💭 Giorgia Meloni in 1996: “Mussolini Was a Good Politician, in That Everything He Did, He Did for Italy.” Wow!
“When the sun of culture is low, even dwarves will cast long shadows.”
Italy’s colonial history speaks volumes not only about the Fascist regime but also about postwar Italy and how the ‘continuity of the state’ influenced the historical development of Italian democracy.
On May 5, 1936, after seven months of war, Marshal Pietro Badoglio telegraphed the news to Rome about the entry of the Italian Army’s troops into Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.
On May 9, Mussolini, from the balcony of Piazza Venezia, triumphantly announced “the resurgence of the Empire on the destined hills of Rome.” All this history is now following Giorgia Meloni like a long shadow in her trip to the former Italian colony, the first post-fascist Prime Minister and political daughter of the MSI, the heir party to Mussolini’s movement.
In reality, the fact that there was never a reckoning with that part of history is not exclusive to the far right and calls into question Italian society as a whole. Even nowadays, streets, squares and monuments all over the country are named after and dedicated to the imperialist war waged by Fascism, and no government or institution has thought to intervene to at least give an explanation of what Via dell’Amba Aradam, Via Addis Ababa or Largo Ascianghi mean in their historical context.
Italy’s colonial past has been an enormous repressed baggage for our Republic, which made the change from Fascism to democracy without its own symbolic Nuremberg trial, and instead formed its self-image with the false myth of “Italians are good people.” This was shown by the incredible extent of the ostracism by the press and mass media against the greatest (and former partisan) historian of Italian colonialism, Angelo Del Boca. His polemic with Indro Montanelli on the use of mustard bombs and asphyxiant gases by the Italian Army was particularly memorable (which the latter kept denying, implausibly, invoking solely his “personal memory” from his time among the occupation troops), a force whose aviation dropped 200 tons of explosives in the Battle of Scirè in February-March 1936 alone.
These war crimes were confirmed by documents and were not merely isolated incidents. After the occupation of Addis Ababa, massacres of civilians and partisans continued on a regular basis, so much so that the military office of the Ministry of Italian Africa recorded, as of June 10, 1940, 76,906 Ethiopian rebels killed, 4,437 wounded and 2,847 prisoners.
That history speaks volumes not only about the Fascist regime but also about postwar Italy and how the “continuity of the state,” as Claudio Pavone has taught us, influenced the historical development of democracy in our country.
In Ethiopia, police operations were coordinated by Rodolfo Graziani, a Fascist high official appointed viceroy of Ethiopia, war criminal and minister of the Armed Forces of the collaborationist Salò army. After the war, he was tried but quickly released from prison, becoming honorary president of the MSI in 1952. His pacifying “embrace” with Giulio Andreotti in Arcinazzo during one of the Christian Democrat politician’s election rallies would become infamous. In 2012, a mausoleum was inaugurated in his honor in the town of Affile, financed by the regional government of Lazio, then led by Renata Polverini and including the then-Councilman for Transport Francesco Lollobrigida, now a loyal underling in the Meloni government.
After an attack against Graziani by the Ethiopian Resistance on February 19, 1937, the Italian military command ordered a mass extermination (14,294 rebels killed and executed and 50,000 houses burned) culminating in the massacre of the Coptic monks of Debrà Libanòs and carried out by units led by Pietro Maletti. Decades later, the latter’s son, Gianadelio Maletti, who followed in his father’s footsteps in his military career, was convicted of aiding and abetting as part of the investigation into the December 12, 1969 Piazza Fontana massacre.
Giorgia Meloni could learn in Ethiopia the story of another of the founding fathers of her MSI: Alessandro Lessona, placed by Mussolini at the head of the Ministry for Italian East Africa. In the postwar period, having gone through the purge unscathed, he would be a member and then senator of the MSI in 1963. In April 1969, he resigned from the party and joined the National Front of Junio Valerio Borghese (another honorary president of the MSI) shortly before the coup attempt of December 7-8, 1970.
Thus, while she’s touting a chimerical “Mattei Plan” for Africa, Meloni might take the opportunity to think back to those founding fathers and “those people who are no more” to whom she dedicated her electoral victory in September. Instead, she will continue to ignore the issue (and so will national public opinion), banking on the country’s disinterest in knowledge of its past and relying on the sad spirit of our times, which recalls Karl Kraus’ famous aphorism: “When the sun of culture is low, even dwarves will cast long shadows.”
❖ This KISS on Good Friday, the Friday before Easter – SHAME on Them! 😈
➡ and Despite:
☆ Since 2020, the fascist Oromo regime of evil Abiy Ahmed Ali has been able to massacre over a million Orthodox Christians in Northern Ethiopia.
☆ 200.000 Women, Nuns, Girls Raped
☆ The Siege of the Axum region is Causing mass Starvation for Millions
❖ Orthodox Good Friday 14th April 2023
Italian PM Giorgia Meloni Arrives in Addis Ababa (Why during Easter?)
She was welcomed by the Fasicst Oromo PM Abiy Ahmed Ali and his Heathen & ‘Joyful’ Oromo Dancers, while the Persecuted Orthodox Christians commemorate the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ by chanting, whipping, bowing, and praying in this day of mourning.
In April 1938, Britain and Italy signed the Easter Accords under which Britain promised to recognise Ethiopia as Italian in exchange for Italy pulling out of the Spanish Civil War.
👉 6 February 2023
President Giorgia Meloni of Italy meets with Black Mussolini Abiy Ahmed Ali
💭 Italy Invited a Genocider, the Black Mussolini aka Ahmed Ali | Woe to Italy, Mount Etna is Boiling!
💭 Giorgia Meloni in 1996: “Mussolini Was a Good Politician, in That Everything He Did, He Did for Italy.” Wow!
😈 The Genesis of Italo-Oromo Fascism – How Rome and The End Times Connect
Rabbi Jonathan Cahn: “No empire has been so linked to power as
Rome. The nature of Rome is to smash, pulverize, assimilate and mix together. The culture that came from Rome which is western culture the one we all grew up in it’s from Rome. In Italy where Rome was, where the movement in the 20th century was called fascism, Mussolini’s fascism comes from Rome, from the fourth creature. The common prophetic view is that the roman empire will be revived – Rome is still here. In the End Times in some way this roman civilization is going to manifest”
🔥 Ethiopia: Where Two World Wars Began — and Where the Third Is Brewing
The First Italo-Ethiopian War[a] was fought between Italy and Ethiopia from 1895 to 1896. It originated from the disputed Treaty of Wuchale, which the Italians claimed turned Ethiopia into an Italian protectorate. Full-scale war broke out in 1895, with Italian troops from Italian occupied Eritrea achieving initial successes at Coatit, Senafe and Debra Ailà, until they were reinforced by a large Christian Ethiopian army led by General Ras Alula Abanega.
The Battle of Adwa (29 February-1 March 1896) is of huge significance for Africa in that the decimation of the continent could not be completed. Ethiopia turned out to be the last man standing.
After this Italian defeat the Roman Italians, French and Germans begun infiltrating the Ethiopian state. They initially killed the great Christian Emperor Yohannes IV, his son Ras Mengesha and General Ras Alula – and gradually put the Oromo warlord Menelik ll and his Oromo /Oromara associates into power, who treasonously gave them the historical Ethiopian territories like Eritrea and Djibouti. Just like today, with the help of the Oromo Menelik II, the Romans were able to massacre and starve to death over a million Northern Ethiopian Orthdoox Christians who were the main forces behind the Italian humiliation.
Yes, with this the 1st World War started in Ethiopia – and a few years after the Ethiopia adventure, the Romans/Europeans had to pay a very heavy price for their Jihad against Ethiopian Orthodox Christians. Between 2014 and 2018, the total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I, was around 40 million. There were 20 million deaths and 21 million wounded.
