Ethiopian Foreign Minister Dr. Tedros Adhanom has called on the international community

and AU states to condemn the erection of a memorial in Italy dedicated to the memory of

 the Fascist Field Marshal Rodolfo Graziani who was responsible for the slaughter of

 thousands of innocent people in Libya and in Ethiopia.

Speaking at a ceremony commemorating the 19th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide on

 Sunday (Aril 7th), Dr. Tedros said he welcomed AU's initiatives to prevent and resolve

conflicts in the continent, to fight impunity and prevent recurrence of massive crimes as

reflected in the AU's Constitutive Act which gives the AU the right to interfere in member

 states in cases of.

Ethiopia and Libya would have appreciated the possibility of such action in the 1930s when

Marshal Graziani was active in carrying out massacres in their countries. He did not deserve

 to be memorialized but rather should continue to be condemned for his war crimes, genocidal

 activity and crimes against humanity.