{"id":12589,"date":"2022-12-16T22:54:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T21:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyleaks.com\/?p=12589"},"modified":"2022-12-16T22:54:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T21:54:51","slug":"eritrean-troops-murdered-my-uncle-says-who-director-general-tedros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyleaks.com\/eritrean-troops-murdered-my-uncle-says-who-director-general-tedros\/","title":{"rendered":"Eritrean troops murdered my uncle, says WHO Director-General Tedros"},"content":{"rendered":"
The head of the UN’s public health body has accused Eritrean troops of killing his uncle in Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region.<\/p>\n
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, of the World Health Organization, said he was told more than 50 other people were arbitrarily killed in the same village.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
“I was not in good shape,” admitted the still visibly shaken Ethiopian, whose family hails from Tigray.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Eritrea has so far made no public comments on the accusation, the BBC<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Speaking at Wednesday’s WHO briefing in Geneva on the latest Covid-19 issues, Dr Tedros said: “On Saturday, I was informed that my uncle was murdered by the Eritrean army.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n “I spoke to my mother, and she was really devastated because he was the youngest from their family. And he was almost the same age [as me],” said the 57-year-old WHO director general. He provided no details about the timing of the alleged attack or the location of the village.<\/p>\n ALSO READ:\u00a0Warring forces in Ethiopia\u2019s Tigray war agree to stop fighting<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Dr Tedros also expressed hopes that a ceasefire agreement signed in November between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) “will hold and this madness will stop”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n But Eritrean troops and forces from Ethiopia’s neighbouring Amhara region were not party to the deal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The conflict in Tigray erupted in late 2020 when Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered a military offensive against local forces in the country’s northern region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n He said he did so in response to an attack on a military base housing government troops.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The escalation came after months of feuding between Mr Abiy’s government and leaders of Tigray’s dominant political party.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The fighting devastated the populous country in the Horn of Africa, leaving thousands of people dead with 350,000 others\u00a0living in famine conditions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The head of the UN’s public health body has accused Eritrean troops of killing his uncle in Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, of the World Health Organization, said he was told more […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[1383,34],"coauthors":[25],"class_list":{"0":"post-12589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"category-top-news","9":"tag-tigray","10":"tag-who"},"yoast_head":"\n<\/div>\n