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During an engagement with the EPLF and ELF the Ethiopian Army attacked the church where villagers had taken refuge. The massacre is known is Eritrea as Black Saturday. [10] 1975-03-09 258 [4] Agordat: After several ELF attacks on the town the Ethiopian Army retaliated on the local population. 1975-04-17 235 [2]-470 [11] Hirgigo: August 1975 ...
After a series of armed incidents in which several Eritrean officials were killed near Badme, [4] on 6 May 1998, [5] a large Eritrean mechanized force entered the Badme region along the border of Eritrea and Ethiopia's northern Tigray Region, resulting in a firefight between the Eritrean soldiers and a Tigrayan militia and the Ethiopian police they encountered.
The Eritrean–Ethiopian War, [a] also known as the Badme War, [b] was a major armed conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea that took place from May 1998 to June 2000. After Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993, relations were initially friendly.
The bitter border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, once a single nation, played out far from the global spotlight. ... It was a war that killed some 80,000 people and sputtered to life again ...
Though they remained in government hands, Asmara, Barentu, Adi Keyeh, and Massawa were now besieged by the insurgents. By October 1977, EPLF fighters had besieged the town of Massawa. [2] This included the main road used by the garrison for the transport of supplies from Asmara. Essentially the garrison was cut off by land and under siege. [3] [4]
Ethiopia Eritrea Independence War 1961–1993; Eritrean War for Independence; Comparative Study Between Yemeni-Eritrean Ways of Documentation in Arbitration Over Red Sea South Islands 52 - Yemen Times December 27 through January 2, 2000, Vol IX; Connell, Dan Eritrea-Ethiopia War Looms, Foreign Policy in Focus 21 January 2004
The Eritrean War of Independence was an armed conflict and insurgency aimed at achieving self-determination and independence for Eritrea from Ethiopian rule. Starting in 1961, Eritrean insurgents engaged in guerrilla warfare to liberate Eritrea Province from the control of the Ethiopian Empire under Haile Selassie and later the Derg under ...
This is a list of conflicts in Eritrea arranged chronologically from the early modern period to the present day. This list includes: colonial wars , wars of independence , revolutions , civil wars , riots , massacres , terrorist attacks , and any battles that occurred within the territory of what is today known as the, " State of Eritrea " but ...