{"id":984,"date":"2021-09-05T04:57:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T04:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=984"},"modified":"2021-09-05T04:57:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T04:57:18","slug":"thousands-of-tigray-rebels-killed-military-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=984","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Tigray rebels killed, military claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lead\">\n<p>The Ethiopian military claims it has killed more than 5,600 members of the Tigray rebel forces it is fighting in the north of the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A bloody conflict has been raging since November, but the statement from senior general Bacha Debele gave no timescale for the casualties. Correspondents say they may be from recent battles.<\/p>\n<p>The general said a further 2,300 rebels had been injured, and 2,000 captured.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of civilians face starvation due the conflict, the UN says.<\/p>\n<p>Lt Gen Debele accused the rebel Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front (TPLF) of trying to break up Ethiopia, as the group made incursions into the neighbouring Amhara and Afar regions.<\/p>\n<p>One TPLF division had tried to gain control of Humera on the border between Tigray and Amhara, he said, but had been \u201ccompletely decimated\u201d.<br \/>\nThere has been no response to the claims from the TPLF.<\/p>\n<p>The war began last year after months of feuding between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed\u2019s government and leaders of the TPLF, the main political party in the Tigray region.<\/p>\n<p>The president sent troops to Tigray to overthrow the regional government after accusing the TPLF of being behind several attacks on military camps.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people are thought to have been killed and millions have been forced from their homes, with some fleeing into Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>-Via <strong>BBC<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethiopian military claims it has killed more than 5,600 members of the Tigray rebel forces it is fighting in the north of the country. A bloody conflict has been raging since November, but the statement from senior general Bacha Debele gave no timescale for the casualties. Correspondents say they may be from recent battles. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,177],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-featured"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}