Significant1937

Yekatit 12 massacre

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Addis Ababa

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Three-day Italian reprisal massacre after the attempted assassination of Viceroy Graziani killed perhaps 19–30,000 Ethiopians.

Belligerents2

Kingdom of Italy
Ethiopian Empire

ON THE MAPEthiopian Empire

Conflict graph

PART OFItalian-Ethiopian Wars

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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