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The Ethiopian army has seized the city of Alamata, in the southern region of Tigray, the state-run Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation reported on Sunday, amid a 12-day conflict in the Tigray region.
“The Ethiopian National Defense Force and the Amhara Special Forces have fully captured the city of Alamata and the surrounding cities, Waja and Tumuga as part of the continuation of the government’s military response against the TPLF robber special forces,” reported EBC.
The locals told EBC that the release of “would put an end to the human rights abuse that the militant group TPLF has been perpetrating against them.”
Alamata is located south of Tigray, near the border with Amhara, and most of the city’s 70,000 residents are from the Raya ethnic group. Although the Raya people see themselves as a united people with their own identity and shared history, the Raya territory has been placed under the jurisdiction of the regional states of Tigray and Amhara, when Ethiopia was divided into a federation according to ethnolinguistic lines in 1992. While the northern segment commonly known as Raya-Azebo currently forms the southernmost territory of the regional state of Tigray, the other half, also commonly known as Raya-Kobbo, is today part of the regional state of Amhara.
