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The Ethiopian authorities asserted that the two Italians had been killed not by Ethiopian troops but by local people, angered by the bombing of their villages. The local Ethiopian commander Dejazmach Nasibu Emmanual sent a messenger to the Italian General Rodolfo Graziani , giving the Ethiopian version of events and assuring him that prisoners ...
The Gondrand massacre occurred on February 13, 1936, near the northern Ethiopian town of Mai Lahlà, the current Rama. [3] [4] A camp of civilian workers for the logistics company Gondrand, engaged at the time in road construction, was attacked at dawn by Ethiopian soldiers under the orders of Ras Imru. [3]
Yekatit 12 (Amharic: የካቲት ፲፪, romanized: Yekatīt 12), also known in Italy as the Addis Ababa massacre (Italian: Strage di Addis Ababa), is a date in the Ge'ez calendar which refers to the massacre and imprisonment of Ethiopians by the Italian occupation forces following an attempted assassination of Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, Viceroy of Italian East Africa, on 19 February 1937.
Ras Desta Damtew, who had escaped unharmed from the airstrike, immediately communicated the attack to the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie. Within hours, the bombing of the field hospital became international news, causing indignant reactions that worried Benito Mussolini. He ordered Graziani to avoid other actions of this kind in the future ...
The Battle of Maychew (Italian: Mai Ceu) was the last major battle fought on the northern front during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.The battle consisted of a failed counterattack by the Ethiopian forces under Emperor Haile Selassie making frontal assaults against prepared Italian defensive positions under the command of Marshal Pietro Badoglio.
Dendi, Shewa Province, Ethiopian Empire [2] Died: 7 April 2017 (aged 97) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Allegiance Ethiopian Empire: Service / branch: Army: Years of service: 1935–1974: Rank: Lt. General: Battles / wars: Second Italo-Ethiopian War World War II Ethiopian-Somali War of 1964 Bale Revolt
Haile Mariam Mammo [a] (1904 – 6 June 1938), alternatively known as Lej Hayla Maryam Mammo, was an Ethiopian soldier and a leader of the Patriot movement (Arbegnoch) during the Italian occupation of Ethiopia. He fought in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War in 1936 before becoming a resistance leader in his native province of Shewa. He was ...
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