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Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia also commander in chief of Ethiopian Army has given 72 hours for the Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF) leaders to surrender within 72 hours.
The TPLF leaders, which he described as Junta, has attacked Ethiopian military based on November 4 last week to rob army artilleries. The leaders of TPLF have lost their dominance in Ethiopian politics after the ruling coalition voted for Abiy Ahmed in April 2018.
Since then most of the TPLF leadership have refused to accept their defeat vowing to come to power at any cost. As a result the tension between the federal government led by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the former rebel fighters who ruled Ethiopia from 1991 till April 2018 has been growing leading to a military confrontation.
Follow RT on Former foreign minister of Ethiopia Seyoum Mesfin was among the three leaders killed by government forces in the ongoing crackdown on the northern region of Tigray, which the authorities in Addis Ababa accused of insurrection.
Seyoum, Abay Tsehaye, Asmelash Woldeselassie and Colonel Kiros Hagos were killed “
in fire exchanges undertaken with the criminal clique’s personal security” after refusing to surrender to the Ethiopian military, the government’s crisis center tweeted on Wednesday.
Refusing to surrender to ENDF, Seyoum Mesfin, Abay Tsehaye, Asmelash Woldeselassie & Col Kiros Hagos have been killed in fire exchanges undertaken with the criminal clique’s personal security. Five key TPLF affiliated former army commanders have been apprehended. Ethiopia State of Emergency Fact Check (@SOEFactCheck) January 13, 2021
Ethiopia says forced into ‘aimless war’
Ethiopian Orthodox Christians light candles and pray for peace during a church service at the Medhane Alem Cathedral in the Bole Medhanealem area of the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene)
The Associated Press
Updated: November 5th, 2020
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) Ethiopia’s army said Thursday the country has been forced into an “unexpected and aimless war” with its well-armed Tigray region, while Tigray asserted that fighter jets had bombed areas around its capital a marked escalation with little sign of the two sides willing to talk to calm the crisis.