Remember that the Bible referred to him as a man after ''God's own heart'', while casually allowing revenge-killings. And no, YHWH never condemned him afterwards
Photograph of resistance fighter Simeon Adefris, he helped Abraha Deboch and Mogus Asgedom escape the Yekatit 12 scene. After his return to the capital, he was tortured and killed in custody in 1937.
A Photograph of Italian soldiers displaying the severed head of Hailu Kebede, a regional aristocrat and guerilla fighter from a royal bloodline dating to the 13th century. (Italian East Africa, 1937)
Photograph of an ammunition depot explosion in Addis Ababa, around a hundred people were killed. No perpetrator had ever been conclusively established. (1991)
Postcard of Colonial Italian soldiers happily entertaining themselves with the grisly trophies hacked off their Ethiopian captives. (Second Italo-Ethiopian war, 1935-1937)