The TPLF denounces the death of “dozens of children and the elderly” in a bombing against displaced people in Tigray (Ethiopia)

Oct. 4 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray (TPLF) has denounced this Tuesday a new attack with drones against internally displaced persons in the Tigray region and has highlighted that “dozens of children and elderly” have died in the bombing, without Addis Ababa have spoken about it.

The TPLF spokesman, Getachew Reda, has denounced that “the air forces of (Ethiopian Prime Minister) Abiy Ahmed and Eritrean President) Isaias (Afewerki) have today carried out a horrific drone attack in Adi Daero”.

Asím stated that “what is particularly outrageous is that the victims had previously been in shelters in Adiyabo” and added that “they were again forced to leave their camps due to the latest round of the genocidal campaign by the forces of Afewerki and Abiy against the people of Tigray”.

“This is happening before the eyes of international NGOs, whose activities are being limited by systematic attacks on civilian infrastructure, including humanitarian aid trucks, by the forces of the twin tyrants from the Horn of Africa,” he said.

“We are not sure that the international community is going to mention this tragedy, not even as a footnote,” he lamented through a series of messages on his account on the social network Twitter. “Tragic, but Tigray will prevail”, he has riveted her.

Getachew himself denounced last week an Eritrean bombing against Adi Daero and added that this act of “air terrorism” resulted in the death of several civilians, although Ethiopia later claimed that its Air Force had been responsible for the attack.

Addis Ababa did not comment on the possible impact of the attack on civilian areas, although it noted that the TPLF was using medical facilities, schools, places of worship and residential areas to hide weapons.

The TPLF assured on Monday that it had withdrawn from the Amhara region (north) after nearly a month of deployment in various areas in the framework of the war in Tigray, in the framework of “a tactical geographic adjustment” to face the “danger existential” implied by the large-scale offensive by the Eritrean Army.

The conflict in Ethiopia broke out after an attack by the TPLF against the Army’s main base, located in Mekelle, after which the Abiy ordered an offensive against the group after months of political and administrative tensions. A “humanitarian truce” is currently in force, although both sides have accused each other of preventing the delivery of aid.

The TPLF has accused Abiy of stirring up tensions since he came to power in April 2018, when he became the first Oromo to take office. Until then, the TPLF had been the dominant force within the ethnically based coalition that had governed Ethiopia since 1991, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). The group opposed Abiy’s reforms, seeing them as an attempt to undermine his influence.