Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party

The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party (EPRP) was a political organization in Ethiopia that emerged from the student movement and held Marxist ideologies. Unlike other Marxist parties, the EPRP strongly believed in civilian rule and engaged in urban guerrilla warfare against the military rulers, the Derg, which led to anarchy. This resistance was met with a brutal counter-campaign by the Derg, known as the Red Terror, resulting in the deaths, torture, and exile of many educated and idealistic young Ethiopians. The EPRP's actions contributed to the instability during the socialist period in Ethiopia (1974-1991).1