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[DefendTheTruth]

Duiring the short lived Italian Occupation of Ethiopia in the first half of the 20th century, just before the full-scale outbreak of the WWII, there were in the case of Ethiopia two well documented class of people in the country:

The Patriots and Fanos, who opted to go underground and keep fighting against the invading enemy throughout the 5 years.

There were also the so called Bandas, traitors, who opted to join-in the enemy camp and fought against their own country men and women and the national interest.

This much is well documented and I don't think spending any more time on this is needed. But I am interested to know the real numbers, specially in terms of the proportion of the overall population size of the corresponding community, of the two classes from the different communities of the country.

I have heard about the Showan patriots, which included both the Amhara community and the Oromo community. I don't mean to suggest that the two were the only patriots. There were also many well known Gojjam Patriots, most notabley the camp of the well known Belay Zeleke of Gojjam.

I am instead interested in the relative number of the people who joined the patriotic camp from all over the country, especially vis-a-vis the Oromo community and the Amhara community of those days.

Please share with us, those of you who may have got the data at hand!

[Noble Amhara]

Ethiopian Resistance in 1936 Italian War

[DefendTheTruth]

Ethiopian Resistance in 1936 Italian War

Why no single "Formationen der Patrioten" in Tigray, as an example?

The map puts an overproportional concentration of the Formation in Gojjam but seems to deny any in Tigray and Eritrea proper, which is not according to the reality on the ground. Showan patriots were also under represented, I think, among others.

Could you elaborate why the textual description at the following link, as an example, shows a discrepancy to your visual (map) representation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbegnoch

[Noble Amhara]

Dtt

Eritrean Patriots travelled to Ethiopia in the resistance of 1936. The rebellions in Tigray did not happen after the Battle of Maychew in 1936 tigray was subdued and also revolted against Haile Selassie in 1942