Those killed include TPLF spokesperson Sekoture Getachew and Daniel Assefa, former Head of Tigray finance bureau. On 28 May 1991, TPLF troops backed by Eritrean forces seized control of Addis Ababa, the capital. Some consider themselves supporters of Tigray or of its political leaders, who belong to a party called the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, or TPLF. Reports of the attack emerged just a day after the government declared surprise pardons for a number of detained opposition leaders, including senior Tigrayan figures, in what it said . Fact one: TPLF started the war. Totally, five culprits including the Head of the TPLF clique, Sebhat Nega has been captured. Since Jan. 7, Ethiopia's military has killed or captured at least 47 people from a most-wanted list of 167 senior leaders of the T.P.L.F., including four of the party's nine-member executive . Three weeks of battles in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region have led to what appears to be a decisive victory for the federal government. "The TPLF planned and thoroughly prepared for three months to control the central government before it starts this war. Aid workers have repeatedly complained that security and bureaucratic hurdles are impeding access to the stricken region, where some 400,000 people are thought to be on the verge of . list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3. they are working and who organized them and who is the leader and organizer of the protest. Accordingly,. Meles Zenawi (Chairman) 2. The Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) killed 170 civilians in Bora (Southern Tigray) on 8-10 January 2021. They included some leaders of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), the party fighting Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's . This article was originally published by BBC News. "We killed and captured most of the Tigrayan leaders and the rest are being pursued, Yibeltal said, adding that the Tigray region is under control and "we are trying to rebuild it." Ethiopia: TPLF Overview. This is concrete proof that the TPLF itself was a target and on the receiving end of the atrocities. Seyoum Mesfin (Deputy Chairman) 3. Although I noted that he had enormous challenges, I concluded that " (T)hese challenges are not insurmountable. TPLF has no regard for human life. Let me start my view by quoting from an article I read a few years back from Ethiopian Register magazine, under the . though TPLF leaders remain on the run and fighting has . Abiy enlisted the support of the army of Eritrea. This is not the first time Ethiopia has accused Dr Tedros of backing the rebels. Three weeks of battles in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region have led to what appears to be a decisive victory for the federal government. Ethiopia forces claim recapturing of towns from Tigray rebels. They are accused of collusion with the TPLF in its current war effort. The Ethiopian government had no choice except for launching a law enforcement operation. Within 16 years, it had grown from about a dozen men into the most powerful armed liberation movement in Ethiopia. The Mai-Kadra Massacres of November 9, 2020. TPLF crimes in Tigray as told by a survivor. United Nations and Ethiopia Reach Aid Pact for War-hit Tigray . Three weeks of battles in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region have led to what appears to be a decisive victory for the federal government. . Head of Defence Force Deployment Department, Birg.Gen. When senior former TPLF leaders like Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin and others were killed at close range and 86 years old Sebhat Nega and others were taken prisoner, these invading forces had officially announced that the TPLF was annihilated. Ethiopian police visited an office of the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) in Amhara region to request a list of ethnic Tigrayan staff, according to an internal UN security report seen . The near entirety of the list were Tigrayans, including many army veterans who know the ins-and-outs of the Ethiopian military. Keria Ibrahim 7. It led a political coalition called the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) from 1989 to 2018. Seble Khasay 13. It fought a 15-year-long war against the Derg regime . In a Global Africa piece entitled "Africa's Transformative Leader" published in 2019, I hailed the "miracle happening in Ethiopia" since April 2018 when Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took up office. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri - RC1B3E167850. Negasi Beyene, who grew up in Mekele, the capital city of the Ethiopia's Tigray Region, holds a traditional Ethiopian flag Saturday, Dec . Accordingly, Sebhat Nega, the head and strategist of the TPLF Clique. The purpose of the attack was to loot the national defence armour and overthrow the existing, lawful central government. I can assure you none of the TPLF leaders left the country. Redai Alefom 8. Attorney General releases Investigative report and findings on crimes committed by TPLF. Getachew Reda 3. Brigadier General Tesfaye said actions have been taken against military leaders who had defected from the defense force to join the TPLF group. "We have received credible information on the whereabouts of the remaining TPLF leaders (including @reda_getachew & Debretsion Gebremichael). Fugitive leaders of the TPLF had vowed to continue to fight