
“Meanwhile, the whereabouts of thousands of arrested Tigrayans is still unknown[6] but it is alleged they have been moved to military camps that have been unlawfully housing an estimated 17,000 Tigrayan members of the ENDF since the outbreak of war in November 2020” (OMNA Tigray: On the Mass Detainment of Tigrayans and Ethnic Discrimination).
Today both by the communication by the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF) and the Ethiopian Press Agency. These articles that is published online is stating that the Tigrayans in the ENDF is either charged with death or life imprisonment for their role in their supposed role in the attack on the Northern Command.
These have all been arrested and detained by the authorities because of their ethnicity and now they are all alleged parts of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). They are all charged with treason and participating in acts of terrorism. Therefore, that is the justification to charge people to death and life imprisonment.
There been unverified reports that in-between 1500-3000 Tigrayan ENDF soldiers or officers have already been extra judicial killed by the authorities. Now, with the recent charges and military court sentencing. We can anticipate that the bloodbath will continue. As these fellow soldiers and officers will die at one point or another. As the articles doesn’t specify how many who are sentenced to death and the amount of people who is getting life imprisonment.
This sort of story shows what the ENDF and the authorities does with the Prisoners of War (PoW). The TDF have delivered and kept them in areas of safety before sending parts of the ENDF soldiers back to the other party. While the ENDF and the authorities are sentencing these people to die. That shows the retaliation and the different methods.
While the state calls the TDF and TPLF terrorists… they still have more honour of the enemy and shows heart with how they are treating the PoW. The TDF could have killed and massacred the ENDF soldiers it captured, but they didn’t and they even returned thousands of them. This shows a significant difference and the morals of the parties in the conflict.
The state is doing this as a punitive act and to retaliate against the Tigrayans. They are doing this now as a show of power. However, they are only showing their injustice and their intent to take anything possibly associated with the TPLF and TDF. While only creating a bloodbath and not acting morally superior.
If the TDF/TPLF did anything similar the government presses would go haywire. However, the they don’t and shown that they are following the codes of war. Which the ENDF doesn’t care about and neither does the state. This is why all of these soldiers and officers has to die. Peace.











