FACTORS THAT FACILITATED THE SUCCESS OF THE ERITREAN STRUGGLE ON 28TH MAY 1993
The formation of liberation movements such as ELF, EPLF, TPLF which put up a guerilla war fare from 1961, on many occasions they engaged in sporadic attacks on the government installations and this slowly but surely weakened Ethiopia such that by 1993 it was very clear that Eritrea was to get its independence. Melesi Zenawi The election of an African as the UN General Secretary in 1992 that is Boutros Boutros Ghali helped Eritrea to achieve her independence. He revised the 1960 referendum, realized the mistakes in it and then turned to pressurize Ethiopia to relinquish power to Eritreans. The famine and drought that hit Eritrea most between 1972- 74 worked to increase Eritrean hatred towards the Ethiopian government. They then got determined to fight Ethiopia and the Eritrean secession could not be avoided. Cold war politics, because of the two competing blocs in the world, Eritrea and Ethiopia were in position to get help from either the capitalist bloc or the socialist bloc for...