List of massacres committed during the Eritrean War of Independence
- List of massacres committed during the Eritrean War of Independence
The Eritrean War of Independence was fought as a guerilla campaign by the two main liberation fronts, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) and the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF), against the Ethiopian Army, controlled for most of the period by the Marxist Derg. This asymmetrical campaign against Ethiopian control left the Army at a disadvantage and so it embarked on a policy of destroying Eritrean villages.Fact|date=February 2007 It was hoped that this would prevent the Liberation Fronts from continuing their campaign. Listed below are some of the major civilian massacres.
Throughout the conflict Ethiopia used "anti-personnel gas" [cite journal | last =Johnson | first =Michael | coauthors =Johnson, Trish | title =Eritrea: The National Question and the Logic of Protracted Struggle | journal =African Affairs | volume =80 | issue =319 | pages =181–195 | date =April 1981] and weapons of mass destruction, including napalm, [cite journal | last =Keller | first =Edmond J. | title =Drought, War, and the Politics of Famine in Ethiopia and Eritrea | journal =Modern African Studies | volume =30 | issue =4 | pages =609–624 | date =December 1992] and other incendiary devices.
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* Eritrean War of Independence
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