By Wondimu
Mekonnen, UK 03 July 2021
It is to be
recalled that the TPLF who administered Ethiopia for 27 years with gross
violation of human rights. It looted the whole country and moved billions of
dollars abroad. It was removed from power in 2018 through popular uprising. The
USA and UK were the ones who helped them to power in 1981. During the 27 years TPLF’s
administration of Ethiopia under the banner of EPRDF, there were bloodshed
everywhere. The Amharas were branded enemies of the Tigrayan people in their
manifesto and slaughtered and thrown of off the cliffs in thousands. Their
lands were taken away and evicted from ancestral territories. Metekel was taken
away from Gojjam. Tselemt, Welqait, Tegede and Humera were taken away from Gondar. Raya
was taken away from Wollo. Blood shade continued in those regions, but no
single Western power protested about it. They turned blind eyes to the gross
violation of human rights in Ethiopia by the puppets they installed to pillage
the country. Ironically, now when the Amharas regained their rightful ancestral
lands over these areas, western powers lament and call for the withdrawal of
Amhara Special Forces. This really is a double standard. The Amharas are now in
areas where they were brutally evicted thirty years ago. Once TPLF was removed
from powers, Ethiopia started getting the attention of Western powers, thinking
that it is getting away from their grips. The West wanted to keep Ethiopia
underdeveloped living on handouts. The TPLF proved to be their tools to control
the land and the people. TPLF enriched itself by selling vast fertile lands to
the international agro-conglomerate by evicting indigenous people. As
soon as the TPLF lost its grip on power, rather than joining in the reform, its
leaders chose to move back to their Tigray enclave and started preparing to
relaunch attack to regain power in Ethiopia. No amount of pleading, mediation
would make them change their minds. They boasted they had the weapons and human
power to overthrow the Federal Government. They went on to execute their plan
to come back to power by force. They badly gambled and lost.
On the night
of 03/04 November they attacked the Ethiopian National Defence Force and
slaughtered almost 36,000 unsuspecting soldiers in their beds. The Defence Force was stationed there to protect the people of Tigray from a possible
attack by the Eritrean forces, for the last 23 years. The Federal Government of
Ethiopia moved its forces into Tigray to establish law and order. Within just
three weeks, the TPLF attack was halted, some of its leaders surrendered,
others killed in the battle, and few escaped to the ragged mountains of Tigray
to continue guerrilla war. Their Western mentors panicked because they never
expected that would happen. While on the run, the TPLF massacred 600 civilians
in a matter of hours at a small town called Maikadra, bulldozed airfields, blew
up power stations, destroyed bridges, cut of telephone wires, and plunged the
region into darkness. Their spokesperson, Getachew Reda was heard on the video[3]
vowing to continue with the destruction of big infrastructures, particularly
bridges and roads to make the people of Tigray miserable and encourage them to
join the fight. In the meantime, all the
destruction caused by the TPLF had to be blamed on the government, so that the
Western media bought their lies. The so-called Tigray refugees (interestingly
most of these refugees migrated to the Western world by the TPLF itself while
still in power) came out on the streets of cities of the Western World (USA,
UK, and Western Europe) and rolled on the pavements (እምበር ተንከባላይ) claiming “the Ethiopian Government was massacring
Tigrayan people, raping Tigrayan women, starving to death the entire
population”.
Now, there
is a big question. How did these Tigrayans ended up in the UK, USA and Western
Europe? When did they arrive in these countries? They did not arrive in the
last seven months for sure. They came over the last 30 years, while the
government of their liking had been in power. I bet these are bogus asylum
seekers, who ended up here claiming either as Eritreans or just like all of us
claiming to be persecuted by the Government that the TPLF was leading.
Their protest
of mass killing, starvation or rape was totally baseless.. The Government was
pursuing criminals, not the civilians. These pretenders knocked at every MPs’
offices and told them false stories. They enlisted lobbyists like Lord Alton,
Alex de Waal and Kjetil Tronvoll; journalists like Martin like Plaut and William
Davidson to spread their lies and confuse unsuspecting ordinary people of the
Western nations.
Particularly
among the journalists, Martin Plaut did not hide he was lying when it came to
the TPLF. He justified that by saying: “Sometimes I lie. So, what! The end
justifies the means”. In one of his lectures to the TPLF activists he taught
them how to manufacture news[4]. If you don’t believe click on the
link and listen to him.
Here is the latest fake story that is circulating over the last three days on Western media. The TPLF was parading some people claiming they were prisoners of war. Let us see the following three pictures of the same person. He is one of the TPLF fighters.
