Battle of Uadi Bu Taga

Thanks to the help of the air force, during the battle the Italian soldiers defeated the tribes of Braasa and Dorsa and a unit of Libyan Savaris of the Italian Army captured Omar al-Mukhtar, leader of the rebellion, on September 9, 1931.^[2] He was later brought to Soluch and executed by hanging here on September 16.^[3] His aides, including Yousuf Burahil and Fadil Bu Umar, were also executed on 24 September 1932.^[4] Rodolfo Graziani stated that during the executions, 20,000 Bedouins were forced to assist the events to show that their aggression towards the Italian colonials was over.^{[citation needed]} At the end of the battle the heaviest clashes during the Second Italo-Senussi War also ended. The campaign was later declared over by General Pietro Badoglio on 24 January 1932.^[5]