Eritrean Liberation Front
Independence movement in Eritrea during the 1960s and 1970s / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF; Tigrinya: ተጋደሎ ሓርነት ኤርትራ; Arabic: جبهة التحرير الإريترية; Italian: Fronte di Liberazione Eritreo), colloquially known as Jebha, was the main independence movement in Eritrea which sought Eritrea's independence from Ethiopia during the 1960s and the early 1970s. It was established in 1960 after Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie violated a 1952 UN resolution that guaranteed Eritrea the right to an autonomous government. Idris Muhammad Adam and other Eritrean intellectuals founded the ELF as a primary Pan Arab movement in Cairo, but the first attack was led by Hamid Idris Awate in 1961. Over the course of the 1960s, the ELF was able to obtain support from Arab countries such as Egypt and Sudan. However, tensions between Muslims and Christians in the ELF along with the failure of the ELF to ward off Ethiopia's 1967–1968 counter offensive internally fractured the ELF, causing it to split. By the mid 1970s, the ELF and the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF), an ideologically Maoist liberation movement, were the key liberation movements in Eritrea. The EPLF ultimately overtook the ELF as the primary Eritrean independence movement by 1977, and the ELF was subsequently defeated in 1981.
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Tigrinya: ተጋደሎ ሓርነት ኤርትራ Arabic: جبهة التحرير الإريترية Italian: Fronte di Liberazione Eritreo | |
Founders | Idris Mohammed Adem |
Leaders | Idris Mohammed Adem (1960–1975) Ahmed Mohammed Nasser (1975–1982) |
Dates of operation | 1960–1981 |
Country | Eritrea |
Headquarters | Kassala, Sudan (1965) |
Active regions | Eritrea (1960–1981) |
Ideology | Eritrean nationalism |
Allies | EPLF (1970–1972, 1974–1980) Cuba (until 1975) China (until 1972) Syria Ba'athist Iraq Saudi Arabia Libya Sudan Somalia |
Opponents | EPLF (1972–1974, 1980–1981) Derg TPLF |
Battles and wars | |
Preceded by Eritrean Liberation Movement |