The OG Freedom Fighters

[K A I N]

Not really but they ended up winning the war (EPLF) 

The 1984 - 1985 famine in Ethiopia was a significant famine in the history of Ethiopia. Drought and political instability contributed to the severity of the famine, which is estimated to have killed over one million people. Media activity in the West lead to Live Aid which raised the international profile of the famine and helped secure international aid.

The economy of Ethiopia is based on agriculture: 90% of exports, and 80% of total employment come from agriculture. Much of Ethiopia's agriculture sector produces coffee for export; it is estimated that more than 15 million people (25% of the population) derive their livelihood from the coffee sector. The government of Ethiopia relies on the foreign exchange generated by exports to service foreign debts, much of which was generated buying military equipment.

Following the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974, the Derg chose to continue fighting insurgents in Eritrea. By 1976 insurgencies existed in all of the country's fourteen administrative regions.

A major blow to Ethiopia's economy was contributed by the United States in its efforts to thwart Soviet activity in the region. By 1980, All of Ethiopia's sea ports were taken by US-backed Eritrean independence fighters. This crippled the country's economy further and contributed to the governments ineptitude to handle the crisis to come.

By mid-1984 it was evident that another drought and resulting famine of major proportions had begun to affect large parts of northern Ethiopia. Just as evident was the government's inability to provide relief. The almost total failure of crops in the north was compounded by fighting in and around Eritrea, which hindered the passage of relief supplies. Although international relief organizations made a major effort to provide food to the affected areas, the persistence of drought and poor security conditions in the north resulted in continuing need as well as hazards for famine relief workers. In late 1985, another year of drought was forecast, and by early 1986 the famine had spread to parts of the southern highlands, with an estimated 5.8 million people dependent on relief food. Exacerbating the problem in 1986 were locust plagues.

^They haven't learned their lesson...major betray in 1998 kinda like England attacking America.


Eritrean Freedom Fighters

[King Tech Quadafi]

yo kain how did the local muslim and christain popuilations fit into the picture durin the war

was the insurgency diverse, or one group?

was there a religious element to the equation?

[K A I N]

yo kain how did the local muslim and christain popuilations fit into the picture durin the war

was the insurgency diverse, or one group?

was there a religious element to the equation?

Haha it's funny you ask that...I hate religion 

This war could have been cut in half from 30 years if religion wasn't a factor but it was.

The Eritrean Liberation Front was the main secessionist movement in Eritrea which sought Eritrea's independence from Ethiopia during the 1960s and 1970s. It was founded in the early 1960s and soon came into violent conflict with the government, using guerrilla war tactics to continue the struggle. Though the movement posed great problems for the Ethiopian government, it failed to achieve independence for Eritrea. In the 1970s, a group of its members split the movement and formed the Eritrean People's Liberation Front, a more left-wing rebel movement. By the 1980s, the People's Liberation Front had replaced the original Eritrean Liberation Front as the main rebel group. When Eritrea did gain independence in the early 1990s, the People's Liberation Front changed into the People' Front for Democracy and Justice with the addition of former ELF members while the balance became a small terrorist group in the nether reaches of the Sudan.

The Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) was an armed organization that fought for the independence of Eritrea from Ethiopia. It emerged in 1970 as an intellectual left-wing group that split from the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF).

The Christian-dominated EPLF and the mainly Muslim ELF first struggled between themselves in a contested civil war (1972-1974) before succeeding in liberating large parts of the country together in 1977. However, their success was short lived and in 1978, the EPLF retreated to its northern stronghold region of Sahel on the Sudanese border.

In the early 1980s, new armed conflicts between the rival EPLF and ELF led to the latter being marginalized and pushed into neighbouring Sudan. The EPLF remained the only relevant opposition to Ethiopian occupation in Eritrea.

In 1988, the EPLF started an attack from the northern province of Sahel towards the south. In 1991, together with an allied Ethiopian left-wing organization, the TPLF (Tigrayan People's Liberation Front), the EPLF managed to isolate and then defeat the Ethiopian military in western Eritrea. In May 1991, the TPLF took power in Ethiopia and on May 24, the EPLF marched into the Eritrean capital, Asmara.

The EPLF's successor organization, the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), has been the only political party in Eritrea since independence was proclaimed in 1993.

The EPLF was an egalitarian movement in which 30% of the fighters were women. Its influence in the extremely patriarchal and conservative Eritrean society was significant, and its values have strongly shaped the ideology of the now governing PFDJ.

And now the TPLF attacked Eritrea in 1998  it doesn't make sense and were are closely (Habesha related)  to them and we gave them free port access.