06/11/2020
As more troops mobilized to northern Ethiopia to join ” PM Abiy assures operations have “clear, limited & achievable objectives”
PM Abiy said in his twitter page that the ongoing operations were aimed at restoring “the rule of law & the constitutional order, and to safeguard the rights of Ethiopians to lead a peaceful life wherever they are in the country.”
The Prime Minister’s message came one day after Berhanu Jula, ENDF deputy chief of staff, said Ethiopia was forced to plunge into “unexpected, shameful and aimless war” for which he accused the TPLF of launching an attack against federal forces in Tigray in what he said was “probably the first of its kind in the world.” “The national defense force and the federal government were neither expecting nor prepared to be ambushed” he said, confirming that “our country has entered into a war it didn’t think about.” He accused the TPLF as “a select, radical group” and vowed that the duty of the national defense force was to protect the country from external invasion and internal forces who attempt to defy the constitution.
