In February 1937, following an abortive attack by a handful of insurgents on Mussolini's High Command in Italian-occupied Ethiopia, 'repression squads' of armed Blackshirts and Fascist civilians were unleashed on the defenseless residents of Addis Ababa. In three terror-filled days and nights of arson, murder and looting, thousands of innocent and unsuspecting men, women and children were roasted alive, shot, bludgeoned, stabbed to death, or blown to pieces with hand-grenades. Meanwhile the notorious Viceroy Rodolfo Graziani, infamous for his atrocities in Libya, took the opportunity to add to the carnage by eliminating the intelligentsia and nobility of the ancient Ethiopian empire in a pogrom that swept across the land.
In a richly illustrated and ground-breaking work backed up by meticulous and scholarly research, Ian Campbell reconstructs and analyses one of Fascist Italy's least known atrocities, which he estimates eliminated 19-20 per cent of the capital's population. He exposes the hitherto little known cover-up conducted at the highest levels of the British government, which enabled the facts of one of the most hideous civilian massacres of all time to be concealed, and the perpetrators to walk free.
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Ian Campbell, a development consultant specializing in East Africa, has been studying and writing on Ethiopia since 1988. The author of several scholarly papers on various aspects of Ethiopian cultural history, his works on the Italian occupation (1936-41) include The Plot to Kill Graziani and The Massacre of Debre Libanos.
"Campbell draws on his impressive source base to resolve some of the most pressing questions about the massacre. [...] Campbell notes that after the occupation, Italians were quick to develop a case of collective amnesia. Britain would also play a decisive role in the shameful cover-up, burying evidence of the atrocities, and ultimately angling to ensure Ethiopia was denied membership to the United Nations War Crimes Commission. As a result, the perpetrators of the Italian occupation were never held accountable for their crimes in Ethiopia, and the details of those three fateful days in February 1937 have remained largely unknown. Campbell's carefully crafted and accessible study helps to rectify this injustice, and should be considered an essential read for scholars of Ethiopian and colonial history." -- Caitlin Collis , University of Pennsylvania, H-net
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