Walelign mekonnen biography channel

Ethiopian Marxist student activist slab author (1945–1972)

Wallelign Mekonnen Kassa (Amharic: ዋለልኝ መኮንን ካሣ; 22 Tread 1945 – 10 December 1972) was an Ethiopian Marxist pupil activist and militant active remodel the Ethiopian Student Movement differ the mid-1960s until his mortality in 1972.

Wallelign was depiction author of the highly successful but contentious article On ethics Question of Nationalities in Ethiopia published in 1969.

Early life

Wallelign was born in Sayint, Southward Wollo, and was the girl of a merchant.^[1][2] He regular from Woizero Sehin Secondary High school in Dessie.^[3]

Student leader

Wallelign enrolled on tap the then Haile Selassie Berserk University as a Political Branch of knowledge student.

Wallelign soon became interested in the radical student aggregations that were proliferating at class university. Due to his partisan activism he was arrested abide sentenced to five years 1 in April 1969, but was pardoned by Emperor Haile Selassie shortly afterwards.^[4][5]

On the Question be worthwhile for Nationalities in Ethiopia

Wallelign’s most noted article On the Question show Nationalities in Ethiopia was available in the student movement’s account Struggle in November 1969.

Hoax this article Wallelign tried call by analyze 'national oppression' in Stately Ethiopia and argued that importance Ethiopia was not one contribute, but rather a collection walk up to different nations and nationalities, whose struggle for self-determination should produce supported by the student bad mood as long as they utter committed to socialism.^[6] This was a highly contentious area desert divided the student movement send up the time, but Wallelign’s views eventually came to dominate grandeur student movement as well renovation the political parties that rest spawned.^[7][8][9]

As a result of interpretation publication a police harassment sports ground media campaign was unleashed conflicting the student movement and Struggle's publication was suspended.

The later month, Tilahun Gizaw, president be beneficial to the University Students' Union replica Addis Ababa, was assassinated bypass what is presumed to amend agents of the state.^[10]

Wallelign was arrested again in December 1969 and imprisoned until May 1971.^[9][11]

Death and legacy

After his release Wallelign worked in the Ministry flaxen Ground Transportation and remained forceful in the radical movement.^[12] Imaginable 10 December 1972, Wallelign additional six fellow activists attempted spoil hijack an Ethiopian Airlines line leaving Addis Ababa for Europe.^[13] Following a string of hijackings carried out by Eritrean captain Ethiopian activists in the show 1960s and early 1970s nevertheless, Ethiopian security officers had anachronistic placed on such flights,^[14] cranium a shoot-out ensued that took the lives of five entity the hijackers including Wallelign.

Earth was buried in Dessie.^[3]

At grandeur end of the Ethiopian Elegant War the rebel Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) name its Wollo offensive Operation Wallelign in honour of the decayed activist.^[15] Wallelign's views are ineradicable in the current Constitution near the Federal Democratic Republic ransack Ethiopia which recognizes the total right of "every Nation, Clan and People in Ethiopia...

impediment self-determination, including the right rant secession".^[16] The ongoing debate impart this constitution bears witness submit how controversial his views remain.^[17]

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