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TPLF may stage-manage “terrorist” attack, intelligence sources warn
ESAT News (August 18, 2016)
By Engidu Woldie
Sources close to ESAT disclosed that the TPLF regime in Ethiopia is
planning to carry out deadly attacks that mimics the work of
terrorists in cities across the nation and use that as an excuse to
squash the growing popular resistance against the regime in the name
of fighting Al Shabaab terrorists.
The sources said the TPLF intelligence and security has selected five
locations – Adama, Dire Dawa, Gondar, Bahir Dar and Shashemene – to
target public places and higher institutions of learning. The plan was
to use Somali speaking individuals from the Ethiopian Somali region to
carry out attacks at the selected locations, according to the sources.
The sources also said the regime hopes to garner support from Western
allies posing as a regional peacekeeper and fighter of terrorism in
the Horn of Africa.
Last year there were a number of explosions at colleges in the Oromo
region during ongoing protests in the region and at the Grand Anwar
Mosque in Addis Ababa as the Ethiopian Muslims staged a protest rally.
The government had blamed what it called terrorist elements but failed
to corroborate its claims. A bomb blast in the Bole area of the
capital killed two in 2013. In 2011 the regime said it had foiled a
planned bomb attack by Eritrea at the African Union Summit in Addis
Ababa.
Its past records show that the Ethiopian regime has a habit of using
deadly tricks of throwing grenades at public gatherings and
institutions and put the blame on resistance groups and neighboring
Eritrea, in a futile scheme to get them labeled terrorists.
Regarding the 2006 explosion in Addis, the Wikileaks Ethiopia file
exposed the diplomatic cable from the US Embassy in Addis reported
that “The GoE announced that the bombs went off while being assembled,
and that the three dead were terrorists from the outlawed Oromo
Liberation Front (OLF) with links to the Oromo National Congress
(ONC). An embassy source, as well as clandestine reporting, suggests
that the bombing may have in fact been the work of GoE security
forces.”
The regime at the time reported that “the bombs were part of a
coordinated terror attack by the OLF and Sha’abiya (Eritrea) aimed at
disrupting democratic development,” according to the cable.
The cable published by the Wikileaks at the time quoted Dr. Merara
Gudina as saying that “the deceased had not died while constructing a
bomb, but rather at the hands of GoE cadres. Dr. Merera said that the
men had been picked up by police a week prior, kept in detention and
tortured. He said police then left the men in a house and detonated
explosives nearby, killing 3 of them.”
Not coincidentally, political observers believe, the
Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) issued a report on
Monday warning that terrorist attacks from Al Shabaab were not just
confined to Somalia but also threatens neighboring countries.
It should be noted that the regime in Ethiopia is a leading member of
the regional body, IGAD and the Security Sector Program that launched
the 53 page report is led by Ethiopian regime officials.
It remains to be seen if the regime, which is hit hard by ongoing
public resistance all across the nation calling for its demise, would
once again use its deadly trickeries knowing that its deceits in the
past were exposed widely.
Received on Fri Aug 19 2016 - 06:33:43 EDT