Italian conquest of the Horn of Africa (1924–1940) and Buna. The Ethiopians recorded 275,000 combatants killed in action, 78,500 patriots (guerrilla fighters) killed during the occupation, 17,800 civilians killed by aerial bombardment and 30,000 in the February 1937 massacre, 35,000 people died in concentration camps, 24,000 patriots executed by Summary Courts, 300,000 persons died of privation due to the destruction of their villages, amounting to 760,300 deaths. Italian conquest of the Horn of Africa (1924–1940) The Italian conquest of the Horn of Africa was initiated in 1924 by the fascist government of Italy under Benito Mussolini. With great brutality, Somalia had been totally pacified by late 1927. In
Up the Country "In Defense of the Bush," in which he accused Lawson of representing bush life as nothing but doom and gloom, famously ending with the line ""For the bush will never suit you, and you'll never suit the bush."" Up the Country Up The Country is a popular poem by iconic Australian writer and poet Henry Lawson. It was first published in "The Bulletin" magazine on 9 July 1892, under the title "Borderland," and started the Bulletin Debate, a series of poems by both Lawson and Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson about the true nature of life in the Australian bush. In