{"id":6709,"date":"2021-08-23T19:25:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T19:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/?p=6709"},"modified":"2021-08-23T19:25:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T19:25:08","slug":"eritrea-rebuffs-us-blackmail-after-sanctions-on-army-chief-over-tigray-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/eritrea-rebuffs-us-blackmail-after-sanctions-on-army-chief-over-tigray-allegations","title":{"rendered":"Eritrea rebuffs US \u2018blackmail\u2019 after sanctions on army chief over Tigray allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Africa-Press-Ethiopia<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Eritrea on Monday angrily rejected US sanctions imposed on its army chief over allegations of widespread rights abuses in Ethiopia\u2019s war-torn Tigray region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cThe government of Eritrea rejects, both in letter and spirit, the utterly baseless allegations and blackmail directed against it,\u201d the Eritrean foreign ministry said in a statement on Twitter.v<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The US Treasury Department earlier Monday announced the sanctions against General Filipos Woldeyohannes, saying forces under his command were responsible for \u201cmassacres, looting, and sexual assaults\u201d in Tigray.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">But the Eritrean foreign ministry described the accusations as \u201cunacceptable\u201d, saying: \u201cThis is not, indeed, the first time for the US Administration to float such baseless smear campaigns against Eritrea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cIn the face of the repetitive and unwarranted accusations, Eritrea cannot remain silent. In the circumstances, Eritrea calls on the US Administration to bring the case to an independent adjudication if it indeed has facts to prove its false allegations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press-Ethiopia Eritrea on Monday angrily rejected US sanctions imposed on its army chief over allegations of widespread rights abuses in Ethiopia\u2019s war-torn Tigray region. \u201cThe government of Eritrea rejects, both in letter and spirit, the utterly baseless allegations and blackmail directed against it,\u201d the Eritrean foreign ministry said in a statement on Twitter.v The US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":6712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[241,382],"class_list":["post-6709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press-ethiopia","tag-us-sanctions-on-ethiopia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - 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