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Professor Asrat Woldeyes was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on June 20, 1928 and died May 14, 1999. Addis Ababa as seen from space. ... June 20 is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 194 days remaining. ... 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... May 14 is the 134th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (135th in leap years). ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

He was the foremost physician in Ethiopia, a Professor of Medicine, and a leading political figure who was jailed by the Derg. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

Early life

When he was barely three years old, his family moved to the south eastern Ethiopian town of Dire Dawa. Dire Dawa is a chartered city (astedader akabibi) in eastern Ethiopia. ...

He was an eight year old boy when Italian Fascist occupation forces of Mussoloni invaded Ethiopia. His father, Ato Weldeyes Altaye, was captured and brutally murdered along with thousands of other civilians by the invading Italian forces following an attempted assasination of the Italian General Graziani on February 19, 1937. Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ... Benito Mussolini created a fascist state through the use of propaganda, total control of the media and disassembly of the working democratic government. ... The Second Italo-Abyssinian War, also called the Rape of Ethiopia, lasted seven months in 1935-1936. ... Rodolfo Graziani Rodolfo, Marchese Di Neghelli Graziani (1882 - 1955), during World War II, was an Italian Marshal; Born near Frosinone on August 11, 1882, He served in world war I becoming the youndest colonel in the Italian army. ... February 19 is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

His grandfather, Kegnazmatch Tsige Werede Werk, was one of the Ethiopian patriots who was deported to Italy and stayed there for three and half years along many other Ethiopian resistance fighters. (Kegnazmatch is an honorific title in Ethiopian feudal society equivalent to a baron). Baron is a specific title of nobility or a more generic feudal qualification. ...

External links

• Obituary by Jonathan Steele, an Assistant Editor of The Guardian
• A contribution to the Ethipian Review by Professor Woldeyes