Ual-Ual Incident
| Ual-Ual Incident | |||||||
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| Part of the Prelude to the Second Italo-Ethiopian War | |||||||
The Italian fort of Ual-Ual | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Italy |
Ethiopia Supported by: British Empire | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Roberto Cimmaruta Gerardo Zaccardo |
Omar Samantar Fitaurari Alemajo † Colonel Clifford | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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400 Dubats 2 armored cars and some airplanes |
1,200 men 80 British Camels | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 21 dead | 300+ killed | ||||||
The Ual-Ual Incident (in Italian: Incidente di Ual Ual; in Somali: Dhacdadii Walwaal; in Amharic: የወልወል ክስተት) was an armed conflict in which Ethiopian troops attacked the Italian garrison in Ual-Ual. On 5 December 1934, after a few weeks of tension between the garrison and Ethiopian armed men, a violent firefight began for the possession of the locality, which was located in a strip of disputed territory. According to the Ethiopians, Ual-Ual had been illegitimately occupied by the Italians since 1926 but, in this incident, Italian control over Ual-Ual was confirmed. The conflict ended with an agreement under the League of Nations but Fascist Propaganda made it a Casus belli for the War of Ethiopia.