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Tito Minniti (31 July 1909 – 26 December 1935) was an Italian pilot who was killed during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War in 1935 near Degehabur.It is unknown whether he died in combat or after being captured by Ethiopian forces. [1]
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]
Organized Oromo youth, Oromo Liberation Army, Ethiopia Ethiopian Federal Police [25] [26] Humera massacre: November 2020 Humera, Tigray: 92 Amharan militias/Fano; ENDF; Gawa Qanqa massacre: 2 November 2020 Gawa Qanqa, West Welega Zone: 32-54 Oromo Liberation Army. (Disputed) with Ethiopian Government. Allegation of collaboration. [27] [28] Mai ...
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, was a war of aggression waged by Italy against Ethiopia, which lasted from October 1935 to February 1937. In Ethiopia it is often referred to simply as the Italian Invasion ( Amharic : ጣልያን ወረራ , romanized : Ṭalyan warära ; Oromo : Weerara ...
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.
Part of Italo-Ethiopian War of 1887–1889: ... Bahru Zewde, A History of Modern Ethiopia - from 1855 to 1974, Eastern African Studies, (2nd ed. 1999), ...
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 ...
When Emperor Menelik learned of this treachery, he renounced the treaty which led to the First Italo-Abyssinian War, and as the bitter news spreads through Ethiopia the major nobility and military figures, including Ras Alula, unanimously joined him. The conflict culminated at the Battle of Adwa on 1 March 1896.