👉 The Romans-Italians came back to avenge Adwa 1896
🔥 Second Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1941)
Italians using Chemical Weapons on Ethiopian Christians
During the Second Italo Abyssinian war the invading Fascist Italians attempted to colonize Ethiopia to avenge the Adwa humiliation of 1896. However the Ethiopians fought tooth and nail to free their country from the white army.
When the Italian operation even with it’s superior weaponry, war planes and tanks started being defeated by Ethiopian patriots, Mussolini in a panic authorized the Italians to use mustard gas, a deadly chemical weapon that causes horrible burns. The League of Nations had banned it’s use but the Italians decided to break the rules of war.
The Fascists finally took Addis Ababa using this cruel cowardly illegal tactic and killed hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians including women children and the elderly. This video also shows the two armies as they head to war and then images of Ethiopian civilians killed by the poisonous mustard gas. The wounded survivors are shown being treated for their burn wounds.
Like 40 years earlier, and like today the traitor Gala-Oromo & Oromara Soldiers were associated with the enemies and the traitors mixed in disguise with the forces of Fascist Italy to Massacre, Gas and starve to death million of Ethiopian Christians.
The Romans brought another Oromo Ras Teferi a.k.a Haile Selassie into power. He too did the Italian job for them, massacring and starving to death millions of Northern Ethiopian Christians.
Yes, with this the 2nd World War started in Ethiopia – and a few years after the Ethiopia adventure, the Romans/Europeans had to pay another heavy price for their continued Jihad against Ethiopian Orthodox Christians. Between 1939 to 1945 some 75 million people died in World War II, including about 20 million military personnel and 40 million civilians.
🔥 Third Roman/ Italo-Ethiopian War from 1970 till Today
Edomite Romans + Ishmaelite Muslims vs Ethiopian Christians
👉 History repeating itself:
Oromos, Oromaras, Romans, Arabs, Turks and Iranians are bombing Axum Zion again. These evil forces use siege, rape, hunger & forced resettlement tactics in their Jihad against Orthodox Christians of Ethiopis. Their evil agents Menelik ll + Haile Selassie + Mengistu Hailemariam, Isaias Afewerki (actually his real father is Arab Muslim, called ‘Abdullah Hassan’) Debretsion (we suspect he too has Muslim ancestors) and Ahmed Ali all do the Italian job for the historical enemies of Ethiopia. What we are witnessing in Northern Ethiopia the continuation of the Antichrist’s Jihad campaign that begun in stages, 1400, 500 and 130 years ago:-
😈 Menelik ll: Half Oromo + Half Amhara = Oromo (Crypto-Muslim / Man of the flesh)
😈 Haile Selassie: Half Oromo + Half Amhara = Oromo (Crypto-Muslim / Man of the flesh)
😈 Mengistu Hailemariam: Half Oromo + Half Amhara = Oromo (Crypto-Muslim / Man of the flesh)
😈 Abiy Ahmed Ali ´= Half Oromo + Half Amhara = Oromo (Crypto-Muslim / Man of the flesh)
🐷 1. Menelik II. (1844 – 1913)
The genocidal Menelik II Oromo regime was installed by Anglo-Saxons + French + Italians + Germans – after murdering the last true Ethiopian and Christian Emperor Yohannes IV, on 10 March 1889.
💭 The Great Ethiopian Famine of 1888-1892
The great famine is estimated to have caused 3.5 million deaths. During Emperor Menelik’s Reign, Tigraywas split into two regions, one of which he sold to the Italians who later named it Eritrea. Only two months after the death of Emperor Yohaness lV, Menelik signed the Wuchale treaty of 2 May 1889 conceding Eritrea to the Italians. It was not only Eritrea that Menelik gave away, he also had a hand in letting Djibouti be part of the French protectorate when he agreed the border demarcation with the French in 1887. Some huge parts of Tigray were put under Gonder. The Southern part, places like present day Alamata, Kobo etc were put under Wello Amhara administration.
🐷 2. Haile Selassie (1892 – 1975)
The genocidal Haile Selassie Oromo regime was installed by Anglo-Saxons + French + Italians + Germans.
In 1943, at the request of the Emperor Haile Selassie, the Royal British Airforce bombed two towns – Maekaelle and Corbetta. Thousands of defenseless civilians lost their lives as a result of aerial bombardment. It is recorded that ‘on 14th October [1943] 54 bombs dropped in Maekaelle, 6th October 14 bombs followed by another 16 bombs on 9thOctober in Hintalo, 7th/9th October 32 bombs in Corbetta’.
Between 2 and 5 million’ people died between 1958 and 1977 as a cumulative result. Haile Selassie, who was emperor at the time, refused to send any significant basic emergency food aid to the province of Tigray,
🐷 3. Mengistu Hailemariam (1937 – )
1979 – 1985 + 1987
The genocidal and Antichristian Oromo Dergue regime was installed by the United States. Declassified CIA documents reveal that Dergue was an Oromo regime.
Due to organized government policies that deliberately multiplied the effects of the famine, around 1.2 million Christians of Northern Ethiopia died from this famine. Mengistu & his Children still alive & ‘well’ while Orthodox Christians are starving again.
🐷 4. Abiy Ahmed Ali (1976 – )
The genocidal and Antichristian fascist Oromo regime was installed by the United States.
2018 – Until today: over 1.5 million Orthodox Christians massacred by this evil monster. 😠 😢 Unlike the past famine there is no natural or man-made drought, rather, Abiy Ahmed Ali simply uses war and hunger as a weapon. Abiy Ahmed Ali sent his kids to America for safety and better life, while bombing & starving Christian kids to death.
☆ Soldiers of the fascist Oromo regime of Abiy Ahmed are deploying rape and famine in their war in the Tigray region.
☆ Genocide in Tigray: Over a million Christians Massacred
☆ 200.000 women, girls, even Nuns systematically raped
☆ The already three-year-old siege of Tigray is Causing Starvation for Millions.
☆ Six million People Silenced: Four months since the so-called “Peace Accord” was announced, yet Independent investigators, journalist or humanitarian workers can not gain access to Tigray. The genocidal regime of Abiy Ahmed and its collaborators, the TPLF + ELF + PP + EZEMA + ANM are exploiting the total media blackout, medieval-like siege and humanitarian blockade with aims to buy enough time to hide their genocidal acts, and other egregious crimes they all have committed on the Orthodox Christians of Tigray.
❖ The region of Tigray is the cradle of Ethiopian Christianity and civilization.
💭 “Men of action must cease being men of action to write history, which demands a certain tranquility.”
❖ March 2023 marked 127 years of the historic victory of Ethiopian Christians over an aspiring imperial power, Italy, soon after the shameful Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 that cut up Africa and divided its territory and resources.
On March 2nd, 2023 Ethiopia was celebrating the 127th anniversary of Victory of Adwa in 1896 by Ethiopian Orthodox Christians over Italian invaders. It was THE VICTORY of The Almighty Egziabher God + St. George + Northern Ethiopian Christians over evil.
👉 Addis Ababa, 03. March 2023 – The Historical St. George’s Church
To divert the World’s attention from the ongoing genocide in the Tigray region, the fascist Oromo Army/Police of Black Mussolini a.k.a Abiy Ahmed Entered Illegally The Church Compound and fired tear gas and live bullets inside the historical Orthodox Christian Church at worshipers, just like its Fascist Italy predecessors. The Fascist police also blocked all way leading to the Church which is unprecedented. A Priest was shot dead. Many Parishioners attending church services were injured.
❖ Little girl inside the church compound:
“Your faith will save you,
Saint George will save you,
Don’t run. Saint George the knight will come,
We will not remain crying like this!”
