MEKELE, Ethiopia (Reuters) – An explosion at a cafe in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray killed five people Saturday and wounded 20 others, officials said, blaming the attack on neighboring Eritrea.
“This is an attack by the Eritrean government to deliberately disrupt the upcoming elections,” said Micheal Abraha, Tigray’s administrator.
Ethiopia’s [ruling junta] is scheduled to hold national elections on May 23.
The explosion on a market day in the town of Adi-Daero came only a day after two Eritrean rebel groups said they had killed 11 government soldiers in coordinated attacks on military camps in southern Eritrea.
The two Horn of Africa neighbors have had long running hostilities and tensions simmer along their common border due to a dispute over the frontier.
Relations have been at an impasse since they fought a 1998-2000 war in which at least 70,000 people were killed.
Tigray’s regional president, Tsegay Berhe, said Eritrean agents sneaked into the country and were responsible for the attack.
15 thoughts on “Explosion kills 5 in northern Ethiopian region of Tigray”
If rain does not come in Ethiopia this year, Woyane will blame Shaebia.
the Woyanes are really evil they even kill their own people for money and power!
Why is it always Eritrea the fall guy whenever the Weyane report about some terrorist incident in Ethiopia?
My friends, this is an other phase of Meles’s dramma ahead of election. The only change is the place; they took it to Tigray to show that “if EPRDF is not there, Shabiya is going to threaten you”; belive me this is the clear message that Weyane wants to give to Tigray people at the expense of precious human life; I am so sorry for my innocent brothers and sisters. When they thought that Addis Ababa was threat to their power or when they want to accuse some Oromos as partner of OLF they used to kill people in Taxi and claim that it was done by the enemy. Now, when they start to loss trust on Tigray people, they shifted their direction to the Tigray people. It is pure drama!!!!!
But until when do they gamble with Ethiopian blood? It is shame on them.
R.I.P my friends and my prayers go to the families who lost their beloved ones.
Very laughable. tried and failed Woyane strategy.Stale.a trend that’s going to build up to the doomed election day. blame it on Eritrea. Woyane is a saint. Sad!
Let the show begin in ernest in every region of the country. And with it the downfall of TPLF regime and its junior but equally ruthless crime associates, other EPRDF members, will begin in earnest.
In 2005 Woyannes massacred innocent people in broad day light in Addis Ababa and blamed the unarmed people for inviting their own death, maiming and imprisonment, that was quiet a debacle that showed everyone the true face of Woyannes.
Now they are killing people in Mekelle and blaming Eritrea for their own crimes, time will tell but this looks like a staged massacre to show Woyanne’s masters that they are under threat from Eritrea. These beasts don’t hesitate to sacrifice innocent people to score political points. Now who in their mind thinks that any Eritrean would travel 400 kilometers from the closest border point and kill innocent people in Mekelle then disappear into thin air?
I am sure Woyannes will be able convince their western masters but any sane Ethiopian or Eritrean would only mourn the poor individuals who were sacrificed by the beastly Woyannes and despise the cheap lie that is being trumpeted by Reuters and other western media. This whole sad affair is a staged tragedy designed to legitimize Woyanne rule for 5 more years.
Weyane/EPRDF/MelesZenawi/MichaelAbraha are known for staging massacres and then blaming it on Eritrea.
These people are just downright evil.
Weyane/EPRDF cracktroopers dressed in basic clothes went into that area and killed those 5 people and 20 wounded.
Weyane, during their “struggle for independence” used that strategy of propagandizing a staged massacre.
Weyane/EPRDF has no morality or ethics that explains lots of things on their behaviours and actions. They lie, cheat, steal, kill innocent people, and do the evil deeds of others.
EPRDF is Clearly an ANTI-Ethiopian terrorist group. They are not even a political group..they bring nothing based on politics only on Mass murder and Terrorism is all they USE!
As an Ethiopian, I will not sit by and let this terrorrist Meles zenawi and his terrorist org “eprdf” to continue and kill innocent people.
We ETHIOPIANS have a RIGHT to DEFEND OURSELVES from the EPRDF/MELES ZENAWI Terrorists!
experianced weyane with the second awzen theater
This proves the massacre of innocent Ethiopians in “Hawzen” was orchestrated by Woyane itself to get the support of the Tigray people. I remembered my friend told me woyane intelligence agents made a radio to the Derg intelligence the majority of the TPLF leaders were in Hawzen, and the fascist Derg bombed the market;(
May be this guy condemns Eritrea for the attack after few minutes without any concrete evidence. No doubt that this is their own dirty(EPRDF) game.
