| The Fascist Genocide of the Ethiopian People 1935-1941 "...GOD AND HISTORY WILL BE THE JUDGE..." "The fascist intent was to exterminate all life in Ethiopia." Emperor Haile Selassie I June 30, 1936 |
Despite the fact that the British Foreign Office formally established a War Crimes Commission in 1943, and
the United Nations and the International World Court at the Hague were established in the United States in
1945, and three years later, the International Genocide Convention and the Declaration of Human Rights
were adopted in 1948, each one of these international human rights organs and instruments excluded any
mention of the genocide of the Ethiopian people that took place from 1935-1941; as such, no fascist Italian
has ever been held accountable for war crimes against humanity in Ethiopia, though this atrocity occurred
within the same time frame as the one that took place in Europe from 1933-1945.
Surprisingly, In 1998, the United Nations celebrated its 50th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights
in Rome where the UN returned to the haunting issue of international genocide and once again, the
Ethiopian genocide of 1935-1941 was ignored. Mysteriously, the details of this horrific atrocity continue to
be stricken from the annals of the world’s history books and United Nations genocide archives and related
documents, until this very day. Such historical omissions make it appear as if the fascist genocide of the
Ethiopian people never happened; consequently, justice for Ethiopia has remained “a fleeting illusion” for
the past seventy-three years.
