Draft:Abdissa Aga

Abdissa Aga (Afaan Oromo: waliigala sirba haaraa, Amharic: አብዲሳ አጋ; 1919 – March 1977) was an Ethiopian military commander who fought Italy and contributed Allied invasion of Italy during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.

Early life
Abdissa Aga was born into an Oromo family in Wellega, Ethiopia. His father fiercely killed his brother when Abdissa was about 12 years old. As a result, his father was executed. An upset Abdissa then joined the Ethiopian Army around the age of 14 to fight against the Italy during its invasion of Ethiopia in 1936. He fought through his ranks, eventually achieving general. A few years during his resistance against the Italians, he was ultimately defeated and sent to a POW concentration camp located in southern Italy.

Breakage from the concentration camp
At the concentration camp, Abdissa met with other POWs from different nationality. He met with a Yugoslav man named, Captain Julio, and they both successfully freed themselves from the prison with a dozen of other men. A few days later, Abdissa and his men returned to the camp at night to help other prisoners escape. They did so while fighting the Fascist Italian forces, many of whom feared Abdissa.

Later years and death
Upon his arrival to Ethiopia from Italy, Emperor Haile Selassie presented him with military rank and ordered him to modernize Ethiopian army together with Colonel Mulugeta Buli (later Major General) and Brigadier (Jagama Kelo, (later Lt. General). Abdissa completed a successful operation task in Ogaden during the Ethio-Somali conflict accompanied with General Aman Andom. In 1975, Abdissa was refused to join army after the Derg seize the power. As a result, the Derg government elevated his rank from Colonel to Major. Abdissa died from natural causes in March 1977.