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Haile Selassie I  1892-1975

 

Haile Selassie I  1892-1975

 



Haile Selassie was born Tafari Makonnen. He was Ethiopia's emperor from 1930 to 1974.

Why not until his death?

People revolted, a military government took over and put him under house arrest. Officially, Haile Selassie died of natural causes. Unofficially, he was murdered.

 

Tafari Makonnen became Haile Selassie I upon his coronation on November 2, 1930. It was his baptismal name and means Might of the Holy Trinity.

Actually, on his letterbox it read in full:

His Imperial Majesty, Haile Selassie I,
Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah,
Elect of God, and King of Kings of Ethiopia

 

In October 1935, Italian dictator Mussolini equipped his troops with plenty of poison gas in their knapsacks and told them to invade Ethiopia. On May 5, 1936, Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa fell to the Italians, who declared it their capital of Italian East Africa, or Africa Orientale Italiana, if you speak Mussolini.

Haile Selassie, himself also slightly gassed, went into exile. First he stayed at a hotel in London, then he bought a home in Bath, UK.

Although horrified, the rest of the world, i.e. the League of Nations, didn't come to the rescue. On the contrary. Business was still on with Mussolini and he received all the oil shipments he asked for.

When the League of Nations held a conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Haile Selassie took the opportunity to personally deliver his appeal to the League on June 30, 1936.

Here is his speech on International Morality, which also became known as the Funeral Oration of the League of Nations. While delivering his speech, Italian journalists screamed profanities from the gallery and booed Haile Selassie off the rostrum.

 

HAILE SELASSIE I 1892 - 1975

 

With the help of the British, Addis Ababa was recaptured in 1941.

And in 1946, the United Nations took the place of the ineffective League of Nations.

 

 

 

 

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