General Tsadkan Gebretensae

Meles prefers to operate by consensus and was shaken by the criticism some of it from close colleagues including Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin and Chief of Staff General Tsadkan Gebretensae...

He was re-elected Chairman and his closest associates remain unchallenged in the Politbureau: Tewolde Woldemariam head of the TPLF's organisational department and now Deputy Chairman; Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin; and the Chief of Staff Major General Tsadkan Gebretensae...

Ironically ARDUF had been trying to talk to Addis Ababa: Muhyadin took part in ARDUF's abortive 1995 discussions with Major General Tsadkan Gebretensae Deputy Minister of Defence...

Still at the apex of the military are the loyalist Tigrayan People's Liberation Front fighters who led the war against Mengistu: former Chief of Staff Tsadkan Gebretensae now Deputy Defence Minister has been promoted to major-general...