{"id":343316,"date":"2021-01-02T01:12:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T06:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=343316"},"modified":"2021-01-02T01:12:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T06:12:11","slug":"suspected-ringleader-of-mai-kadra-massacre-killed-ministry-of-defense-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/343316","title":{"rendered":"Suspected ringleader of Mai-Kadra massacre killed &#8211; Ministry of Defense (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of National Defence Forces of Ethiopia on Friday announced that a ringleader of the recent massacre in Mai Kadra Colonel Yemane Gebremichael and several other military officers of the Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF) were killed.<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference issued on Friday, General Tesfaye Ayalew, Operation Department Head of the Ethiopian Defense Forces said a number of senior military officers and leaders of the TPLF were captured too in a joint law enforcement operation in Tigray region by the national army and federal police. Video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ljpkCEdUz4A\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of National Defence Forces of Ethiopia on Friday announced that a ringleader of the recent massacre in Mai Kadra Colonel Yemane Gebremichael and several other military officers of the Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF) were killed. In a press conference issued on Friday, General Tesfaye Ayalew, Operation Department Head of the Ethiopian Defense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":343320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/MoD.jpg?fit=933%2C547&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1rjm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343316"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343372,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343316\/revisions\/343372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}