There seems to be no end in sight to the woes in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. As many as 43 persons were injured from airstrikes and many bodies strewn across the streets. According to the BBC, an eyewitness disclosed that he was hit by a shrapnel and someone he knew died.
Eyewitnesses also report that the airstrikes were initiated by the Ethiopian military, which has been denied in a statement as below
”The army is capable of accurately hitting its targets…It is completely incorrect to claim that it was carried out at a market,” an army spokesperson said. It took out airstrikes to neutralise members of a terrorist group, but not on innocent people.”
Ethiopia just concluded an election described as the first attempt at a free election process that has been largely taken with levity by the international community on grounds that major political parties boycotted the process.
The crackdown on the TPLF in the Tigray region of the country has left many locals displaced and currently battling a controversial famine.