THE
SILENCE OF THE TIGRAY LAMBS!
A
Tigrayan child soldier captured at Afar Front
1.
Armed groups that are distinct from the armed forces of a State should not,
under any circumstances, recruit or use in hostilities persons under the age of
18 years.
2.
States Parties shall take all feasible measures to prevent such recruitment and
use, including the adoption of legal measures necessary to prohibit and
criminalize such practices.
UN Article 4: Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the
Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict[1]
By Wondimu Mekonnen, 31 July 2021, England
“JUST EAT ME WITHOUT
A PRETEXT"
An Ethiopian
folklore tale goes as follows:
“A hyena somehow befriended with a donkey. They started a
journey somewhere together. The donkey was eating grasses all her ways, but the
hyena was starving and miserable. They arrived at a freshwater spring and
stopped for a drink. The donkey waited to see where they hyena was going to
drink. She went far below the downstream; from the point where the hyena was and
started drinking for herself. The hyena was furious and started a brawl accusing her of spoiling the clean
water he was drinking. The sarcastic donkey
simply stated: ‘where did you see a river flowing upstream? Just eat me without
a lame excuse.”
WORLD
ALERT
The USA and her Western allies are looking for a pretext
to launch an attack on Ethiopia to save the skin of their puppets called the “Tigrayan
People’s Liberation Front” (TPLF) and dismember Ethiopia like what they had done toYugoslavia. They issued a warning. It didn’t work. They
withheld their aid money. That too did not work. They went to the Security
Council to obtain permission. The Russians and the Chinese blocked them. They seem
to have run out of options. Naked aggression is the only one on the table. Imagine this. What
would the UK have said if some idiots had told them, not to fight the IRA when they went to Ireland to establish rules and orders there, in 1980/1990s? Well, it appears that Ethiopia
does not measure as sovereign state in the eyes of these self-appointed gendarmes
of the world.
Karen
Bass, The United States Congress
member and Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Sub Committee on Africa, said
that she met the Ethiopian Diaspora on Saturday [July 17, 2021], who asked her
why the US had not yet sent its military to resolve the crisis in Ethiopia’s
northern province[2]. Really? Who are those
Ethiopians, if one may ask?
Berhanu (2021)[3]
recently discovered the incestuous relationship between Western Governments and
Western Media. Remember the story of WMD in Iraq? The media was going crazy about
it. Iraq was destroyed by the USA and their allies but there was no WMD in that
country. Remember the story about Libya’s role in the bombing of Pan Am at Lockerbie? The poor Government of Libya attempted
to prove it had nothing to do with the bloody crime in vain. It even cooperated with
the investigation and allowed her national, Abdel
Basset Ali al-Megrahi, to be taken out
of the country to Scotland, tried, charged, and sentenced to life imprisonment.
The Libyan Government had to pay a
huge lump sum of dollars to the families of the victims. That did not spare poor Libya from being reduced to
rubbles by the Western superpowers.
Another blatant warning has just been issued by USA to
the Ethiopian Government. Although the Government had allowed
to use its air and land to reach the people in rebel-held areas of Tigray, the
USA is demanding unchecked supply of whatever they wished to deliver the rebels. USAID Administrator Samantha Power is going
to Ethiopia this week probably to deliver an ultimatum to Prime Minister Abiy
Ahamed. She will also meet leaders of the TPLFand get well entertained in Mekelle. The TPLF had vowed never to lay their arms until they
toppled the Addis Ababa and Asmara "regimes". The world should have condemned
the TPLF on its belligerent actions, but the USA continues to blame the
Government of Ethiopia for any crime committed by the terrorists. They are
attempting to twist the arms of the Ethiopian government to allow them roam as they like on
the air of Sovereign Ethiopia to carry out their plans bringing weapons for the
rebels in the name of aid. They wanted to feed and arm the rebels so that they
would be able to destroy the age-old Ethiopia. Encouraged by the USA’s backing, the TPLF went out of its ethnic enclave and launched an attack on
the neighbouring Afar and Amhara Regions with no Western Media or Governments condemning
their act. Innocent Afars were attacked, and many are being killed. The Afar and
Amhara local militia are gallantly resisting though. They USA is itching to bombard
them like the Serbs.
The TPLF forces attacked this week the convoy of nine
trucks travelling to Tigray through the Afar region[4].
One would have expected the aggression should have been condemned. No one is
saying anything in the West.. However, the USA unashamedly placed the blame on
the Ethiopian Government. From the video of the attack, it was evident the
attackers were communicating in Tigrigna.
