‘We won’t back down’: Amhara ethnic militias rush to Tigray border AFP © Provided by The South African
When war broke out last year in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, Solomon Alabachew acted fast, grabbing his Kalashnikov and rushing to the front with his fellow ethnic Amhara militia fighters.
Their swift seizure of western Tigray a stretch of land Amharas claim was stolen from them decades ago stands as the greatest achievement of Solomon’s life, the 37-year-old told AFP this week.
That helps explain his current fury at resurgent ethnic Tigrayan rebels, who on Monday began a new push intended to kick the Amharas out again, jump-starting fresh violence in an already gruesome eight-month-old conflict.
We won t back down : Ethnic militias rush to Tigray border
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