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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has followed his previous stance that his government will not sit down in dialogue with the outlawed Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), whose leaders resist a call for surrender while the war continues for the third week.
Three former African leaders who make up the African Union Envoy for Ethiopia met with Abiy on Friday.
Former Liberian presidents Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Mozambique Joaquim Chissano, South Africa Kgalema Motlanthe arrived in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa on Thursday to try to help find a solution to the conflict in the northernmost region of the Horn of Africa, Tigray.
Prime Minister Abiy previously expressed his government’s position that he would meet with African Union envoys but will not allow a dialogue with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), whom he described as a “Greedy Board.”
On November 4, Ethiopia launched a massive ‘law enforcement operation’ after TPLF forces stormed the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) Northern Command, killing soldiers and looting military assets.
The operation reached what the government said was its third and final phase after the Ethiopian army encircled the city of Mekele, capital of the Tigray region, and advanced on the city after a 72-hour ultimatum that the leader Ethiopian offered the TPLF leaders to surrender. expired on Thursday.
“During the discussions, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed briefed special envoys on the background of Ethiopia’s rule of law operations currently underway in the Tigray region,” said a statement issued by the prime minister’s office.
It read: “The Prime Minister discussed at length the patience with which his government handled the agenda of provocations and destabilization that the TPLF orchestrated for more than two years.”
More than 41,000 Ethiopians have already fled the military clashes into neighboring Sudan, according to a UNHCR report that also said it expects the number to rise to 200,000.
A report by the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission has already confirmed that more than 600 Ethiopians were ethnically profiled and massacred by the TPLF youth group called “Samri” in the town of Maikadra in western Tigray.
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