[Ethiopia]
The Guardian: “The prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, said the strikes in multiple locations ‘completely destroyed rockets and other heavy weapons’ belonging to the well-armed regional government and made it impossible for a retaliatory attack.”
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Ethiopia’s air force has carried out strikes in the restive Tigray region, the country’s prime minister has said, in another escalation of a crisis that observers fear could plunge the country into a bitter and bloody civil conflict.
The prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, said the strikes in multiple locations “completely destroyed rockets and other heavy weapons” belonging to the well-armed regional government and made it impossible for a retaliatory attack.
There was no mention of casualties in what Abiy called the “first round of operation” against the region’s government, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front.
He said the air force destroyed heavy weapons in Tigray’s capital, Mekele, and surrounding areas.
The operation in the northernmost of the nine regions of Ethiopia will continue “until the junta is made accountable by law”, Abiy said.
He asserted that the “large-scale law enforcement operation” has “clear, limited and achievable objectives: to restore the rule of law and the constitutional order.”
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