from the mountains, but Reuters has been unable to contact them for weeks. A man holds a flag of Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) during the opening ceremony of Irreecha celebration, the Oromo People thanksgiving ceremony in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia October 4, 2019. Civilians were shot and killed for supporting the federal government or for sheltering wounded soldiers, the commission said. The rebel Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) said the attack had killed 56 people, while an official at the region's main hospital in the capital Mekele reported 55 dead and 126 injured. Addis Ababa, January 10, 2021 (FBC) - The National Defence Force has captured seven more top leaders of the terrorist TPLF Junta. Three months later, on November 03/2020, they declared war on the central government. Helen Tadesse. The victims were people who had previously fled fighting in western Tigray, he said. During EPRDF rule, Ethiopia retained authoritarianism and shifted from a one-party state to a dominant-party state. TPLF leaders, possibly hiding in surrounding mountains since then, had said they were fighting back. During the period of TPLF advances outside of Tigray, no aid workers were killed as aid agencies scaled down operations in affected areas. Dr. Debretsion Gebremichael 2. TPLF leaders were taken into custody soon after war broke out between Ethiopian and Tigray forces. The Fantastic End. An air strike in Ethiopia's Tigray region killed 56 people and injured 30, including children, in a camp for displaced people, two aid workers told Reuters on Saturday, citing local authorities and eyewitness accounts. Bodyguards who were escorting the TPLF Clique ringleaders including Sebhat Nega have been killed by the national army while defending to defend their bosses. This is concrete proof that the TPLF itself was a target and on the receiving end of the atrocities. An air strike in Ethiopia's Tigray region has killed 56 people and injured 30 in a camp for displaced people, two aid workers say, citing local authorities and eyewitness accounts. Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, widely known as Hemeti, will meet with several Ethiopian leaders. Before the latest strike, at least 146 people have been killed and 213 injured in air strikes in Tigray since Oct. 18, according to a document prepared by aid agencies and shared with Reuters this week. Outside a centuries-old stone church in the northern Ethiopian city of Gondar, a drama troupe performed skits hailing the military defeat of the former leaders of the country's Tigray region. Abiy enlisted the support of the army of Eritrea. Ethiopia: TPLF Overview. and that the war was finished as TPLF leaders were now all either killed or captured and . TPLF's 'terrorist' designation, issued through a statement from Abiy's office, comes alongside that of OLF-Shene following a Council of Ministers approval on May 1, 2021. NAIROBI, Kenya The Ethiopian National Defense Force announced late Thursday that it had killed top officials of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). Done killing, the soldiers stopped families from taking their dead. The war is believed to have killed thousands, sent 45,000 refugees into Sudan, displaced many more within Tigray and worsened suffering in a region where 600,000 people already depended on food aid 2) T-TPLF leaders believe all protests and demonstrations, including peaceful and unarmed ones, pose an existential threat to the T-TPLF and must be dealt with deadly force. 3) T-TPLF leaders believe that the best way to control a crowd is through the use of massive deadly force to strike fear in the hearts of protesters and demonstrators. The move to free leaders from several ethnic groups is the most significant breakthrough since war broke . TPLF leader Debretsion Gebremichael told Reuters that Tigrayan forces were acting in "self-defence" to preempt an imminent attack. Arkebe Equbay (Executive Committee member) 4. or TPLF. Tigrayan forces announce retreat to Ethiopia's Tigray region. It killed thousands, including its own base people of Sekotur Getache, Zeray Asgedom and several other top leaders of the Junta have been killed while many others are captured including Kidusan Nega and Dr. Solomon Kidan, he added. When a violent popular protest seemed to engulf the, the TPLF leaders moved to Tigray and rebelled against the central government with the hope of regaining the power they lost. list 3 of 3. Ethiopia has freed several opposition leaders from prison, the state broadcaster reported on Friday, as the government said it would begin dialogue with political opponents after 14 months of war when thousands of people have been arrested. According to many of your request, here is the English translation of the Tigringa/Amharic version interview of Fitawrari Gezai Reda, a resident of Tigray region, northern Ethiopia. Getachew Asefa 14. Ethiopian diaspora torn by ethnic tensions in Tigray war. An air strike in Ethiopia's Tigray region has killed 56 people and injured 30 in a camp for displaced people, two aid workers say, citing local authorities and eyewitness accounts. Accordingly, list of the TPLF leaders including. Daglo is the head of a much feared and powerful paramilitary unit that is accused of atrocities in the western region of Darfur. The war in Tigray started early last November when Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent federal forces