The Tigray People's Liberation Front , romanized: ḥəzbawi wäyanä ḥarənnät təgray, lit. 'Popular Struggle for the Freedom of Tigray') is a left-wing ethnic nationalist paramilitary group, now leading political party, and former ruling party of Ethiopia, established on 18 February 1975 in Dedebit, northwestern Tigray, according to official records. Within 16 years, it had grown from about a dozen men into the most powerful armed liberation movement in Ethiopia. It led a coalition of movements named the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front from 1989 to 2018. It fought a 15-year-long war against the Derg regime which was overthrown in 1991. Due largely to its war fighting capabilities, the TPLF was at the forefront in the defeat of the Derg.
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