Defence Minister Lorenzo Guerini
said Tuesday he would visit the site in Ethiopia of a 1937
massacre by Italian forces.
"Italy assumes its responsibilities towards history, with all
that that entails," he said at the presentation of Paolo
Borruso's book on the Debre Libanos massacre, entitled Debre
Libanos 1937, Italy's Most Serious War Crime.
Some 449 Coptic Ethiopians were killed by colonial forces
between May 21 and 29 1937, according to official sources at the
time, though 1990s studies say the real tally was 1,500-2,000.
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