List of conflicts in Eritrea

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Map showing the present-day location of the State of Eritrea within East Africa .

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 were themselves only part of a theater of a world war .

Early modern period [ edit ]

Ottoman Eyalet of Jeddah and Habesh [ edit ]

Late modern period [ edit ]

Italian Eritrea [ edit ]

Contemporary history [ edit ]

Italian Eritrea [ edit ]

Italian East Africa [ edit ]

Map showing Italian East Africa in 1936.
   Italian East Africa
    Conquered in 1940
    Possessions and occupied territories
    Kingdom of Italy

Federation of Ethiopia and Eritrea [ edit ]

Location of the Federation of Ethiopia and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa .
  • 1 September 1961 ? 29 May 1991 Eritrean War of Independence
    • 24 July 1967 ? One-hundred-seventy-two men had been killed in Hazemo. [1] [2]
    • 1967 ? Fifty students suspected of being members of the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) had been hanged in the center of the town of Agordat . [3]
    • 17 January 1970 ? Sixty village elders in Elabared had been rounded up for supporting the Eritrean Liberation Front and killed. [4]
    • 30 November 1970 ? One-hundred-twenty people in Basik Dera had been rounded up into the local mosque and the mosque's doors had been locked, the building had then been razed and the survivors shot. [2] [5]
    • 1 December 1970 ? Ethiopian Army units had surrounded and killed six-hundred-twenty-five people in Ona, then burnt down the village. [6]
    • 28 December 1974 ? Forty-five students in Asmara had been strangled to death using piano wires, their bodies dumped in alleyways and doorsteps. [7]
    • 2 February 1975 ? During an engagement against both the EPLF and ELF, the Ethiopian Army had attacked the church where eighty to one-hundred-three villagers in Woki Duba had taken refuge. [2] [4]
    • 14 February 1975 ? Shortly after an EPLF attack on two Ethiopian divisions, Ethiopian troops had fired upon and killed somewhere between three-hundred-thirty-one to three-thousand civilians who had been gathered in churches, homes and schools of Asmara and other nearby villages. [8] [9]
    • 9 March 1975 ? After several ELF attacks on the town, the Ethiopian Army had retaliated on the local population by killing two-hundred-eight in Agordat . [4]
    • August 1975 ? Two-hundred-fifty villagers in Om Hajer had been machine gunned in front of a river to prevent escape. [4]
    • April 1988 ? Three killed by aerial attacks in Agordat . [10]
    • 5 December 1988 ? Four-hundred had been killed in She'eb who had been mostly women and children. [4] [11]
    • 3 April 1990 ? 4 April 1990 ? Aerial attacks in Afabet had killed sixty-seven and wounded one-hundred-twenty-five. [10]
    • 24 April 1990 ? Aerial attacks and cluster bombs in Massawa had killed fifty and wounded one-hundred-ten. [12]
    • 1977?1978 Battle of Massawa
    • 1977 ? Siege of Barentu
    • 17 March 1988 ? 20 March 1988 Battle of Afabet
    • 8 February 1990 ? 10 February 1990 Battle of Massawa

Ethiopian Empire [ edit ]

Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia [ edit ]

Transitional Government of Ethiopia [ edit ]

State of Eritrea [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ "40th anniversary of Hazemo Massacre commemorated" . Archived from the original on 30 September 2007 . Retrieved 2007-07-26 .
  2. ^ a b c "Eritrean Martyrs' Day" . Retrieved 2006-09-26 .
  3. ^ {Wrong, Michelle, " I didn't do it for you", pg 227, image 1.}
  4. ^ a b c d e Killion, Tom (1998). Historical Dictionary of Eritrea . The Scarecrow Press. ISBN   0-8108-3437-5 .
  5. ^ Louise Latt. "Eritrea Re-photographed: Landscape Changes in the Eritrean Highlands 1890-2004" (PDF) . Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-03-04 . Retrieved 2006-09-26 . {{ cite journal }} : Cite journal requires |journal= ( help )
  6. ^ "Dates in Eritrean History" . Retrieved 2006-09-26 .
  7. ^ "The Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive Search" .
  8. ^ "Archived copy" . Archived from the original on 2016-01-17 . Retrieved 2015-06-16 . {{ cite web }} : CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link )
  9. ^ "The Saturday Citizen - Google News Archive Search" .
  10. ^ a b Africa Watch, Ethiopia: "Mengistu has Decided to Burn Us like Wood": Bombing of Civilians and Civilian Targets by the Air Force , 24 July 1990
  11. ^ "Lives Shaped By War" (Press release). National Union of Eritrean Women.
  12. ^ Ap (1990-04-24). "Rebels Say Ethiopian Planes Killed 50 in Port Bombings" . The New York Times . ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-02-05 .

See also [ edit ]

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