Eritrean soldiers kill nine civilians in Tigray, Ethiopian regional official says;
Eritrean soldiers kill nine civilians in Tigray, Ethiopian regional official says. According to a local government spokesman, Eritrean soldiers opened fire in an Ethiopian town on Monday. Killing at least nine civilians and injuring more than a dozen others. Berhane Gebretsadik, an administrator for Ethiopia’s federally appointed transitional Tigray administration. Reported that Ethiopian National Defense forces intervened to repel the attack in Adwa. He said Eritrean soldiers murdered innocent people. They would have kept killing more civilians. However, the National Defence intervened and rescued them.
The assault demonstrates Eritrean military activity in Tigray, Ethiopia’s northern city, amid assurances last month that forces will withdraw. Yemane Gebremeskel, Eritrea’s Minister of Information, did not respond to a query about whether Eritrean soldiers were present in Tigray. But he says Eritrean soldiers did not normally kill civilians. The federal Ethiopian armies assaulted by forces loyal to the regional political group. Tigray’s People’s Liberation Front entered Tigray in November to help the embattled Eritrean armies (TPLF).
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Two witnesses told Amnesty International that two trucks loaded with Eritrean soldiers had fired civilians on the main route. Two doctors, one at Kidane Meheret Hospital in northern Adwa and one in Axum. Said they examined patients who injured. Reuters told them they were injured. Because of safety threats, they both refused to be called. The Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s spokesperson, Billene Seyoum, told the assistants that. Eritrean uniforms could be used to conceal gunmen from the opposing TPLF. After the TPLF retreated from the provincial capital, the Government claimed victory in November. But violence has taken place in Tigray areas. Where Eritrean soldiers have blamed since the beginning of the war for the mass murder of civilians, looting, and gang rape.
Reuters’ reporters in Tigray saw men driving along Adwa’s main road on Eritrean uniforms last months in buses with Eritrean license plates. There are military checkpoints in Ethiopia on the route. Soldiers in Eritrean uniforms marched freely in major cities. Moreover, Billie said that the men in Eritrean uniforms perhaps members of the TPLF in the attack on 12 April and accused journalists of not reporting suspected TPLF atrocities. In response to Billene’s remarks, Reuters could not contact TPLF officials. The accounts of Eritrean soldiers’ massacres inflated by both Ethiopia and Eritrea.
