Air raid in Ethiopia: bomb dropped on local market

Residents of the village of Togoga in Tigray province in Ethiopia were injured in an air raid that killed more than 50 people. In addition, about 100 people were injured, and another 33 people are still listed as missing.

The Associated Press was informed about this on condition of anonymity by an official of the health bureau of the Ethiopian province of Tigray.

The wounded, including children, were taken to a medical institution in the city of Mekele, located 60 kilometers from the scene of the tragedy. One of the nurses, who did not give her name out of fear for her life, said that among the victims, who were being transported by the ambulance, there was a two-year-old child wounded in the stomach. Since the road was blocked by soldiers for two hours, he died on the way.

The cause of the tragedy was an aerial bomb dropped from an airplane on a village market. The bombing took place against the backdrop of some of the fiercest fighting in the conflict that began last November. The Ethiopian military, with the support of Eritrea, is trying to suppress the forces of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray, which ruled the province until the government troops entered here in the fall. Then the head of the Ethiopian government, Abiy Ahmed, said that control over the western part of Tigray had been restored.

It is noteworthy that Abiy Ahmed, as the Prime Minister of Ethiopia in 2019, received the Nobel Peace Prize for resolving the long-term conflict with Eritrea. And after receiving the award, the active phase of battles began in the province of Tigray, where various forces and means are used, including combat Aviation... Now the Ethiopian authorities will have to explain why the bomb was dropped on the regular market.

Comments

[yfast]

A Nobel Peace Prize backed by a bomb is always better than a Nobel Peace Prize.

[demo]

A la Barack Obama?

[Reptiloid]

We remembered somehow different laureates - Gorbachev, Barak, Marty Ahtisaari, but we didn't talk about Ethiopian ..... like someone else like that?
In another row, Solzhenitsin, Alexievich.

[Peak]

Quote: Reptiloid

We remembered somehow different laureates --- Gorbachev, Barak

Quote: Reptiloid

In another row, Solzhenitsin, Alexievich.

All of you listed - in one row Judas traitors and murderers ... How did you manage to separate them ?

Alfred is tossing and turning in his coffin ...

[Reptiloid]

Divide? The harm from the writer --- delayed, perhaps for years. And it can still be destroyed, if desired and with firm will. But the harm from these politicians is instant! Death of people, destruction of countries, genocide.

[antivirus]

Now the Ethiopian authorities will have to explain why the bomb was dropped on a conventional

- this is how weapons were sold, illegally.

[Finches]

Why are we surprised by Africa? For the 7th year in a row, civilians have been bombed in one European country, and the entire "civilized" community does not care, but here is Ethiopia! I will not be surprised if Zelensky is given a peace prize or if Poroshenko is remembered about the "peacemaker" ...

[Doccor18]

Unhappy people. The authorities did not share the power, but the people suffer, fight, die ... In this Tygrai, there are already more than three times fewer men than women ... The war continues ...

[APASUS]

Of course, this is a huge tragedy for the country. But in fact, there is very little information about the ongoing confrontation. Who is fighting there and for what. What forces there are taking part in the conflict, except for the local population and the army.

[Reptiloid]

......not enough information....

yes, this is not the first time about Africa. There was also little about tutu and hotsi and not right away,

[prior]

And what should be expected from the leaders of wild warring tribes, armed with modern weapons?
There would be bows and arrows, there would be much fewer casualties, but there would still be.
Civilization is not about them.

[DymOk_v_dYmke]

Quote: prior

Civilization is not about them.

Western "civilization" is against them.
Local African wars are the essence of a war for the right to sell resources to the West for a pittance.

[Alexey RA]

Quote: prior

There would be bows and arrows, there would be much fewer casualties, but there would still be.

That is unlikely. In the conflict between the Tutsis and Hutu, an estimated one million people died. Most of the victims are on account of cold steel.

[rotmistr60]

the Ethiopian authorities have to explainfor what purpose the bomb was dropped on the regular market

Before whom? Before Eritrea or Tigray, or maybe before the UN and the Nobel Committee?

[Doccor18]

Quote: rotmistr60

the Ethiopian authorities have to explainfor what purpose the bomb was dropped on the regular market

Before whom? Before Eritrea or Tigray ...

The Ethiopian military, with the support of Eritrea, is trying to suppress the forces of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray, which ruled the province ...

It is very doubtful that the Eritreans will greatly help the Ethiopians ... To tear off the border region (albeit Christian) from the "empire" is much more logical and practical for a not quite peaceful neighbor ...

[knn54]

- received the Nobel Peace Prize as the premier of Ethiopia in 2019 ...
And after receiving the award, the active phase of the battles in the province began.
That's right, money appeared.
Under the laureate Barack Obama, the Yankees carried out military operations in seven states - in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Pakistan, Syria and Somalia. The first president of the United States, under which the country was continuously at war from start to finish.
It looks like a tradition.

[kamakama]

In general, many people here know about all the partisan movements in all sorts of Africa and Asia? well, for example, who are Boko Haram (an organization banned in the Russian Federation)? Or Polisario?

[Prisoner]

This Nobel Peace Prize has long become a proverb in the tongues due to the fact that this Nobel Commission has become a gathering of persons who are not able to think with their heads or adequately perceive the situation in the world. In short, a company of decrepit prostitutes.

[Alexey RA]

The Ethiopian military, with the support of Eritrea, is trying to suppress the forces of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray, which ruled the province until the government troops entered here in the fall.

Hmmm ... situational alliances never cease to amaze. Back in the early 2000s, the Ethiopians fought to death with the Eritreans - and now they are fighting together against a new enemy.

It is noteworthy that Abiy Ahmed, as the Prime Minister of Ethiopia in 2019, received the Nobel Peace Prize for resolving the long-term conflict with Eritrea.

Duc ... you can't keep up with the latest Nobel Peace Prize winners.