The USA seems to be desperate to find a reason to raise
their trigger-happy fingers in Ethiopia. Here is their plan of dismemberment of
Ethiopia. Geopolitics Press (GP) of 27 July 2021 came up with the suggestion on how to control the
media reporting on Ethiopia while the USA is going to carry out its plan of the
breaking up of Ethiopia.
“Information
capacitance is key to any propaganda campaign, and in the Ethiopian
crisis, it involves moderating and
controlling media coverage of the war in Tigray – and armed rebellion in Oromia
– in a way that disadvantages GoE. This managed media coverage is
quite helpful for fusion cells located in Kenya where
they work with anti-Abiy elements in the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) and
National Intelligence Service (NIS) to shape public opinion in favor of supporting TPLF
and Oromo secessionists. This clique
in KDF and NIS has partnered with other national intelligence agencies and
private intelligence firms to train media activists and promote the idea of 2
parallel governments-in-exile – the Oromia
Regional National Transitional Government and the Government
of the National State of Tigray.”[5]
There you go. Where is the UN? Where is the democratic
world? That is why the truth could not be told to the public. The Media and the
Government walk in tandem. They don’t allow independent minded people to have a space in their newspapers, air on
their radios or images on their televisions. Lord have mercy on us!
THE
USA HAD IDENTIFIED ITS NEXT VICTIM
Once the issue of media
control is resolved, now check out the following link. It will reveal how
Ethiopian is going to be under attack, very soon before your glaring eyes.
Have you carefully listened
how Ann Garrison correctly assessed the fate of Ethiopia in the coming few days, weeks or months?
Remember, when the Ethiopian
Government went into the region of Tigray to establish law and order after the rebels
attacked the restive National army? The barrage of reports coming from the
Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, Bloomberg, the Times, BBC, Sky News, CNN, etc.,
about the human rights abuse, killings, rape, … you name it by the Ethiopian and
Eritrean forces was deafening without any evidence. On the contrary, when Maria
Hernandez, a beautiful young Spanish national and two of her colleagues working
for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) were ambushed and killed in cold blood on 24 June by the TPLF[6] not much was said. Was this widely reported?
No! That would have jeopardised the USA’s grand plan of dismemberment of
Ethiopia.
THE
CHILD SOLDIERS
Here comes the juicy part.
The USA could not always cover their backs. On 14 July 2021, The New York Times
published a report by Declan Walsh and Finbarr O’Reilly, unwittingly glamorising the “gallant” children
of Tigray, fighting enthusiastically for the independence of Tigray[7]. What the
two did not realise was the fact that the use of child soldiers is an
international crime against human rights and UN Conversion on the rights of the
child. Ethiopians and friends of Ethiopia immediately downloaded the article and
photos of the children for evidence. Jeff Pearce[8] pointed out that the use of child soldiers by the
TPLF was the violation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the
Child. The US and its Western allies who are
hunting to this day Ugandan Joseph Kony, accused of the use of child soldiers went
“shtum!” about the fact that the TPLF was using children as young as 13 years
old to fight the national defense army. The New York Times has since then been editing and
re-editing, the latest being on 28 July, weeding out texts and photographs
referring to the children. Too late! The cat is already out of the hat.
After reading that disgusting article, Jeff Pearce, wrote:
There
was an immediate rush of back slapping all around. Rashid Abdi called
it “groundbreaking war reporting/journalism.” Simon Marks, who
got kicked out of Ethiopia, suggested, “Give [Declan Walsh’s] thread a read.” To no one’s surprise, Cameron Hudson wrote, “bravo for the
amazing reporting.” The Telegraph’s Will Brown gave it three clap emjois. Journalist
Hasfa Halawa called it “powerful
work.” Journalist
Claire Bolderson called the photos in the article “extraordinary.
And
yes, they are. And some of them are frankly disgusting”.[9]
Picture obtained from: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGkZZssQxHJwffNLFVGfcCPfdnM?projector=1Those children were barely able to carry the guns. The
following video shows petrified child ordered to operate a heavy
artillery gun. The
adult males were laughing and encouraging her to get on with it by saying
“ajuwa! Ajuwa!”, which means “be courageous, be courageous”!
Walsh and O’Reilly might have succeeded in weeding out the narrative
and pictures referring to these children from New York Times pages, but their
dead bodies are littering the farm fields of Afar region, where the TPLF
deployed them to capture the Afar land. “It would take us 10 days to bury them
all.” says an Afar farmer. The children were given drugs and cookies and sent
to fight. Some of them dropped their guns at the first sound of gunshots and
run into villages begging to hide them. Others dropped their guns, raised their
hands up in the air and run to the Ethiopian Defense Forces and the local
militias to surrender. Click on the following link for more details about the
unfortunate children of Tigray.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sULw5tHfjw
You just pity those kids. No single Western Media or aid organisation dared to mention about this tragedy. If that crime was committed by the Ethiopian Government, imagine the barrage of condemnation. All the newspapers would have published pictures of dead bodies of the children lying everywhere. The televisions would bore its audience to death with 24 hours continuous screening videos of these unfortunate children, to steer emotions of the innocent people.
