Ethiopian Lictor Youth ( it, Gioventù Etiopica del Littorio, abbreviated G.E.L.) was a

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youth organization in

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. Founded in 1936, GEL was modelled after the Gioventù Italiana del Littorio (the youth wing of the

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) and the

Arab Lictor Youth Arab Lictor Youth ( ar, شباب الليتوريو العرب ''Shabāb Al-Līttūriw Al-ʿArab'', it, Gioventù Araba del Littorio, abbreviated G.A.L.) was a fascist youth organization for Arab youth in Italian Libya. History GAL was founded b ...

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History

Soon after the Italian occupation of Ethiopia, thousands of school-children were organized in GEL. Through GEL a free lunch program for children was set up. GEL had its own uniforms. On May 24, 1937 a contingent of GEL paraded through

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in connection with the twentieth anniversary of the Italian entry into the

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. The GEL unit sang a specially composed song in honour of '' Il Duce'',

Benito Mussolini Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (; 29 July 188328 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who founded and led the National Fascist Party. He was Prime Minister of Italy from the March on Rome in 1922 until his deposition in 194 ...

.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 Later renamed 'Indigenous Lictor Youth', ''Gioventù Indigena del Littorio'' in 1940, after the introduction of racial segregation laws in July 1938, GEL was never incorporated into the Italian mother organization. The organization was disbanded on orders from Rome after a brief existence.Diel, Louise, and Kenneth Kirkness.
Behold Our New Empire"--Mussolini
London: Hurst & Blackett, 1939. p. 37

References

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