Eritrean Liberation Front
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The Eritrean Liberation Front ( Italian Fronte di Liberazione Eritreo , English Eritrean Liberation Front , ELF ) is a Marxist embossed Eritrean organization.
The flag of the Eritrean Liberation Front is sky blue and shows a green olive branch in the middle surrounded by a wreath of olive branches of the same color. The olive branch wreath shows 14 leaves on the left and right. It was the official flag of Eritrea between 1950 and 1962.
The clashes between the Eritrean Liberation Front and the Popular Front for Democracy and Justice , which is the current dictatorial government of Eritrea, continue in independent Eritrea.
history
One of the founders of the ELF was Hamid Idris Awate .
From the beginning of the 1960s she fought for the independence of Eritrea from Ethiopia .
In the 1970s, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front split off from the ELF. A civil war broke out between the Eritrean Liberation Front and the Eritrean People's Liberation Front, in which the Eritrean People's Liberation Front prevailed in the 1980s. It is now the Eritrean interim government . The ELF continued its work from abroad and has been represented in the opposition alliance Eritrean National Alliance since Eritrea became independent .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Frank Nordhausen: Im Krieg , Berliner Zeitung of February 24, 2007, p. 3. Accessed on November 20, 2009.