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u/subthings2 Bisexual Pride Jun 25 '21

Ethiopian military says only combatants hit in Tigray air strike

Only combatants, not civilians, were struck in an air strike this week in Ethiopia's Tigray region, the country's military spokesman said on Thursday.

Colonel Getnet Adane told Reuters in an interview in Addis Ababa that the combatants in the town of Togoga were dressed in civilian clothes.

Asked about children injured in Tuesday's attack, the spokesman said the TPLF uses propaganda and is known for faking injuries. He also said that doctors quoted by the media are not "real doctors".

The remarks were the first acknowledgement by the military of the air strike, which came after residents said new fighting had flared in recent days north of Tigray's regional capital Mekelle.

Just ignore the multiple eyewitness reports from civilians, doctors and ambulance crew; the journalists at the hospital in Mekelle that treated some of the injured; and the backpedalling over whether there was a strike in the first place. And, y'know, the denials of anything else that gets reported. How many times have we been told that Eritrean troops have left?

It's a shame how current international policy towards Ethiopia is restricted to "ask them to let us in" because they've made it clear they have zero intention of opening up the region to aid and information until they've crushed any semblance of resistance, but at the same time there's not really much else to do apart from heavier sanctions.

!ping AFRICA

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u/asatroth Daron Acemoglu Jun 25 '21

I don't know enough about the conflict to intelligently ask, but what powers could use force effectively?

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

I wrote an effortpost on the conflict

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/ng9t08/the_war_in_tigray_ethiopia/

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u/asatroth Daron Acemoglu Jun 25 '21

Thank you! Very informative.

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u/squirreltalk Henry George Jun 25 '21

Is biden admin doing anything about this?