Eritrean
Liberation Front
Culture and
information Office
Eritrean Liberation Front in lines
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Eritrean Liberation Front(ELF) is national democratic
organization, struggles to anchor political diversity, and strives for freedom
of Eritrean people , grantee their humanitarian rights and realizing of justice
,equality and democracy by all means of struggle .
*ELF foundation
was in June 1960 by star Eritrean by the leadership of the national symbol
Sheikh Idris Mohammed Adem, and made(No alternative to Eritrea full
independence) its basic slogan as alive embody for the need of our people in
refusal of foreign colonization.
* Its birth was
natural extension of all types of previous struggle , logical development in the
series of Eritrean National Resistance project against foreign occupation and it
is an essential station to lift the national struggle to the needed provocation
level.
*It detonated
the armed struggle at the first of September 1961 from the mouth of the martyr
Hamid Idris Awate's Gun and his mates of the first squadron on receiving our
rights, exemplary means and powerful to break the obstinacy of the Ethiopian
occupation at the time.
*It was
possible for it with patient and hardness of it's strugglers to unsuccessful the
bet of the regime of the Emperor in playing by the paper of religion and culture
diversity and was able to put all Eritrean in fight against the enemy .And it
succeeded in becoming the true representative of our people's wishes and needs
in freedom and independence.
*It broke out
the enclosure of information isolation and appeared with it's issue and raised
it's people voice to the region and the world and realized political and
diplomatic success and in all fields for the benefit of freedom and
independence process in our country.
* It have
achieved a big and successive victory in the field of war against the
colonization and the Eritrean Liberation Army have registered huge bravery and
historical battles which remain pride for all Eritrean and for all those like
freedom in the world for ever and it stretched to all parts of Eritrean in short
period of time through it's activities during the public liberation war
*It transformed
since the middle of the seventieth, after liberating the rural regions to the
level of liberating the towns and cities step by step and was able to liberate
most of the Eritrean cities.
*It implanted
successful projects to fight against illiteracy and diseases in the public by
opening schools and clinics in different parts of Eritrea
*It has
presented assistance to the struggle of the Ethiopian people and helped them on
the fight against injustice and it played a crucial role in the collapse of the
Ethiopian colonialist regimes (Haile Sellassie - Mengistu Haile mariam ).
*it strengthens
its experience in addition to the Eritrean Liberation Army from another National
streams and bodies and groups like the General Eritrean Trade Union. Awate Youth
Organization. The General Union Eritrean Student. The general Eritrean Women
Association. Eritrean Peasants Association. Eritrean Teachers Union. Association
of the Eritrean Authors and Journalists. The Eritrean Lawyers Association .
*ELF had played
historical and device role for the succeed of the referendum in1993 G.C when
most Eritrean people reserved by refusing the Eritrean to the Autocratic Style
of Assaias's regime by the declaration which calls the Eritrean to succeed the
referendum process and the respond to the fronts call from our people was big
and huge .
*It has exerted
a big efforts and under taking for the sake of the Eritrean national unity and
it had played a basic role in all national unification attempts of Eritrean
groups before liberation .After the liberation ELF continued it's role in unite
the Eritrean Resistance Front and was a founding member of Eritrean National
Alliance in 1996G.C and Eritrean National Alliance Group in 1999 G.C whose name
became Eritrean National in 2002 G.C, and the Eritrea Democratic Alliance in
2006 , and the Eritrean Solidarity Front in 2009 and the National Dialogue Forum
for Democratic Change and the National Commission for Democratic Change.
*Its organizational bases are built up on democratic principles and group
leadership. and its general conferences are conducted in accordance with the
constitutional law which is decided by the conferences.
*Its structure
is built up on :1-General National Conference 2-Central Council 3-Excutive
Committee.4- The Branches.
*Responsibilities
of the National Conference: 1-Evaluating the phase: 2- Designing general plan
for the works of the front: 3- Selecting the leadership. Until Now ELF had
convened (8) National General Conferences.
*It
has built struggle relations with liberation forces in the world and
consolidated brotherly relationship with the Arab Countries. *The Eritrean
Liberation Front honors the will of our people and is strongly struggling side
by side with the other Eritrean national organizations to restore the legitimacy
of the rule from the cruel dictatorial regime of lssaias to the hands of the
Eritrean people in order to decide their political fate in free Eritrea.
With
greetings
of the
Culture and
information Office
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On the fifty one anniversary of establishing the
Eritrean Liberation Front, and the Golden Jubilee of the brake
out of the Eritrea great armed struggle.
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