Ethiopia - Tigray Peace Treaty EXPLAINED

Alex de Waal explains the peace treaty signed between the Ethiopian government and officials of the Tigray region in the country. Eritrean forces have begun withdrawing from the Tigray region of Ethiopia. It is unclear when the Eritrean troops will completely withdraw to their borders. The withdrawal may ease fears of the Tigray rebel group, which has accused the forces of killing civilians and blocking aid. The presence of Eritrean forces is seen as an obstacle to the enforcement of the peace agreement signed in South Africa in November between Ethiopia's federal government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front.

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Several weeks ago there were two separate I guess treaties signed. The first was in Pretoria, South Africa. the second in Nairobi. The first if my understanding is correct was a cessation of hostilities. and the second was essentially a way of making that permanent in a deal you know political concessions by the Tigrayans in exchange for ostensibly for Aid to come in and keep people from dying of starvation. Give us your assessment of both those agreements and what has taken place in the wake of the signing of those agreements? Well, the immediate background to this is that at the end of August, there was this enormous new offensive mounted by the combined armies of Ethiopia and Eritrea with much many militia as well. And the tigresses in defensive positions were inflicting enormous casualties. and They assumed that the level of casualties that they were inflicting especially on the non-commissioned officers and the junior officers was such that the Ethiopians would give up after a few weeks. didn't happen. 70 days of non-stop fighting and attacks. And the level of fatalities is quite extraordinary. The Ethiopian Chief of Staff himself admitted that his official regular army had lost 136,000 dead in those 10 weeks of fighting. And that and then the fatalities among the militia are probably higher than the fatalities among the Eritreans almost as high. So that is a level of death and destruction actually at the battlefront but I don't think we've seen it since World War II.