Confessions of surrendering rebel soldiers in Ethiopia reveal surprise

SANAA, Nov. 12 (YPA) -Fighters from Ethiopia’s Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which Addis Ababa considers an “extremist group”, who surrendered to the National Defence Forces, said many members of the special force and state militias were forced to take part in the fighting.

According to the Ethiopian news agency ENA, most of the militants forced to take part in the fighting were between the ages of 17 and 18, and said that many members of the special force and militant militias had been forced by the Popular Front to engage in the war.

They added that most of the TPLF’s leaders sent their children abroad for better education, unlike the young men inside the country who were forced to go to war.

He noted that those who refuse to join the regional special force and militias are mercilessly eliminated.

Earlier, the Ethiopian army revealed details of what it described as the “horrific massacre” of its soldiers in Tigray state, noting that horrific methods had been used during its execution.

General Bacha Debele, who inspected the scene on Tuesday, said that the massacre against the Northern Command was appalling.

He confirmed that TPLF’s forces had used appalling methods to destroy the national army and had held an army ceremony and abducted senior military officers.

E.M