As Tigray's new supremo Getachew has formed an alliance with some TPLF allies plus Tadesse and Tsadkan Gebretensae another non-TPLF military strategist dedicated to democratic reforms...
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The Tigray delegation is being led by one of its top generals Tsadkan Gebretensae and spokesman Getachew Reda and were accompanied by Mike Hammer...
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Last week General Tsadkan Gebretensae one of the TDF's top commanders said the war had gone too far for negotiations with Abiy...
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Some in Abiy's government had been predicting a split in the Tigray leadership between regional and TPLF leader Debretsion Gebremichael and TDF commanders led by General Tsadkan Gebretensae...
On 1 August General Tsadkan Gebretensae spelt out the position of the Tigray Defence Forces (TDF) to the BBC: 'All our military activities at this time are governed by two major objectives...
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Just how intractable the position has become was made clear in an interview given by General Tsadkan Gebretensae Commander of the Tigray Defence Forces to the BBC's Julian Marshall in which he spelt out Tigray's conditions for a ceasefire: unfettered access for humanitarian aid which he said was subject to a federal 'blockade' an end to attacks on Tigray civilians in Addis Ababa and the launching of negotiations on the future political structure of Ethiopia...
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By early January General Tsadkan Gebretensae a veteran guerrilla leader and a former Chief of Staff of ENDF retired by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in 2001 had taken charge of strategy...
Military strategists in the TDF such as General Tsadkan Gebretensae who was a commander in the 1999-2000 border war knows well the strengths of the Eritrean forces and the risk of Tigrayan overeach (AC Vol 39 No 18 Brothers at war)...
Tsadkan Gebretensae may be moved to the Ministry of Defence with the northern army commander Major Gen...
Vol 42 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
A leading candidate for Defence Minister is the Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Tsadkan Gebretensae...
