The Fascist invasion of Ethiopia, which took place on 3 October 1935, resulted in approximately one million innocent deaths and incalculable environmental and moral damage. It represents a shameful chapter in national history, yet it is systematically ignored in schools and silenced by political institutions. As many historians have observed, the Italo-Ethiopian conflict marked the beginning of the international crisis that would lead to World War II. The Ethiopians were the first to confront it militarily – even before the formation of European partisan bands – and the first to achieve the liberation of their national territory from Axis forces in May 1941.

The Ethiopian people’s strenuous struggle constitutes a coherent, morally balanced, and humanitarian anti-fascist inspiration, a cornerstone of the anti colonial struggle that deserves to be understood, as well as the dynamics of the conflict and the perspective of Ethiopians themselves.

A forgotten massacre which, in the month of February, internationally dedicated to Black History and close to the Ethiopian Day of Commemoration of Anti-Fascist Martyrs (19 February), the philosopher and writer Matyas Tekle Selassie proposes to rediscover and revisit.

Program:

• 15:00 Doors Open, Art and Craft & Photographic Exhibition
• 16:00 Lecture
• 17:00 Open Debate
• 18:00 Art and Craft, Photographic Exhibition