Genesis of the Eritrean Organizations 1958 - 2003
By The Awate Team -
Nov 05, 2003
Timeline Highlights 1958 Mohammed S. Naud Found ELM ELM 1959 1960 ELF founded In Cairo ELF 1961 Awate fires First Bullet 1962 1963 1964 1965 ELF Liquidates ELM (Ela Tsaeda) ELF ELM 1966 1967 1968 Adobha Conference 1969 1970 ELF ELF-PLF Selfi Natsnet Obel ELM Pltcl Of. 1971 First Congress ELF - Civil War starts 1972 Splinter Groups Unite ELF-PLF 1973 Menka's Liquidate 1974 Civil War Stops 1975 Second Congress ELF Falool '77 Yemeen '77 1976 1977 Internal Purging ELF EPLF ELF-PLF Rev. Cmte 1978 Ethiopian Offnsive - Retreat from cities Falloul, EDM 1979 Mahmoud Ajeeb Assasinated 1980 Joint TPLF/EPLF attack on ELF 1981 ELF pushed to Sudan 1982 Saeed Saleh Assasinated SAGEM ELF ELF -RC 1983 S. Arabia :Tripartite Org. frmd. Tripartite 1984 Hangela/ M. Aseb Assasinated Jihad Qolama 1985 Sabbe Dies/H. Garza Assasinated 1986 SAGEM Totil's Group EPLF Gash Barka 1987 1988 Jihad Movement Found Jihad Khalas 1989 1990 Qolama Finished Qolama 1991 Independence Of Eritrea Herui's EDM EPLF Berhatu Disperssed 1992 1993 UN Supervised Referandum 1994 EPLF Becomes PFDJ 1995 Hanish Battles 1996 Gebreberhan Zere Disappeared EDM G/brhan Afar Kunama 1997 1998 Badme War 1999 Alliance Formed Eritrean Osmn Abbkr 2000 Border War stops National PFDJ EIDM 2001 Arrest, Closure of Press, etc Alliance EPLF-DP EFDM ENDP 2002 Crisis In The Alliance and ELF-RC ENA Coop Formed MDC 2003 RC splits; one faction rejoins ENA 2004 NB: Genesis doesn't include the further fragmentations of EIDM, SAGHEM, etc
