Birgadier General Hailu Gonfa, a senior officer in the Ethiopian military high command, and Colonel Gammachu Ayana, Commander of the 8th Mechanized division joined the OLF. The two defected from the Ethiopian army and joined the Oromo Liberation Front, a member of the Alliance for Freedom and Democracy, in the footsteps of Birgadier Kemal Gelchu, Commander of 18th Division and Colonel Abebe Geresu.
This is another illustration of the fact that the EPRDF's regime's hold on power is getting increasingly fragile. The military was the last institution the regime could rely on to continue to cling to power in the face of rising resistance from the population and the opposition.
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