The cowardly world media is silent, the many international Organizations, The UN, The AU, Western and Eastern embassies all risk being complicit in conspiracy of silence. They see and know what’s going on, but, a susual, they say and do nothing!
🏴 Unholy alliance: Edomite West + Ishmaelite East (ESAU & Ishmael)
💭 Roman agents; TPLF + EPLF + OLF + EZEMA and Amhara and Galla groups have massacred and starved to death over a million Ethiopian Chrisians of Tigray for their Western Luciferian Overlords, Arabs, Turks and Iranians in under two years.
👉 13 – 15 December 2022
The U.S. welcomed black Hitler a.k.a Abiy Ahmed, who slaughtered over a million Orthodox Christians. Joe Biden watched the World Cup with genocider Abiy Ahmed Ali.
💭 US SoS Anthony Blinken, The Son of a Holocaust Survivor Shaking Hands With the Devil aka Black Hitler
👉 27 December 2022
Chief of Staff of Army of Ethiopia ‘Field Marshal’ Birhanu Jini Jula pays
an official visit to Turkey. A second visit in six months. By the way, this genocider got the ‘Field Marshal’ title after killing a million Orthodox Christians of Ethiopia.
👉 The Franco-German visit, 12 and 13 January 2023
Mme Catherine Colonna, French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs pay a joint visit to Ethiopia with Mme Annalena Baerbock, the German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs.
♀️ Female European Ministers Meet Black Hitler Who Massacred Over a Million Orthodox Christians
❖ 200.000 Christian Women Raped
☆ Yesterday Nazi Ukraine – 🐺 Today Fascist Oromo of Ethiopia
😲 Just Unbelievable – Reel Mockery! What a wicked world!
👉16 – 18 January 2023
One of the responsible actors of TigrayGenocide, UAE President Sheikh Mohamed receives Jihadist PM Abiy Ahmed. A day earlier, Anti-Orthodox and evil Abiy Ahmed Ali visited the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church under construction in Abu Dhabi. Wow!
👉 6 February 2023
President Giorgia Meloni of Italy meets with Black Mussolini Abiy Ahmed Ali
💭 Italy Invited a Genocider, the Black Mussolini aka Ahmed Ali | Woe to Italy, Mount Etna is Boiling!
💭 Giorgia Meloni in 1996: “Mussolini Was a Good Politician, in That Everything He Did, He Did for Italy.” Wow!
👉 18 February 2023
Genocider Abiy Ahmed Ali meets Sultan bin Saad Al-Muraikhi – Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar.
Genocider Abiy Ahmed holds a phone conversation with the dictator of Antichrist Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
👉 05 March 2023
Genocider Abiy Ahmed Ali meets with Turkish-Drone-Financier Qatar Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in Doha.
😈 The Genesis of Italo-Oromo Fascism
🔥 Ethiopia: Where Two World Wars Began — and Where the Third Is Brewing
The First Italo-Ethiopian War[a] was fought between Italy and Ethiopia from 1895 to 1896. It originated from the disputed Treaty of Wuchale, which the Italians claimed turned Ethiopia into an Italian protectorate. Full-scale war broke out in 1895, with Italian troops from Italian occupied Eritrea achieving initial successes at Coatit, Senafe and Debra Ailà, until they were reinforced by a large Christian Ethiopian army led by General Ras Alula Abanega.
The Battle of Adwa (29 February-1 March 1896) is of huge significance for Africa in that the decimation of the continent could not be completed. Ethiopia turned out to be the last man standing.
After this Italian defeat the Roman Italians, French and Germans begun infiltrating the Ethiopian state. They initially killed the great Christian Emperor Yohannes IV, his son Ras Mengesha and General Ras Alula – and gradually put the Oromo warlord Menelik ll and his Oromo /Oromara associates into power, who treasonously gave them the historical Ethiopian territories like Eritrea and Djibouti. Just like today, with the help of the Oromo Menelik II, the Romans were able to massacre and starve to death over a million Northern Ethiopian Orthdoox Christians who were the main forces behind the Italian humiliation.
Yes, with this the 1st World War started in Ethiopia – and a few years after the Ethiopia adventure, the Romans/Europeans had to pay a very heavy price for their Jihad against Ethiopian Orthodox Christians. Between 2014 and 2018, the total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I, was around 40 million. There were 20 million deaths and 21 million wounded.
👉 The Romans-Italians came back to avenge Adwa 1896
🔥 Second Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1941)
Italians using Chemical Weapons on Ethiopian Christians
During the Second Italo Abyssinian war the invading Fascist Italians attempted to colonize Ethiopia to avenge the Adwa humiliation of 1896. However the Ethiopians fought tooth and nail to free their country from the white army.
When the Italian operation even with it’s superior weaponry, war planes and tanks started being defeated by Ethiopian patriots, Mussolini in a panic authorized the Italians to use mustard gas, a deadly chemical weapon that causes horrible burns. The League of Nations had banned it’s use but the Italians decided to break the rules of war.
The Fascists finally took Addis Ababa using this cruel cowardly illegal tactic and killed hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians including women children and the elderly. This video also shows the two armies as they head to war and then images of Ethiopian civilians killed by the poisonous mustard gas. The wounded survivors are shown being treated for their burn wounds.
Like 40 years earlier, and like today the traitor Gala-Oromo & Oromara Soldiers were associated with the enemies and the traitors mixed in disguise with the forces of Fascist Italy to Massacre, Gas and starve to death million of Ethiopian Christians.
The Romans brought another Oromo Ras Teferi a.k.a Haile Selassie into power. He too did the Italian job for them, massacring and starving to death millions of Northern Ethiopian Christians.
Yes, with this the 2nd World War started in Ethiopia – and a few years after the Ethiopia adventure, the Romans/Europeans had to pay another heavy price for their continued Jihad against Ethiopian Orthodox Christians. Between 1939 to 1945 some 75 million people died in World War II, including about 20 million military personnel and 40 million civilians.
🔥 Third Roman/ Italo-Ethiopian War from 1970 till Today
Edomite Romans + Ishmaelite Muslims vs Ethiopian Christians
👉 History repeating itself:
Oromos, Oromaras, Romans, Arabs, Turks and Iranians are bombing Axum Zion again. These evil forces use siege, rape, hunger & forced resettlement tactics in their Jihad against Orthodox Christians of Ethiopis. Their evil agents Menelik ll + Haile Selassie + Mengistu Hailemariam, Isaias Afewerki (actually his real father is Arab Muslim, called ‘Abdullah Hassan’) Debretsion (we suspect he too has Muslim ancestors) and Ahmed Ali all do the Italian job for the historical enemies of Ethiopia. What we are witnessing in Northern Ethiopia the continuation of the Antichrist’s Jihad campaign that begun in stages, 1400, 500 and 130 years ago:-
😈 Menelik ll: Half Oromo + Half Amhara = Oromo (Crypto-Muslim / Man of the flesh)
😈 Haile Selassie: Half Oromo + Half Amhara = Oromo (Crypto-Muslim / Man of the flesh)
😈 Mengistu Hailemariam: Half Oromo + Half Amhara = Oromo (Crypto-Muslim / Man of the flesh)
😈 Abiy Ahmed Ali ´= Half Oromo + Half Amhara = Oromo (Crypto-Muslim / Man of the flesh)
🐷 1. Menelik II. (1844 – 1913)
The genocidal Menelik II Oromo regime was installed by Anglo-Saxons + French + Italians + Germans – after murdering the last true Ethiopian and Christian Emperor Yohannes IV, on 10 March 1889.
The Great Ethiopian Famine of 1888-1892
The great famine is estimated to have caused 3.5 million deaths. During Emperor Menelik’s Reign, Tigraywas split into two regions, one of which he sold to the Italians who later named it Eritrea. Only two months after the death of Emperor Yohaness lV, Menelik signed the Wuchale treaty of 2 May 1889 conceding Eritrea to the Italians. It was not only Eritrea that Menelik gave away, he also had a hand in letting Djibouti be part of the French protectorate when he agreed the border demarcation with the French in 1887. Some huge parts of Tigraywere put under Gonder. The Southern part, places like present day Alamata, Kobo etc were put under Wello Amhara administration.
