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Topic: Eritrean War of Independence, or Ethiopian-Eritrean Guerilla War

Eritrean War of Independence, or Ethiopian-Eritrean Guerilla War

Years: 1961 - 1991

The Eritrean War of Independence (1 September 1961 - 29 May 1991) is a conflict fought between the Ethiopian government and Eritrean separatists, both before and during the Ethiopian Civil War.The war goes on for 30 years until 1991 when the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF), having defeated the Ethiopian forces in Eritrea, takes control of the country.

In April 1993, in a referendum supported by Ethiopia, the Eritrean people vote almost unanimously in favor of independence.

Formal international recognition of an independent and sovereign Eritrea follows later the same year.The two main rebel groups fight two Eritrean civil wars during the war of liberation.

"History should be taught as the rise of civilization, and not as the history of this nation or that. It should be taught from the point of view of mankind as a whole, and not with undue emphasis on one's own country. Children should learn that every country has committed crimes and that most crimes were blunders. They should learn how mass hysteria can drive a whole nation into folly and into persecution of the few who are not swept away by the prevailing madness."

—Bertrand Russell, On Education (1926)