This was the culmination of a gradual process of takeover by the Ethiopian authorities, a process which included a 1959 edict establishing the compulsory teaching of Amharic, the main language of Ethiopia, in all Eritrean schools.
Dette var kulminationen på en gradvis proces med overtagelsen fra de etiopiske myndigheders side, hvorunder et edikt i 1959 gennemførte obligatorisk undervisning i amharisk, hovedsproget i Etiopien, i alle eritreiske skoler.