🐷 2. Haile Selassie (1892 – 1975)
The genocidal Haile Selassie Oromo regime was installed by Anglo-Saxons + French + Italians + Germans.
In 1943, at the request of the Emperor Haile Selassie, the Royal British Airforce bombed two towns – Maekaelle and Corbetta. Thousands of defenseless civilians lost their lives as a result of aerial bombardment. It is recorded that ‘on 14th October [1943] 54 bombs dropped in Maekaelle, 6th October 14 bombs followed by another 16 bombs on 9thOctober in Hintalo, 7th/9th October 32 bombs in Corbetta’.
Between 2 and 5 million’ people died between 1958 and 1977 as a cumulative result. Haile Selassie, who was emperor at the time, refused to send any significant basic emergency food aid to the province of Tigray,
🐷 3. Mengistu Hailemariam (1937 – )
1979 – 1985 + 1987
The genocidal and Antichristian Oromo Dergue regime was installed by the United States. Declassified CIA documents reveal that Dergue was an Oromo regime.
Due to organized government policies that deliberately multiplied the effects of the famine, around 1.2 million Christians of Northern Ethiopia died from this famine. Mengistu & his Children still alive & ‘well’ while Orthodox Christians are starving again.
🐷 4. Abiy Ahmed Ali (1976 – )
The genocidal and Antichristian fascist Oromo regime was installed by the United States.
2018 – Until today: over 1.5 million Orthodox Christians massacred by this evil monster. 😠😠😠 😢😢😢 Unlike the past famine there is no natural or man-made drought, rather, Abiy Ahmed Ali simply uses war and hunger as a weapon. Abiy Ahmed Ali sent his kids to America for safety and better life, while bombing & starving Christian kids to death.
☆ Soldiers of the fascist Oromo regime of Abiy Ahmed are deploying rape and famine in their war in the Tigray region.
☆ Genocide in Tigray: Over a million Christians Massacred
☆ 200.000 women, girls, even Nuns systematically raped
☆ The already three-year-old siege of Tigray is Causing Starvation for Millions.
☆ Six million People Silenced: Four months since the so-called “Peace Accord” was announced, yet Independent investigators, journalist or humanitarian workers can not gain access to Tigray. The genocidal regime of Abiy Ahmed and its collaborators, the TPLF + ELF + PP + EZEMA + ANM are exploiting the total media blackout, medieval-like siege and humanitarian blockade with aims to buy enough time to hide their genocidal acts, and other egregious crimes they all have committed on the Orthodox Christians of Tigray.
❖ The region of Tigray is the cradle of Ethiopian Christianity and civilization.
😈 Italy invited a fascist war criminal: Look at the Traitor-Genocider in chief, Abiy Ahmed Ali nodding his head like a slave, all the time. Hours later, the Italian government issued a statement saying, “We will give you money.” What a disgrace, what a scandal!!
😈 If a leader of a country kills one or ten the Luciferians cry about human rights, and warn him in a coordinated manner.
😈 If he kills tens and hundreds of thousands they sanction him and his nation, intervene militarily, and remove him from power.
😈 But, if he kills ‘enough’ people and agrees to follow the depopulation agenda and massacres more than a million, they will be happy, they applaud him, invite him, and give awards to him, remain quite about the atrocities. That’s why no condemnations and statements are made by the UN, AU, EU and Western Embassies in Addis Ababa are issued. They like and celebrate the depopulation genocide of Orthodox Christians!
❖ Female Italian Prime Minister Meets Black Mussolini Who Massacred Over a Million Orthodox Christians
❖ 200.000 Orthodox Christian Women, children and nuns were Raped and abused by the fascist Oromo army of Abiy Ahmed
❖ Tigray, Ethiopia Two Years On: An Anniversary of Medieval-like Siege, Massacres & Famine
On the 5th of February 2023, forty Orthodox Christians were massacred inside an Ethiopian church in the city of Shashemene. No mention of this atrocity from the evil Oromo PM of Ethiopia. No condolences, no remorse, no regrets, , nothing. To the contrary, as he does time and time agian he gives order to his people to massacre Christians and leaves Ethiopia. This time he was invited by his wicked mentors and babysitters to visit Europe. While in Italy this traitor expressed his deep sorrow and condolences not to the massacred Orthodox Christians of Ethiopia– but to Erdogan of Turkey, over the death of the powerful earthquake. What a wicked hypocrite!
❖Sun Feb 5th , 2023 Orthodox Solidarity❖
The Orthodox Christian world viewed the attack on The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church as abominable; and refused to believe that “Oromos, with the help of the Islamic and Protestant world truly wishe to seek and destroy a country and its Church that had for fourteen centuries defended Christianity against Islam.
✞ Mon Feb 6th , 2023 – Three day Fast of Nineveh
Ethiopian Orthodox Christians wear black – Genocider Abiy Ahmed visits Rome /The Vatican
Better late than never; Orthodox Christians of Ethiopia are observing these days of Fast of Nineveh from Monday 06 to Wednesday 08 February, by wearing black to protest against a government supported coup attempt to overthrow the Holy Synod by the illegal Oromo group of Abiy Ahmed Ali.
No coincidence that on this very day, the genocide enabler Romans invited black Mussolini, aka Abiy Ahmed to Italy to celebrate the genocide of millions of Orthodox Christians.
During the Italian war on Ethiopia 1936-1941, Italy carried out a systematic mass extermination campaign in Ethiopia with poison gas sprayed from airplanes and other horrific atrocities that claimed the lives of no less than 1,000,000 innocent Orthodox Christians of Ethiopian perished, including 30,000 massacred in only three days in Addis Ababa as well as the reprisal killings of the entire monastic community at the historic Debre Libanos Monastery. 300 priests, monks and nuns were killed by the Fascists there. I addition, 2,000 churches and 525,000 homes were destroyed by the Italian fascists.
The mustard gas that was sprayed by droves of Fascist planes throughout Ethiopia devastated not only hundreds of thousands of people but also millions of animals as well as the environment.
👉 “አውሎ ነፋስ Eta አሜሪካ ገባች | ETAiopia = Erta Ale ፥ ኤታ = ኤታዮጵያ ፥ ኤርታ አሌ”
💭 Yesterday Nazi Ukraine – 🐺 Today Fascist Oromo of Ethiopia
😲 Just Unbelievable – Reel Mockery! What a wicked world!
After Kharkiv, Ukraine ‘the proud atheist’ German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock is now visiting Ethiopia and meeting with black Hitlers of the fascist Oromo regime that has massacred over a million Orthodox Christians. Germany and France are providing armor to the Neo-Nazi regime of Ukraine and advocate for war 24/7 – whereas in Ethiopia, they suddenly style themselves as angels of peace. The attempt of America’s and Europe’s governments to rehabilitate the fascist Oromo regime that massacred more than one million Orthodox Christians, whose brutal army brutally raped up to 200.000 Christian women and girls, even monks, is highly irresponsible, heartless and cruel. Where is the humanity left nowadays? Where is the empathy?! This moment in history will never be forgotten!!! Ladies and Gentlemen, please google, !“Johann Ludwig Krapf„ to understand the ongoing genocide of Orthodox Christians in Ethiopia by Johann Krapf’s children: The Oromos of Ethiopia and The Hutus of Burundi and Rwanda.
Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on November 3, 2021
The Biden administration is ending Ethiopia’s special trade status under U.S. law — the latest penalty imposed on the Ethiopian government amid its ongoing war with the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front, the regional force that once controlled the federal government.
