On the Support of some Western Circles to the TPLF
One thing that is as surprising as the swift military defeat of the TPLF is the support that it gets from some Western circles. In light of the TPLF’s abysmal record of human right abuses and the recent numerous atrocities it committed in the wake of its defeat, one would expect that the Western opinion would welcome the victory of federal forces with a sigh of relief. But alas, the expectation waned when officials from some Western governments started to echo the lies of the most ardent supporters of the TPLF of Tigrean and Western origins. Not only did the support ignore the recent extensive destructions and crimes committed by the organization, but it also attributed them to the federal government, even as it is beyond doubt that the TPLF started the confrontation and that no evidence taken on the ground corroborates the charge.
By Belayneh Abate
Tedros Adhanom’s hypocritical preaching about global unity to combat epidemics reminds us the case of the stranger hyena. The stranger hyena traveled to a village where it was not known and preached the villagers (well-known for respecting and accommodating guests) about the importance of laying a sitting mat made from an ox leather for him.
Perhaps, the world is a stranger village for Adhanom, and the world villagers do not know that he has been the high-ranking official of the terrorist Tigre People Liberation Front (TPLF) that worked relentlessly against Ethiopian UNITY and butchered a five- thousand years old country into ethnic slices. As a result of TPLF’s divide, rule, and rob satanic policies, Ethiopia is still engulfed in ethnic conflicts, and children, women and the elderly are dying from ethnic swords more than they are dying from epidemics of COVID-19, malaria, and tuberculosis.
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“The principles of Ubuntu are the original wisdom of all our common ancestors…that the only way they can not only survive, but thrive, is by working together to relate to one another in a way that says: ‘I am, because you are. ”
Mamphela Ramphele, author and physician, South Africa
Dr. Ramphele, a person I came to know at the World Bank, is right. We Ethiopians must embrace our common humanity and our human worth if we wish not only to survive; but to thrive. The current polarized ethnic system will not allow us to do that. If Ethiopians fail to learn from the debilitating and incapacitating ethnic politics of the past four decades, that have cost the Ethiopian people tens of billions of dollars in investments and thousands in human lives, they do not have anyone to blame; but themselves.
The Queen of Sheba Pundits, armchair analysts, paid operatives, compromised journalists and media houses are having a field day blasting and censuring Ethiop