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FASCIST ITALY'S
OCCUPATION OF
ETHIOPIA
Mussolini occupied
Ethiopia in 1935 with
dreams of "restoring
the Roman Empire."
15,000 innocent
Muslims were killed by
the Italians. Mussolini
gave the order that any
civilian who opposed
the occupation should
be shot, and carried out
massacres with the use
of poison gas.
Left. Six Muslim
Ethiopian resistance
fighters hanged by the
Italian forces of
occupation.
Fascist propaganda: The Italian
occupation was portrayed as bringing
the "advanced" civilization of Rome
to Ethiopia.
