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

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 9 days ago
▲ 18 r/EthiopianHistory+1 crossposts

An extract from: The Horn of Africa: Historical patterns of conflict and strategic considerations; by Micheal Milan Ferguson, September 1978

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 5 days ago

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.

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 17 days ago

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)

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 19 days ago

Photograph of an ammunition depot explosion in Addis Ababa, around a hundred people were killed. No perpetrator had ever been conclusively established. (1991)

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 25 days ago

Addis Ababa after looting, caused after Haile Selassie fled and the breakdown of central authority during the Italian advance (1936)

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 29 days ago

Postcard of Colonial Italian soldiers happily entertaining themselves with the grisly trophies hacked off their Ethiopian captives. (Second Italo-Ethiopian war, 1935-1937)

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 1 month ago

British troops tearing down the symbol of Fascism (Fasces), in former Italian-held Kismayo (WWII East African Campaign, February 1941)

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 1 month ago
▲ 4 r/Oromia

An example of the brutalities under EPRDF rule in the Dadar area, eastern Oromia, 5 February 1995. (Warning: Graphic photo included)

u/Alarmed_Business_962 — 1 month ago