Ginbot 7

[7] According to The New Yorker in 2014, Ginbot 7 are "an exiled pro-democracy party that the Ethiopian government labelled a terrorist group in 2011, under a vague and widely condemned proclamation."[8] Ginbot 7 means "15 May", the date of the 2005 Ethiopian general election, which was "marred by protests over alleged fraud that led to the deaths of about 200 people.[10] In January 2015, it signed a unification agreement with Ethiopian People's Patriotic Front, the first movement that stood on Eritrean soil to make a military struggle to overthrow the EPRDF/TPLF government.Ginbot 7 at the time had Berhanu Nega as chairman, Abebe Bogale as Vice Chair, and Ameneshewa Tahelew also known as Assefa Maru as Head of military operations before the unification.It brought some hope in the Ethiopian camp at the time of hopelessness and oppression (especially after the kidnapping of the Ginbot 7 Secretary General Andargachew Tsige while transiting through Yemen).