Eritrean rebels claim successful attack
1 August, 2009 | Sudan Tribune
(ADDIS ABABA) – Two Eritrean rebel groups said today they hit sharply
a government camp of an intelligence unit in southern Eritrea town of
Senafe killing 13 military.
"Our Afar fighters along with their RSF counterparts on Tuesday at 7 o’
clock local time have launched a coordinated and simultaneous commando
type operation, in response to ongoing brutal repression and ethnic cleanse
against our Afar people and the Eritrean people in general" Yasin
Mohammed, RSADO’s communication and information department head
told Sudan Tribune on Saturday.
The rebel official said further they captured five government soldiers and
brought them back in to Ethiopia. Further, they reiterated their
commitment to Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War adding they
would hand them over to the UN through the Ethiopian government.
The rebels added they seized 9 Kalashnikov assault rifles, 1 RPG weapon,
1 Heavy Machine Gun, 3 communication phones, and important military
documents.
RSADO and DMLEK opposition groups that represent their respective
Afar and Kunama Ethnic minorities, have long accused president Isayas
Afeworki-led Eritrean government of marginalizing their people and
launching an ethnic cleanse against their people in recent years.
The rebel groups have vowed to jointly continue similar and large scale
attacks against what they refereed as is "the most repressive regime in the
Horn of Africa."
Recently, the Afar movement, RSADO one among a 13 opposition
umbrella group (EDA), has intensified military campaigns against Asmara.
The afar rebels have carried out more than five attacks, in the past six
months, causing significant blow to the government. Last November they
destroyed a military radar system and attacked military camp killing 285
soldiers deep inside Eritrea’s territories.
The Eritrean government is accused of being reason for worst refugee
crisis only next to Somalia in just a few years. Afar with 90% illiteracy
rate, worst infant mortality and life expectancy in the country, have now
produced most refugees to come out of Eritrea, with hundred thousand
fleeing death, malnutrition and kidnapping.
Currently, Some 30,000 Eritrean refugees are being sheltered in Ethiopia,
others in neighboring countries like Djibouti, Yemen, Sudan and Saudi
Arabia.
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Red Sea Afar rebels attack Eritrean military camp
1 August, 2009 | Sudan Tribune
(ADDIS ABABA) – Two Eritrean rebel groups said today they hit sharply
a government camp of an intelligence unit in southern Eritrea town of
Senafe killing 13 military.
- The rebel Forces from Red Sea
Afar Democratic Organization
(RSADO) and Eritrean
Salvation Front (RSF), who
carried out the attack on July
25, believe that the government
agents in this base were
responsible for killing and
capturing of refugee escapees
from the “brutal system”.
"Our Afar fighters along with their RSF counterparts on Tuesday at 7 o’
clock local time have launched a coordinated and simultaneous commando
type operation, in response to ongoing brutal repression and ethnic cleanse
against our Afar people and the Eritrean people in general" Yasin
Mohammed, RSADO’s communication and information department head
told Sudan Tribune on Saturday.
The rebel official said further they captured five government soldiers and
brought them back in to Ethiopia. Further, they reiterated their
commitment to Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War adding they
would hand them over to the UN through the Ethiopian government.
The rebels added they seized 9 Kalashnikov assault rifles, 1 RPG weapon,
1 Heavy Machine Gun, 3 communication phones, and important military
documents.
RSADO and DMLEK opposition groups that represent their respective
Afar and Kunama Ethnic minorities, have long accused president Isayas
Afeworki-led Eritrean government of marginalizing their people and
launching an ethnic cleanse against their people in recent years.
The rebel groups have vowed to jointly continue similar and large scale
attacks against what they refereed as is "the most repressive regime in the
Horn of Africa."
Recently, the Afar movement, RSADO one among a 13 opposition
umbrella group (EDA), has intensified military campaigns against Asmara.
The afar rebels have carried out more than five attacks, in the past six
months, causing significant blow to the government. Last November they
destroyed a military radar system and attacked military camp killing 285
soldiers deep inside Eritrea’s territories.
The Eritrean government is accused of being reason for worst refugee
crisis only next to Somalia in just a few years. Afar with 90% illiteracy
rate, worst infant mortality and life expectancy in the country, have now
produced most refugees to come out of Eritrea, with hundred thousand
fleeing death, malnutrition and kidnapping.
Currently, Some 30,000 Eritrean refugees are being sheltered in Ethiopia,
others in neighboring countries like Djibouti, Yemen, Sudan and Saudi
Arabia.
Courtesy
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Red Sea Afar rebels attack Eritrean military camp
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