Dec. 15, 2013
Finfinne — An Ethiopian police source on Friday told Sudan Tribune that security forces had killed six and captured 12 ” Eritrean trained” Ethiopian rebels.
The source said the rebels had crossed into Ethiopia from Sudan to carry out attacks in the country.
The source who spoke on condition of anonymity said the rebels were members of the Gambella rebel group.
Six of the rebels were killed in a fire exchange with Ethiopian security forces around the Humera town in Northern Tigray region near the Sudanese border. The number of causalities from the government side is not reported.
Police said the rebels were trained and armed by the Eritrean government and sent to Ethiopia on a terror mission with plans to carry out attacks at targeted infrastructure facilities in and around the capital Addis Ababa.
Police added it was interrogating the captured rebels before releasing more details on the rebels.
Since 2010, Ethiopia says it has arrested over 100 Eritrea-trained rebels most members of rebel groups which Eritrea harbors.
Addis Ababa routinely accuses its bitter rival Asmara of sponsoring Ethiopian liberation fronts such as Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) as part of what Ethiopia says is to destabilize nation.
Eritrean officials repeatedly dismiss Ethiopia’s allegations.
Ethiopia and Eritrea fought a bloody war between 1998 and 2000 over border disputes which killed 70,000. Since then the two nations have remained at loggerheads.
Two weeks ago, the Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Front (EPPF) and the Gambella People Liberation Movement had stated that they had both attacked the regime’s forces in the Northern Front.
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