The Dark History of Italian Mustard Gas in Ethiopia

History of Haile Selassie, the Emperor of Ethiopia, and his speech at the League of Nations. Primary source analysis of Selassie's argument against Italian aggression and war crimes, which included the use of mustard gas. The Second Italo-Ethiopian War, also referred to as the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.
Sources:
Selassie, Haile. "At the League of Nations (June 30, 1936)." In Documents from an African Past, ed. Robert O. Collins. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2001: 320-7.
Shillington, Kevin. History of Africa. 4th Edition. London, UK: Red Globe Press, 2019.
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[@bazra19]

I visited Ethiopia as a young white English boy in 1956. Much later while serving in the RAF I was lucky enough to be guard of honour for Emperor Haile Selassie when he visited our late Queen. Wonderfull people. God bless them.

[@Muusoc999]

Using Dum-Dum bullets was also against the rules

[@QueenCece6]

Funny how the League of Nations betrayed Ethiopia and used them as a pawn in the colonial game

[@HistoricalMethodMan]

And Ethiopia was a founding member state

[@ThePanEthiopian]

​@@HistoricalMethodManno we weren't

[@degnetgetahun]

​@@ThePanEthiopianread history null and empty .

[@giulioespositi9052]

It sh.d be INTERESTING to know the "lateral-effect" of the "ORANGE-AGENT": a Defoliant-Liquid; sprayed over large forests-and civilian villages inside there, causing terrible dusuases on human beings and animals.To fight Vietcongs. The mortal conseguences happened also on US Military Personnel involved. Thousands peoples, and children borned afterward w. deformation on bodies. The US. Gov.t: denied for Years the Situetion😊