getachew reda in mekelle, tigray, welcome to hardtalk. my pleasure. let me ask you this — we see the terrible suffering that millions of people are experiencing in your region as a result of — what, 8—9 months of conflict? why is it that your side, the tigray people's liberation front, appears intent on intensifying the fighting rather than ending it? well, it's exactly the same reason why we took up arms and tried to liberate our people from the suffering you've alluded to. in fact, we do not consider ourselves rebels. we are a legitimately elected government who was removed from the capital by abiy and his partners in crime, the amhara expansionist forces and the eritrean regime. so these people, these partners