Let's begin with Derg: With the Master plan of relatively educated members of EPRP Derg overthrew the Ethiopian Empire and Emperor Haile Selassie in a coup d'état on 12 September 1974, establishing Ethiopia as a Marxist-Leninist communist state with itself as a military junta and provisional government. Various left-wing, ethnic, and anti-communist opposition groups supported by the United States began armed resistance to the Soviet-backed Derg, in addition to the Eritrean revolution fronts already fighting in the Eritrean War of Independence. The Derg used military campaigns and the Qey Shibir (Ethiopian Red Terror) to repress the rebels. By the mid-1980s, various issues such as the 1983–1985 famine, economic decline and other after-effects of Derg policies ravaged Ethiopia, increasing popular support for the rebels. The Derg dissolved itself in 1987, establishing the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (PDRE) under the Workers' Party of Ethiopia (WEP) in an attempt to maintain its rule. The Soviet Union ended its support for the PDRE in the late-1980s and the government was overwhelmed by the increasingly victorious rebel groups. In May 1991, the PDRE was defeated in Eritrea and President Mengistu Haile Mariam fled the country. The Ethiopian Civil War ended on 4 June 1991 when the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), a coalition of left-wing ethnic rebel groups, entered the capital Addis Ababa and overthrew the WEP by major conventional support of the EPLF. The PDRE was dissolved and replaced with the Tigray People's Liberation Front-led Transitional Government of Ethiopia. If not with the overwhelmed support of the good Samaritan EPLF there woulddn't be weyane TPLF, period. Repented indeed.
The Ethiopian Civil War left at least 1.4 million people dead, with 1 million of the deaths being related to famine and the remainder from combat and other violence.
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Re: If not with the overwhelmed support of the good Samaritan EPLF there woulddn't be weyane TPLF, ' period.
It is the other way round. Had not TPLF helped Eritrea, Eritrea would have been in the dust bin of history. Please stop such absurd propoganda as the world already knows who Eritreans are - you are loosers!!!
TPLF had already it's own Tigrayan cadets who were training thousands of youn men and women. EPLF already blocked the route to Sudan and the relation was cut. Evidence shows TPLF could have annihilated EPLF asit had more force and army. But the eritreans in TPLF like Meles Zenawi and Sebhat Nega had some childish narcistish relation to Eritrea. In fact Eritreans are ralted to all of us, not to those who assert to come from Eritrea only. There is no difference between Tigray and Eritrea. Overthrowing Issyas and integrating EPLF and TPLF under one organisation was the right thing to do. This is because of Meles's sugar sweet sentimentality about Eritrea, which did not help Eritreans and Tigrayans.
TPLF had already it's own Tigrayan cadets who were training thousands of youn men and women. EPLF already blocked the route to Sudan and the relation was cut. Evidence shows TPLF could have annihilated EPLF asit had more force and army. But the eritreans in TPLF like Meles Zenawi and Sebhat Nega had some childish narcistish relation to Eritrea. In fact Eritreans are ralted to all of us, not to those who assert to come from Eritrea only. There is no difference between Tigray and Eritrea. Overthrowing Issyas and integrating EPLF and TPLF under one organisation was the right thing to do. This is because of Meles's sugar sweet sentimentality about Eritrea, which did not help Eritreans and Tigrayans.