How the Defunct TPLF Moved from Economic Sabotage to the Trafficking of Tigray's Youth?

How the Defunct TPLF Moved from Economic Sabotage to the Trafficking of Tigray's Youth argues that the former political wing of the TPLF has evolved from economic destabilization into forced recruitment and trafficking. The report says Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed raised the issue in the final session of Ethiopia’s Fifth House of People’s Representatives, describing a shift from illicit gold trade, foreign-currency manipulation, and economic sabotage toward targeting Tigray’s youth for political survival. It claims he warned that the “worst tragedy” in northern Ethiopia is being inflicted by a criminal faction rather than outsiders. Ahmed told parliament that many young Tigrayans have been forcibly abducted and sold into the conflict in Sudan, where they are dying in a war described as unrelated to them. The article also frames the conflict’s persistence using Ahmed’s “axe and the woodcutter” metaphor and begins attributing its parts to separate actors.