Ethiopia PM Abiy says military will ‘destroy’ Tigray rebels

ADDIS ABABA, 28 November 2021, (TON): Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said his soldiers would "destroy" rebels from the northern Tigray region, in the latest instalment of state media footage purportedly showing him at the war front.

Abiy, winner of the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, said "you are comprehensively destroying the enemy, there is no going back without winning.”

He added "we will win, the enemy is dispersing, there are areas we have to control.”

"Until we destroy the enemy there is no rest."

Abiy announced this week he would start leading operations against the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which once dominated national politics but has been locked in a gruesome war with his government for the past year.

The announcement has spurred new recruitment in Addis Ababa.

The country's most famous distance runner, Haile Gebreselassie, told media “he was determined to sacrifice and stand for Ethiopia".

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