Hmm…
How many direct and indirect explosions have this ruthless minority dictator used both before and after assuming power just to fool divided and timid Ethiopians as well as war loving foreign powers who have not an iota of elementary regard or empathy for the wretched Ethiopian people.
Only strong and new unity within diversity AMONG the opposition will remove this entrenched vampire pathological liar from keeping society at the premedieval level of development.
Let us not miss the tricky game what woyane is trying to play. They did this because they want to arrest and kill the real oppositions, not the fake one of course, and blame to the Eritrean government for that. They are clearing a ways so that they can militarize all over Ethiopian, openly kill and intimidate people. It is becoming easy to notice that the Tigray people are increasingly getting to know woyane’s true color. I feel bad to say this, since the Tigray people have been mislead by woyanes’ propaganda, however, welcome to the club: Now until Ethiopian is liberate completely form this blood sucker, gang of woyane, you will be targeted like the lest of us.
Who is to be fooled by ignorant and un-sophisticated weyane leaders like the half comatose drunk Weldeselassie nega A.K.A Sebhat nega,waco Legesse Zenawi A.K.A Meles Zenawi,narrow minded racist #1 sold out Seyum Mesfin that there is no armed uprising against weyane,even though they have committed crimes against so many innocent ethiopians.
Their army have burned ogadeni villages randomly,raped innocent ogadeni young girls,killed thousands of oromos for just being oromos imprisoned thousands of them,suppresed and terorized ethnic amharas and killed those who raise their voices and challenged his brutal tactics …etc.
My point is weyane”s blame of eritrea in all violent reaction to his crimes inside ethiopia is to cover the truth from Ethiopian public, and at the same time to bedevil Eritrea it is like killing to birds with one stone.The truth is Ethiopians are challenging weyane with the language that he understands, that is as weyane insults them,imprisons and kills them they are ready to respond accordingly.
The english version of reporter megazine the solely megazine allowed in addis that is owned by tigrayan in its latest headlines has reported that the rate of armed confrontation betweeen patriot groups which reporter calls them bandits in gonder and its environs has sky rocketed in the last few months, a police officer(weyane”s banda)has been dead and so on.This is aimed to tell the tigrayan”s beware you are at danger and I am your saviour and enforce me weyane”s trush blackmail.
Weyane grandise mentality has driven the group to become like a dog with rabbis that tries to bite everything his leader Meles unrelentsly insults ethiopian public claims that he gave them sugar and freedom.Compares himself with mengistu and says he is the best they can have.For fact the first organization that stood against Mengistu were the E.P.R.P”s and sacrificed dearly until their demise.History can only make by people or masses not individual.
Sooner or later weyane will face justice for his crimes.When it comes for Eritreans we know well weyane diabolic intentions and tactics.Our leaders are aware of it.We know that weyae’s grandiose is not real,it is just a mercenary group that is powered by U.S military hardware and is temporarily.Never had pubic support and will never have it will melt away when the heat is on.
Indeed every one knows that this is the hands of tplf . but the good question is which tplf ? is it the siye camp or the meles camp ? i believe this is the hands of the criminal siye who is desperate to grab power and wedge another round of war with Eritrea. remember Tesfaye Gebreab has told us that the two elephants of dedebit are up to any thing to grab power. to eliminate one another they have used the Ethiopian youths as cannon feeder on Ethio Eritrea war, they have master minded the massacre of hawzien, they have traded their people’s food for arms the list could go on on and on. but what i don’t understand about those modern slaves and criminals of tigray is, they could blow an empty government office or blow any government utilities and still draw the attention they are craving for. and of course they still could blame Sheabia, Eritrea for that. but they always choose and target the un armed poor civilian children, elderly and women.
The track record of shaebia is different than what the bloody woyanie to lecture us about. shaebia never condone and entertain terrorising civilians even on its early age when it was on Eritrean fields and mountains let alone now when it becomes a true government of people. i feel sorry for tigray and the tigrayan people , if all they could show and produce is siye and its alike And meles and its alike. i used the word ” its ” coz i do not consider them humans at all.