#Tigray negotiators Getachew and Tsadkan gave a media interview in Tigrinya on the negotiations tonight. They give the following highlights: 1. The key motive for signing the Cessation of Hostilities agreement was to stop the worsening of the humanitarian crisis in Tigray.
2. While it was necessary to sign the agreement, TDF can and will not disarm unless the security of the people of #Tigray is reliably guaranteed.
3. #Tigray will in any case continue peacefully to pursue the quest to amend the terms of the agreement, specifically those that are unfavourable to the people of Tigray
4. A key threat to the implementation of the peace agreement is the #Eritrean government 5. The #Ethiopian government carries the principle responsibility for the implementation of the agreement, including ensuring that Eritrean forces leave #Tigray
6. #Tigray's interest in Cessation of Hostilities Agreement is not tactical but strategic.
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Very disturbing news from Adigrat #Tigray - according to the Eastern Zone Social Affairs Office there has been a continuing influx of IDPs on a daily basis from the nearby weredas namely Gulomekeda, Zalambessa, Erob, and Ganta-Afeshum .
In addition, it says, there are new arrivals from the central and North Western zones of #Tigray. Some of the IDPs are former returnees to their places of origin and forced to displace again due to the newly erupted armed conflict.
As a result, Adigrat now hosts newly displaced people which accounts up to 142,426 according a latest report of the Eastern zone administration office in Adigrat #Tigray
Full referenced document of the presentation for the European Parliament hearing "#Ethiopia at Crossroad" organised by Members of the European Parliament Michèle Rivasi and Jan-Christoph Oetjen, focusing on beginning of the war. researchgate.net/publication/35…
#Eritrea is a key player in the genesis of the war, in the war itself and in the future of Ethiopia. A confident President Isayas of Eritrea declared on the national Martyrs Day, 20 June 2018, two weeks before the Joint declaration of Peace and Friendship: “Game Over”.
It was Game Over, he said, for the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which he coined the ‘junta’; this coming from a despotic regime that can be described as totalitarian and holds its people in an iron grip of forced labour, forced conscription and slave-like conditions.