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April 1-30, 1970
ETHIOPIA
Rebel Leaders Dismissed
According to Iraqi News Agency, the "Eritrean Revolution Supreme
Council" has been dismissed because it was unaware of the fighters'
requirements having been away from the battlefield for over seven years
and because it had encouraged regional divisions and stirred up
sectarian strife. A newly elected General Command, whose task was to
direct the battle from within the country, would call a general
conference to draw up an action programme for the revolution.
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SUDANOW August,
1977
THE
FALL OF KAREN
‘Our
war of liberation was a people’s war, a just war. It was this essential
characteristic that was to determine its laws and to decide its final
outcome.’
n
Vietnam’s Vo Nguyen Giap
It
was a classic victory of a popularly supported guerrilla army over a
besieged force of hated invaders. A force of some 3, 000 Ethiopian
soldiers have been holed up for more than a month in fortifications
built during World War II on the hill around the Eritrean town of Karen
in the shape of a horseshoe.
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AEROPLANE HIJACKINGS BY ERITREANS
1969-1971
Eritreans were showing their displeasure of being governed by Ethiopia.
A demonstration in 1958 in Asmera ended up bloody. In the same year
conscious Eritreans in Port Sudan formed a group for struggling
politically to free Eritrea. They sent persons into Asmera who secretly
recruited members and it progressed. A member knew only his immediate 7
members that it was dubbed “Mahber 7” and also as “Harakat”. But because
this was striving only politically, another group formed a revolutionary
organization in Cairo in 1960. And a year later Idris Awate started the
first armed struggle in 1st September 1961.
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THE ERITREAN REVIEW
No. 40 March-April 1977
Published by Eritrean Liberation Front (E.L.F.) Popular Liberation
forces (P.L.F)
Address P. O. Box 14/5404, Beirut, Lebanon.
e d i t o r i a l
THE NEW CIRCUMSTANCES IN THE REGION AND THE MOST PRESSING TASKS AHEAD
The People's Liberation Forces concluded their first organizational
conference by adopting resolutions and issuing recommendations which
embodied to a large extent the will of the Eritrean masses who are
pressing for the unification of the three groups of the Eritrean
Revolution, and the mobilisation of all energies for the accomplishment
of national independence. As described by the friendly delegations and
the journalists who visited the liberated areas in Eritrea, the
conference was a demonstration for unity from the day it, was opened to
the day its final resolutions were announced.
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NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PROGRAMME EPLF
1977
Eritrea is situated at the crossroads of Africa and the Middle East. It
is bounded by the Red Sea on the east, the Sudan on the north and west,
and Ethiopia and Djibouti on the south. This strategic geographic
location has helped to shape its history. To clearly understand the
modern history of the Eritrean people, it is necessary to look into the
ancient history of the Horn of Africa.
The original inhabitants of present-day Eritrea were a negroid African
people known as the Nilotics. Later, invading Hamites from North Africa
occupied what is today northern Eritrea and, intermingling with the
Niloties, began to settle in the Western Lowlands and Northern
highlands. Between 1000 and 400 B.C., the Semites crossed the Red Sea
from South Arabia and, invading the Eritrean Plateau, began to settle
there, intermarrying with the intermingled Nilotics and Hamites. The
Semites, with their advanced Sabean civilisation, were able to transform
Hamito-Nilotic society and founded the Axumite Kingdom.
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Eritrean Liberation Front
People's Liberation Forces
Foreign Mission
Memorandum to 12th Summit
Conference of the Organization of African Unity held in Kampala, the
capital of the Republic of Uganda, in July 1975.
Your Excellencies, heads and members of brotherly African delegations:
We salute you all in the name of the Eritrean people. We hope that your
conference will succeed in accomplishing the tasks placed on its agenda
and earnestly contribute to upholding the OAU objectives and the
struggle of the entire mankind for a better future.
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The PLF
leadership crisis 1973
This incident was one small happening which led to a large one, fighters
purging each other thus the killings of the
"Menkae" and possibly the "Yemeen" branded fighters of the so called
movements.
I prefer sending the persons interviews than analyzing it because the
fighters I interviewed told me of their personal
experiences and were not in the exact places when the happenings
occurred.
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THE ERITREAN REVIEW
No. 40
March – April 1977
NAMES OF THE CENTRAL COUNCIL MEMBERS Seventy three members stood as
candidates to the Central Council of the Eritrean Liberation Front -
People's Liberation Forces. However, the neutral committee that
supervised the election declared the following members successful and
gave the number of votes each one them has won :
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Some Lessons from the Experience
of the Eritrean Revolution
Every revolutionary movement, through the struggle it wages and the
experience it passes through, contributes some general and specific
lessons of experience that have universal truth and usefulness and that
enrich the revolutionary practice and theory of the struggling people of
the world. It is true, especially when compared to big countries, our
country, Eritrea, is small both in terms of area and population.
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