The Major General Abera Abebe was one of the 17th round candidate officer graduates of the Holeta Garden Army School and was one of the country's best combat generals at the time. The general officer is a recipient of the hero's medal for leading the airborne battalion in the Ogaden front in Eastern Ethiopia when the border of our country was invaded by the invading Somali army.

Before the revolution, he was the commander of the 1st militia regiment and was sent to the northern army front. Later, they opened the Mitswa Asmara road, which had been closed by the rebellion for a long time, and allowed the peaceful movement that had been interrupted to continue. For their bravery, they were awarded the battlefield and leadership badges of the revolutionary government by the chairman of the government, Haile Mariam. Following the formation of the task force.

                 Major General Abera Abebe In Eritrea

He became the commander of the 505th task force, and destroyed the rebel force that had a strong defense district in the eastern part of Eritrea and the coast of the Red Sea as far as Algena. On the eighth day of May 1981, when he was serving as the head of the campaign department of the Ministry of National Defense, he took part in the failed coup d'état.

On that day, the commander of the campaign, General Abera, may have said this in the middle of the disagreement about the plane that was leaving the country with the capital being shot down. What is this contract? Do we agree? What have we agreed upon? What is slippage? This is not a joke, it is a coup d'état.

It seems that there is something about Major General that caused the plane not to hit, or for some other reason. They leave the meeting led by General Mered, explore the corridor, the area and come back. Suddenly they came down the stairs for inspection and the defense minister came up the stairs. "Light up! What's a meeting I don't know about?" The Minister of Defense did not fail to say. The Major General who were in the middle faced each other.

      Major General Abera Abebe With Colonel Hailegiorgis

The story of the two general officers begins when Colonel Hailegiorgis was in charge of the campaign in the 2nd Revolutionary Army. This secret reaches the ears of Major General Abera. Because  Abera Jafar and being angry, instead of keeping the situation in Ider, he went to Colonel Hailegiorgis office and entered the closed door. !?Anyway, we will see the results together!!! They close the door and leave.

At that time the fighting was fierce and about 20 of us were killed. But the enemy soldiers we killed are more than 600. At the time they were waiting for us, they killed 20 of us, but we released all of them first. About 18 died with the materials. By the way, when I ran out of materials when I was fighting, I was taking them from dead enemy members. I'm taking it from their corpses.

I used them all over the place. It took me about 75, rolling on the floor, shifting positions. This is the fact that journalists reported at the time. I was actually dreaming of their fuel. On that day, one or two may have fought. The riot prompted Israeli commando General Abera to quickly draw his material and take at the defense minister. Although the armed forces were taken, they were not spared.

                Final Of Major General Abera Abebe

Major General Abera quickly hides from the scene after hitting the defense minister. Following the failure of the coup, the security forces begin the hunt for  Abera, who was not arrested. After surveillance, it was found that Major General Abera was hiding in a relative's house in the Gulele area and a siege was carried out. Realizing that they were surrounded, the hero Major General Abera tried to escape and was killed in a shootout with the security forces.