ERITREANS IN BATTLE WITH ETHIOPIAN FORCES
The Eritrean Liberation Front reports that ‘a . pitched pattle took place February 29 at Tagorebba, in western Eritrea, between guerrilla forces and Ethiopian government troops,.
Some 200 Ethiopian soldiers left Haicota in pursuit of a group of Eritrean freedom fighters. The Ethiopians were. caught in an ambush, but maneuvered for an attack from the rear, inflicting 21 casualties (17 dead, 4 wounded), The Ethiopians lost 84 dead and an unknown number of wounded, on
The Eritreans were able to save their wounded but had to leave the dead behind, The Ethiopian government sentenced the bodies to be hanged as an object lesson-to the population. Six were strung up at Agordat, six at Keren, three at Barentu and two at Haicota,
The Eritreans have appealed to the United Nations to intervene. They have a strong legal case, since it was the United Nations that placed them in a federation with Ethiopia but under conditions that were er violated by Hailé Sélassié, [See World Outlook December 13, 1963,