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 | | The declaration of the party, an event hailed by the people at the time, was preceded by a secret party conference in Addis Abeba during which the organization finished the preparation for the declaration, amended its program, elected new members to the central committee, etc.... |
 | | The EPRP, an organization made up of Ethiopians coming from varied ethnic groups (there are no less than 70 different ethnic groups in Ethiopia), was the first organization to call for the self determination rights of all nationalities while at the same time proposing a unity based on democracy and equality. |
 | | The EPRP was the first political party in the country, it was the first party to have mobilized a vast section of the population around a political and country wide program, to have brought in women, the elderly, the oppressed into the struggle. |
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