The TPLF has committed another of its atrocious actions and, as ever, children and elderly people are among its victims, Gizachew Muluneh, director general of the state’s communications affairs office, said.

Its criminality is not new, it is part of its destructive nature. That Front has already murdered priests, elderly people, women and defenseless children, without any scruples, in our territory, in Afar and Tigray itself, Muluneh said at a public appearance.

We know that it will soon perpetrate other massacres in the areas where it entered as a bandit, if operations against its cruel belligerence do not start right now, he commented, and urged media to expose the inhuman acts of the Front.

As a result of its maneuvers, from late June to date, up to 700,000 citizens have been displaced from homes in Afar and Amhara, although around five million suffer some affectation, according to government reports.

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