Ethiopian Student Movement
1960–1974 Marxist-Leninist student movement in Ethiopia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Ethiopian Student Movement (Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ተማሪዎች ንቅንቄ, ESM) was a period of radical Marxist–Leninist student activism and movement in Ethiopia from the mid-1960s to the 1974 revolution. The first demonstration occurred in 1965 by university student, led by Marxist–Leninist motivation chanting "Land to the Tiller" and "Is poverty a crime?". The student uprisings continued in 1966 until 1969. The movement also called for the abolish of monarchy under Emperor Haile Selassie and feudalism in Ethiopia.
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Date | 1960–1974 | ||
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Death(s) | 30,000–750,000 (estimates vary widely)[1] |
Following the 1974 revolution, the ESM members in Ethiopia and aboard superintended many political organizations like the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party (EPRP) and All-Ethiopia Socialist Movement (MEISON), that involved in insurgency against the Derg regime. Scholars agreed that the ESM has laid foundation of many opposition forces behind the Derg government during the Ethiopian Civil War, especially the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and the inspired the EPRDF's notion of "multi-nation, multi-ethnic, and multilingual nature of Ethiopia".[2] As such, ESM is critical for the 21st-century Ethiopian ethnic conflict.[3][4]