(London 26/22/2020) Arbi Harnet (Freedom Friday) has been receiving confirmation that several Eritrean families are getting news of their wounded family members from the fighting in Tigray.
An Eritrean man living in Europe managed to call his brother who is doing his national service after days of the soldier’s family being worried that he may have been taken to the war font in Tigray.
The wounded soldier told his brother ‘ they put us in Ethiopian uniforms and took us directly to the front-lines without so much as telling us where we were going’. This confirms the news that Eritreans were indeed fighting in Ethiopian uniforms, something that was reported in the early days of the battle.
The solder told of the many casualties that have been suffered and confirmed the fear that there are many casualties ‘the way the battle is fought means there are many casualties and there is no time to rescue them we were completely overwhelmed and being shot at both from the Tigrayan side as well as from our own side’. This confirmed the fear that Eritrean soldiers were being used as cannon fodders for the Ethiopian forces behind them.
The soldier who managed to talk to his brother was wounded just outside Shire and was one of very few survivors.
Others talked about the pressure that even those previously demobilised are facing as everyone has been recalled back to their divisions, one person told his family ‘There is such shortage of soldiers even those previously demobilised because they were unfit are being recalled, soon we will all be back at the front fighting’
The assessment of heavy casualties is supported by the Horn analyst, Rashid Abdi
This information is definitely right, but, what untold is the death of eritrean at war front in tigry.
Before the war,more than 50,000 Ethiopian military uniform sent to Eritrea by cargo.
Abiyi put aside the mission given by his party, EPRDF to solve the issue of border conflict of 2countris, but now retaliation war.
Eritrean military is involved in this war from day one I’m from the border of senafe we called to my grandparents to ask them if they are ok and they told us everything what was happening there plus they said the Eritrean focus is involved in this war but no one gives attention about it we have let’s the world knows that’s essays is involved in this war
Ertirean never lie..This is the tgrian lie..Remeber a mountain called Leby Tigray
This story is totally false and fabricated as part of the propaganda of the TPLF to incriminate and blame Eritrea. The TPLF is losing the war in all fronts and has to find some scapegoats for its defeat. Eritrea is one of the scapegoats. They are using some sell out Eritreans as their instruments and outlets of misinformation and lies. The TPLF leaders thought that they would easily defeat the Oromo dominated government forces but now they are holed up in Makelle and waiting for their final fate (defeat and capture).