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. “ ERITREA va ‘THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION ‘VERSUS ETHIOPIAN EXPANSIONISM ‘i puanea tinenstion ont, i FOREIGN INFORNATON CENTRE | im TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PART ONE ERITREA AND ETHIOPIA: A SHORT HISTORICAL BACKGROUND. ~ Colonial Legacies andthe Soci St Up in 1941 = The War Period and its Immediate Aftermath PART TWO, THE ERITREAN QUESTION IN THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 16 ‘THE FEDERAL ACT: ITS DRAFTING, IMPLEMENTATION AND ABROGATION ~The Imperialist-Zionist Factor = The Popular Movement Upto 1961 = Who Hed the Power to Dissolve? PART THREE ‘THE ARMED STRUGGLE ~ 1961-1979: SOME EXPERIENCES (OF THE ERITREAN REVOLUTION. . = The Formative Stage “The Democratic Struggle Gains Momentum = The Genesis of Factions ~The First National Congress = New Developments in 1974 and After = Ethiopian aims PART FOUR SOCIO-ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS. = Education Public Health Economic Endeavours APPENDIX ETHIOPIAN FOREIGN POLICY AND THE ERITREAN... ‘QUESTION (Derp's Secret Document) 28 8 Introduction The just cause of the Eritrean people and their struggle for self-determination ord national independence is now a very familiar itemationa isue which evokes discussion every time the mass med report some of the poten! and military developments unfolding around the Red Sea and Horn of

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