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This Week In Black History

October 3 – Italy invades Ethiopia

October 3 – Italy invades Ethiopia
  • PublishedOctober 3, 2020

October 3, 1935: Italy invades Ethiopia.

Ethiopia, one of the only two independent African nations at the time, was invaded on October 3,1935 by Facist Italy under Benito Mussolini. The Italians, seeking revenge for their prior humiliating loss to Ethiopia over 40 years earlier, committed countless atrocities on the independent African state. Poisonous gas, aerial bombardment, flame throwers and concentration camps were all employed against the ill equipped Ethiopian people.

Black outrage throughout the world was unified. The League of Nations forerunner to the UN, was criticized sharply for supplying weapons to Italy and not to Ethiopia. Such actions confirmed Black suspicion that the war was of racial motivation and sought to extinguish the last light of African power in the world.

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Africh Royale

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