The young
man wearing the purple towel in the first picture paraded as a prisoner of war
is Daniel Yohannes. He is from Adwa, Tigray. He is a graduate of Welqite
University. The third picture shows him working as a Public Health worker in
Tigray. Now they are parading him as an Ethiopian captured soldier, prisoner of
war for media consumption, while the truth is that he is their own fighter.
That is how news can be manufactured. Thanks to Martin Plaut.
While the activists abroad are busy manufacturing fake news, the defeated TPLF criminals hiding in the mountains and among the people made things difficult for the government to help the people of Tigray to get on with their daily lives. The USA, UK and EU were taken for a ride by the lobbyists in multiplying the fake news without verifying them, simply qualifying them as “unverified reports”. However, the verified news we would have liked the media to have was unacceptable. Their readers are cheated and deceived to know the truth.
The most blatant lie was delivered by the Finnish foreign minister and EU special envoy Pekka Haavisto. He did not blink when he said the authorities in Addis told him: “they are going to wipe out the Tigrayans for 100 years.” What? This was absolutely a hit below the belt. What kind of government leadership would tell a foreigner it would wipe out its own people? May be lost in translation? The reverse was the truth. The Government was doing everything to help the people. 70% of the humanitarian aid in Tigray was supplied by the Ethiopian Government and only 30% was supplied by the international aid organisation. While the government was helping the people, the TPLF was preventing help from reaching them. These facts were deliberately hidden from the ordinary people of the USA, UK, and EU residents. And we were not given a chance to tell the truth.
As per the
account of the Russian and Chinese envoys at the UN Security Council on 3rd
July, the Government of Ethiopia was trying to feed the people, restoring
utilities, and helping to establish peace. However, the rebels were making it
difficult for the people to get the basic needs. It became impossible for the
government as the TPLF supporters were sabotaging everything that would make
life for the civilians easier. The TPLF fighters would wear Ethiopian National
Defence Force uniforms and rape their own women and blame it on the Ethiopian
National Defence Force. Every crime it committed was staged and filmed and
broadcast to the unsuspecting Western Media through Alex De Wall, Martin Plaut
and William Davidson. The only true account came from a Polish-European anthropologist, Dr Natalia Paszkiewicz,
European migrant advocate. She recently told us a horrendous story. The
TPLF fighters raided an Eritrean refugee camp inside Tigray. They ordered 9
Eritrean refugee women to strip to the waist. Nine Eritrean refugee men were
dragged out, ordered to wear Eritrean Defence Force uniform, given curved
knives, and were ordered to cut off the Eritrean women’s breasts, under the
gunpoint while filming. The plan was to show the Westerners how the Eritrean
soldiers were mutilating Tigrayan women’s breasts. Barbarians! One of the men
decided to run off with the knife and other also followed suits in different
directions. All were killed except one lucky escapee to tell the story. Such
staged crimes were happening all over Tigray. The TPLF released 10,000 hardcore
criminals, including those on death row, from jail before it left Mekelle.
Those were going around and robbing the people. That too was blamed on the
government and Eritrean soldiers. The people of Tigray knew the truth.
Moreover, the TPLF fighters inside Tigray would hide among civilians and shoot
at the military, so that the military would shoot back at the people.
Such
sabotages and accusations became too much for the Federal Government to help
the people of Tigray. When shot at from among the civilians, the army could not
shoot back because innocent people might be killed. That was becoming too much
for the Defence Force. The West kept on exerting pressure on the Government of
Ethiopia to stop the fighting, let journalists and aid workers free movement. Therefore,
to meet the demand of the Western powers and to give some breathing space for
the people of Tigray, the Federal Government ordered the National Defence Force
to unilaterally ceasefire and withdraws in an orderly fashion from the region
on 28 June 2021. This gave the TPLF to emerge from its hideouts. This was a
step taken to save the people, not what the Finish minister claimed of wiping
out. Although the gesture came as a surprise to the TPLF, it did not take time for
its leaders that was begging to “stop the war in Tigray” to reject the
ceasefire. They woke up one morning and there was no one to blame any more.
They started boasting to the biased Western media as if they defeated the
Ethiopian National Army.
Two weeks
ago, the TPLF was lamenting, begging the international community to stop
the war in Tigray. The Ethiopian Government stopped the war and moved out its force
out of Tigray. The TPLF changed the tune. Now they singing to fight on, no
ceasefire and would keep on going until they crash the Federal Government of
Ethiopia and overthrow the Eritrean President. It means invitation of Eritrea
once more to get involved in defence of itself, to internationalise the war.
