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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/356919 > >‘*Omar al-Mokhtar is considered the great symbol for the Libyan resistance (Jihad) against the Italian occupation. In 1922 he reorganized the Mojahideen and re-ignited the resistance against Italy after World War I when the [Fascists] thought that they succeeded in silencing the Libyan resistance. Omar Al-Mokhtar was ill [a] couple of times and many of his comrades asked him to retire and leave the country; he was [nearly] 80 years old. But he refused and kept fighting and he deserved a name given to him as “The Lion of the Desert.” On 16 September, 1931 the [Fascists] hanged Omar Al-Mokhtar in the city of Solouq and they forced the Libyans to watch their hero be hanged. [No consideration to Omar Al-Mokhtar's old age, no consideration to international law and no consideration to world war treaties.](https://web.archive.org/web/20191105000003/http://www.libyanet.com/omar001.htm)*’ > > ([Source.](https://archive.is/20121216130041/permai1.tripod.com/umar.html) Note that the ‘Mojahideen’ is not to be confused with the unrelated Afghan mujahideen.) > > As paraphrased in the dramatization [*Lion of the Desert*](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=4qhHpfHgyUU), to General Rodolfo Graziani: > > >‘*We will never surrender. We win, or we die. […] You will have the next generation to fight, and after the next, the next. As for me, I will live longer than my hangman.*’ > > — Omar al-Mukhtar (1862–1931)