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| Eritrean troops accused of atrocities in Ethiopia's Tigray region |
| 2022-11-20 |
| [Garowe] A bigwig from Æthiopia's northern Tigray region says 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 forces are still committing atrocities despite the recent deal with Addis Ababa to bring an end to the two-year war. Tigray People's Liberation Front front man Getachew Reda said Eritrean forces were killing civilians and looting and destroying property. Several human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... organizations have accused Eritrean soldiers of committing atrocities in Æthiopia in the past, but these claims have been denied by Eritrean officials. Mr Getachew also said Tigrayan fighters would not lay down their arms until the federal government ensured the withdrawal of Eritrean and other forces from the region. An Æthiopian official said the Eritrean issue would be resolved as soon as federal troops were stationed in Tigray's border areas. |
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