Briefly quoting Micheal Clodfelter’s Warfare and Armed Conflicts, pages 354–5:

After Mussolini had seized power, he determined to end the Libyan insurrection. […] Over 100,000 Senussi, nearly 50 percent of the tribe’s population, had died during the insurrection, most of them in Graziani’s concentration camps.

[…]

In the fall of 1935, Mussolini sent [an army] into Ethiopia to avenge the defeat of Adowa in 1896 and to expand the Fascist empire. […] Ethiopian military and civilian dead, many of them from the barbarous [Fascist] bomb and mustard gas attacks, were estimated as high as 275,000.

Although this history may seem elementary, I never see anticommunists even mention this, and I am willing to bet that you don’t either. That’s really all that I have to say.

  • SovereignState
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    4 years ago

    Yes! If you (or anyone reading) haven’t read it, “Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II” by Iris Chang is a must read for anyone that thinks they know the utter brutality of the Japanese occupation. It opens up readers’ eyes to the cultural trauma still reverberating throughout China today and explains why a lot of things are as they are.

    Shinzo Abe and other Japanese politicians visiting the grave of “Japanese veterans” is viewed by a lot of well-meaning Westerners as understandably offensive to Chinese and Korean people, but they usually also justify it by saying it’s complicated or that “they’re just honoring their veterans”. No. They’re honoring some of the most inhuman atrocities ever committed on planet Earth. They’re indicating that they were just acts and they were right in doing them. Every time they refuse to acknowledge or apologize for these crimes, they are saying that Chinese and Korean people are subhuman and deserved it.

    Iris Chang herself began receiving death threats from both Amerikan and Japanese nationalists after the book was published, and ended up taking her own life because she thought she was being followed by the Amerikan state department. It is a historiography of extreme importance and if I had my way it’d be mandatory reading in every Amerikan high school history classroom.