By Staff Writer
(Nairobi, Kenya) — The TPLF led Tigray Regional Government issued an official statement alleging that full-scale military conflict has resumed across the region, accusing the ruling Prosperity Party of launching a coordinated offensive along the eastern corridor bordering the Afar Region.
According to the official communique released from Mekelle on Saturday, regional authorities reported that armed clashes commenced early in the morning, describing the military push as an “escalation aimed at subjugating Tigray’s regional autonomy.”
The United States and European Union, among others, have been undertaking diplomatic efforts to avert another conflict in the Tigray region, which they fear could spill over to other parts of the region.
Regional authorities alleged that federal forces have persistently sought “to weaken Tigray’s administrative structures and military capabilities despite existing peace frameworks.”
“The Prosperity Party’s system, which has constantly tried to destroy the Tigrayan people through war and broken rules, has now caused a bigger level of conflict,” the statement reads.
The communique further accused federal authorities of violating international norms and attempting to forcibly dismantle regional security organs through sustained military pressure prior to the reported Eastern front offensive.
In response to the reported military developments, the TPLF-led Tigray Regional Government issued a comprehensive mobilization directive, appealing to regional security units, local forces, civil society organizations, and religious bodies to rally under a banner of regional salvation. The current regional administration lacks recognition from the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia; instead, the Tadesse Worede-led Interim Administration holds official recognition.
The release from the TPLF further claimed that “The system [Federal government] has kept trying to control and weaken the people of Tigray.”
It added, “After using regular warfare and building up their military to pressurize, they have now started the attack again to take back Tigray and make the people give up.”
The regional government advised residents to exercise heightened security awareness and indicated that detailed military operational updates would be provided by designated security officials.
The federal government and the Ethiopian Defense Force did not comment on the allegations at the time of this writing.
Reports indicate that the TPLF has been building up forces near Raya.
Forces that broke away from what the TPLF calls the Tigray Defense Force have been operating along the Afar-Tigray boundaries for nearly a year, if not longer. These forces, calling themselves the Tigray Peace Force, have accused the TPLF of working to reignite conflict in the region and opposed the TPLF’s military and political alliance with the Eritrean government.
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I read this tragic story on France24 last night.
france24.com/en/africa-fighting-erupts-in-ethiopia-s-tigray
This has been my worst nightmare for those people in Tigray. They have not been able to live in peace since 1975 even they choose to live in abject destitution. If they choose to flee seeking for better life in the Arabian Peninsula, they have been massacred by the merciless Wahhabi clerics as if they are not humans.
bbc.com/news/articles/c80nkgdnl4no
If they choose the western route, they either fall victims to forced conscription by Burhan’s Lucifers or die of thirst and starvation in the deserts of Sudan and Libya. Many of them also drown in the Red Sea and Mediterranean. Wow, woe, woe!!!
Those young men and women are being used as human shields to protect the goons of TPLF. Debre, Debre, Debre! They wish you were not even born!!!
Barbarian Abiye, peace loving Ethiopians wish you were not born.
I wish you never been born Yene Lij :)
How come you trust your little brain over 130M Ethiopians and give us such advise? Hametegna neger nesh, dureyee!!
As a civilized and ancient nation, Tigray has given diplomacy and peace a chance. But Abiy Ahmed has been miscalculating and provoking the regional power Tigray believing that the restraint will continue. The coming Tigray military operation in Ethiopia will depose Abiy Ahmed and fulfil the wishes of the big majority of Ethiopians. Tigray forces will not withdraw without achieving their main objective (overthrowing Abiy Ahmed)
Tegadalay,
You are now playing your last card. The king at 4 Kilo already know these norther backwards and he played them a few times already.
He used Eritrea to dismantle TPLF which is
The result Both TPLF and Eritrean gangs are low in everything right now. From food to ammunitions.
Now he can open one big battle across the region and destroy both TPLF and Shabia.
All glory goes to God for blessing my country with such a great leader who is able to lift this great nation while her enemies shrink every minutes….
You have to realize that your paymaster Abiy Ahmed will not have any chance when the regional power Tigray begins a full scale military operation in Ethiopia. You remember Tigray forces reached Northern shoa within weeks but withdrew due to pressure from the Biden administration. Then Abiy Ahmed was about to flee the country as his poorly led and trained army crumbled. Just for your memory if you have any.
Nice false narration bro,
The world witnessed TPLF getting whooped 3 times. The king is the one who gave a chance for peace.
Reminder: There are drones nowadays so you can’t hide like you used to 55 years ago.
Question for you, please try to be honest :) I forgot TPLF can’t be honest… Do you really believe TPLF will win the greatest army built by Dr Aby after your retarded TPLF destroyed it for 30 years? Once and for all, the north will get its peace after Ethiopia take care of your retarded TPLF.
He let them come all the way to Northern Shoa and destroyed 90% of them before they start running back, That was a trap bro…
No Safe Haven & No Mercy for Egypt’s Proxy Rabid Dogs [TPLF-TDF/EPLF-ELF/Amara Fanno (Misnomer)/OLF-IFLO/etc.].
This has NOTHING to do with Abiy. In fact, Abiy has been very lenient on Domestic Terrorists [DTs]. That’s why we see flare-ups everywhere! The ONLY way to show an arsonist what losing one’s hard-earned home is like is by setting the arsonist’s own home on fire! Nothing less will ever teach an arsonist that valuable unforgettable lesson!
Look, insurrection against elected governments anywhere on Earth is Domestic Terrorism [DT]. Aiding-and-Abetting DT anywhere on Earth is DT, too. Hence, those engaged in DT & their Abettors are all DTs. DTs should NEVER be given a minute more to destroy Ethiopia! Enough is Enough! They deserve No Mercy!
BTW, if the TPLF really stood for Tigray, why are the majority of Tigrayans still on Food Aid ever since the Haile-Selassie Era? Hasn’t the TPLF been in power for decades? What has the TPLF even done for Birhan Woldu [the child the TPLF used as Tigray’s Famine Poster Child]?
PS: In one clip, even TPLF’s own Stalin G-S was saying: ≈ “After ≥ 27 TPLF’s rule, even Mekele [Pop. ≥500K] never had acceptable potable water. So much so that TPLF officials & their siblings were going to Addis for shower…”
Q: Why hasn’t any Tigrayan gotten even an ounce of Tigray’s gold? Don’t TPLF officials smuggle & sell it via Eritrea?
NB: The gold being sent from Tigray to the NBE is part of the Gold Bullions looted from the same NBE and taken to Tigray in the early 1990s.