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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia Ethiopia said on Sunday that a total of seven high and mid-level officers from the militant Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) were neutralized in a joint military-police operation in its northernmost region of Tigray.
Seven civilian agents who held high positions before the launch of a police operation in the region on 4 November were also captured.
Among them are Abay Woldu, former chairman of the Tigray National Regional Government, Ethiopia’s state news agency said, citing Brigadier General Tesfaye Ayalew, head of the federal army’s deployment department.
Those captured also included two high-ranking army officers who had defected to the TPLF.
On November 3, TPLF forces attacked the Ethiopian National Defense Forces, killing soldiers in their sleep, and looting military equipment, prompting the Ethiopian government to launch a comprehensive police operation.
On November 28, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed declared the military confrontation over after the fall of the regional capital, Mekele, to the federal army. But the tracking of the TPLF operatives who went into hiding has continued.
Yesterday, the operation captured Sibhat Nega, a founding member of the TPLF and a highly influential figure who created a multi-billion dollar business empire for himself and his family during the 27 years leading up to 2018 when the TPLF was in power.
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