Asmara (allAfrica.com) – A defecting Ethiopian police officer who arrived here recently said that the Woyanne (Tigray People Liberation Front) regime is stepping up its divisive ploy aimed at instigating conflict among various ethnic groups to prolong its stay in power.
Chief inspector of the south western Jimma federal police, Hussein Osman, stated that the regime is fomenting animosities among the ethnic groups under various guises so as to suppress any opposition of the Ethiopian people. It is particularly committing grave atrocities against members of the Afar ethnic group, he added.
The chief inspector pointed out that a number of TPLF regime soldiers, including high-ranking officials, are abandoning the regime opposing its divisive and racist policy.
Indicating that the budget allocated for the Afar zone is being robbed by the regime’s officials for their own personal interests, the defecting officer explained that members of the ethnic group who raise questions regarding the issue are being subjected to inhumane atrocities.
Hussein Osman who joined the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front in 1978 and rose the ran of officer arrived in Eritrea opposing the TPLF regime’s divisive ethnic policy and the atrocities it commits against the Ethiopian people.