The decision, announced Tuesday by the White House, comes amid an expansion in the conflict, which has its anniversary Wednesday. The U.S. special envoy for the Horn of Africa warned it could spill out into a wider civil war, threatening even more suffering for the Ethiopian people and more instability in the region.
To halt that expansion and push both sides to negotiate, the administration has prepared targeted U.S. sanctions against figures on all sides, according to two sources familiar with the plans.
The State Department has also prepared a declaration that the Ethiopian government’s atrocities against Tigrayans constitute a genocide, both sources said, although it’s unclear whether Secretary of State Antony Blinken will sign it and when.
While those first sanctions could come soon, it’s the suspension of Ethiopia’s trade status under the African Growth and Opportunity Act on Tuesday that marked a new step. In a message to Congress, President Joe Biden said Ethiopia’s “gross violations of internationally recognized human rights” made it ineligible for AGOA under the law.
The suspension is required under U.S. law, but it is also seen as another warning shot across Abiy’s bow — with a potentially strong economic impact on the country, which exports between $100 million and $200 million to the U.S. each year, according to various estimates.
But it won’t take effect until Jan. 1, 2022, so Ethiopia can still reverse the decision before its implementation, according to Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman, U.S. special envoy for the Horn of Africa.
“It’s not too late to retrace our steps toward the path not taken, but the change in direction must occur in days, not weeks,” he said Tuesday.
Events on the ground, however, show the war is heading in the opposite direction. Abiy’s government declared a national state of emergency Tuesday amid concern that the Tigrayan Defense Forces may move on the capital Addis Ababa after seizing towns just 160 miles to the northeast, according to the Associated Press.
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Trade and Regional Integration criticized the Biden administration’s decision, saying that it was “extremely disappointed” and that the move will “reverse significant economic gains in our country and unfairly impact and harm women and children.”
“We urge the United States to support our ongoing efforts to restore peace and the rule of law — not punish our people for confronting an insurgent force that is attempting to bring down our democratically elected government,” it added in a statement.
But Feltman made clear the U.S. sees Abiy’s government as part of the problem here, in particular because its “unconscionable” blockade on the Tigray region since June has led to shortages of food, medicine, fuel,\ and cash. Some 900,000 people are facing famine-like conditions in the region, according to U.S. estimates.
The United Nations has estimated that 2,000 trucks of aid are needed per month to deal with the humanitarian crisis, but just 1,100 trucks have entered in total since the beginning of July — 13% of what’s required — per Feltman.
“Without question, the most serious obstacles are intentional government delays and denials,” he added during remarks at the U.S. Institute of Peace. “This unfortunately suggests an intentional effort by the authorities to deprive Ethiopians who are suffering of life-saving assistance. … No government should be adopting policies or allowing practices that result in mass starvation of its citizens.”
Feltman was also quick, however, to condemn the TPLF, especially for its “unacceptable” offensives into neighboring Afar and Amhara regions that have worsened the humanitarian situation. He urged them not to march on Addis, too.
🔥 Amhara & Oromos bombing Tigray – Using Rape, Hunger & Forced Resettlement (Mengistu did it back then, Abiy Ahmed is doing the same now) as a Weapon against People in Tigray for the past 130 years:-
The great famine is estimated to have caused 3.5 million deaths. During Emperor Menelik’s Reign, Tigray was split into two regions, one of which he sold to the Italians who later named it Eritrea. Only two months after the death of Emperor Yohaness lV , Menelik signed the Wuchale treaty of 2 May 1889 conceding Eritrea to the Italians. It was not only Eritrea that Menelik gave away, he also had a hand in letting Djibouti be part of the French protectorate when he agreed the border demarcation with the French in 1887. Some huge parts of Tigray were put under Gonder. The Southern part, places like present day Alamata, Kobo etc were put under Wello Amhara administration.
👉 2. Haile Selassie (1892 – 1975)
In 1943, at the request of the Emperor Haile Selassie, the Royal British Airforce bombed two towns – Mekelle and Corbetta. Thousands of defenseless civilians lost their lives as a result of aerial bombardment. It is recorded that ‘on 14th October [1943] 54 bombs dropped in Mekelle, 6th October 14 bombs followed by another 16 bombs on 9thOctober in Hintalo, 7th/9th October 32 bombs in Corbetta’.
Between 2 and 5 million’ people died between 1958 and 1977 as a cumulative result. Haile Selassie, who was emperor at the time, refused to send any significant basic emergency food aid to the province of Tigray,
👉 3. Mengistu Hailemariam (1937 – )
1979 – 1985 + 1987
Due to organized government policies that deliberately multiplied the effects of the famine, around 1.2 million people died from this famine. Mengistu & his Children still alive & ‘well’ while Tigrayans starving again.
👉 4. Abiy Ahmed Ali (1976 – )
2018 – Until today: probably up to 500.000 already dead. 😠😠😠 😢😢😢 Unlike the past famine there is no natural or man-made drought, rather, Abiy simply uses war and hunger as a weapon. Abiy Ahmed sent his kids to America for safety, while bombing & starving Tigrayan kids!
💭 On 6 December 1935 Italians bombard Dessie village as Ethiopians fire anti aircraft guns in Ethiopia during the Ethiopian-Italian War.
Press correspondents confirm the earlier messages regarding the raid on Dessie and the bombing of the hospital, which is universally condemned as a violation of international law.
The “Daily Telegraph’s” correspondent at Dessie states that pitiful scenes were witnessed throughout Saturday night. The terrified inhabitants are fleeing to the mountains, carrying their belongings. Some are bearing on their backs crippled and wounded relatives, and mothers have their babies strapped to their bodies.
The American hospital is carrying on operations under the shattered roof. Doctors, working throughout the night, performed 32 amputations. The grounds of the Seventh Day Adventist hospital, where American journalists and photographers were quartered, presented a grim scene, being littered with wounded and dying. It is the opinion of foreign doctors that the bombing was
one of the most inhuman acts on record.
💥 LONDON, December 8.
The British United Press correspondent at Dessie states that an Italian aeroplane, numbered “97,” dropped a taunting message to the Emperor. “We
salute you, Negus. Did your umbrella do you any good today! How do you
like our biscuits?”
The Emperor has ordered the departure of all citizens and the town is now practically deserted. Only a few policemen and Red Cross officials are to be seen in the pot-holed streets. A communique here announces that the Italian troops have retired and are now fortifying the line from Aksum to Adowa and Adigrat with barbed wire and machine guns every hundred yards. Ras Gugsa, in a message to chiefs in Tigre, appeals to them to follow his example and join Italy, and thus save the country from ruin. Many chiefs have sent their copy of the leaflet to the Emperor.
💥 “HOSPITAL ATTACK DELIBERATE.“
The Addis Ababa correspondent of “The Times” states: “Private impartial sources state that the attack on the Red Cross at Dessie appeared most deliberate and suggested that the Italian fliers may have thought the Emperor was there. He was, however, in the Italian Consulate buildings.
“The Government denies that Dessie is a troop centre and declares that the only armed units are police. There is not a single anti-aircraft gun there, and only one machine gun, which the Emperor himself manned during the bombardment.”
💥 MUSSOLINI’S TERMS.
💥 ROME, December 8.
The Government Spokesman has out-lined Signor Mussolini’s peace terms as
follows :
(1) The fulfillment of Italy’s right of colonial expansion.
(2) The fulfillment of Italy’s right to colonial security and defence.
(3) Consideration of the present military situation.
(4) Consideration of Italy’s economic requirements.
(5) Recognition of the difference be-tween Amharic and non-Amharic peoples
in Abyssinia in Italy’s favour, tantamount to reducing the present so-called
Empire to the central plateau south of the 14th parallel and the line of the eighth parallel and limited by the 24th and 40th meridians on the west and east.
