The development came as a senior Amhara official says the rebels, known as the Tigray People's Liberation Front, were pushing"deep" into Amhara territory and hinted at possible retaliation.Rebels from Ethiopia's war-hit Tigray region have seized Lalibela, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the neighbouring Amhara region famed for its 12th-century rock-hewn churches, according to residents.
Abiy, winner of the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, said the move came in response to TPLF attacks on army camps. "They came in the afternoon, and there was not any fighting. There were no security forces around. The TPLF forces are in the town now," one resident said. Billene Seyoum, Abiy's spokeswoman, told a press conference Thursday that more than 300,000 people had been displaced by recent fighting in Amhara and Afar.
"The situation is very sad, pregnant women are delivering in the rain. Babies are born in the rain showers," he said. The TPLF has said it does not intend to expand territorial gains beyond Tigray and is instead trying to "degrade" the soldiers and militia fighters deploying north. Bloated, drained of colour from their journey, the bodies were often mutilated: genitals severed, eyes gouged, a missing limb. The Sudanese fishermen who spotted them, and the refugees from Tigray who helped pull them to shore, found many corpses’ hands bound. Some of them had been shot.
The deaths are the latest massacre in a nine-month war that has killed thousands of civilians and is now spilling into other regions of Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous country and the anchor of the often-volatile Horn of Africa.
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