Word: eritreans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...troubles in Eritrea date back to 1962, when Haile Selassie annexed the former Italian colony. Over the years, the rebel forces of the predominantly Moslem Eritrean Liberation Front gained control of the countryside, but have never made much headway against Ethiopian forces amassed at Asmara. Even after Haile Selassie was overthrown last September, the position of the guerrillas did not improve appreciably-partly because the front man for the new military government, General Aman Michael Andom, was himself an Eritrean and tried to solve the problem by granting greater autonomy to the province. Ever since Andom was killed last November...
...Ethiopian government, which had been toying with the idea of negotiating with the rebels, bluntly announced that it had decided instead to crush them by force. The same day, Eritrean guerrillas -armed to the hilt by Libya, Algeria and other militant Arab powers-ambushed and burned seven fuel trucks 30 miles from the Eritrean port of Assab. Two days later, they destroyed an Ethiopian army column, then launched the heaviest assault on the provincial capital in the 13-year history of the revolt...
...bloody anticolonial and civil wars, is quiet, but only relatively. The new military regime in Ethiopia is trying, without much success, to crush the twelve-year-old secessionist movement in the strategically important northern province of Eritrea. Last week, in the Red Sea port of Assab and the Eritrean capital of Asmara, fighting flared between the government and units of the 6,000-man-strong Eritrean Liberation Front, and rebel bombs and grenades exploded in crowded Asmara restaurants. With the government vowing to "beat back the bandits" (as it calls the rebels), fighting in northern Ethiopia will intensify...
...band of 120 men who range in rank from private to major. Though the council seems to be divided over exactly how Ethiopia should be ruled, a majority of its members obviously favor sweeping social reform. As Ethiopian nationalists, they also want to put down by force the Eritrean guerrilla movement. Aman refused to authorize the council to execute prisoners as it saw fit, and was reluctant to send troop reinforcements to Eritrea because he felt the problem of secession should be solved by granting the province greater autonomy...
...Teferi Benti, 53, a career soldier who commanded the Eritrea-based Second Army Division. A hard-liner who can be trusted to follow the orders of Major Mengistu, General Teferi in his first order sent 7,000 troops to reinforce the Second Division, possibly for a showdown with the Eritrean secessionists...