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...regime. From the rebellious northern province of Eritrea to Ethiopia's southeastern frontier with Somalia, Mengistu and the Dergue face the gravest threat to their despotic rule since they overthrew U.S.-backed Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974. In and around the capital, the main opposition group is the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party (E.P.R.P.), a Marxist organization, led primarily by students and young workers, that demands a return to civilian rule. E.P.R.P. has given the Dergue good reason to be nervous: it has assassinated more than 20 government officials, mounted at least one daring raid...
...only ones who oppose Mengistu's rule. Just south of Eritrea, 1,500 guerrillas of the Tigre People's Liberation Front (T.P.L.F.) control about one-third of Tigre province. In the western provinces of Goijam and Gondar, 2,000 men of the right-wing Ethiopian Democratic Union (E.D.U.) are fighting for a non-Marxist civilian government and deny charges that they plan to restore a monarchy under Haile Selassie's sole surviving son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, 60, who is now in London. About 1,000 shiftas-armed nomads of the Western Somali Liberation Front-periodically mount...
...advance Soviet aims in Africa (see box), it also relieves the U.S. of the moral burden of backing yet another bloodthirsty dictatorship. During February and March alone. Mengistu's forces are said to have killed between 2,000 and 4,000 of their opponents. Getachew Mekasha, former Ethiopian Ambassador to Egypt, who defected in March, reckons that there are 25,000 political prisoners in Ethiopian jails. Says Mekasha, who is now teaching at California's Ambassador College in Pasadena: "The people in power in Addis Ababa today believe in the blind application of force. They use Marxist jargon...
...armed forces, numbering 50,000 men, have been equipped until recently by the U.S. The regime is embattled on several fronts. One is the northern province of Eritrea, where the Sudanese-supported Eritrean Liberation Front, after more than a decade of fighting, claims it controls two districts and has Ethiopian forces pinned down in other urban areas. Another is the Somali border, where Ethiopians and Somalis have quarreled. Meanwhile the French Territory of Afars and Issas, with its key port of Djibouti, which provides an Ethiopian rail link to the sea, gains independence from Paris next month. Both Ethiopia...
SUDAN. Pop. 18 million. Chief export: cotton. Religion: predominantly Islam. The armed forces consist of 53,000 men. President Jaafar Numeiry, who is vigorously antiCommunist, has lately been developing close ties with the U.S., which is supplying military transport planes to Khartoum. Numeiry is backing the Ethiopian rebels plaguing the Addis Ababa regime...