Aljazeera English TV ran a three minute segment with me on 5 August 2021 on the capture of Lalibela, a World Heritage Site in Amhara Region, by the Tigray Defense Forces.
I argued that Lalibela holds little military value for the Tigray Defense Forces. Its capture was probably an effort to put pressure on Amhara militia and Ethiopian National Defense Forces to return to the Tigrayans the World Heritage Site of Aksum in western Tigray in exchange for withdrawing from Lalibela in Amhara Region.
