Qualla: Ethiopian Civil War https://qualla.com/ethiopian-civil-war en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/c/s/7/ethiopian-civil-war-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Ethiopian Civil War https://qualla.com/ethiopian-civil-war Ethiopian Civil War: Introduction https://qualla.com/ethiopian-civil-war/ Photo credit PHGCOM, CC BY-SA 3.0. On 12 September 1974, a committee of military officers calling themselves the Derg deposed Emperor Haile Selassie, ending a dynasty that claimed descent from King Solomon. What replaced it was not liberation but a new kind of tyranny. Over the next seventeen years, Ethiopia would endure a Marxist-Leninist military junta, a campaign of state terror that killed tens of thousands, a famine that starved a million people, and civil wars on multiple fronts simultaneously. By the time the Derg fell in May 1991, at least 1.4 million Ethiopians were dead. Hundreds of thousands more had fled the country, creating a global diaspora for the first time in Ethiopia's long history. The scars of what happened between those two dates remain etched into the landscape and the memory of the Horn of Africa.

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]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/c/s/7/ethiopian-civil-war-wp/scs7-ethiopian-civil-war-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ethiopian Civil War: The Unraveling of an Empire https://qualla.com/ethiopian-civil-war/ Photo credit Vob08, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Ethiopian Empire was already fracturing before the Derg seized power. By the 1960s, stagnating economic development, widespread human rights abuses, and an aging emperor's grip on an increasingly restless population had created pressure from every direction. A radicalized stu...

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]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/c/s/7/ethiopian-civil-war-wp/scs7-ethiopian-civil-war-the-unraveling-of-an-empire.mp3 0:06 2 full Ethiopian Civil War: The Red Terror https://qualla.com/ethiopian-civil-war/ Photo credit Insights Unspoken, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Derg never fully consolidated power, and the vacuum they created invited challengers from every political direction. Conservative monarchists, rival Marxist-Leninists, ethnic liberation fronts: the opposition was as fractured as it was determined. In 1976, the regime launched...

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]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/c/s/7/ethiopian-civil-war-wp/scs7-ethiopian-civil-war-the-red-terror.mp3 0:06 3 full Ethiopian Civil War: War on Every Front https://qualla.com/ethiopian-civil-war/ Photo credit David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada, CC BY 2.0. The Derg fought simultaneously on fronts that stretched from Eritrea in the north to the Ogaden in the southeast. In 1977, Somalia invaded to support the Western Somali Liberation Front, delivering a devastating blow. A massive Soviet and Cuban military intervention, transferring...

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]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/c/s/7/ethiopian-civil-war-wp/scs7-ethiopian-civil-war-war-on-every-front.mp3 0:06 4 full Ethiopian Civil War: The Reckoning https://qualla.com/ethiopian-civil-war/ Photo credit Carlos Felipe Pardo, CC BY 2.0. The end, when it came, was swift. Soviet support dried up in the late 1980s. The Battle of Shire in February 1989 marked a decisive rebel victory. By May 1991, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, a coalition of ethnic rebel groups, was advancing on Addis Ababa....

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