Eritrean Liberation Front Veterans

Eritrean Liberation Front · Veterans

Honouring those who served Eritrea’s liberation

An association of veterans of the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF), their families and friends: keeping the memory of the struggle, standing by one another, and passing the history on to the generations that follow.

  • The ELF, founded 1960
  • Armed struggle from 1 September 1961
  • A nonprofit run by its members
Eritrean Liberation Front fighters kneeling in a line with their rifles and flag, March 1964

What the association does

Remember

Honouring the fallen

Commemorating the martyrs and marking the dates of the struggle, among them 1 September, the day the armed struggle began.

Read the history

Record

Keeping the history

Gathering veterans’ own accounts, photographs and documents before they are lost, so the history is told by those who lived it.

Share yours

Support

Standing by veterans and families

Being there for veterans and their families in illness, hardship and bereavement.

Support the work

Connect

Bringing people together

Fellowship among veterans, and a bridge to younger Eritreans who want to learn what their elders went through.

Become a member

Are you an ELF veteran, or from a veteran’s family?

Put your name down and the association will be in touch.