Mahlet Assefa was forced to fight for the TPLF or her families will be penalized. |
ADDIS ABABA, NOVEMBER 30, 2021 — A year ago the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) started a war against Ethiopia to reclaim its lost power. Now its fighters who were captured by Ethiopian forces say the TPLF forces them to fight or else they will face penalties or even executions.
Mahlet Assefa, one of TPLF's fighters caught at the Wollo front, says she and her other two family members were forced to fight in this war. They were told the fight was to free Tigray. If they cannot achieve this, they were no longer considered Tigrayan.
Mahlet said those who refused to join TPLF's deranged plan would be executed in public.
She said her parents were old and have nobody besides them but they were forced to give me away, she says. "If I had not joined, my parents would be penalized with 20,000 ETB and 5 years prison term", said Mahlet.
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed called on, today, all those who have joined the ranks of the TPLF terrorists to surrender and save themselves. He also called on Tigrayan parents to ask themselves where their children have gone.
He said the enemy is defeated and the remaining is to dismantle it. "We are now facing an enemy that steals, rapes. It has no respect for women or even for itself. It has humiliated itself and wants to humiliate others", said the prime minister who is currently leading Ethiopian forces at the battle front in Amhara.He said the enemy has entered the war without any planning but Ethiopia has finished planning and the army is ready.
He called on Tigrayans fighting for the TPLF to distance themselves from the group which he said had no aim and surrender themselves to Ethiopian forces.
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