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| Experiences Of The Eritrean Liberation Army - September 1., 1961 - December.30, 1982 |
 ERITREAN LIBERATION FRONT
Experiences Of The Eritrean Liberation Army - September 1., 1961 - December.30, 1982
Prepared by the Military Department. Published by the ELF-Foreign Information Center Damascus (1983 )
CONTENT
Introduction
1. Brief history of Hamid Idris Awate
2. Eritrean Liberation Army Experience
3. The First Stage (1961-65)
4. Major Battles Conducted by the First Vanguards (1961-1965)
5. The Second Stage (1965-1969)
6. Experience of Armed Struggle
7. Major Battles (in the Second Stage)
8. The Third Stage (1969-1971)
9. Major Battles of the Third stage
10. The Fourth Stage (1971-1975)
11. First National Congress of the ELF
12. Major Battles of the fourth Stage
13. The Fifth Stage (1975-December 1982)
14. Second National Congress of the Front
15. The Battle of the Cities
16. The Ethiopian Military Campaign (June 1978)
17. The Agreement of October 20th
18. The Attack and our Response/lnternal Crisis
19. Third National Congress (Dec.9-13, 1982)
20. Conclusion
Dedication
To the Eritrean Liberation Army. The Army of our Heroic People. To our courage ous fighters. To our martyrs. To our heroes who are marching to the battle fields with honor. To those who are sacrificing with blood for the freedom of our nation. To those heroes who are writing the new Eritrean history. History of heroism and sacrifices. To those who fell and to those still standing with arms to pursue the struggle of the fallen till victory.
Free Eritrea shall emerge! Eritrea, glorious, proud and of our forefathers! To all of them we dedicate this book.
INTRODUCTION
The perseverance of the Eritrean fighter, its determined confrontation, the continuous challenge to the difficult and cruel conditions of the daily life, and our fighters challenge to the difficulties that face us in regard to the Ethtopian co lonizer supported by the US Imperialism with ultra-modern weapons during Haile Selassie's era and the present supports it receives from the Soviet Union, who has been known to support the Eritrean cause and the world liberation movements, all this resolve of our fighter stems from deep conviction
in the justness of our national cause; its preparedness to sacrifice for the objective of liberation and our fighters confidence in the people that rallied around its revolution since its initiation by its leader Awate, September of 1961, ensuring that a new stage has begun in the life of our people, tying its fate with the revolution and its victory. There is no alternative to our people except the confirmation of the struggle till liberation.
The vanguard - the Eritrean fighter- has always been, along with the people, the hope of bright future to achieve victory, glory and pride to our people. It said no to colonialism, no to oppression, no to exploitation, no to the splitting and divding of the forces of the Eritrean Revolution; its striking forces, and its determined people. The Eritrean fighter has discovered through its daily experiences that there is no choice to perseverance and raise its struggle to confront all dangers and serious work to unite the forces of the Eritrean Revolution, because unity is the necessary condition to achieve victory and because unity has been the principal factor in safeguarding the continuity of the Eritrean Revolution despite the difficulties and hinderances on the path of the revolutionary struggle.
The facts of the resolve and perseverance and continuity of the revolution has been represented by the folowing:
1) Hope in the future and in achieving victory and liberation.
2) Belief and confidence in the Eritrean masses, which have stood with the revolution since its initiation.
3) Belief in the justness of the Eritrean cause and the necessities to pay the needed sacrifices.
4) Belief in the principles and goals of the Eritrean revolution, its national scopes and its basic ideological fundament for national liberation and establishment of an independent Eritrea.
5) Belief in the unity of the forces of the Eritrean revolution and its vanguard Eritrean Liberation Army and escalation of the struggle for unity.
With this deep belief and understanding of the struggle, the Eritrean fighters managed to pay every sacrifice, and pave the revolutionary path with its innocent blood and the wounded of liberation war, despite loss of vital extremities, to register heroic precedence, which has enabled our liberation fighters to achieve all the victories, which we shall represent in this book and we hope to make this an important historical document to the fighting experience of the Eritrean Libera tion Army since its initiation on the 1 st September 1961 to 30th December 1982.
