The Ethiopian Government asks the population of Tigray to stay away from the areas where the TPLF is located
Aug. 26 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray (TPLF), Getachew Reda, denounced this Friday bombings on a nursery in a residential area of the capital of Tigray, Mekelle, by the Ethiopian Air Force.
“With the regime’s large-scale offensive in its third day, (the government) has returned to its daily routine: attacking civilians. In a way, it is doing with the bombs what it has been doing to our people through the siege. and hunger,” he said.
Reda has also described as “fictitious” the looting of nearly 570,000 liters of fuel in a warehouse of the World Food Program (WFP) in the regional capital denounced by its president on Thursday, David Beasley.
“They kill innocent children and women. If shooting didn’t work the first time, there are far more compelling reasons why it won’t work this time. Put pressure on the regime to push negotiations forward, in good faith, and don’t let the international community pamper Abiy”, he settled in reference to the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed.
This incident has also been confirmed on Twitter by the TPLF foreign spokesman, Kindeya Gebrehiwot, who has denounced that bombs have fallen in Mekelle, pointing to an Ethiopian government plane led by Abiy Ahmed as responsible.
“There are civilians killed and injured. Details are being assessed and the rescue effort is underway,” he explained on his official Twitter profile, adding that Addis Ababa is “inventing the story of an imaginary plane that was shot down under the pretext of an air strike in Tigray”.
For its part, the Government has once again accused the TPLF in a statement of continuing with the attacks despite the “open door” of the authorities to return to peace and has explained that it will take action against “the military forces that support the sentiments of the rebel group against peace”, according to the Ethiopian newspaper ‘Addis Standard’.
They have also called on the population living in the Tigray region “to stay away from areas where TPLF military equipment and training facilities are located.”
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