One would ask who is going to stand up for these children? Where is UNICEF? Where is the Red Cross? Where is the Amnesty International? Where is the Human Rights Watch? Where is the United Nations? Well, the western world may hide the crimes of its puppets but it is not going to be hushed under the carpet for a long time. The tax paying kind-hearted citizens of these countries need to know. The voice of the truth may not get a space on their mainstream media but thank God there is the social media.
Once
the TPLF knew it was wrong, initially, its cadres started lying about their
crimes, by saying those children were not fighters but they came out to
celebrate the victory of their elders. With guns? Whatever they said it didn’t
make sense. So, they blatantly started
saying “if they are old enough to be raped, then they should be old enough to
fight.” Is there such a clause in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child?
The children that Finbarr O’Reilly glamorised
in his Instagram were not carrying toys but deadly rifles.
By now some of these children are lying dead. Some of
them are hiding among the locals. Some of them have surrendered and looked
after by the Ethiopian National Defence Force and the Amhara local militias. How
about the trauma and nightmare those spared children had to endure, even after this
conflict is over?
These children are
forcefully snatched from their parents and put at the fighting front with guns.
The Ethiopian Government ordered the National Defense Force to leave the region
to avoid the causalities of these children. The TPLF, who saw the advantage of deploying
child soldiers is still forcing the parents to hand them over and putting
them on firing lines. The world is looking
away for now. But, for how long?
“Those who put arms into the
hands of children instead of food, books and toys commit a crime not only
against the little ones, but against all of humanity. #ChildrenNotSoldiers “
Pope Francis
In
the ideal world that should be what the pontiff had said. Unfortunately, the world
is run by superpowers that may pull the law to punish whom they don’t’ like but look
away when it is broken by one of theirs. Unfair world!
The
lambs of Tigray are silently going to their abattoir. The world media is gagged
by the Superpowers policies in the name of their national interest. Who will
stand up for the silent lambs of Tigray?
This
is not the first time Ethiopia has been let down by the international community. Here is an excerpt from the famous
speech of HIM Haileselassie I, at The League of Nations in 1935, when our
fathers were ignored and side-lined like now, to let Italy overtake our country.
“Apart from the Kingdom of the Lord there is not on this earth any
nation that is superior to any other. Should it happen that a strong Government
finds it may with impunity destroy a weak people, then the hour strikes for
that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all
freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.”
God indeed remembered their judgment. The world plunged into World War Two immediately. Now, God will judge again with regards of the silence of the lambs of Tigray. Unless justice prevails, then expect World War Three.
"From the distance, God
is watching us!"
[1] https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/opaccrc.aspx
[2] https://www.thereporterethiopia.com/article/ethiopian-diaspora-asked-us-military-intervention-tigray-says-congresswoman-bass?__cf_chl_managed_tk__=pmd_ed5f37562395bb70b31d33e53379094f717ebfec-1627622923-0-gqNtZGzNAyKjcnBszQi6
[3] https://www.eurasiareview.com/06072021-incestuous-relationship-between-western-politics-and-western-media-case-of-ethiopian-conflict-oped/
[4] https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ethiopias-tigray-forces-enter-neighbouring-afar-region-afar-says-2021-07-19/
[5] https://www.geopolitics.press/from-basma-to-ethiopia-how-c2fc-is-using-lethal-journalism-to-conduct-information-warfare-and-lawfare-against-ethiopia/
[6] https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/news-stories/news/ethiopia-msf-demands-investigation-killing-three-staff-members-tigray#:~:text=The%20MSF%20team%20members%20killed,a%20clearly%20marked%20MSF%20vehicle.
[7] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/11/world/africa/tigray-guerrilla-fighers-ethiopia-army.html
[8] https://jeffpearce.medium.com/ethiopia-the-tplfs-sacrificial-lambs-e7b069747fdc
[9] https://jeffpearce.medium.com/ethiopia-the-tplfs-sacrificial-lambs-e7b069747fdc
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ReplyDeleteTPLF is evil. It is making the mothers of Tigray childlessness. It is an askari of foreign forces that plunged Ethiopia into bloodshed. TPLF is a child killer. Mini Nazis. You will soon pay dearly for what you did to Ethiopia for the last 30 days. Die!
DeleteI meant 30 years.
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