List of conflicts in Eritrea

Location of Eritrea

Ancient Times

Dʿmt

Modern Times

Ottoman Eyalet of Jeddah and Habesh

Italian Eritrea

Italian East Africa

Italian East Africa in 1936.
  Italian East Africa

Federation of Ethiopia and Eritrea

Location of the Federation of Ethiopia and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa.
DateDeathsLocationDescription of event
1967-07-24 172 Hazemo Several villages wiped out and the throats of men slit in front of their wives and children.[1][2]
Late 1967 Approx 50 Akordat Students suspected of being members of the ELF were hanged in the centre of town. Parents of the slain were forced, by the Ethiopian Army, to unhang their dead children and take them home.[3]
1970-01-17 60 Elabared The village elders were rounded up for supporting the Eritrean Liberation Front and killed.[4]
1970-11-30 120 Basik Dera The entire village was rounded up into the local mosque and the mosque's doors were locked, the building was then razed and survivors were shot.[2][5]
1970-12-01 625 Ona Ethiopian Army units surrounded the village killing civilians and burning down the village.[6]
1974-07-10 170+[2] Om Hajer
1974-12-28 45[7] Asmara Students were strangled to death using piano wires, their bodies were dumped in alleyways and doorsteps.
1971 Approx 70 Keren Students and youth suspected of supporting the ELF were publicly executed by hanging. Family members were forced to attend the execution and cut down their children from the noose.
1975-02-14 331-500,3000[8][9] Asmara, Surrounding villages Shortly after an EPLF attack on two Ethiopian divisions, Ethiopian troops fire upon civilians gathered in Churches, homes and schools.
1975-02-02 80[2]-103[4] Woki Duba During an engagement with the EPLF and ELF the Ethiopian Army attacked the church where villagers had taken refuge.
1975-03-09 208[4] Agordat After several ELF attacks on the town the Ethiopian Army retaliated on the local population.
1975-04-17 235[2]-470[10] Hirgigo
August 1975 ~250 Om Hajer The villagers were machine gunned in front of a river to prevent escape.[4]
1976-12-30 105[9] Archico
1985-10-19 39[2] Mogoraib
April, 1988 3 Agordat Killed by aerial attacks.[11]
1988-05-04 unknown Shebah[2]
1988-12-05 400+[12] She'eb The dead were mostly women and children as the men had moved to the towns to eke out a living for their impoverished village.[4]
3–4 April 1990 67 killed, 125 wounded Afabet Aerial attacks[11]
24 April 1990 50 killed, 110 wounded Massawa Aerial attacks, cluster bombs[13]

Ethiopian Empire

Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia

Transitional Government of Ethiopia

State of Eritrea

References

See also

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