Baratieri, who had resigned from the Italian army soon after surviving the court martial, died in 1901. But during the years of occupation, before their defeat, Benito Mussolini's fascist army committed grave war crimes against the Ethiopians. These countries, The New York Times' article explained, "coveted the vast potential sales to Abyssinia's millions of people, quantities of the cheap gimcracks which so fascinate semi-civilized populations." "The insult of defeat has rankled in the breasts of Italian militarists these many decades," the Times article added. The Times article described the Battle of Adwa --using the alternate spelling Adowa-- inelegantly, and tried to diminish the Ethiopian victory.

Source: Ethiopian News March 01, 2018 07:07 UTC