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ADDIS ABABA, Nov.17 (Xinhua) – Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Tuesday vowed to end a military operation in the troubled regional state of Tigray in the north of the country.
In a press release, Ahmed said that the government will complete law enforcement activities in the coming days, now that the 3-day amnesty period has expired.
On Saturday, the Ethiopian prime minister made a televised statement calling on the security forces in the Tigray region to surrender to the federal security forces within a period of three days.
“Since the three-day amnesty period has been completed in the next few days, the latest law enforcement activities will be undertaken,” Ahmed said.
The prime minister also praised the security forces of the Tigray region who used the three-day amnesty period to surrender to the federal government security forces.
“The three-day deadline for the special forces and militia from the Tigray region to hand over their hands to the Ethiopian Defense Forces instead of being a tool for the greedy junta has expired,” Ahmed said.
“Those special forces and militias from Tigray who used the three-day period are highly appreciated,” he further said.
Since November 4, the Ethiopian government has been conducting military operations against the TPLF, the ruling party in Ethiopia’s northernmost Tigray region, and now in an official war against the federal government that followed the reported attack by the TPLF. against the northern command of the Ethiopian Defense Force. , a division that has been stationed in the region for more than two decades.
The Ethiopian government has been blaming the TPLF, which was one of the four fronts of the coalition of Ethiopia’s former ruling party, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), for planning various acts of treason in different parts of the country with the general objective of destabilizing the country. East African country.
Three of the four former members of the EPRDF coalition had joined other regional parties last year to establish the Party of Prosperity, as the TPLF refused to join.
The growing differences between the federal government and the TPLF were exacerbated in September this year when the Tigray regional government decided to proceed with the planned regional elections, which the Ethiopian parliament had previously postponed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Final product
