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The Red Sea Afar Democratic Organisation (RSADO) (arabic:التنظيم الديمقراطي لعفر البحر الأحمر ''Al-tanzim Al-dimokrati Li-'afar Al-Bahr Al-Ahmar'') is an Eritrean political and armed organisation that is based in Ethiopia. The organisation is made up of ethnic Afar people and was founded in early 1999 following a revolt of the Red Sea Afar People led by Ahmed Humed shortly after the UN-supervised referendum in Eritrea held for independence from Ethiopia in 1993. The RSADO struggles against the Eritrean Government to achieve autonomy of the Red Sea Afar Land (or Afar Land, Dankalia). As defined by the RSADO, the territory of Afar Land in Eritrea covers Southern Red Sea Region and part of the southern Northern Red Sea Region. The RSADO is also a member of the Eritrean Democratic Alliance (EDA), a coalition of 11 Eritrean political organisations that struggle to topple president Isaias Afwerki’s regime. ==History== Following the independence of Eritrea in May of 1991, indigenous Afar started to face unprecedented persecution by the authoritarian, one-party government of the People’s Front for Democracy and Justice Led by Isaias Afwerki. ruling PFDJ regime begun systemically removing the of the Red Sea Afar from their ancestral homeland, robbing them of their indigenous identity, denying them the rights to own and live off their traditional land and territories, destroying the basis of the Red Sea Afar economies such as fishing and animal husbandry, and confiscating Afar businesses. Even they divided the Afar homeland (Dankalia) and renamed the territory to what is now Southern Red Sea and Northern Red Sea. The rule of Shabia was unreservedly welcomed by the Kebesa community while the bulk of Muslims were sceptically watching the situation and wishing that Shabia would rise up to the occasion and their fears would be proved wrong. They adopted a wait and see attitude giving the regime the benefit of doubt, but the regime didn’t attempt to take advantage of the opportunity and win back their trust or play down their fears and suspicions. The regime lost no time in exposing its partisan and partial nature totally ignoring their feelings. The regime went on harassing, imprisoning and purging citizens who dared to stand for their basic rights or even at a mere suspicion that they entertain such thoughts. This vindicated the worst fears that haunted the Muslims ever since Shabia’s control of power This combined with dissatisfaction over the ruling PFDJ government led the Red Sea Afar in Southern Eritrea to rebel in 1995 led by Ahmed Humad declared the armed struggle for self-determination of the Red Sea Afar People. Led by Humad, the group launched a guerrilla war tactics attacks. Though they posed great problems for the Eritran government and army, it was also facing internal political conflicts in the very late 1960s. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Red Sea Afar Democratic Organisation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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