TPLF a cause for hostility between Tigray and Amhara, needs attention from the International Community says Ethiopia

Addis Ababa, October 12, 2021 — TPLF’s deliberate destruction of the economic foundations of the people in North Wollo and Gondar of the Amhara region needs to be denounced by the international community says a press release shared this morning by the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In the press release, the Ethiopian Foreign Affairs office said that the TPLF has continued with its dangerous attempt of holding on to political power by subjecting people to fear and want. "The sheer number of people still under a safety net program in Tigray, despite its leadership of the country for the last 27 years, is a demonstration of its utter disregard for the welfare of the people of Tigray", read the press release.

According to reports from the Ethiopian government, reports from the occupied North Wollo and Gondar adjacent areas indicate that the TPLF is intent on devastating the economic lives of many households.

As farmers in occupied territories recently reported, says the press release, the terrorist TPLF soldiers and their co-opted peasant followers are stealing ready harvest. What is even worse is that, says the Ministry, the TPLF soldiers already having consumed the stockpiled food of farmers in occupied areas have destroyed the rest. The terrorist group did not even spare food-aid warehouses and forcibly taking distributed assistance from recipients in these areas. The livelihood of farmers in Ethiopia is highly dependent on livestock for food, farming, and biofuel. Sadly, these also have not been spared from the destructive actions of the TPLF.

The destruction of the lives of people also goes beyond individuals, but communities as a whole. In many places, the group did not spare day care centers, schools and colleges, banks, health centers, hotels, and other institutions. The ongoing Awash Woldia-Hara Gebeya railway project has unfortunately been targeted by this irresponsible group, says the Ministry.

The Ethiopian government fears that these acts of the TPLF will not contribute to the advancement of the people of Tigray but rather foster hostility and resentment between the people of Amhara and Tigray. The atrocities the TPLF has committed and still is committing in Wollo and Gondar could only be explained as a last-ditch attempt to stay politically relevant.

The government of Ethiopia calls upon the international community to give due attention to the plight and needs of the people in north Wollo and Gondar, as part of its repeated request for accelerated provision of humanitarian assistance to those affected by these acts of the TPLF in all the areas currently under occupation.

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