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Ethiopian intelligence linked suspects to TPLF
borkena
November 4, 2020
The National Intelligence and Information Service (NISS) said Wednesday that it has foiled a plot to unleash inter-ethnic violence in the Gambella region of southwestern Ethiopia.
A NISS statement said, as reported by state media Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation, that it has made about 24 arrests.
NISS claimed that the suspects received a mission from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). The federal government is carrying out a military operation in Tigray starting Tuesday night with the aim of reversing the “attack on the Defense Forces.”
There was a similar attempt in the Benishangul Gumuz region of Ethiopia. It could have happened had it not been for the coordinated security operation between the intelligence department, federal police, and local authorities in the Benishangul region, according to the EC report. The coordinated attacks launched in early September and October in the Benishangul region claimed hundreds of lives and the targets were mostly ethnic Amhara. The federal government linked the horrific attacks in Benishangul to the TPLF.
The NISS announced that it is monitoring other TPLF agents deployed to cause ethnic violence in other regions of Ethiopia.
There is no response from TPLF in regards to the internet shutdown and telephone disconnection after the military operation on Tuesday this week.
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