Bale revolt
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bale-revolt-173-15471429
title:
Bale revolt
text:
The Bale revolt, also known as the Bale Peasant Movement, was an insurgency that took place in the 1960s in the southeastern Ethiopian province of Bale among the local Oromo and Somali populations. The revolt targeted the feudalist system in place during the Ethiopian Empire and was rooted in ethnic and religious grievances. Initially acts of resistance began in 1962 and 1963 as a defensive reaction by peasants to land expropriation, bureaucratic corruption, and exorbitant taxation imposed by th
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wiki
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description:
Guerrilla war in Ethiopia, 1963–1970
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bale_revolt
date created:
2014-12-26T10:13:47Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T15:27:28Z
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