The Tigray People’s Freedom Front – which already controlled the government within the northern locale – said it had carried out a pre-emptive strike, when the world’s consideration was centered on the US race, because it accepted that it was almost to be assaulted by government troops. Prime Serve Abiy Ahmed countered by requesting a military operation which finished with the topple of the nearby government, driving the TPLF to withdraw to mountains to battle what it calls “intruders”. The accounts of the troopers highlight ethnic divisions within the Ethiopian military, with a few Tigrayan officers charged of siding with the TPLF. 30 on 3 November, I, and other warriors, gotten content messages from our comrades at the base in Agula town – approximately 30km north-east of the Tigray capital, Mekelle – saying: “We are encompassed. A few of the Tigrayan officers – who had cleared out our camp prior – were with them. We went to the colonel who held the key to the storeroom where our weapons were kept.
He was a Tigrayan, and we suspected he was portion of the arrange to assault us. Most of our passings were caused by the Tigrayan officers who had surrendered to the other side. The fight kept going for approximately 11 hours until twelvenoontwelve when our senior commanders requested us to halt battling, return our weapons to the storeroom, and to go back to our rooms. At around 16:00, we were requested to hand over all our armed force possessions to the TPLF strengths. We were constrained to take off the dead behind.’I gave a wrong name’ The TPLF powers transported us to one of their bases within the town of Abiy Addi, 150km south-west of Adigrat. We had to grant our names, ethnicity and part within the army. The rest of us were told to require off our regalia. There were almost 500 of us in each lorry, and I would say approximately 9,000 troopers in all the lorries. We voyage for hours on back streets until the TPLF uncommon strengths – who were escorting our lorries – dropped us off on the banks of the Tekeze Stream at the border between Tigray and neighboring Amhara state. We are presently in a police station compound within the town. I listened that a few of them passed on on the way, and their bodies were cleared out behind. A few of the officers were already resting. But within the conclusion we concurred on the orders of our seniors, who were Tigrayans. We were kept within the camp until 6 November. The TPLF powers at that point transported us in lorries to a little town, Idaga Hamus, which is around 26km from where we were. It was as in spite of the fact that we were cleared out to pass on in that warm.
