Ethiopia’s parliament on Wednesday removed the Tigray Liberation Front from its official list of terrorist groups, an important step in the peace process after a two-year war in the north of the country.
majority vote
“The House of Representatives approved the decision to declassify the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (PFLF) from the list of terrorists by a majority vote,” the parliament said in a Facebook post, adding that the move would strengthen the November 2022 peace agreement between the Tigray Front and the federal government.
American accusations
It comes after a dispute between the United States and Ethiopia as the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday denounced US accusations of war crimes in Tigray, calling it selective as it unfairly allocates responsibility between the parties to the conflict. .
war crimes
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said after his visit to Addis Ababa a few weeks ago that the Ethiopian government and the Tigray and Amhara Liberation Front have committed war crimes throughout the conflict between them.
To this, the African Union mediator reported that the war in the Tigray region had claimed the lives of about 600,000 people, most of whom were civilians.
