Part of the Ethiopian–Somali conflict, Conflicts in the Horn of Africa
Location of Bale within the Ethiopian Empire
Date
1963–1970
Location
Bale Province, Ethiopia
Result
Revolt suppressed by Ethiopian Empire; Pyrrhic Victory[1]
Belligerents
Ethiopian Empire Supported by (since 1968): United States United Kingdom
Oromo and Somali rebels Supported by (1963–1969): Somali Republic
Commanders and leaders
Haile Selassie I Jagama Kello
Waqo Gutu Halimo Waqo Adam Jillo Halima Hassan Haala Korme
Casualties and losses
Unknown
Approx. 700,000 casualties including both insurgents and civilians (Per Asafa Jalata)[2]
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Ethiopian–Somali conflict
Timeline
Bale revolt
1963 Ogaden Rebellion
1964 border war
Ogaden War (1977–78)
1982 border war
War in Somalia (2006–2009)
2022 al-Shabaab invasion of Ethiopia
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Post-1960 conflicts in the Horn of Africa
Eritrean War of Independence
Eritrean civil wars
1961 revolt in Somalia
Bale revolt
Somali–Kenyan conflict
Shifta
Rhamu
Ethiopian–Somali conflict
1963 Ogaden Rebellion
1964
Ogaden
1982
2022 Al-Shabaab
Oromo conflict
Ethiopian Civil War
Somali Civil War
Rebellion
Puntland–Somaliland
2006–09
2009–present
Somaliland War of Independence
Djiboutian Civil War
Insurgency in Ogaden
2007–08
Second Afar insurgency
Gedeo–Guji clashes
Hanish Islands conflict
Eritrean–Ethiopian War
border conflict
OEF – Horn of Africa
Djiboutian–Eritrean conflict
Ethiopian civil conflict
Afar–Somali
Oromia–Somali
OLA insurgency
Benishangul-Gumuz
Tigray War
War in Amhara
Al-Fashaga conflict
The Bale revolt, also known as the Bale Peasant Movement, was an insurgency that took place in the 1960s in the southeastern Ethiopian province of Bale among the local Oromo and Somali populations. The revolt targeted the feudalist system in place during the Ethiopian Empire and was rooted in ethnic and religious grievances.[3][4]
Initially acts of resistance began in 1962 and 1963 as a defensive reaction by peasants to land expropriation, bureaucratic corruption, and exorbitant taxation imposed by the government. However, further clashes and consequent government reprisals eventually transformed the peasants into a decentralized insurgency that would go on to wage a six-year long guerrilla war, ending in 1970.[5][6]
Support from the Somali government that had begun in 1963 was integral to the insurgencies ability to sustain combat operations.[5][7]
^Ottawa, Marina (1990). The Political economy of Ethiopia. Praeger Press. p. 138. ISBN 9780275934729.
^Jalata, Asafa (2005). Oromia and Ethiopia: State Formation and Ethnonational Conflict, 1868-2004. Red Sea Press. p. 184. ISBN 1569022461.
^Mammo, Tirfe (1999). The Paradox of African Poverty. The Red Sea Press. p. 99. ISBN 9781569020494. Archived from the original on 16 January 2022. Retrieved 21 August 2017. The bale revolt was directed against new settlements in the region and the resultant shortage of arable land and high taxation by the central government and the land-lords
^Østebø, Terje (2020). Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia: The Bale Insurgency, 1963-1970. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108884839. ISBN 978-1-108-83968-6. S2CID 224887633.
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^Ottaway, Marina (1990). The Political economy of Ethiopia. Internet Archive. New York : Praeger. pp. 138–139. ISBN 978-0-275-93472-9.
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