Transition from war to peace: the Ethiopian disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration experience
Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10246029.2017.1297580
Additionally, the EPRDF had to determine the fate of the other groups who had fought the Derg within the new political arrangement, wherein the EPRDF formed an interim government in order to lead the nation through the transition.
While the number of such groups was large, their actual military capacity was insignificant to none.
They included: the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF); the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Army (EPRA); the United Oromo People’s Liberation Front (UOPLF); the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Oromo (IFLO); the Somali Abbo Liberation Front (SALF); the Western Somali Liberation Front (WSLF); the Sidama Liberation Front (SLF); the Afar Liberation Front (ALF); the Benishangul People’s Liberation Movement (BPLM); the Ethiopian Democratic Union (EDU); and the Gambella People’s Liberation Movement (GPLM). All of these groups claimed to have been engaged in armed struggles and to have had armed forces under their command.
Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10246029.2017.1297580
Additionally, the EPRDF had to determine the fate of the other groups who had fought the Derg within the new political arrangement, wherein the EPRDF formed an interim government in order to lead the nation through the transition.
While the number of such groups was large, their actual military capacity was insignificant to none.
They included: the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF); the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Army (EPRA); the United Oromo People’s Liberation Front (UOPLF); the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Oromo (IFLO); the Somali Abbo Liberation Front (SALF); the Western Somali Liberation Front (WSLF); the Sidama Liberation Front (SLF); the Afar Liberation Front (ALF); the Benishangul People’s Liberation Movement (BPLM); the Ethiopian Democratic Union (EDU); and the Gambella People’s Liberation Movement (GPLM). All of these groups claimed to have been engaged in armed struggles and to have had armed forces under their command.
