{"id":4128,"date":"2021-01-02T18:10:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T18:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4128"},"modified":"2021-01-02T18:10:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T18:10:59","slug":"ethiopia-says-its-captured-the-capital-of-its-rebellious-tigray-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4128","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia says it\u2019s captured the capital of its rebellious Tigray region"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“The assault on the city marks the latest clash in a conflict between Ethiopia\u2019s federal government and the TPLF, an Ethiopian political party, that began earlier this month when the TPLF launched what it called a preemptive strike against a federal military facility in Tigray, a region in northern Ethiopia. The federal government claimed the party hoped \u201cto loot<\/a>\u201d the base, and responded to the attack with a full military offensive that is now pushing the country toward a massive humanitarian crisis.”
…
“There have also been widespread reports of atrocities as the conflict continues. According to the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission<\/a>, Tigrayan security forces retreating from Ethiopian federal troops massacred at least 600 civilians from other ethnic groups in early November, and the EHRC says the eventual death toll could be even higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other side of the conflict, refugees in Sudan told the Washington Post<\/a> of a \u201cgenocide against Tigray people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey\u2019re killing people madly,\u201d one refugee said. \u201cWe saw a lot of dead people on the way. We didn\u2019t bring any food or clothes \u2014 we just escaped to save our lives and our children\u2019s lives.\u201d”<\/p>\n\n\n\n


https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/11\/28\/21724049\/ethiopia-captured-tigray-capital-mekele-tplf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The assault on the city marks the latest clash in a conflict between Ethiopia\u2019s federal government and the TPLF, an Ethiopian political party, that began earlier this month when the TPLF launched what it called a preemptive strike against a federal military facility in Tigray, a region in northern Ethiopia. The federal government claimed the party hoped \u201cto loot\u201d the base, and responded to the attack with a full military offensive that is now pushing the country toward a massive humanitarian crisis.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“There have also been widespread reports of atrocities as the conflict continues. According to the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, Tigrayan security forces retreating from Ethiopian federal troops massacred at least 600 civilians from other ethnic groups in early November, and the EHRC says the eventual death toll could be even higher.
\nOn the other side of the conflict, refugees in Sudan told the Washington Post of a \u201cgenocide against Tigray people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re killing people madly,\u201d one refugee said. \u201cWe saw a lot of dead people on the way. We didn\u2019t bring any food or clothes \u2014 we just escaped to save our lives and our children\u2019s lives.\u201d”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,1093,158],"class_list":["post-4128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-ethiopia","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4129,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128\/revisions\/4129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}