Echat

Echat
Ethiopian Oppressed People's Revolutionary Struggle
LeaderBaro Tumsa
General SecretaryTesfaye Habis
Founded1975
Split fromMEISON
IdeologyCommunism
Pan-Ethiopianism
National affiliationImaledih

Echat (Amharic: ኢጭአት, acronym for የኢትዮጵያ ጭቁኖች አብዮታዊ ትግል, 'Ethiopian Oppressed People's Revolutionary Struggle') was a communist organization in Ethiopia.[1] The organization was active between 1975 and 1978.[2] The organization emerged from a split away from the All-Ethiopian Socialist Movement (MEISON).[1] Echat was initially allied with the Derg military junta, but later turned against it.[3]

  1. ^ a b Clapham Christopher. Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. p. 55
  2. ^ Clapham Christopher. Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. p. xvi
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference salih was invoked but never defined (see the help page).