December 25 (ESAT News)—A group called Ginbot 7 Popular Force (GPF)
has announced the launching of armed resistance against the TPLF-led
regime that it characterized as oppressive.
The spokesperson of
the group told ESAT that the group has laid the ground work to
collaborate with other armed groups such as the Tigray People’s
Democratic Movement, Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Force, Gambella People
Liberation Movement, and Benishangul Liberation Movement.
Asked
if the new front is linked with Ginbot 7, a political movement led by
Dr. Birhanu Nega, the spokesman declined to comment on this issue.
In
a press release it issued on December 23, the front declared that armed
insurrection has become necessary as the conditions for peaceful
political engagement in Ethiopia are firmly shut by the regime in Addis
Ababa.
“GPF called on the people of Ethiopia to join the
resistance and rise up against the TPLF,” it said. The front also urged
the international community “to refrain from bankrolling the
criminal regime in Ethiopia and demand that donor countries use their
financial leverage to exert pressure on the TPLF regime to stop its
policy of terror that will seriously destabilize an already fragile
situation in the Horn of Africa.”
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