| The Battle of Adwa 110th Commemoration Ceremony |
Thirty-nine years after Italy
lost the Battle of Adwa to
Ethiopia Mussolini carried a
systematic, mass extermination
campaign in Ethiopia with the use of
poison gas sprayed from airplanes
and other horrific atrocities that
claimed the lives of no less than one
million Ethiopian men, women and
children far removed from the
battlefield, turning Ethiopia virtually
into a desert "poisoning the air,
water and grazing grounds and
killing man and beast."
On June 30, 1936, His Imperial
Majesty, Emperor Haile Selassie I
made his "prophetic appeal" to the
League of Nations in Geneva,
Switzerland for the 52 member
league to halt Mussolini's
extermination campaign, he said,
"the fascist intent was to kill all life in
Ethiopia."
Sadly, His Majesty's appeal "fell
upon deaf ears....
lost the Battle of Adwa to
Ethiopia Mussolini carried a
systematic, mass extermination
campaign in Ethiopia with the use of
poison gas sprayed from airplanes
and other horrific atrocities that
claimed the lives of no less than one
million Ethiopian men, women and
children far removed from the
battlefield, turning Ethiopia virtually
into a desert "poisoning the air,
water and grazing grounds and
killing man and beast."
On June 30, 1936, His Imperial
Majesty, Emperor Haile Selassie I
made his "prophetic appeal" to the
League of Nations in Geneva,
Switzerland for the 52 member
league to halt Mussolini's
extermination campaign, he said,
"the fascist intent was to kill all life in
Ethiopia."
Sadly, His Majesty's appeal "fell
upon deaf ears....
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| Special Year 2000 Edition Published by The Ethiopian Holocaust Remembrance Committee 773-268-1000 |
