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Important correction : The post was mistakenly published as Eritrean soldiers. Upon checking other sources, it should have read Ethiopian soldiers.
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Updated on October 28, 2024 4: 42 P.M. Toronto time
Toronto – In a zoom meeting with ethnic Tigreans in the Diaspora this past Sunday, Getachew Reda, president of the Interim Administration in Tigray, said “we have released 400 captives.” He was making a reference to Eritrean soldiers captured during the war between Abiy Ahmed’s government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).
Eritrea was involved in the war after the TPLF fired, it was reported during the war, rockets to Asmara. When the TPLF attacked the Northern Command of the Ethiopian Defense Force in November 2020, those soldiers who survived the unexpected attack retreated to Eritrea.
Getachew also said that “we released them unwillingly.” He added “we intended to use them as evidence during transitional justice.”
From what he said, there had been pressure from the Federal government of Ethiopia to release the Eritreans’ captives.
“We were asked to release them if we wanted to release” Tigrean forces captured during the war and “peace to return to the region.”
He highlighted that Debretsion Gebremichael, Tadesse Worede (who was the head of “Tigray Defense Force” during the war) and himself made a joint decision to release them.
Regarding the evidence for “transnational justice,” Getachew said “we have gathered much evidence.”
There had been claims of genocide in the region in connection the two years war. The TPLF had been implicating Ethiopian Defense Force, Eritrean forces and Amhara region special forces in the alleged “genocide.”
The war in North Ethiopia is estimated to have claimed about one million lives – including those killed during combat. Eritrea has not released the number of soldiers killed during the war as is the case with the Ethiopian government.
The Eritrean government and Abiy Ahmed’s administration collaborated during the war but their alliance did not leave long as relations soured following the Pretoria agreement.
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No these were not Eritreans but members of the Sami people from northern Norway. Their skin got darker and started to resemble Eritreans after sun tanned by Tigray’s toasty weather. Eritrean soldiers never set their feet on any ground outside their country. In stead, Ethiopia was the one that invaded Eritrea at Gundat in 1875, at Gura in 1876, at Adwa in 1896, at Keren in 1941 and at Asmara in 1952 and 1962 killing more than 36 million Eritrean civilians and destroying Eritrean proper worth more that 896 billion in US dollars. Ethiopia has yet to cough up for all of this loss by Eritrea. For the sole purpose of fair reparation I have transferred over the following Ethiopia’s sources of revenue to Eritrea:
1) Ethiopian Airlines with all its fleet.
2) Ethiopian Shipping Lines with all its merchant ships
3) All operating and discovered precious metals(diamond, gold, silver etc..)
4) All verified reserves of petroleum and natural gas reserves
5) Ethio Telecom and its entire infrastructure.
6) All locomotives and rail cars must be sent to Eritrea.
7) All exports of coffee, hides, flowers, cotton, fruits, wheat and oil seeds.
8) Other sources of revenue yet to be identified.
9) All able bodied Amhara and Oromo men will be transported to Eritrea to rebuild the property and infrastructure of Eritrea
destroyed by Ethiopian invaders.
This ruling is final and can not be appealed or repealed.
Am I genius or what?!!!!
I believe the author meant Ethiopian soldiers as TPLF Presidebt “Dr.” Debretsion mentioned about “400 Ethiopian POWs were released without his party’s consent (by the Vodkachew group) and it has caused lots of media coverage. How the author misconstrued or missed that key detail to mean Eritrean captives is eirher beyond sheer imagination or shanedul dishonesty.