It is explained that the frontier in the region of the 14th parallel takes into consideration the present military situation by allowing the establishment of Italian colonisation, civilisation, and exploitation of the ground already occu-
pied. The Italians declare that the voluntary withdrawal of their troops is out of the question.
It is thought unlikely that Haile Silassie would surrender such areas. Moreover, even if he consented, France probably would not abandon her already
reduced sphere of influence.
💥 TENTATIVE PEACE PLAN.
PARIS, December 8.
At the close of his conversations with Sir Samuel Hoare, which lasted the whole day, M. Laval issued the following statement this evening : “Animated by the same spirit of conciliation and friendship we have searched for a formula to serve as a basis for an amicable settlement of the Italo-Ethiopian conflict.
There is no question at pre-sent of making the result public. The British Government has not yet been informed, and once its adhesion is obtained it will be necessary to submit the formula to the governments interested and to the decision of the League. We have worked with one and the same desire, to assure as rapidly as possible a pacific, honourable settlement. We are both satisfied with the result reached.”
lt is clear that Sir Samuel Hoare and M. Laval have agreed to a tentative peace plan for submission to the League, Italy, and Abyssinia, but it must first receive the imprimatur of the British Cabinet, for which Mr Peterson is journeying to London tonight, carrying the momentous proposals. lt is reported that Sir Samuel and M. Laval agreed that if there is an unfavourable reception from Signor Mussolini, France and Britain will unquestionably recommended an oil embargo, to operate from January 1.In the meantime, at the request of the statesmen, there is no speculation on the terms of the plan, which are being kept strictly secret. All the Quaid’Orsay will admit is the total solidarity of British and French views.
💥 EXCHANGE OF TERRITORIES.
LONDON, December 8.
The “Daily Telegraph’s” diplomatic correspondent in Paris states: “The French Government has accepted the British view that a workable solution will most likely be found in an ex-change of Italian and Abyssinian terri-tories, providing Italy with fertile areas in southern Abyssinia and Abyssinia with access to the sea. It will probably be found that an entirely new propo-sal will be made respecting Tigre.
“It is emphasised that complete soli-darity has been established between the French and British Governments. “All reports from Rome indicate that the proposals, the purport of which is apparently known in official circles, will
go further than anything hitherto sug-gested.”
💥 PARIS, December 8.
Well-informed sources state that the Ogaden and Danakil districts and the whole of Tigre, except the sacred city of Aksum, would be given to Italy,
which would receive sufficient land to accommodate 1,500,000 colonists, being
double the territories which Britain agreed should be given to Italy. If Italy refuses to cede Assab to Abys-sinia, Britain is ready to give up Zeila.
A French Minister who participated in some of the discussions, said: “I be-lieve we have done good work. If I were an Italian I would accept.”
💥 ITALY IMPRESSED.
ROME, December 9.
The Franco-British formulae as re-ported are regarded as a notable improvement on the Italian viewpoint and therefore deserving of consideration.
💥 “RED CROSSES ON NEARLY EVERY HOUSE.”
(Published in “The Times.”)
LONDON, December 8
An Italian statement from the Asmara corespondent of ” The Times” says :
“The four aeroplanes which re-visited Dessie on Saturday saw no vestige of the enemy’s forces, thousands of whose tents were visible on Friday, but the observers noted that the roof of nearly every house in the town was miraculously adorned with a bright red cross.”
Why Are So Many Fascist Monuments Still Standing in Italy?
My Note: Swiss historian, Aram Mattioli has called Graziani’s genocidal reign in Ethiopia:
“Reign of terror”, “for which there were no role models in the colonial history of Africa and Asia”.
Mussolini’s disregard and outright contempt for the sovereignty of Ethiopia were expressed in the following hateful words:
„We spit on all Negroes of the present, past and future and their possible defenders. It will not be long, and the five continents will have to bow their heads to the fascist will.“
In the late nineteen-thirties, as Benito Mussolini was preparing to host the 1942 World’s Fair, in Rome, he oversaw the construction of a new neighborhood, Esposizione Universale Roma, in the southwest of the city, to showcase Italy’s renewed imperial grandeur. The centerpiece of the district was the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, a sleek rectangular marvel with a façade of abstract arches and rows of neoclassical statues lining its base. In the end, the fair was cancelled because of the war, but the palazzo, known as the Square Colosseum, still stands in Rome today, its exterior engraved with a phrase from Mussolini’s speech, in 1935, announcing the invasion of Ethiopia, in which he described Italians as “a people of poets, artists, heroes, saints, thinkers, scientists, navigators, and transmigrants.” The invasion, and the bloody occupation that followed, would later lead to war-crimes charges against the Italian government. The building is, in other words, a relic of abhorrent Fascist aggression. Yet, far from being shunned, it is celebrated in Italy as a modernist icon. In 2004, the state recognized the palazzo as a site of “cultural interest.” In 2010, a partial restoration was completed, and five years later the fashion house Fendi moved its global headquarters there.
Italy, the first Fascist state, has had a long relationship with right-wing politics; with the election of Silvio Berlusconi, in 1994, the country also became the first to bring a neo-Fascist party to power, as part of Berlusconi’s center-right coalition.* But this alone is not enough to explain Italians’ comfort with living amid Fascist symbols. Italy was, after all, home to Western Europe’s biggest anti-Fascist resistance and its most robust postwar Communist Party. Until 2008, center-left coalitions maintained that legacy, often getting more than forty per cent of the vote in elections. So why is it that, as the United States has engaged in a contentious process of dismantling monuments to its Confederate past, and France has rid itself of all streets named after the Nazi collaborationist leader Marshall Pétain, Italy has allowed its Fascist monuments to survive unquestioned?
The sheer number of relics is one reason. When Mussolini came to power, in 1922, he was leading a new movement in a country with a formidable cultural patrimony, and he knew that he needed a multitude of markers to imprint the Fascist ideology on the landscape. Public projects, such as the Foro Mussolini sports complex, in Rome, were meant to rival those of the Medici and the Vatican, while the likeness of Il Duce, as Mussolini was known, watched over Italians in the form of statues, photographs in offices, posters at tram stops, and even prints on bathing suits. It was easy to feel, as Italo Calvino did, that Fascism had colonized Italy’s public realm. “I spent the first twenty years of my life with Mussolini’s face always in view,” the writer recalled.
In Germany, a law enacted in 1949 against Nazi apologism, which banned Hitler salutes and other public rituals, facilitated the suppression of Third Reich symbols. Italy underwent no comparable program of reëducation. Ridding Italy of thousands of Fascist memorials would have been impractical, and politically imprudent, for the Allied forces whose priority was to stabilize the volatile country and limit the power of its growing Communist Party. After the war, the Allied Control Commission’s bulletins and reports instead recommended that only the most obvious and “unaesthetic” monuments and decorations, like busts of Mussolini, be destroyed; the rest could be moved to museums, or simply be covered up with cloth and plywood. This approach set a precedent. The 1953 Scelba Law was designed to block the reconstitution of the Fascist Party and was famously vague about everything else. The ruling Christian Democratic bloc, which included many former Fascists, did not see the regime’s copious material remains as a problem, and so a more proactive policy was never put in place.
