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The Ethiopian Popular Front for the Liberation of the “Tigrayans” has accused the government of Abi Ahmed of using unmanned drones in its military operations against civilians in the region.
This was published in a post by the Getachew Reda Front spokesperson on the Facebook page of the Tigray region media office, according to the American Associated Press.
“The Ethiopian prime minister now relies on the support of Emirati drones stationed in the Eritrean (city) of Assab in his devastating war against the Tigrayans,” Getachew said.
Reza did not provide any proof of the allegations related to the use of Emirati drones in Addis Ababa in Tigray military operations.
While there was no immediate comment from the UAE on the matter.
According to the Associated Press, Abu Dhabi established a military presence in Eritrea at the Assab port and an airport that was deserted there, but was later said to have withdrawn its forces following its withdrawal from the Saudi-led war in Yemen.
34 people died in an armed attack
In a related context, 34 people were killed in an armed attack on a passenger bus in the “Benishangul – Gumuz” territory in northwestern Ethiopia.
The independent Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (non-governmental) reported, in a tweet via Twitter, that 34 people were killed in an armed attack on Saturday.
The committee expressed sadness and concern at the high death toll, describing the attack on the passenger bus from the city of “Nebira” to “Chagni” as “horrifying”.
Until today, Sunday, neither party claimed responsibility for the attack.
And local Ethiopian news reported that, at the end of last October, armed groups killed large numbers of civilians in the “Benishangul-Gumuz” region.
On September 26, 15 people were killed in an attack by gunmen in the border region with Sudan.
On November 4, armed confrontations between the Ethiopian army and the “Popular Front for the Liberation of the Tigrayans” began in the region.
The Popular Front dominated political life in Ethiopia for about 3 decades, before Abiy Ahmed came to power in 2018, becoming the first prime minister of the “Oromo” ethnic group.
And “Oromo” is the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia with 34.9 percent of the population, which is about 108 million people, while Tigray is the third largest with 7.3 percent.
The front, which complains about the marginalization of the federal authorities, separated from the ruling coalition and challenged Abi Ahmed to hold regional elections last September, which the government deemed “illegal,” in response to a federal decision to postpone the elections for the Corona pandemic.
