| Description |
1 online resource (xliv, 478 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Maps; List of Tables; List of Figures; Abbreviations; Notes on Transliteration; Glossary & Explanatory Note; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Background; Prelude; Addis Ababa on the Eve; Invasion and Occupation; Policies of Repression; Warnings and Forebodings; Yekatit 12; 2. The Trigger; Speeches and Shocks; Slaughter at the Palace; 3. An Hour of Mayhem; The Circle of Death; Slaughter in Arada; Escape to Qechené; Foreign Dispatches; 4. Death in the Afternoon; Curfew (1.00-1.30 pm) |
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Arrests, Detention and Murder (1.30-5.00 pm)A State of Siege; 5. Carta Bianca; 'Do As You Please!' (4.30-5.00 pm); Terror Unleashed (5.00-6.45 pm); Fire and Fury (6.45 pm Friday-6.00 am Saturday); Villages of Death; 6. The Second Day; The Morning After; The Killing Continues; The Transport Operations; Inside the Municipality; Saturday Afternoon; Mohamedally under Attack; Another Night of Fire and Fury; 7. The Third Day; Sunday Morning; 'Reprisals Should Cease'; Sunday Afternoon; Blackshirts out of Control (Sunday Night); A Deadly New Development; 8. The Aftermath; The Battlefield |
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Horrors at the Central Police StationFlight from the City; Adrenalin Runs High; Terror on the Outskirts; Body Disposal at Gulelé; The Detained; The Mystery of Engert's Refugees; 9. Roman Justice; Elimination of the Undesirables; The Suspects; The Young Ethiopians; The Nobility and Notables; 10. The Reckoning; Who Gave the Order?; The Participants; The Victims; Unsung Heroes; The Death Toll; Conclusion; Robbery With Violence; 11. The Cover-Up; Perfect Tranquillity; The Emperor Returns; In Memoriam; Appeals for Justice; The Final Sabotage; 12. Reflections; Epilogue |
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Appendix I: Young Ethiopians Executed Following Yekatit 12Appendix II: Partial List of Addis Ababa-based Nobles and Notables Executed Following Yekatit 12; Appendix III: Telegram of 19 February 1937 from Minister Alessandro Lessona to Provincial Governors; Appendix: IV: Phonogram of 21 February 1937 from the Fascist Party Office to the Chef de Cabinet; Appendix V: Photography; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
In February 1937, Italy's Fascist occupying forces murdered 19,000 Ethiopians. In a brilliant piece of forensic historical reconstruction, Ian Campbell rescues from obscurity this episode of colonial mass extermination |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-461) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Massacres -- Ethiopia -- Addis Ababa -- History -- 20th century
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Military Policy.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Italy.
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Massacres
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| SUBJECT |
Ethiopia -- History -- 20th century
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| Subject |
Ethiopia
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Ethiopia -- Addis Ababa
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017446573 |
| ISBN |
9780190874292 |
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0190874295 |
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0190943173 |
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9780190943172 |
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