Thousands killed in Eritrea
ADDIS ABABA, f ebruarx 23 Ethiopia’s military rulers in three weeks of fighting in ment casualties Western military expens in Addis Ababa described the Government figures of guer rilla losses a> inflated and [pointed out that the Ethiopian authorities appeared to be using a similar system of body counting used by the American Army in the Vietnam War. This, thev said, frequently led to inaccurate reporting of the military situation in the field. The broadcast for the first time officially mentioned a guerrilla raid earlier this month in which the secessionists—clad in captured Ethiopian Army uniforms — freed about 1000 political prisoners in Eritrea.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33776, 24 February 1975, Page 15
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