That would allow the USA, UK, and EU countries to get involved in the name of
“Peace Keeping” all over again. As evidenced from Afghanistan, Iraq,
Yugoslavia, Libya, and Syria, the involvement of the Western power would solve
nothing but would worsen the situation.
To obtain permission once more, the USA, UK, and Ireland called UN
Security Council urgent meeting on 03 July. Luckily they failed to get what
they wanted.
This week,
to prevent aid reaching the people of Tigray, the TPLF destroyed the bridge on
Takaze River, the main supply route. Then it put out a plea to the
international community to bring assistance directly by air. Here we go again!
The tactic they used in 1985 is resurfacing. In short, what does that mean?
They did not want the aid to be brought by road as it would be checked by the
Government of Ethiopia. The main reason behind that is to get weapons brought
in by air without any problem to their possession. Well, Ethiopia is a
sovereign state. It has the right to protect its air and land. Therefore, we do
not think that the wishes of TPLF would be granted without violating the
sovereignty of Ethiopia. If anyone attempts to fly over Ethiopian territory
without the permission of the Government, then that is the violation of
International Law and Ethiopia has the right to defend herself. In such
provocation, the Ethiopia Government has the right to ask the support of any
friendly nations, be it a country as small as Eritrea or as giant as Russia.
Expect WWIII! Does anyone remember, actually WWII started in Ethiopia in 1935?
As per news
reaching us from Mekelle, after the TPLF moved back, so many civilians are
getting killed on daily basis. Conseil Africain des Mėdias reported “Renewed
killings and massacres of civilians perpetrated by the TPLF troops have been
reported in the Tigray region barely a day after the announced ceasefire by
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed[1]. In a place
Mohoni, minority Muslims are reported have been slaughtered. Médecins
Sans Frontières reported that the
TPLF looted the food that donors brought to distribute to the people. Now they have no one to blame on.
It appears
that something terrible might have happened to Debretsion Gebremichael, the
TPLF leader. He is nowhere to be seen. Well, we had seen some old pictures
claiming him entering Mekelle recently. However, when showing that old picture
which was taken six months ago, they forgot editing out Tigray TV microphone.
The West is now promoting the CIA man, former General Tsadkan Gebretensae, to
emerge as the new leader. Mark my words. The next victims of TPLF will be
Getachew Redda and Tsadkan Gebretensae. They both are not from the Adwan
Dynasty. They are not even Tigrayans. They belong to the Raya ethnic group.
Their kins were slaughtered by the TPLF in the past to take over the lands. Now
the Rayas are masters of their own destination. Therefore, these two traitors
will not last long within the TPLF.
The western
media are reflections of their own governments. They never give us a space on
their pages to set the score straight when they mislead their readers. Leave
alone, independent writers like this one, even the Ethiopian Embassies are
denied access to defend the position of their government whenever glaring truth
were twisted and falsified. Therefore, we have no options but to use blogs,
websites, and social media to expose the nature of the TPLF, the biased western
media and one-sided crusade by the Western Governments to bring Ethiopia to her
knees.
To conclude,
I would like to refer to history. In 555 BC, our ancestors fought against the
Roman Empire and saved our independence. That was followed by the Ottoman
Empire. Our forefathers fought for 100 years to save what is known today
Ethiopia. In 1886, after the Berlin Conference, when the West divided Africa
among them, our grandparents fought against Italy and defeated and made them
capitulate and pay compensation. From 1935 to 1940, our parents bitterly fought
and defeated the Italians colonialists who came back for revenge. This time,
once more, our country is facing another threat from the Western powers using
internal traitors. Are we not the grand children of Ethiopian patriots? Are we going
to surrender the country that is kept by blood shade of our ancestors? Not a
chance! To start with, God is with us just like yesterday. Our people will
resist united as always. Next, Russia, China, India, and African states (save
the Sudan and Egypt who would like to prevent us from using the Blue Nile
water) would not leave Ethiopia at the mercy of the West. We are not alone.
Hands of Ethiopia!
[1] https://www.conseilafricaindesmedias.com/single-post/tigray-region-at-risk-of-becoming-a-terrorist-base
[1]
https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/Results.aspx?search=Tigray+Liberation+Front&sa.x=47&sa.y=10
[2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8535189.stm
[3] https://youtu.be/bDvakQiurjw
[4]
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10218962002147497&id=1427051338&sfnsn=scwspmo
[5] https://www.conseilafricaindesmedias.com/single-post/tigray-region-at-risk-of-becoming-a-terrorist-base
