What motivated the Eritrean separatist movement?

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Eritrea had been a separate state for a long time and has a distant proud history. Ethiopia could not have forced federation upon Eritrea without the intervention of the UN (principally USA and GB). Eritrea was not consulted.

"In 1962 Ethiopia formally annexed Eritrea, dissolved the Eritrean Assembly and placed the country under what was effectively military rule." Again Eritrea were not given a chance to argue their case.

I took the quote and this information mostly from "The Bradt Travel Guide to Ethiopia", pages 33 onwards, by Philip Briggs, 3rd edition published 2002 and suggest this could be a good starting point.

I have been reading newspaper reports on this subject, just out of interest, for about thirty years so you could try some newspaper archives next.

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