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Little Ethiopia welcomes Pope Francis to the U.S. but demands for Justice

*** Little Ethiopia welcomes Pope Francis to the U.S. but asks the Holy See’s support on a demand for justice to the patriotic and resilient people of Ethiopia who were victims of Genocide by the fascist Dictator Benito Mussolini in the Italo-Abyssinian war 1935-41

Washington DC ( Little Ethiopia)-Five Years after Little Ethiopia established a Wreath Laying Ceremony to honor African American and Ethiopian Veterans who fought for ” Freedom ” in the American Civil War and Ethiopia’s wars of ” ADWA ” and ” the Italo-Abyssinian War of 1935-41, a fascist mayor of a small town, Affile near the capital in August 2012 honored the fascist commander Field Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, a convicted war criminal. A mausoleum and memorial park in was built and inaugurated in the presence of a Vatican representative. Grazianni who was appointed as a viceroy of Ethiopia when Ethiopia was invaded and later occupied used poison gas and chemical weapons against the patriotic and resilient people of Ethiopia and the Libyans during colonial war and when an attempt to assassinate him failed in Addis Ababa, he massacred over 30,000 Ethiopians in a span of three days in February 1937.

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