Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party

The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party ( Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ሕዝባዊ አብዮታዊ ፓርቲ transcribed: ya Ityop'ya Həzbawi Abyotawi Parti - abbreviation IHAPA, English Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party, abbreviation EPRP ) is a former Marxist-Leninist, today liberal -oriented political party in Ethiopia.

She had her base though mainly in Ethiopians abroad, which represents the majority of their followers until today.

History

The IHAPA was established in April 1972 - founded in the German capital Berlin mainly of students and in the presence of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine - even before the overthrow of the monarchy by the military in 1974. Unlike the also Marxist-Leninist Meison the IHAPA described the ruling communist Derg Mengistu wing to fascist and began in 1976 with attacks on leading Derg representatives and called for the establishment of a civilian transitional government. This was part of the government, in turn, answered with a Red Terror campaign called, which led to extensive destruction of the party and thousands of victims in 1977-78.

Parts of the organization and its armed wing, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Army ( Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Army, EPRA ) were able to assert themselves in the underground and in exile, in Tigray the local EPRA units of the People's Liberation Front of Tigray ( TPLF ) were militarily off. One -represented, particularly in the province of Gonder wing seceded in 1980 under the name Democratic Movement of the Ethiopian People ( Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement, EPDM ) from and formed an alliance with the TPLF, the more the name IHAPA bearing fraction was in the late 1980s to liberal positions above.

Today's situation

The IHAPA is exposed by the government under the Revolutionary Democratic Front of the Ethiopian People ( EPRDF ) intense repression and heard various opposition alliances such since 2003, the United Ethiopian Democratic Forces (United Ethiopian Democratic Forces, UEDF ) to. The reach of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front Eritrean independence was and is still, however, rejected by the IHAPA.

The party publishes the newspaper Demokrasiya.