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| Ethiopia conducts two air strikes in Tigray targeting rebel forces |
| 2021-10-25 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Æthiopia conducted two air strikes in Tigray on Sunday as the government intensifies a nearly week-old campaign of aerial bombardment against the rebellious forces who control most of the region.One strike hit the western Tigray area of Mai Tsebri, targeting a training site of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), government spokesperson Legesse Tulu said. The other hit the northern Tigray town of Adwa, targeting a military manufacturing facility controlled by the TPLF, the government said in a statement. "I can confirm there was a successful air strike in Mai Tsebri targeting training site of illegal recruits of the TPLF and a depot of heavy artillery," Legesse said. It was not immediately possible to verify the claim as communications are down throughout most of war-hit Tigray. TPLF spokesperson Getachew Reda told Rooters he had verified with colleagues that an air strike hit near a local hospital in Mai Tsebri. Getachew said there were no casualties to his knowledge. He said he had no information about the strike on Adwa. "The government makes it sound as though all of the Tigray region is a training center. It doesn’t make any sense, we don’t have all these training centers." "Today in Adwa, a center that the terrorist group TPLF was using to manufacture military equipment was destroyed by an air strike," the Government Communications Service said in a statement posted on Facebook. Æthiopian federal forces and forces loyal to the TPLF have been fighting for almost a year in a conflict that has killed thousands of people and displaced more than 2 million. Mai Aini and Adi Harush Refugee Camps, which host thousands of 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... n refugees, are both in the vicinity of Mai Tsebri. Legesse said the refugee camps were not affected by the strike. Representatives from Æthiopia’s Administration for Refugee and Returnee Affairs and the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... High Commissioner for Refugees did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Related: Tigray: 2021-10-24 A faction in Sudan calling for a transfer of power to civilian rule warns of a “creeping coup” Tigray: 2021-10-22 Ethiopia says it has launched another airstrike on the capital of war-battered Tigray, the fourth such bombardment this week Tigray: 2021-10-14 In Afar, federal forces fight the Tigray front |
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