Talk:Ethiopian Civil War

message: The first source cited in the infobox regarding Chinese support to the rebels describes Chinese support to Eritrean separatists ending in 1972: "China assisted the ELF with weapons and military training until 1972, when Ethiopian recognition of Beijing as the legitimate Chinese government led to China’s abandonment of the Eritrean struggle." This article covers the conflict from 1974 to 1991.
The second source does not exist and either the title or the year was stated incorrectly. There is no 2009 edition of Chinese and African Perspectives on China in Africa. CentreLeftRight ✉ 01:12, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chinese involvement 

message: I think the "Ethiopian Empire" should not be in the same column as the other factions; more - I am not sure that the Ethipian Empire (and Haile Selassie as a commander) should have a place in the infobox at all; the war was, essentially, after the fall of the empire.--MiguelMadeira (talk) 16:12, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infox with "combatants" 

message: Ethopian words 41.116.13.108 (talk) 16:01, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geography 

message: New words 41.116.13.108 (talk) 16:02, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  English 

message: The Skull image description could have meant to be "Skull and remains ... " rather than "Skull remain ... ?"  SquashEngineer (talk) 12:55, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image Description 

message: I remember trying to develop this article years ago, but was handicapped by the lack of a narrative that covers the entire period, from 1974 to 1993. Many books I found (such as the Ottaways, Ethiopia: Empire in Revolution or Lefort, Ethiopia, a Heretical Revolution) stopped shortly after the Red Terror; Gebre Tareke's The Ethiopian Revolution provides descriptions of some of the military events of this period, but because of his interests he focuses on (1) the Ogaden War, (2) the Eritrean War of Liberation, & (3) the final battles of the TPLF (or EPRLF by this point) against the Derg; general histories, such as Bahru Zewde's or Paul Henze's, tend to present this period as "first Haile Selassie was deposed, then the Derg took power & had the Red Terror, then there was a famine, then the EPRLF emerged from the mountains & defeated the Derg". In other words, there's a gap between the point where the Derg are at the apex of their power & the TPLF is a struggling resistance movement in the mountains of Tigray, & the point where the TPLF has grown to where they are engaging in stand-up battles with the Derg military.It was only a week ago that I obtained a copy of John Young's Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia, which provides something of a link between the two points. Had I known about that book back then, I could have achieved the improvement I wanted. One may believe his analysis is too unbalanced (& IMHO he focuses too much on Tigray -- although that was the subject of his research), nevertheless he provides the missing narrative that prevented me from developing a coherent article back when. Maybe with that book -- augmented with those I've mentioned -- this article can be put into good shape. -- llywrch (talk) 22:45, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism 

message: The Ethiopian Civil War lasted from  September 12, 1974 to  May 28, 1991, taking place in present-day Ethiopia and  Eritrea. It was a conflict between the Ethiopian military junta, the Derg, and anti-government Ethiopian-Eritrean rebels. Allblessed11 (talk) 00:46, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Readability on the Ethiopian Civil War summary