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Ethiopia: Tigray leader rejects surrender ultimatum, says people are 'ready to die' - The Guardian

Ethiopia: Tigray leader rejects surrender ultimatum, says people are 'ready to die' - The Guardian

Ethiopia: Tigray leader rejects surrender ultimatum, says people are 'ready to die' - The Guardian
Nov 24, 2020 1 min, 4 secs

The leader of Ethiopia’s dissident Tigray region has said his people are “ready to die” defending their homeland, rejecting the prime minister’s Sunday night ultimatum that they surrender within 72 hours.

Abiy Ahmed launched a military campaign against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) on 4 November, accusing it of attacking two federal military camps in the northern region, and of defying and seeking to destabilise his government.

The federal army says its forces are within 37 miles (60km) of Mekelle, the Tigracy capital and the seat of the TPLF, ahead of a threatened bombardment of the city of half a million people.

The TPLF’s leader, Debretsion Gebremichael, claimed Abiy was trying to cover for setbacks his army had suffered against Tigrayan forces, and was issuing threats to buy time.

On Tuesday, a spokesman for the Tigray forces said they had “completely destroyed” the army’s 21st mechanised division.

The US called for immediate mediation between the Ethiopian federal government and the TPLF to end “this tragic conflict now”.

The TPLF says it is defending its legitimate rights under Ethiopia’s devolved constitutional system.

With fighting having subsided in the west of Tigray, government officials are seeking to reimpose order in the strategically important town of Humera after ousting TPLF forces early in the war.

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