Tigray People's Liberation Front

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The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF; Tigrinya: ሕዝባዊ ወያነ ሓርነት ትግራይ, romanized: Həzbawi Wäyyanä Ḥarənnät Təgray, lit. 'Popular Struggle for the Freedom of Tigray'), also referred as the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, is a left-wing ethnic nationalist, paramilitary group, and a former ruling party of Ethiopia. It was classified as a terrorist organization by the Ethiopian government during the Tigray War until its removal from the list in 2023. The organization is colloquially known as Woyane (Tigrinya: ወያነ, lit. 'Revolutionary') or Weyané (Amharic: ወያኔ). The TPLF was founded in February 1975, in Dedebit, Tigray. It grew to become the most powerful armed liberation movement in Ethiopia during the Ethiopian Civil War. Unlike the Eritrean or ethnic Somali separatists based in Ethiopia at the time, the TPLF did not seek independence from the Ethiopian state; instead, it aimed to overthrow the central government and implement its own version of the Ethiopian revolution. From 1988 to...

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