addisstandard 2021-02-08
Addis Abeba, February 08/2021 – Through a joint-statement by High-Representative/Vice-President Josep Borrell, Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen and Commissioner Janez Lenarčič , issued today, the EU said it “joins the United States’ call for the withdrawal of Eritrean troops from Ethiopia, which are fueling the conflict in Tigray, reportedly committing atrocities, and exacerbating ethnic violence.” EU’s latest call on the need to withdraw Eritrean forces from Tigray shows that there is a transatlantic consensus between European Union and the US Administration under President Joe Biden on the presence and participation of Eritrean forces in Tigray’s armed conflict, which started on November 04/2020.
Ethiopian General Says Eritrean Troops Entered ‘Tigray’ Uninvited
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Yes, Eritrean troops have entered and reoccupied Badme. Is Badme in Tigray?
The UN Secretary-General said he already got a guarantee from the Ethiopian Prime Minister that “the Eritrean army have not entered the Tigrayan territory, that the only area where they are is the area that corresponded to the disputed territory between the two countries that in the peace agreement was decided to give back to Eritrea.”
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The video, whose authenticity Reuters could not independently verify, shows
Major General Belay Seyoum addressing a meeting in the Tigrayan capital Mekelle in late December.
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Addis Abeba, January 21/2020 – Ambassador Dina Mufti, Spokesperson of Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has contradicted proven reports of Eritrea’s presence and participation in the armed conflict in Tigray.
Ambassador Dina denied Eritrean troops’ participation at a press briefing he gave to local media on January 20. “We have seen reports about Eritrean troops that have crossed into Ethiopia to help the government of Ethiopia during its law enforcement operation in Tigray and the measures taken against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF),” the Spokesperson said.
His assertion is in direct contradiction of the remarks by Major General Belay Seyoum, Commander of the Northern Command, and Atakilti Hailesilasie, the federally appointed interim mayor of Mekelle City. It also goes against latest report by Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) whose investigators filed firsthand accounts from residents of Humera confirming the prese
Eritrea’s brutal shadow war in Ethiopia laid bare
New video backs extensive Telegraph reports pointing towards egregious abuses, including massacres and pillaging
8 January 2021 • 2:16pm
Ethiopians fled across the border to Sudan to escape the fighting
Credit: Mahmoud Hjaj/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
The extent of Eritrea s involvement in Ethiopia s brutal civil war has been exposed after an Ethiopian general was caught on camera admitting soldiers from the secretive gulag-state had been conscripted to fight in his country.
On Wednesday, a video was released on social media showing Major General Belay Seyoum, the head of the Ethiopian army s northern division, admitting that a foreign force entered the country and that Eritrean troops had assisted them.