Italian war crimes

Italian war crimes
Italian war crimes
	Italian soldiers burning a village in Čabar in the Independent State of Croatia in 1941.
Location	Europe and Africa, in particular Yugoslavia; Ethiopia; Greece; Libya; Somalia; Albania;
Date	1911 - 1945
Target	Ethiopians, South Slavs, Libyans, Greeks, Albanians, Jews
Attack type	Ethnic cleansing, starvation, internment, mass murder, reprisals, poison gas, genocidal massacres, rape
Deaths	c. 500,000-900,000 382,800 Ethiopians (Ethiopian government claim); 11,000 (direct deaths) to 300,000 (famine deaths) Greeks; 20,000 to 100,000 Libyans; 40,000+ Yugoslavs; 28,000 Albanians; 4,000+ Spaniards;
Perpetrator	Kingdom of Italy (1911-1943); Italian Social Republic (1943-1945)
Motive	Italian irredentism; Italianisation; Racism; Colonialism; Italian nationalism; Fascism;

Italian war crimes have mainly been associated with the Kingdom of Italy during the Pacification of Libya, the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, the Spanish Civil War, and Second World War.