Today in Eritrean History – 14 November 1962: On this day, 63 years ago, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie illegally annexed Eritrea.

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Today in Eritrean History – 14 November 1962:
On this day, 63 years ago, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie illegally annexed Eritrea.

On 14 November 1962, Haile Selassie forcibly dissolved the Eritrean-Ethiopian Federation that had been established by the United Nations in 1952. He abolished the Eritrean Parliament, scrapped the Eritrean Constitution, banned the use of Eritrea’s official languages (Tigrinya and Arabic), and imposed Amharic as the sole official language. Ethiopian troops were deployed outside the Eritrean Parliament building to enforce the annexation.

From the mid-1950s, Haile Selassie had made it clear that he wanted only “the land and the sea, but not the Eritrean people.” He systematically undermined the federation and crushed every Eritrean voice calling for autonomy or respect of the federal arrangement.

Throughout the 1950s, Eritrean students, workers, and trade unions rose up against his creeping annexation and oppression. Haile Selassie responded by sending Ethiopian troops to silence, arrest, and kill peaceful protesters.

In 1960, the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) was founded in Cairo to fight for the self-determination and independence of the Eritrean people. On 1 September 1961, an ELF unit led by the legendary Hamid Idris Awate fired the first shots of the armed struggle by attacking an Ethiopian police post on Mount Adal – marking the official beginning of the Eritrean War of Independence.

Among the crimes committed under Haile Selassie were:
- the public hanging of dozens of Eritrean patriots in Keren and other towns,
- the massacre of approximately 10,000 civilians in 1967 as collective punishment during the early years of the independence struggle,
- and the Ona massacre in the 1970s, in which Ethiopian forces killed between 1,000 and 3,000 unarmed villagers.

From 1961 to 1991, Eritreans fought Africa’s longest war of liberation. Successive Ethiopian regimes (Haile Selassie, the Derg, and Mengistu) killed over 200,000 Eritreans, committed widespread sexual violence against women, used starvation as a weapon, and even deployed napalm and other weapons of mass destruction against civilians in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The war caused billions of dollars in damage and displaced hundreds of thousands.

Yet, against all odds, the Eritrean people prevailed. On 24 May 1991, Eritrea liberated itself and formally declared independence in 1993 after an overwhelming UN-supervised referendum.

14 November is a dark day that reminds us why we fought – and why we will never accept domination again.

 

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the genocidal Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie who annexed Eritrea and
Somali galbeed

 

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OHCHR: From the start of the federation, Emperor Haile Selassie took steps that appeared to
undermine Eritrea’s autonomy. He decreed a preventive detention law that allowed
Ethiopian forces to supress Eritrean political movements and arrest newspaper editors. He
forced elected community leaders to resign. He replaced the Eritrean flag with that of
Ethiopia and imposed the use of Amharic in public services and schools. He also seized
Eritrea’s share of custom duties and moved most of Eritrean industries and businesses to
Ethiopia.
77. Eritreans protested against Ethiopia’s attempts to jeopardise the Federation. In 1957,
students mounted mass demonstrations, followed in 1958 by a four-day general strike
organised by trade unions. Ethiopian troops fired on the protestors, killing and wounding
many. Convinced that peaceful protests were not effective anymore, in November 1958
Mr. Mohamed Said Nawd, Mr. Saleh Ahmed Eyay and other Eritreans exiled in Sudan
founded the Eritrean Liberation Movement (ELM). Made up mainly of male and female students, intellectuals, and urban wage labourers, the ELM engaged in clandestine political
activities intended to pacifically resist Ethiopian rule. By 1962, however, the Movement
was discovered and suppressed by Imperial authorities. It also suffered from competition
with the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF), which had been created in July 1960 in Cairo by
Mr. Idris Muhammad Adam and other Eritrean intellectuals and students inspired by the
Algerians’ fight for independence. Most of ELF initial militants and leaders were Muslims
who, seeing Eritrea as part of the Arab world, adhered to a Pan-Arabic ideology. ELM and
ELF competed for supporters but none of them managed to recruit Hamid Idris Awate, a
former soldier in the Italian colonial army who turned into a guerrilla and community
leader. In August 1961, he was forced to find refuge on Mount Abal, between Agordat and
Tessenei, to escape imminent arrest by Ethiopian police forces. That is where, on 1
September 1961, he and his companions fired the first shots of what would become the 30-
year armed struggle for independence. One year later, on 14 November 1962, Ethiopian
troops forced the Eritrean Parliament to dissolve. On that day, #Eritrea was officially
annexed as #Ethiopia’s fourteenth province.

 

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The hangings of Eritreans in Keren by Haile Selassie

 

[Jaffar]

Haille selalsie was actually the greates Ethiopian king that ever lived the last emperor yes there were mistakes kings dont share power that was the problem with the eritrean federation but i dont think his intention was bad he wanted build a giant country, he had allot of eritreans on his side such as general aman andom and others.

 

[Aaqil]

Haille selalsie was actually the greates Ethiopian king that ever lived the last emperor yes there were mistakes kings dont share power that was the problem with the eritrean federation but i dont think his intention was bad he wanted build a giant country, he had allot of eritreans on his side such as general aman andom and others.

He was bad who wanted to maintain and promote to outsiders that Ethiopia is a "Christian" nation a notion Muslims of Eritrea refused since they have seen how this emperor persecuted and marginalized the Muslims of Ethiopia

 

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Haille selalsie was actually the greates Ethiopian king that ever lived the last emperor yes there were mistakes kings dont share power that was the problem with the eritrean federation but i dont think his intention was bad he wanted build a giant country, he had allot of eritreans on his side such as general aman andom and others.

General Aman Andom was half eritrean and half Ethiopian.

And not many eritreans liked Haile Selassie? Are u xmhr sxb

 

[Burqad]

Haille selalsie was actually the greates Ethiopian king that ever lived the last emperor yes there were mistakes kings dont share power that was the problem with the eritrean federation but i dont think his intention was bad he wanted build a giant country, he had allot of eritreans on his side such as general aman andom and others.

You’ve been noted

 

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