بحثا عن ألحقيقة ? لماذا انهزمت جبهة التحرىر الارترية عام
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?Why was the ELF defeated in 1981
The ELF before the EPLF/TPLF aggression that started on
August 1980 and continued for a bout a year, had a fighting force of 9 Brigades
with a number of 18, 000 regular army and had militias and those who worked at
the various departments who made up about 25, 000 (Figures according to the
military office of the ELF. The Eritrean Liberation Army (ELA) was well armed
and trained and had a combat experience even under much difficult circumstances
than the EPLF/TPLF aggression. Even the TPLF Assessment of the ELF in 1985
states that the losses than the ELF sustained during the dual attack was much
less than its losses when it attempted to liberate Barentu. Why was it defeated
then? In my humble opinion there are many factors, but the main factor was that
its leadership was deeply divided on a number of issues and it was infiltrated
by the EPLF (some of whom opted to join the EPLF when their mission was
accomplished).
- - The failure of the leadership
to manage the large influx of Christian highlanders in 1975
- - Competition of the leadership
to win the newcomers at the expense of the old guard
- - Sympathy of some of the
newcomers with the EPLF and associating themselves with it
- - The delay to hold regular
meetings of the Central Committee and thus the 3rd ELF congress
which was supposed to convene in 1979
- - The ELF was isolated in the
region, it supported the view of the Soviet Union that the Derg was progressive
and the visits of its leadership to Moscow and Berlin without informing its
immediate neighbours such as Sudan and Saudi Arabia put it at odds with those
countries that were anti-communist. They regarded it as a threat
- - The EPLF/TPLF aggression
was a secondary factor that contributed to its demise
- - The choice of the
organization, the plains of Barca, as its base was a fatal military strategy as
its bases could be overrun in a short period. No sensible organization could
make such a fatal mistake.
Here, I present, the views of the two sides of the leadership
that were in conflict as stated by them. They are both in Arabic and I hope to
translate them to English when I find time. One view is given by the ELF led
then by Abdella Idris and its puts the blame squarely on a section of the
leadership (without naming it) that conspired to destroy the ELF. The other
point is given by Ibrahim Mohamed Ali, in his book about the ‘Journey of the
ELF: The beginning and the end’ where he puts the blame on Abdella Idris,
personally, accusing him conspiring with the Saudi intelligence to destroy the
ELF that was regarded then by them as ‘Communist and Christian’.
I believe the whole ELF leadership takes responsibility for
the demise of the ELF
نقدم
وجهت نظرين مختلفتين تمثلان قيادات الجبهة المتصارعة انذاك
وجهت نظر جبهة التحرىر الارترية التي كان يقودها الشهيد عبدالله ادريس
انذاك وجهت نظر ابراهيم محمد علي الذي يمثل الطرف الاخر في الصراع
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جيش التحرير الإرتري رغما أن عدده كان كبيرا وتسليحه جيدا ، وخبرته القتالية
عالية و يكفي أن نعرف إنه كان مكونا في ذلك
الوقت من تسعة ألوية قوامها ثمانية عشر ألفا من المقاتلين النظامين ، أما القوات
غير النظامية كالمليشيات الشعبية والأجهزة ، فلقد كان تعدادها خمسا وعشرين ألف
مسلح .
هذا
الجيش بعدده وعدته ، وتسليحه وتجربته القتالية ،
كان بإمكانه أن يتصدى ويقاتل ويصمد على الساحة الإرترية ، أما عدوان الجبهة
الشعبية وحليفتها وياني تقراي الأثيوبية ،
فلم يكن في حقيقة أمره .
إلا
عاملا ثانويا
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وجهت
نظر جبهة التحرىر الارترية التي كان يقودها الشهيد عبدالله ادريس انذاك
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وجهت نظر ابراهيم محمد علي الذي يمثل الطرف الاخر في الصراع
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