Last but not least, it should be indicated in this introduction, the Eritrean Liberation Army has been playing main roles in various political, military organizational, activities in the Eritrean Liberation Front. It has been the backbone to the Eritrean Revolution; its gurantee to victory, its continuity, developments of its forms of struggle for national tasks of total liberation and national independence.
I am glad to register these words and to present to the fighters of the ELF and the friends of the Eritrean revolution. It is a great achievement of the leadership of the Eritrean Liberation Army since the firing of the first bullet and the 2nd National Congres.
The value of this work emanates not from the facts and events that it constitu tes, but by documenting the experience by itself and its publication that reflects an advanced awareness of the necessity to register revolutionary experiences. It also confirms at the same time the genuinity of the revolutionary values of the ELF fighters and recognition of their initiatives and achievements. Besides of the historical value of this work, its political and practical usefulness to the fighter surpasses the limits of imparting knowledge and rallying around past facts to wards participating the fighter in the process of ideological termination of the present Eritrean fighter and place the fighter in its natural position as an exten sion to our long fighting history. To ensure the continuity of the revolution and its future; this work represents rich and vital material, that every fighter should learn from. This is a deep-rooted experience that is useful for every fighter, and in the final analysis is the documentation of the experiences of the whole people. The experience of the ELA is not only a military experience, it is a comprehensive revolutionary experience that is related to various aspects of political, economic, social and cultural life of the Eritrean people.
The ELA has been the watching eye and the blowing fist of the Eritrean revolution; the hope in need and symbol of victory. It is from the people and for the people. When we say the fighter of the ELA stands in the front trenches, we don't mean it in its geographical but in its conscious sense as the first to sacrifice as defender with his permanent readiness and in short his total life ties to the revolution, he lives and dies for the revolution.
Documenting the experiences of the Eritrean Liberation Army confirms all those significancies and explains the source of its vanguardness that emanates from its leading position and role and continous sacrifice. Thus it is providing objectivity to reality besides historical facts. It is necessary to present achievements without any exaggerations or underestimations. A true revolutionary whose purpose is to take advantage of experiences must not distort or decorate real ex periences. Reality is always the best source of truths.
This experience belongs to every ELF fighter, to every martyr and to every fighter who is struggling to this day and even to those who are keeping distance to our experience for various reasons. The experience in the final analysis is a result of common efforts, outlook and contribution - be it positive or negative.
Since this is the weight of the ELA in the national struggle and the ELF, one can realize the priority given to the ELA by the conference of the organization and meetings of its leadership in providing all necessary needs and accessing all the arms and institutions of the organization to support the ELA in its development and to strengthen its capabilities. This has been the experience of the ELA in the past and it continues its vanguard role in scoring heroic deeds and sacrifice. Hen ce is its historical role and destiny till national liberation of the nation.
Glory to the ELA fighter and once more my pride in this wonderful effort to produce this important historical and fighting document and put it in the hands of every Eritrean fighter - to learn from it as guidance and to contribute through the continued struggle in the ELA.
ABDALLA IDRIS MEHAMED
Chairman Revolutionary.Council and Executive Committee of the ELF
and
Commander-in-Chief of the ELA
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| Eritrean Liberation Front Washington DC branch |
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Above: Mohamed Ali Abou Rijela, commander of the battle
of Togoruba, today in his 80s |
Eritrean Liberation Front
جبهة
التحرير الارتريه
Washington DC branch
فرع واشنطن
الولايات المتحدة الامريكية
The
Washington Dc branch of the Eritrean Liberation Front held its annual conference
on March 17-18, 2007. Dr. Yohannes Zeremariam, on a visit here, chaired the
opening session. In his opening remarks he stressed that now more than ever the
forces struggling for replacing the dictatorship with democratic institutions
should close their ranks and secure the unity of the Eritrean people. He further
explained that those powers benefiting from the existence of this dictatorship
will not hesitate to do all in their power to replace it with one just like it
so they could continue to control events of the Region
The annual conference
then heard the report of the outgoing leadership, and thoroughly
and frankly
debated the papers presented. The conference also evaluated the activities of
the branch in the past year, both as an organization and in cooperation with the
other Eritrean opposition organizations within the Eritrean Democratic Alliance
(EDA) in Washington DC. Before closing its works the conference approved the
work plan and renewed the mandate of the leadership with a unanimous vote of
confidence.
