Ethiopian Lictor Youth
Ethiopian Lictor Youth (Italian: Gioventù Etiopica del Littorio, abbreviated G.E.L.) was a fascist youth organization in Ethiopia.
History [edit]
Soon after the Italian conquest of Ethiopia, thousands of school-children were organized in GEL. Through GEL a free lunch programme for children was set up. GEL had its own uniforms.[1] GEL was founded modelled after the Gioventù Italiana del Littorio (the youth wing of the National Fascist Party) and the Arab Lictor Youth in Libya.[2][3] However, GEL (later renamed 'Indigenous Lictor Youth', Gioventù Indigena del Littorio, after the introduction of racial segregation laws) was never incorporated as such into the Italian mother organization.[4]
On May 24, 1937 a contingent of GEL paraded through Rome in connection with the twentieth anniversary of the Italian entry into the First World War. The GEL unit sang a specially composed song in honour of Il Duce, Benito Mussolini.[3]
The organization was disbanded on orders from Rome after a brief existence.[5]
References [edit]
- ^ Zoli, Corrado. The Organization of Italy's East African Empire, in Foreign Affairs vol 16 (1937-1938).
- ^ http://www.centroginocchi.it/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=14&Itemid=18
- ^ a b Pankhurst, Richard. Education in Ethiopia during the Italian Fascist Occupation (1936-1941), in The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 5, No. 3 (1972), pp. 361- 396
- ^ Mannucci, Stefano. La fotografia strumento dell’imperialismo fascista
- ^ Diel, Louise, and Kenneth Kirkness. "Behold Our New Empire"--Mussolini. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1939. p. 37
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