BY MENGISTEAB TESHOME
A conventional political party could develop a program that could improve the livelihood of communities and sells ideas for the communities to buy. If elected it will work to establish a fair system of governance and ensure justice and democracy. But the myopic ones will not follow the conventional lane because they are consumed by hate and always label them as the only solutions to all issues. If they could come to power, they think the game is over.
A political party with healthy collection of members gives due attentions to humanity and ready to pay all sacrifices to all mankind regardless of color, ethnicity, religious background, among others.
When we come to TPLF manifesto it labels its self as representative of a special ethnic group and powerful one and develops a manifesto labeling Amhara ethnic group as historical enemy of the people of Tigray, which is unrealistic and baseless, a people could not be the enemy of other people.
It framed this manifesto because of the ill minds of its callous members and in plan to use it for its divide and rule tactic and finally secession from Ethiopia.
The enemy of Tigray people is TPLF itself rather than Amhara, Oromo or other ethnic groups. In my view, politics is the world that emerges between us-the world emerges through our interaction with each other or through the ways that our individual actions and perspectives are aggregated into activities.
TPLF is doing the opposite as it remained sticking to its half century old manifesto, that could contradict with the 21st century realities.
I had read, the US Department of Homeland Security in its own Policy Memorandum dated June 15, 2014, stated, “The TPLF qualifies as a Tier III terrorist organization under INA section 212 on the basis of its violent activities before it became part of the ruling coalition and the government of Ethiopia in May 1991.
Today, this same organization has continued its atrocities in various parts of Ethiopia because its inherent behavior of terrorism, that why I am saying TPLF has myopic nature from the inception.
It has assassinated, abducted, wounded members of the Tigray Provisional Administration and looted their properties. Their family members were out last week in Addis to share their pain as it’s not issues most pay attention to. But these are civil servants who took the risk to serve the people of Tigray.
It continues to aggressively terrorize people in the Amhara and Afar regions, entering through obscure routes. They have displaced more than 300,000 people in both regions as a result of their belligerent encroachment They have orchestrated economic sabotage through their operatives in the capital, hoarding iron estimated by the Federal Police to be worth Birr 5 billion.
They continue using their operatives abroad to disseminate false propaganda online attempting to incite fear about the country while influencing ill-informed policymakers with a distorted narrative.
The international community should wake up and see this organization for what it is trying to do against humanity and values of human kind.
In my view a terrorist organization that has hijacked the well-being of the people of Tigray as a means to its vicious goals should be accountable. If truly TPLF was for the people of Tigray, then the millions of Tigrayans it kept suspended for 27 years in food handouts while it overfed itself would not have continued being safety net recipients.
TPLF is myopic because though, most governments in Africa, seeing the political mobilization of ethnicity as a threat, have rejected the use of ethnic differences as an explicit basis for political representation. The one prominent exception is Ethiopia, which since 1991 has imposed a system of ethnic-based federalism that offers each ethnic group the right of ‘self-determination’. This book provides a detailed empirical study of this system at work in the complex multiethnic environment of southern Ethiopia. It finds that ethnic self-rule, in combination with the power politics of an authoritarian regime, has produced both intended and unintended outcomes. While arguably easing large-scale ethnic conflicts, it has led to ‘ethnicisation’ of local socioeconomic disputes and to sharper inter-ethnic and intra-ethnic divides, often to the disadvantage of historically marginalized groups.
I do believe there had been many inconvenience in our nation building as same time hold many had been facing hard times because of ill treatments of one which had been operating the upper ladder of governance of the past history of Ethiopia. I do believe also addressing them in more constructive and acknowledgement the pain the grief must be well managed, but extreme elites had amplified in wrong ways try to organize secessionist political party.
TPLF undermined all the values of the people of Ethiopia and history of Ethiopia and worked erroneously to create weak institutions in its 27 tenure in power.
Countries have faced various hard times in nation building process, they are using is for more constructive and productive way other than TPLF.
Finally, the world should know TPLF is criminal and terrorist and attacked own Ethiopian Northern National Defense Force, and breached the constitution.
Doing so the party thought Ethiopia will be dismembers but thanks to the brave Ethiopians the night mare of TPLF remained empty.
Finally, the federal government should keep on exposing the crimes committed by the myopic TPLF and safeguard the territorial sovereignty of the country and the integrity of the country’s borders. At the same time strengthen in upholding the rule of law together with its international obligations.
Editor’s Note: The views entertained in this article do not necessarily reflect the stance of The Ethiopian Herald
The Ethiopian Herald August 29/2021
