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Ethiopia: Fear of Civil War Flare Up | Israel today

2020-11-10T08:08:49.019Z


| Around the worldAddis Ababa Government Military Operation Against Rebels in Tigray HaSlim District for Open Fighting • Ethiopian Air Force launches bombing raids on rope cities and death toll rises Warriors of the Popular Front for Liberation will be fired near anti-aircraft missiles War in Ethiopia: Fighting broke out last week between the Ethiopian army and rebels in Tigray province, with both sides using he


Addis Ababa Government Military Operation Against Rebels in Tigray HaSlim District for Open Fighting • Ethiopian Air Force launches bombing raids on rope cities and death toll rises

  • Warriors of the Popular Front for Liberation will be fired near anti-aircraft missiles

War in Ethiopia: Fighting broke out last week between the Ethiopian army and rebels in Tigray province, with both sides using heavy weapons and the death toll steadily rising. 

The rebels, members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray, occupy large areas of the autonomous province in the north of the country and are now in a state of fighting with government forces in Addis Ababa.

Ethiopian Air Force planes bombed the capital of the region yesterday and the rebels managed to shoot down a MiG-21, using surface-to-air missiles. 

Large forces of the army, the federal police of Ethiopia and militias of Amharic-speaking fighters were sent to the province in order to reinforce the government forces who found themselves in numerical inferiority to the rebel forces.

The Tigray Liberation Front has been in control of the province since 1998 and holds a large amount of government autonomy in Addis Ababa. 

For two decades, the local leaders of the Greater Province, located near the border with Eritrea and Sudan, have developed the organization's military force and now number 250,000 troops and carry heavy weapons such as cannons, tanks and anti-aircraft weapons.

The Prime Minister's anger

The escalation began last week when Ethiopian Prime Minister Nobel Peace Prize winner Abbey Ahmed announced Operation Law Enforcement in the province after allegations that Popular Front Liberation Front forces broke into a military base, beating Ethiopian government soldiers and stealing equipment and weapons.

Ahmed accused the members of the organization that controls the province of sabotaging the country's democratic system.

The leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray claim that the prime minister's move is part of an attempt to silence his political opponents from home and impose his authority on autonomy.

There is now a growing fear of ethnic tensions across the country.

The commander of the capital police, Addis Ababa, announced that 162 civilians of Tigray origin were arrested in his city after they were suspected of possessing weapons and intending to carry out sabotage operations. 

As the price of blood in the battles in Tigray province continues to rise, six civilians have been killed over the past day and an unknown number of fighters, Prime Minister Ahmed has announced the replacement of the army chief, federal police commissioner, his intelligence minister and foreign minister following the Tigray province crisis. 

In a speech to the state television channel, the Ethiopian prime minister urged the international community to "understand the repeated nature of the violations of the law that are taking place in the province of Tigray, which led to the operation of law enforcement and order taking place in the province." 

Source: israelhayom

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