notorious incidents of this conflict was the October Tripoli massacre, wherein many civilian inhabitants of Mechiya oasis were killed over three days as retribution for the execution and mutilation of Italian captives taken in an ambush at nearby Sciara Sciat.,.,Crimes of Italy,During the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, Italian violations of the laws of war were reported and documented.2 These included use of chemical weapons such as mustard gas and attacks on Red Cross facilities.During the 19361941 Italian occupation, atrocities also occurred; in the February 1937 Yekatit 12 massacres as many as 30,000 Ethiopians may have been killed and many more imprisoned as a reprisal for the attempted assassination of Viceroy Rodolfo Graziani. Thousands of Ethiopians also died in concentration camps such as Danane and Nocra.,.,Crimes of Italy,Benito Mussolini: In 1936, during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, Mussolini ordered the manufacturing/purchase of hundreds of tons of yperite, phosgene and fire munitions in the form of aerial bombs and artillery and mortar shells.Pietro Badoglio: In 1936, during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, Badoglio approved, as commander in chief of the Italian army, the use of poisonous gas against enemy troops.,.,Crimes of Italy,Rodolfo Graziani: In 1950, a military tribunal sentenced Graziani to prison for a term of 19 years (but released after a few months) as punishment for his collaboration with the Nazis, when he was Minister of Defense of the Italian Social Republic.citation neededMario Roatta: In 19411943, during the 22-month existence of the Province of Ljubljana, Roatta ordered the deportation of 25,000 people, which equaled 7.5% of the total population. The operation, one of the most drastic in Europe, filled up Italian concentration camps on the island of Rab, in Gonars, Monigo (Treviso), Renicci dAnghiari,