Ethiopia celebrates 46th Anniversary of Karamara Victory
Members of Veteran Ethiopian Soldiers and their families and Cuban Embassy to Ethiopia staff attended it. Jorge Lefebre Nicolá, Cuban Ambassador to Ethiopia, put a wreath of floors on the memorial statue at the Ethio-Cuba Friendship Square.
Well over 15,000 Cuban soldiers took part in the war to reverse invading Solalian forces in 1977 and many of them have paid in life.
Ethiopia was in internal turmoil when Somalia invaded the country and took control of areas up to 700 kilometers north of its borders. Over 300,000 militia forces were mobilized in a matter of months and Ethiopia managed to successfully reverse the Somali invasion.
The last battle in the war was fought at Karamara – a plateau west of Jijiga, currently the seat of the Somali regional state, in 1978.
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