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Newshour: 01/08/2021 20:06 GMT: Senior TDF commander: "We had no choice"

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01/08/2021 20:06 GMT

01/08/2021 20:06 GMT: Senior TDF commander: "We had no choice"

Senior TDF commander: "We had no choice"

BBC World Service - Newshour, Senior TDF commander: "We had no choice"

General Tsadkan Gebretensae of the TDF speaks to Newshour

A senior commander of the Tigray Defence Forces tells Newshour they had no choice but to take the battle to the Ethiopian government

General Tsadkan Gebretensae, a member of the Tigray Defence Forces' Central Command, tells Newshour they had no choice but to take the battle to the Ethiopian government

Also in the programme: a Belarussian athlete is under police protection in Tokyo after Belarus sports officials tried to put her on a plane home against her will; and we hear from the frontline in the western Afghan city of Herat as Taliban forces continue their offensive.



(Image: abandoned ammunition boxes lie on the ground following a battle between the Ethiopian military and Tigray forces along the road between Sheweate Hugum and Yechila in south-central Tigray, Ethiopia, July 10, 2021  / Credit: REUTERS/Giulia Paravic

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