into Tigray to punish leaders of the TPLF whom Addis Ababa blamed for an attack on military bases in which 50 soldiers were killed and weapons looted. . The meeting which is the first contact between the TPLF leadership and foreign officials came on the same day demonstrators in support of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took to the streets of Addis Ababa. Roman Gebre-Selassie 5. Is there a civil war in Ethiopia? Previously, TPLF leaders had refused to pull out of Amhara and Afar unless the government ended what the rebels describe as a humanitarian "siege" of Tigray. TPLF leader Debretsion Gebremichael used to be one of the most powerful Tigray in federal politics. Brigadier General Tesfaye said actions have been taken against military leaders who had defected from the defence force to join the TPLF group. The TPLF attacked and killed the military of the Ethiopian National Army based in the Tigray region. Can TPLF be a friend of Oromo? Dr. Abrham Tekeste 6. Kiros Hagos 11. Several veteran and retired TPLF leaders have been killed or captured, but the party's more active and military leaders are still fighting. Under the EPRDF, Ethiopia was governed as an ethnically federal, dominant-party state. KHARTOUM (Somaliguardian) - Ethiopa killed or captured most of former Tigrayan leaders with the rest being pursued, Ethiopian ambassador to Sudan Yibeltal Aemero said on Wednesday. Between November 2020 and June 2021, aid workers were killed by indirect fire, in road ambushes, during military operations against refugee and IDP camps. . RECONCILIATION EFFORT In Friday's reconciliation move, the government freed opposition leaders from several ethnic groups. 1. Daniel Asefa 15. The fall of the regime left the TPLF's leader, 36-year-old Meles Zenawi, in power and the army . Only two days after the slaughter were gravediggers allowed to set about their grim task; one of them buried 26 corpses in the graveyard of the Abune . Tigrayan rebels claimed Saturday that dozens of people had been killed in a drone strike on a camp for civilians displaced by the brutal war in northern Ethiopia. They . An air strike in Ethiopia's Tigray region killed 56 people and injured 30, including children, in a camp for displaced people, two aid workers told Reuters on Saturday, citing local authorities . Earlier, Ethiopia's army chief Berhanu Jula had accused the . Yalem Tsega 12. How Ethiopia's Abiy fooled Us All. The latest announcement about those killed and captured comes . On 28 November 2020, an . Dr. Aklilu Hailemichael 17. All u "peace supporting" tigrays and tplf supporters are inconsistent in ur goal to support peace, and therefore irrelevant. The Irreecha massacre explained: The who, what, where and why By OPride photo-of-the-aerial-force-deployed-against-oromo-irreecha-participants-on-2nd-october-2016-bishoftu-massacre. Now he's at war with Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and there's a warrant out for his arrest. The TPLF was established on 18 February 1975 in Dedebit, northwestern Tigray, according to official records. February 6, 2021. Ethiopian forces and their allies have been locked in a conflict with TPLF since November 2020, when Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent troops into Tigray after accusing the rebels of attacking army camps. "TPLF forces shot and killed . Nigeria led the world in Christians killed for their faith last year (November 2020-October 2021) at 4,650, up from 3,530 the previous year, according to Open Doors' 2022 World Watch List report. Meles Zenawi, a member of the TPLF, served as Prime Minister until his death in 2012. In a new alarming statement by military leaders of the Tigrayan Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF), the generals claimed to have secured "diplomatic, legal and moral support" to prolong the war that they began in November, 2020. end of list. At the time of this writing, a number of former high-ranking officials led by the founders of the cabal and former presidents of the region, were hoarded and roared back on a plane to Addis Ababa in a very dramatic—and historic—manner. On 28 November 2020, an official statement by the armed forces announced that they claimed complete control over the region's capital city, Mekelle ( Abiy Ahmed Ali, Twitter, 28 . They included TPLF spokesperson Sekoture Getachew and Daniel Assefa, the former head of the Tigray Finance Bureau. Despite reports that humanitarians have suspended activities in the area, OCHA stressed on Monday that some partners were continuing to operate around . Zeray Asgedom, the former head of the Ethiopian Broadcasting Authority, and Abebe. They argue that Tigrayans are being threatened with genocide — profiled, persecuted and killed for their ethnicity. Dr. Atinkut Mezegebu 10. Alem G/ Wahad 18. Eight days ago, Eritrean soldiers searching for suspected TPLF insurgents killed 13 people in Grizana, a village 50 miles south-west of Mekelle in an area where fierce fighting has taken place . Senior UN Official Urges Ethiopians to Find Path to Peace. Some were chanting against the U.S which has strongly called for an end to the fighting and accused Ethiopia of 'grosss' human rights violations. Accordingly, list of the TPLF leaders including Colonel Yemane Gebremichael, the mastermind of the Maikadra massacre, have been released. Ethiopian diaspora torn by ethnic tensions in Tigray war. TPLF leader Debretsion Gebremichael told Reuters that Tigrayan forces were