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A town in Italy has opened a Commemoration Park in honour of Rodolfo Graziani, an officer who sent tens of thousands of Libyans to concentration camps in the 1920s. The town of Afellay, outside Rome, has also inaugurated a Mausoleum to pay homage to Graziani, who earned a reputation for brutality in Libya. In Tripoli, he is despised as the man who captured and executed Omar al Mukhtar, now considered a national hero. George Joffee, a Cambridge University professor, says many people in modern day Libya will be irritated by the Italian town's tribute to Graziani.

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