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The Nobel Peace Prize winner said: “The council planned to assassinate and kidnap several reformist leaders in the country, including the prime minister himself, according to the official news agency.”
And Abiy Ahmed added that “the reform leaders, including the prime minister himself, were under clear supervision and siege from the rebel front to limit the comprehensive reform underway in Ethiopia.”
He said: “The Tigray People’s Liberation Front Military Council has made great efforts to exterminate, kidnap and intimidate the reformist leaders, adding:” Since the beginning of the reform, an arrest warrant has been issued against us. We were about to be arrested and killed. “
Today, Monday, November 30, the leader of the rebel forces in the Ethiopian region of Tigray said that he “continued to fight in the vicinity of the city of Mekele, the capital of the region, after it fell under the control of Ethiopian forces. “.
Debarsion Gabrmakiel, leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray, told “Reuters” that his forces had captured some Eritrean soldiers who were fighting alongside Ethiopian government forces.
“The government is not interested in responding to the” illusions of a criminal gang, “Pelin Seyoum, spokesman for Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, told the news agency.
There was no immediate comment from the Eritrean government, but it initially denied any role in the more than three-week conflict.
It is difficult to verify the claims of either party due to the lack of telephone and internet communications in the Tigray region, in addition to the severe restrictions on entering the region since the fighting began on November 4.
Ethiopia announced the full control of the federal armed forces over the city of Mekele, the regional capital of the Al-Tigraya region, which it entered on Sunday.
