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TPLF claims to free 'thousands' of captured Ethiopian, Eritrean troops

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Some of the prisoners of war that the Tigray People’s Liberation Front claimed to have released on October 21, 2022. PHOTO | TIGRAY TV

By  Tesfa-Alem Tekle

Correspondent in Addis Abba, Ethiopia

Nation Media Group

The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) on Friday said it had released 9,400 Eritrean and Ethiopian prisoners of war (POWs) in what they labelled as an amnesty grant.

TheEastAfrican has learnt that, of the total released, 500 of them were women.

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