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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 1. November 1911 / Timeline November 1, 1911

31. Oktober 1911, 2. November 1911

11/01/1911
Første tripoliskrig
Første bomber fra fly rammer hospital i Libyen
On 1st November, 1911, Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti dropped the first bomb from an aeroplane. According to the Ottoman authorities it hit the military hospital in Ayn Zara in the Libyan desert. The Italians strongly denied targeting an installation protected by the Geneva Convention. Modern aerial warfare and the propaganda battle which has accompanied it ever since was underway from the start.
Lt. Gavotti's four bombs were modified hand grenades, but soon the Italians had learned how to drop incendiary bomb and shrapnel bombs – what we would now call cluster munitions.
Kilder: Mark Almond: The Forgotten Fascist Roots of Humanitarian Interventionism: 100 Years of Bombing Libya:
- http://www.counterpunch.org/almond04052011.html

11/01/1911

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