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| Eritrea rebuffs US 'blackmail' after sanctions on army chief over Tigray allegations |
| 2021-08-24 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... on Monday angrily rejected US sanctions imposed on its army chief over allegations of widespread rights abuses in Æthiopia’s war-torn Tigray region. "The government of Eritrea rejects, both in letter and spirit, the utterly baseless allegations and blackmail directed against it," the Eritrean foreign ministry said in a statement on Twitter. The US Treasury Department earlier Monday announced the sanctions against General Filipos Woldeyohannes, saying forces under his command were responsible for "massacres, looting, and sexual assaults" in Tigray. But the Eritrean foreign ministry described the accusations as "unacceptable", saying: "This is not, indeed, the first time for the US Administration to float such baseless smear campaigns against Eritrea." "In the face of the repetitive and unwarranted accusations, Eritrea cannot remain silent. In the circumstances, Eritrea calls on the US Administration to bring the case to an independent adjudication if it indeed has facts to prove its false allegations." |
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| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-08-24 13:11 |