Abstract:
Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party (EPRP) was an essential ingredient of the history of the
Ethiopian revolution. Until it was finally disintegrated in 1991, EPRP was actively conducted a
revolutionary armed resistance on the North Western parts of Ethiopia. The focus of this study is
reconstructing the history of this armed resistance of EPRP in Mätäkal (c.1983-1991). The study
covers from the time in which EPRP almost recovers from breakup and relocating itself in to the
Quara lowlands to that of the final annihilation by the forces of EPRDF in 1991. Similarly as
was the party, one of the earliest political organizations in Ethiopia, the origin and genesis of the
party is highlighted. It had engaged in utmost effort to oust the military rule of the Därge from
the very beginning of the Ethiopian revolution. This study focuses, and considers on the process
of EPRP’s breakup and also its revival in Quara, its full scale operation in Mätäkäl, endeavors,
engagements and its overall activities. The study tries to give an insight on the security,
administration, social, and economic aspects of the region in relation with EPRP and the Därge.
Besides, due to the geographical and sociological affiliation of Mätäkal and Quara, as well as
the very operational nature of EPRP’s guerrilla resistance in the region, geographic lines are
sometimes blending. The Därge’s political interest, however, was on Mätäkal and the study tries
to depict the political origin of the Därge’s resettlement program on Mätäkal and its subsequent
implications on the growth of EPRP. This thesis also tries to shows the last stage political
exposition of EPRP and its final blow by its lifelong enemy; the TPLF led EPDRF forces at
Çara, in Dangila in 1991, in which thereby the party no-longer able to exist on the domestic