Tag: #Derg

THE MONUMENT TO SELECTIVE MEMORY

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Cowardice, Coercion, and the Myth of a “Heroic” Death By David Yeh There is something almost surreal in the way...

Afabet: The Battle That Broke the Balance of Power

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By David Yeh Introduction: When History Turned in Forty-Eight Hours History rarely announces its turning points in advance, but at Afabet,...

When Power Tried to Silence a People: Remembering the Red Star Campaign

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A reflection on the week the Derg sought to break Eritrea and the people who refused to yield. By Alula...

Acts of Genocide[1] Against Innocent Eritrean Civilians.

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Tesfay Aradom, PhD.        “Dry up the sea to kill the fish” Introduction In this brief article, my goal is to recount...

Red Sea Realpolitik: Ideology, Intervention, and the War Over Eritrea (1977)

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What the Derg, Israel, and the Cold War Reveal About Power, Proof, and the Price Paid By Alula Frezghi In 1977,...

The Landing That Made Eritrea Inevitable

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Operation Fenkil and the Battle That Shifted the Balance of the Horn of Africa By Alula Frezghi History occasionally pivots in...

Fenqil: The Decisive Blow That Reshaped Eritrea’s Road to Freedom

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By David Yeh Fenqil stands as one of the most transformative moments in the Eritrean struggle for independence, not simply...

Sovereignty by Appropriation: Ethiopia’s Recurrent Illusion and the Power It Cannot See

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By David Yeh Introduction When a state begins shouting about sovereignty, it is usually because it no longer possesses it. The Potemkin...

Power Without Memory Is Just Noise: Abiy Ahmed’s Military Bragging Is an Insult to History

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By David Yeh Ethiopia’s Potemkin Party Chief Abiy Ahmed’s recent military boasting parading Ethiopia’s alleged ownership of advanced fighter jets...

She’eb and the Unfinished Question of Justice for Eritrea

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by @Dahlakib Many massacres were committed in Eritrea by successive Ethiopian regimes, but few match the scale and cruelty of...

Red Lines and Broken Myths: Ethnic Power, Sovereignty, and the Future of the Horn

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Aaron Introduction History rarely announces its turning points with clarity; it signals them through repetition of myths, of maps, of...

Ethiopia’s Contemporary Crisis: Historical Roots and Drivers of National Unraveling

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Ibrahim A. Ibrahim Abstract This article analyzes the historical foundations of Ethiopia’s contemporary political crisis by tracing the evolution of the...