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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
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He also said the role of Amhara Special Force, Amhara Militia, Amhara region government, & Amhara people were “indispensable in this operation. We stood for Ethiopian unity, we stood for our dignity & we stood for Ethiopia’s protection.”
You can’t find a constitution now, a constitution that allows people or that allows citizens to go, to make self-determination up to secession in this 21st century where other parts of the world are coming together,” Commissioner Abere said, & accused TPLF of enabling that in Ethiopia.