Ethiopia s Bloody Conflict Brutal internal conflict
Since November 2020, Ethiopia has been locked in a brutal internal conflict. The fighting has been taking place between the forces of Ethiopia’s Nobel Laureate Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed supported by his erstwhile foe turned ally the President of Eritrea Isaias Afwerki - and the formidable forces of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) which set up its own Parliament and Government.Ethiopia, the largest country in Africa, has a federal structure and a multi ethnic composition.
The Ethiopian government had placed a ban on the internet and telecommunications as well as on the entry of organisations like the International Committee of the Red Cross, NGOs, the media and humanitarian organisations. Reports suggest that more than 50000 people have fled the Tigray region. Testimony from those fleeing the conflict suggests that widespread massacres and rapes have occurred at the hands of the Ethiopian forces.
Former FM Seyoum Mesfin Killed After Refusing to Surrender: Army
|
BY
TESFANEWS
The Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) killed the conflict-hit Tigray region’s former ruling party, including ex-Ethiopian Foreign Minister
Seyoum Mesfin, during a battle in the country’s northern Tigray regional state.
Brigadier General Tesfaye Ayalew, Head of the ENDF Deployment Department, said Seyoum Mesfin was killed alongside
Asmelash Woldeselassie, former Ethiopia parliament Chief Whip and
Abay Tsehaye, former Ethiopia Minister of Federal Affairs during a battle earlier on Wednesday.
The three Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) officials were killed after they refused to surrender to the military, Ayalew said.
Ethiopia Detains Fugitive Sebahat Nega
|
BY
TESFANEWS
Weeks after ending law enforcement operations in the Tigray region, the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) continued to arrest members of the outlawed Tigray People’s Liberation Front.
Yesterday, the ENDF detained the founding member and most senior living member of the TPLF,
Sebahat Nega, along with seven other individuals, including two colonels, who had defected from the national army.
The fugitive was captured hiding in a ravine where it was extremely difficult to reach, ENDF Deployment Department Head, Brigadier General Tesfaye Ayalew, told the Ethiopian News Agency.
Sebahat Nega is now amongst dozens of TPLF leaders captured by the army earlier this week.
Ark of the Covenant for the Tabernacle replica at BYU in this photo from October 16, 2017. | (Wikimedia Commons)
Around 750 people were killed in an attack on an Orthodox church, which is said to contain the Ark of the Covenant described in the Book of Exodus in the Bible, in northern Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region home to thousands of churches and monasteries according to reports.
Hundreds of people hiding in Maryam Tsiyon Church in Aksum amid an armed conflict were brought out and shot to death, and local residents believe the aim was to take the Ark of Covenant to Addis Ababa, the Belgium-based nonprofit European External Programme with Africa reported in this month’s situational report, released on Jan. 9.