(ANSA) - ADDIS ABABA, 04 APR - What Ethiopia is fighting in Tigrè is a "difficult and exhausting guerrilla", which engages the armed forces of Addis Ababa on "eight fronts": Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has admitted , Nobel Peace Prize 2019 for having made peace with the archenemy Eritrea and now subjected to accusations of atrocities and massacres reported against his military and Eritrean forces in the rebel region.
"The (secessionist) junta that we eliminated in three weeks has now turned into a guerrilla force, mingled with the peasants and started moving to different places," admitted Abiy, who thus had to publicly believe in speed and speed. success of the offensive of the Ethiopian army against the secessionists of the Tigrinya People's Liberation Front (TPLF) last November, after an attack on a military base.
"Now, we can't eliminate it in three months.
Eliminating a visible enemy and eliminating an enemy that is hiding and assimilating to others are not the same thing," Abiy said, adding that "it's very difficult and exhausting."
On Saturday there was an announcement that Eritrean troops have begun to withdraw from northern Tigré.
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