Getachew’s Faction Calls Debretsion’s Latest Move a “putsch”

Debrestion Faction presents itself as a legitimate TPLF entity

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Toronto – The political circus involving the two factions of the TPLF seems to be unending. On Monday, Debretsion’s faction released a statement saying “the central committee passed a decision” to remove the 13 authorities of the Interim Tigray Region Administration. 

The Debretsion’s faction is arguing that the TPLF has a 50+1 representation in the Tigray Region Interim Administration and that it considers itself as a legitimate TPLF body.  This group undertook a party congress in August this year and announced that it had suspended Getachew Reda and 15 other central committee members. 

The Getachew Faction, with a recognition from the Federal government institution, rejects the Debretsion’s faction, the congress it undertook and the decisions from it. 

The congress itself is one of the immediate factors for the split within the TPLF.  The process involved in registering the party again with the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia was another factor. But the fundamental cause is said to be the Pretoria Agreement which ended the two years bloody war between the organization and Abiy Ahmed’s Federal government. 

The TPLF was designated as a “terrorist organization” by the Ethiopian Parliament following the attack on the Northern Command of the Ethiopian Defense Force and the subsequent military ventures to the Afar and Amhara regions of Ethiopia. 

It has been weeks now since an impending potential coup was reported in the Tigray region to remove the Getachew faction.  The Interim Administration is considering the latest statement from Debretsion’s faction as a “putsch.”  This group links Debretsion’s move with a lust for power. 

In a statement released on the same day, the Interim administration warned that that group mistook “patience” for weakness. 

Interim government statement reads :

“Statement by the Tigray Interim Administration (IRA) on Current Developments

It’s a well-known fact that following the split of the TPLF leadership into two camps, one of the two had conducted an illegal party congress. Since its illegal congress, this clique has been making a mockery of law and order in Tigray, determined to spread anarchy in Tigray and create popular apprehension.

 This faction has also been busy eroding the unity of the people of Tigray and belittling and smearing our people. It is also engaged in a nonstop smear campaign against the IRA leadership as well as that of the security forces. Claiming on the one hand that “the security forces are with us,” and on the other hand that “we have an understanding with the federal government,” this faction has been preoccupied with confusing our people.

Now this faction has proclaimed an official putsch to put into practice the blustering chest-thumping that it has displayed in various forums. Having mistaken the IRA’s patience so as to avoid eroding the unity of the people of Tigray for weakness, today, October 7, 2024, this faction officially declared its unwavering desire to make Tigray lawless. It has undertaken this irresponsible step deliberately to engineer instability and crisis, not because the processes of how and when governmental powers can be secured are lost on it. Above all else, choosing this chest-thumping at a time when efforts towards restoring Tigray’s territorial integrity are bearing fruits makes it clear that this faction’s sole interest is holding onto power, not tending to our people’s needs and associations.

The Tigray Interim Administration cannot and will not tolerate such reckless actions. Taking into account the fact that this faction had mistaken the IRA’s prior efforts to preserve our people’s unity for weakness, the IRA will take legal actions against this destructive faction’s leadership. We would like to make it clear to our people  that this faction and its leadership will assume sole responsibility for any and all consequences that ensue.

The IRA would also like to take this opportunity to reiterate its commitment to mobilizing its capacities to ensure the full implementation of the Pretoria Agreement to address our people’s fundamental questions and ensure law and order.

Tigray Interim Administration

October 7, 2024

Mekelle”

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