This means that, when Berlusconi brought the right-wing Italian Social Movement Party to power, his rehabilitation of Fascism was aided by an existing network of pilgrimage sites and monuments. Most notable was Predappio, Mussolini’s birthplace, where his burial crypt is situated and where shops sell Fascist and Nazi-themed shirts and other merchandise. The Mancino Law, passed in 1993, had responded to the resurgent right by sanctioning the propagation of “racial and ethnic hatred,” but it was unevenly enforced. I was living in Rome on a Fulbright fellowship in 1994, and was jolted awake more than once by shouts of “Heil Hitler!” and “Viva il Duce!” coming from a nearby pub. In the aughts, as Berlusconi cycled in and out of office, sites like Predappio surged in popularity, and preservationists of all political stripes forged alliances with the empowered right to save the Fascist monuments, which were increasingly seen as an integral part of Italy’s cultural heritage. The Foro Mussolini, like the “Square Colosseum,” is a subject of special admiration. In 2014, Matteo Renzi, the center-left Prime Minister, announced Rome’s bid for the 2024 Olympics inside the complex, which is now known as the Foro Italico, standing in front of “The Apotheosis of Fascism,” a painting that was covered up by the Allies, in 1944, because it depicts Il Duce as a God-like figure. It would be hard to imagine Angela Merkel standing in front of a painting of Hitler on a similar occasion.
In recent years, there have been some halting efforts to examine Italy’s relationship to Fascist symbols. In 2012, Ettore Viri, the right-wing mayor of Affile, included a memorial to General Rodolfo Graziani, a Nazi collaborator and an accused war criminal, in a park built with funds approved by the center-left regional government. After a public outcry, the government rescinded the funds. Recently, Viri was charged with Fascist apologism, but the memorial remains in place.
In Predappio, a new Museum of Fascism is currently under construction. Some see the museum, which is modelled on Munich’s Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism, as a much needed exercise in public education. (In 2016, I was a member of the international committee of historians that convened in Italy to evaluate the project.) Others fear that its location in Mussolini’s home town means that it will further fuel rightist nostalgia. Laura Boldrini, the president of the lower house of parliament, has been lobbying for the removal of Italy’s most egregious Fascist remnants. Her proposal, in 2015, to remove an inscription of Mussolini’s name from the Foro Italico’s obelisk prompted outcries that a “masterpiece” would be defamed.
Boldrini has often pointed to the outlawing of Nazi symbols in Germany as an example for Italy to follow. But even that model might soon be tested. In a strong showing in the elections on September 24th, the Alternative for Germany became the first far-right party to win seats in the German parliament since 1945. The right wing in Germany, lacking the benefit of emotionally charged public monuments, has been orchestrating its gatherings around fringe events such as “right rock” music concerts. Yet, at AfD events, such as a march earlier in September, in Jena, Nazi chants have begun to resound. Unless the Party takes a hard line against Fascist symbols, it’s only a matter of time, one imagines, before they reappear. In Italy, where they never went away, the risk is different: if monuments are treated merely as depoliticized aesthetic objects, then the far right can harness the ugly ideology while everyone else becomes inured. One doubts that Fendi’s employees fret about the Fascist origins of the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana as they arrive at work each morning, their stilettos tapping on floors made of travertine and marble, the regime’s preferred materials. As Rosalia Vittorini, the head of Italy’s chapter of the preservationist organization docomomo, once said when asked how Italians feel about living among relics of dictatorship: “Why do you think they think anything at all about it?”
BERLIN, Feb. 19 (UPI) — Italy’s Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini is making an unexpected popularity comeback in Italy, a phenomenon nurtured by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi over the past 15 years.
Mussolini was one of the closest allies of Hitler’s Nazi Germany; his soldiers committed brutal war crimes in Africa and the Balkans; and his regime is responsible for the deaths of around 1 million people.
Despite all that, the Duce, as Mussolini’s admirers call him, is becoming increasingly popular in Italy — even with the younger crowd.
In January, the iPhone application iMussolini became the most popular in Italy. The program, harshly condemned by Jewish groups noting the “Duce” had sent thousands of Jews into concentration camps, allowed users to read and listen to speeches of the Fascist leader. Up to 1,000 people downloaded the app each day, before Apple pulled it from its Italian store earlier this month.
The iPhone app is just one of many manifestations of the gradual rehabilitation of the Duce and his fascist dictatorship, which lasted from 1922-43.
Streets are being renamed after “regime heroes,” “good Fascists” are the stars of movies and politicians from all major parties are belittling the Fascist horrors.
In 2008, the mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, a member of the National Alliance, Mussolini’s political descendants and key allies of Berlusconi, defended the Fascist dictatorship during a tour of Israel.
Last June, Michela Brambilla, the Italian minister of tourism and a possible successor to Berlusconi, did what many interpreted as the Fascist salute during celebrations in honor of the local Carabinieri.
In any other Western European country, this would have destroyed the woman’s political career — not so in Italy. She remains in power, despite the fact that doing the salute is against the law.
These are not isolated incidents but “results and symptoms” of a larger change gripping all walks of society, writes Aram Mattioli, a historian at the University of Lucerne in Switzerland, who has researched Fascist revisionism in Italy.
His 200-page study “Viva Mussolini — An Appreciation of Fascism in Berlusconi’s Italy” (Ferdinand Schoeningh) hit book stores Friday. It describes in detail how Italy for the past 15 years has cultivated a gradual revisionism of Fascism, “focusing on the period before the anti-Semitic race laws and the ever-closer alliance with Hitler’s Nazi Germany,” Mattioli told United Press International in a telephone interview Friday.
Revisionism began to bloom starting in 1994, when the decades-long Christian Democratic-dominated government collapsed and Berlusconi shot to the scene to establish himself as the new leader.
Berlusconi’s new government, comprised of political startups and political descendants of Mussolini, in 1994 was the first in Europe to include neo-Fascists — a major watershed point in European politics.
The defeat of Communism, Berlusconi’s ability to influence the media and the fact that Italy had not really come to terms with its World War II past (unlike in Germany or Japan, no war tribunal tried Italy’s fascists) made it easier for conservative and neo-Fascist politicians to rehabilitate Mussolini during the years since.
Under Berlusconi — who himself has spoken warmly of the Duce many times — opinions that would have labeled extreme years earlier all of a sudden were used even by center-right politicians.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the hapless opposition was too busy licking its own wounds to counter that development.
This revisionism affects Italy as a whole, Mattioli said. “I see a close connection between the revisionist tendencies and the inner state of today’s Italy, were political culture has reached a low-point,” he told UPI. “Italy has entered a state of post-democracy. Democracy is still formally existent but policies are increasingly illiberal.”
Berlusconi’s government has in the past been criticized for cracking down on illegal immigrants. Mattioli also warns of a general militarization of society that has seen soldiers doing police work and citizens establishing vigilante groups.
Young people increasingly back this political development.
Italian newspaper La Stampa Thursday published a poll that indicated that 45 percent of young Italians sympathize with xenophobic or racist ideologies.
These numbers worry Mattioli, who has a deep sympathy for Italy, from where his great-grandfather emigrated to Switzerland in the late 19th century.
“The European Union needs to more closely watch Italy and should try to slow down the country’s negative development,” Mattioli said.
Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on August 2, 2010
Abune Petros
A very unique and remarkable life history of martyr bishop Abune Petros who became martyr on the 29 th of July 1936, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in the struggle against colonialism and oppression.
Abune Petros was born 1882 in a farmer family in the city of Fiche, which is situated north of Addis Ababa. He got the baptismal name Hailemariam that means power of Maria. As the custom of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOC) tradition he got a special bishop name, that is PETROS with the Ethiopia title for a bishop which is ABUNE. As a young boy Abune Petros was known as clever, helpful and humble disciple in the city and the church in Fiche.
He chose early to study the EOC diakon and priest education. At the age of 24 he took the EOC oath and became a monk. He grew up and became a principled and well-known teacher around the monasteries in Fiche and Wolamo area. In 1918 he was assigned by the EOC as he teacher and priest for the Debre-Menkrat monastery church in the region of Wolamo. Abune Petros continued to teach there when in 1924 he was assigned as the main teacher for the well-known island monastery-church of Mary, which is situated inside Lake Zewai in southern part of Ethiopia. He was well known for his teaching and preaching to the people around the region to seek first the kingdom of God: “To put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.” (Colossians 3:12).
