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4 unusual facts about Eritrean People's Liberation Front


Eritrean People's Liberation Front

Sitting: Berhane Gherezgiher, Ibrahim Afa, Romedan Mohammed Nur, Isaias Afewerki, Mahmoud Shrifo

Ilyushin Il-38

Two Il-38s were attacked on the ground in a commando raid and at least one was destroyed by Eritrean People's Liberation Front fighters in 1984 at Asmera.

Kagnew Station

The prison was said to hold Eritrean People's Liberation Front veterans, conscripts, alleged armed Islamists, and people accused or forging identity documents or smuggling army deserters out of the country.

Osman Saleh Mohammed

He has overseen the transition from the revolutionary EPLF school system to a national education system.


Kuma Demeksa

Other sources claim that he spent several years as a prisoner of war in the Eritrean war, and languished in the Eritrean People's Liberation Front’s jails in Nakfa.

Popular Liberation Forces

In 1976 these two organizations would come together with a third (Obel), and create the Eritrean People's Liberation Front.


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