- TPLF says two members of of its central committee arrested in Addis Ababa
The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) has denied the governing party’s accusation that it was involved in last week’s murder of a popular protest singer – an event which prompted violent protests leaving around 200 people dead.
“It’s a flat-out lie,” Getachew Reda, a spokesman for TPLF – which used to dominate the political scene – told BBC Focus on Africa presenter Bola Mosuro.
The governing party had earlier accused the TPLF and an armed Oromo rebel group of being behind the shooting of Hachalu Hundessa, the BBC wrote.
In related news, TPLF said Friday that two of its senior members had been detained in Addis Ababa following violence last week. The officials from TPLF were seized by security forces in Addis Ababa, a party official told BBC Tigrigna. They include Tewolde Gebretsadik, a member of the party’s central committee, and head of the Addis Ababa office of TPLF and Tesfalem Yihidego, another member of the party’s central committee and director Justice and Legal System Research and Training Institute.
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