His teachings and preaching were very popular and insightful to the people in the area and the disciples he teaches in the Monastery. In 1928 in connection with the nomination pf Ethiopia bishops in the St.Marks Monastery in Alexandria, he was nominated to one of four bishops of Ethiopia, with the title and name ABUNE PETROS.
Abune Petros was nominated as bishop of the central and eastern part of Ethiopia. Half of his time he stayed in the City of Dessie and the surrounding monasteries, while he rest of his time he spent visiting and teaching in he monasteries around the Wereilu region. To help him in the administration of the churches and monasteries in the two regions, two priests were assigned to him one from each region. He continued to preach the gospel and teach in the churches. He was liked by many for his teaching and exhortation to stand-up for the belief, the truth and follow the example of our lord Jesus Christ: “For to you it has been granted for Christ’s sake, not only to believe in Him but also to suffer for His sake.” (Phillippians 1:29). As we read further we will see that Abune Petros exemplified this with his life.
When Italy with the leadership of fascist Mussolini’s army invaded Ethiopia in 1932, Abune Peteros followed with Emperor Haile Selassie and the Ethiopian defence forces to the northern front. He helped the wounded, prayed and consecrated the dead and preached the Gospel. During that time he saw the undiscerning terror and violence of the invading army: He saw how the invading army with the help of nerve gas and technologically advanced weaponry burned down the forest and villages with innocent civilians and at last won the war at Maichew. The patriots retreated and decided to continue guerrilla warfare against the fascist army. Abune Peteros, with all the impressions he got from the war and the burned villages of civilians, returned safely and took refuge in the well-known monastery church of Debre Libanos.
In the monastery he urged the priests and monks to fast. He himself started to fast and prmy for the mercy of God to the people of Ethiopia and prepared himself for the big challenge that is waiting a head for him: “My earnest expectation and hope, is that I will not be put to shame in anything but my lord Jesus Christ will even now as always be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.” (Phillippians 1:20).
During these difficult times he started to question in his preaching. “How a Christian country as Italy could undertake such a hideous terror action of occupation on another peaceful Christian country that is Ethiopia. “For him all Christians were brother and sister pilgrims helping each other in this world on the way to meet God in Heaven. With that he began his crusade against the invading army’s terror and killing machinery. He went further and condemned all the violent actions and killings of civilians by the invading army.
The fascist army was by then committing undiscerning violent actions against innocent civilians because they had suspicion that the people are helping the patriots who were growing in both strength and manpower. During these times there were some EOC priests who out of fear of the terror of the army accepted the Italian leadership in Addis Ababa. Through these priests the fascist army sent letters to win the support of the popular and respected bishop Abune Petros to its camp, to accept the powerful army of Italy as government and stop with his preaching against the violence of the army on civilians and the patriots. If he did this they promised him the best house quarters and a peaceful life in Addis Ababa. Abune Petros saw these letters as a incitement of commit sin against God, his Christian belief and consciousness. With that he refused to accept the offer and stayed in fasting and prayer in the monastery of Debre-Libanos. “Choosing rather to endure ill-treatment with the people of God that to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin” (Hebrews 11:25).
The resistance against the encroachment and violence of the invading army kept on growing like wild fire over the whole of Ethiopia. The patriots began to win battles at different fronts. Abune Petros continued his teachings and preaching to the people to stand-up for their belief and conviction and that God would visit the downtrodden people of Ethiopia soon. He went on further and preached against Italy’s right to occupy Ethiopia with terror and violence. He exhorted the people not to be afraid of the terror and violence from the occupying army. “I say to you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that have no more that they can do. But I will warm you whom to fear: fear the one who has the power to kill the body and after that has the authority to cast in to hell; yes I tell you fear Him.” (Luke 12:4-5).
The Italian authorities in Addis Ababa who saw and heard him preach wanted by all means to stop Abune Petros from preaching and inciting people to resistance. However, since he was very popular and respected bishop, many in the Italian authorities would rather win his support to accept the Italian authority in Ethiopia than imprisoning or killing him. In the month of July 1936, the patriots planned and executed an attack on Addis Ababa. During that time one of the day Abune Petros clothed with his bishop garment and the ever – present hand cross rapped in a small blue scarlet cloth went into the capital city and began to preach to the people who were lamenting in the grips of the invading army. The soldiers were given order to arrest the Abune and bring him to court for treason against the Italian occupation. While he was in prison waiting for court appearance, both the priests in the city and the officers of Italy tried to convince him to accept the Italian occupation. And finally have him the following ultimatum: To stop preaching against the occupying army’s violence and terror against civilians and the patriots, accept the Italian authorities in Addis Ababa and finally condemn the patriots as bandits. Otherwise, he was told that he will lose his life. Abune Petros refused to comply to the ultimatum set by his tormentors and through the(Italian) interpreter gave the following answer to the interrogating officers of the invading army: “The cry of my country men who died due to your nerve-gas and terror machinery will never allow my conscious to accept your ultimatum. How can I see my God if I give blind eye to such a crime.” Listen to me you who know righteousness, a people in whose heart is my law, do not fear the reproach of man, nor be dismayed at their revilings. For the moth will eat them like garment…..” (Isaiah 51:7-8). “Blessed are those who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 5:10).
After this a quick assembled court sentenced Abune Petros to death. The news of the death sentence on the popular bishop of Ethiopia spread over he whole country. People begin coming to Addis to say farewell of their beloved bishop who stoop-up for the righteous cause which God have called him, for the right of the people of Ethiopia to freedom and independence and against the terror and violence of the invading army. All this form the pulpit of a church and it the presence of deadly ultimatum upon his head. Due to his popularity the fascist army was afraid of riot and attempts by the patriots to free him from prison, and decided that the execution of the death penalty should be done as soon as possible. He was taken to his execution place where a many people and the fascist army officers and generals were gathered, and were told to say his last speech. We cite the Ethiopia Orthodox Church newspaper Vol.1,No. 8,9,10,1945 for the account: ” When Abune Petros came to the place of execution and was given to say his last words, he took his hand cross and removed the blue cloth that was rapped around it and blessed the people at the four corners of the world and said the following last words: “My country men don not believe if they tell you that the patriots are bandits, the patriots are people who yearn for freedom form the terrors of fascism. Bandits are the soldiers who are standing in front of me and you, who come from afar, terrors and violently occupy a weak and peaceful country: our Ethiopia. May God give he people of Ethiopia the strength to resist and never bow down to the fascist army and its violence. May the Ethiopian earth never accept the invading army’s rule.” After that a swarm of bullets from the execution platoon pierced and killed our beloved bishop Abune Petros.
The fascist army wanted by any means to cover up the crime they did against Abune Petros and Ethiopia by forbidding everybody all writings about his execution. Because of his popularity both inside and outside of Ethiopia they thought it might injure their policy of occupying Ethiopia due to the domestic and international opinion that grew against his act. However hard they tired to stop the publicity, the example of Abune Petros shines in all people who love the truth unto this day. Above all, the fascist army’s lost all credibility from the domestic opinion, many found courage after this to leave the occupying army’s stronghold in the capital city to join the patriots and fight for independence. patriotic resistance grew more in strength and lead o a sooner freedom of the country from the fascist occupation. The poplar Ethiopian Poet-Laureate Tsegaye Gebremedhin has illustrated the last days of Abune Petros life by a theatre play called: “Petros at that Hour”.
A statue of Abune Petros was raised in the capital city Addis Ababa 10 years after his death, as a reminder to coming generations of: his unwavering stand for the truth. His unbending courage to stand up against every form of violence on human rights, his integrity and his commitment not to give in for short term gain or treat. Above all his unwavering conviction and belief that we all one day will sand up and answer for our deeds in his life before God.
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