BY MESERET BEHAILU
Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) junta’s over 40 vehicles, six of which open and close through fingerprints, have been captured by Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF). Junta’s group leaders including Getachew Reda were using the cars before running for their lives.
Most of the cars are modern ones. Four of the vehicles are donated from Federal Government aimed at supporting the ongoing activities of preventing the coronavirus pandemic.
Colonel Dejene Tsegaye, Commander of 32th Battalion said in this regard, fifth columnists had attempted to attack the national army when junta’s leaders fled to far flung corners of Tigray state. They could not withstand the crashing blow of the ENDF.
TPLF clique also attempted to hide many private and governmental vehicles in Della district, 60 kilo meter away from Mayechew town. The place has no road infrastructure. However, the junta which was in haste does not realize it has to take precautionary activities. Therefore, after the vehicles were captured by the ENDF when the national army carried out inspection it has got identity cards and passports.
Professor Kindiya Gebrehiwot, Former President of Mekelle University, Haftu Kirose, Mayechew woreda Administration Head, and other Districts Administrators are among those who left their documents in the vehicles when they escaped. The local communities gave a clue that Getachew Reda is among the fugitives that run to Della woreda.
On the other hand, the national army has also driven the cargo vehicles and trucks in to Mayechew town. The TPLF clique had been using these vehicles for different purposes.
Its action shows that the group utilized different mechanisms to meet its devilish objectives of destroying public properties and wrecking down the nation. On the other hand, the vehicles in the picture have different models. Out of this, some of them have back spaces which enable them to carry something. The rest of the vehicles, fully shielded for security purpose, have no back space.
Furthermore, some of the vehicles are very expensive and luxuries. The vehicles were bought deducting money from the modest public resource for junta’s hidden interest. In this perspective, all vehicles were parked on disagreeable and rocky roads. The terrain is difficult to drive on because of the nature of the challenging geographic landscape.
One thing that comes to mind is that the extremist group leaders were forced to drive the vehicles in uncomfortable roads is to evade justice or accountability. They also assumed driving in such landscape is advantageous for them because it creates confusion among people and the government.
The Ethiopian Herald December 12/2020