The conferees then
commemorated the battle of Togoruba. Togoruba symbolizes the determination and
resolve of the founders of our struggle for freedom. The heroes of Togoruba
stood their ground and defeated an enemy determined to destroy them before they
could grow further. Following Togoruba the Eritrean Liberation Army (ELA)
accomplished victories and feats that made its legend, liberating territory
after territory and town after town, paving the way to the independence of our
country in 1991.
The vision of the
founders of our struggle was to build a nation of and for all Eritreans based on
justice and fairness. That vision was betrayed by those who hijacked our
liberation and established a fierce dictatorship that is brutally repressing our
people and looting the resources and wealth of our country. The conferees
saluted the Eritrean democrats that are challenging the dictatorship and
struggling with the same valor of the heroes of Togoruba to attain a nation of
values found on democratic institutions that would guarantee peace, stability
and development.
The conferees reiterated the
principles that guide the Eritrean Liberation Front to struggle to solve the
serious problems faced today by our people together with other Eritrean
democratic organizations. Following the events of the last congress of the
Eritrean Democratic Alliance (EDA), the conferees appealed to all concerned not
to dwell on differences, and spare themselves and the Eritrean people arguing on
hollow labels describing self or others as more or less democratic, progressive
or else, but commit on establishing a common platform allowing all to concert
their efforts to remove the dictatorship and initiate the process of transition
to democracy in our country.
Aspiring to become the dominant
force of the Eritrean opposition (as a leader of one of the organizations stated
in an interview with an Ethiopian magazine – The Reporter -citing as examples
the role of TPLF within the EPRDF or that of FATAH within the PLO) is neither a
reflection of the historical development of the Eritrean opposition
organizations nor a real help towards cooperation of all forces and our
experience of democracy. In fact, mutual respect and acceptance of each and all
on an equal footing is the key to establishing the common platform that brings
out the spirit of cooperation of all the opposition organizations and groups.
The member organizations of the
Eritrean Democratic Alliance (EDA) should take this opportunity made available
by the events of the last congress, to evaluate their contribution to the common
cause and engage to improve internal democratization.
In conclusion the annual
conference of the Eritrean Liberation Front Washington DC branch salutes all
those forces with which it has closely worked here in Washington DC to promote
the cause of democracy in our country, and pledges to work harder with them and
with all those joining the ranks of opponents of the dictatorship.
DEMOCRACY WILL
PREVAIL IN ERITREA
ELF Washington DC,2007
1- The Issaias's regime is a dictatorial , suppressive and violent regime which dose
not depend on any constitutional rule .
2- The today's regime of Aslmara is a political , cultural and social strech of an Isolated group led by Issaias Afwerke at the begining of the seventieth in the past century and known as ( Selfi Natinet ) which introduced itself in it's political proclamation ( Nahnan Alamanan , ie we and our aims ) that it is a youth Christian group aimed at averting the concepts which the Eritrean Liberation Front was bearing .
3- Shabia is distinguished in the course of the National Liberation by it's aggregation to all steady of Eritrean revolution and it's principles specialy the national union and fought against all Eritrean organizations
and executed many operations of assassinations and body liquidation against revolution strugglers .
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| Eritrean Liberation Front in Lines |
1- Eritrean Liberation Front is a naional democratic organization , which struggles to anchor political deversity , strive for freedom of Eritrean people , and guarantee their humanitarian rights and realization of justice , equality and democracy by any means of struggle .
2- The Front is established in 1960 G.C. by star Eritreans by the leadership of Asheik Idris Mohamed Adem and made ( No alternative to Eritrean full Independence ) its basic slogan as alive embody for the need of our people in refusal of colonization - Haile Sellase's Regime .
3- Its birth was natural extention for all types of previous sruggles, logical development in the series of Eritrean National resistance project against foreign occupation and it is an essential station to lift the Naional struggle to the needed provocation level .
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