Dec. 25 (ESAT News)—A group called Ginbot 7 Popular Force has
announced the launching of armed resistance against the TPLF-led regime
that it characterized as oppressive and tyrannical.
The
spokesperson of the group told ESAT that it has laid the foundation to
collaborate with other armed groups such as the Tigray People’s
Democratic Movement, Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Force, Gambella People
Liberation Movement, Benishangul Liberation Movement.
Asked if
the new front is linked with Ginbot 7, a political movement led by
Birhanu Nega, the spokesman declined to comment on this issue.
In a
press release it issued on December 23, the front declared that armed
insurrection has become necessary as peaceful political engagement in
Ethiopia were shut by the TPLF-led regime.
“GTF called on the
people of Ethiopia to join the resistance and rise up against the TPLF,”
it said. The front also urged the international community “to refrain
from bankrolling the criminal regime in Ethiopia and demand that donor
countries use their financial leverage to exert pressure on the TPLF
regime to stop its policy of terror that will seriously destabilize
an already fragile situation in the Horn of Africa.”
No comments:
Post a Comment