FILE PHOTO: A view shows a street in Mekelle, Tigray region of northern Ethiopia December 10, 2018. REUTERS/Maggie Fick/File Photo
Billene Seyoum, a spokeswoman for the prime minister’s office, said: “The Ethiopian National Defense Forces do not have a mission to bombard its own city and people. Mekelle remains one of Ethiopia’s key cities and the efforts to bring to justice the criminal clique will not entail discriminatory ‘bombardment’ as alluded by TPLF and their propagandists.”
The government gave the TPLF an ultimatum last Sunday to lay down arms or face an assault on Mekelle, a city of 500,000 people. The ultimatum expired on Wednesday. The TPLF and Eritrea are archenemies: the TPLF was in charge in Addis Ababa when Ethiopia and Eritrea fought a war from 1998-2000. But Eritrea and Abiy have warm relations. The Ethiopian government has denied TPLF accusations that Eritrean troops are operating on Ethiopian soil.
“Some military attaches are working with those who endangered the security of the country, identified in blacklist and sought by attorney of the court,” said the letter. The letter was stamped by Brigadier-General Boultie Tadesse of the Defence Foreign Relations Directorate, on the copy of shown to Reuters.
Billene, the prime minister’s spokeswoman, said she could not address questions about the letter, including whether it was referring to the TPLF, without seeing the original document.
yesheger_lij Seriously your quoting terrorists like thier say is viable . Nice going
Now Ethiopian Pm Abiy Ahmed is Destroying our beautiful City Mekele killing children's bombing the whole city the world should do something innocent people are dying
“a diplomat “ haha 🤣 TPLFies fooled by westerners propaganda and dig their own grave and now they r at their last hour of their death
The Eritrean army and Fano are committing atrocities against the innocent people of Tigray. They are entering the village and raping mothers and women. They are killing families. They are cutting off the genitals of young people in particular. 'The war was waged against the innoc
TPLF war criminal junta and its affiliates will be brought to justice very soon. They are culprits of war crimes and mass massacres!
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This is what you get when the u.s. interferes
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