Ethiopian Prime Minister Abi Ahmed today called on Tigray rebels to surrender, assuring government forces that victory was imminent, a week after he himself went to the front to direct operations.
Fighting continues on at least three fronts, one of which is near the town of Debre Sina, 200 kilometers from the capital Addis Ababa.
“The youth of Tigray are falling like leaves. Knowing that they have been defeated, they are ruled by someone who has neither a vision nor a clear plan,” Ahmed said in a video excerpted from state media.
“They should be handed over today to the National Ethiopian Defense Force (ENDF, the Ethiopian army), to the special forces, to the people’s militias,” he added.
This video is the latest to show Abby in a military uniform in the Afar area. This zone has been at the center of violent clashes in recent weeks as fighters from the People’s Liberation Front of Tigray (TPLF) seek to regain control of a strategically important road linking Djibouti to Addis Ababa.
On Sunday, state media reported that the army had regained control of the town of Tsifra.
Abi Ahmed said today that similar successes would follow on the western front in the Amhara region. “The enemy has been defeated. We have achieved an unthinkable victory in one day in the east. Now, in the west, we will repeat this victory,” he added.
Getatsiu Renta, a spokesman for the TPLF, on Monday accused Abby of “comically tragic war games”. Today, he was not available to comment.
The Ethiopian government also protested on Twitter, accusing the platform of blocking accounts critical of the Tigray rebels. “We have reason to believe that Twitter is targeting pro-Ethiopian voices raising awareness (of the world) about the TPLF atrocities and its lies,” said a spokeswoman for the prime minister, Bilene Seymour. “We believe that TPLF supporters have infiltrated Twitter, as they have infiltrated many democratic institutions and businesses, to repeat TPLF rhetoric,” he added.
Bilene Seyum did not specify which “pro-Ethiopian voices” were “silenced”. But neighboring Eritrea, which backed Abi Ahmed in the war, had earlier protested the suspension of the accounts of the New Africa Institute, a self-proclaimed think tank that often echoes the views of the Ethiopian and Eritrean governments.
Asked by Agence France-Presse, a Twitter spokesman said that the accounts of Simon Tesfamariam, the head of the institute, had been deleted for violating the platform’s rules by creating multiple accounts with the same content, and that Twitter was “politically” .
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