acting in "self-defence" to preempt an imminent attack. Ethiopia: TPLF Overview. Fetlework Gebreziabeher 4. Where were y'all when 60 amharas and ormos got killed in benshangul? Tigray rebels killed dozens of civilians: Ethiopia rights body. TPLF since its creation is a narrow ethno-nationalist party that struggles to secede part of Tigray from Ethiopia. ADDIS ABABA — An air strike in Ethiopia's Tigray region killed 56 people and injured 30, including children, in a camp for displaced people, two aid workers told Reuters on . Tigrayan rebels claimed Saturday that dozens of people had been killed in a drone strike on a camp for civilians displaced by the brutal war in northern Ethiopia. The list also includes leaders of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) such as Sebhat Nega, Abay Woldu, Abadi Zemu, Woro Mulu, Gebre Agziabher, and Kiros Hagos. The list goes on. Ethiopia: Victory for the Oromo will come from winning hearts and minds, not terrorising people. concerned corners as a victim of terrorism. The number of kidnapped Christians was also highest in Nigeria, at more than 2,500, up from 990 the previous year, according to the WWL report. List of Central Committee members of the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) 1. This is despite the government saying the conflict was over after the capture of the regional capital, Mekelle, at the end of November. For all who know the history of the TPLF regime's leaders, such an orchestration of bomb blasts, at the cost of human lives and limbs, to make a political point, does not come as a surprise. Issias Tadesse 16. Partial List of Oromos Killed, Detained and Tortured by Zone West Wollega Zone Killed Article content. Amanuel Asefa 9. Sudan's deputy leader heads to Ethiopia on Saturday for a two-day visit during a time of border tensions. list 2 of 3. Church leaders say the changes weren't political in nature. The TPLF junta senior leaders, including former Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin, have been killed, according to Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF). [Photo: Getty Images] They also reiterated TPLF chairman Debretsion Gebremichael's original call When senior former TPLF leaders like Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin and others were killed at close range and 86 years old Sebhat Nega and others were taken prisoner, these invading forces had officially announced that the TPLF was annihilated. Dozens killed in airstrike at camp in Tigray A survivor of an airstrike in the town of Dedebit in . The escalation came after months of feuding between Mr Abiy's government and leaders of the TPLF. U.N. Deputy Secretary General Amina Mohammed speaks at a regional Sustainable Development forum in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, Feb. 25 . The TPLF ruled Ethiopia and subjugated the people for 27 years until they lost their grip on the monopoly of political power over three years ago. The TPLF has denied any wrongdoing and while the government of PM Abiy Ahmed claimed . Asmelash Woldesilassie 5. In December 2021, the first aid worker was killed in They argue that Tigrayans are being threatened with genocide — profiled, persecuted and killed for their ethnicity . Ethiopia said it had captured or killed most commanders of a rebellious northern force, while Tigray's fugitive local leader countered on Friday that civilians were protesting against looting by . TPLF, a battle-hardened and militarily experienced armed group, challenges Abiy's reforms in general, while OLF-Shene, a militant OLF splinter group, is opposed to EPP. Tesfaye Aylew, said actions were also taken against military officers who defected to the junta. 1 of 6 Negasi Beyene, who grew up in Mekele, the capital city of the Ethiopia's Tigray Region, holds a traditional Ethiopian flag Saturday . Did TPLF rule Ethiopia? Soldiers went house to house and executed more than 160 people. A Summary of Oromos Killed, Beaten and Detained by the TPLF Armed Forces during the 2014 Oromo Protest Against The Addis Ababa (Finfinne) Master Plan . On November 12, 2020, Amnesty International released a report "confirming that scores, and likely hundreds, of people were stabbed or hacked to death in Mai-Kadra (May Cadra) town in the South West Zone of Ethiopia's Tigray Region on the night of 9 November.". The pulling of the cabal leader—and his dejected entourage—from extremely . At least 184 civilians died as a result of the bloodshed, the EHRC said, accusing TPLF fighters of "wilfully [killing] scores of civilians in towns and rural areas they captured". People are chased out of their homes and are being killed," Tegenu said, arguing that the situation called for "military" force. In an effort to establish the Tigrian Republic the party in its manifesto of 1967 E.C has declared parts of the current Amhara, Eritrea and Afar regions to be annexed to give the new republic an international border and fertile . . Where were y'all when a 100 something amharas and ormos got killed in shashemene and another 60 before that. On 28 November 2020, an official statement by the armed forces announced that they claimed complete control over the region's capital city, Mekelle ( Abiy Ahmed Ali, Twitter, 28 . What: Irreecha Massacre, in which at least 678 festival goers were killed and many more injured, according to the opposition party Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC).
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