Hailemariam Reda
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Hailemariam Reda''' (), (5 July 1909 – 1 March 1995) was an
Ethiopian rebel leader and local notable from
Tigray. He is primarily remembered as the principal commander of the 1943
Woyane rebellion, which posed the most serious challenge to
Haile Selassie’s authority in the early post‑occupation period, and later as a symbol of
Tigrayan defiance against central Ethiopian rule. His life encompassed phases of rural banditry (
shiftennet), collaboration and resistance during the
Italian occupation, long imprisonment under the
imperial regime, and late‑life involvement with the
Derg militia in Tigray.
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