Recent atrocities in Amhara and Afar states have laid bare the terrorist TPLF group’s brutal nature and explained the intrigues of some humanitarian aid organizations and western nations behind their crocodile tears over the humanitarian situation in Ethiopia.
Notwithstanding the fact that some international humanitarian agencies with sinister schemata have been pointing their finger at the central government, the little do agencies have been condoning the gruesome atrocities committed by the terrorist TPLF in Amhara and Afar states.
Albeit the terrorist TPLF group massacred thousands of civilians, displaced millions, and destroyed properties of civilians’ residing in Afar and Amhara states, the UN has failed to condemn the evil acts. Despondently, instead of taking the bull by the horns, the UN prefers giving the cold shoulder to various atrocities perpetrated by the dying clique.
After a heavy defeats of the terrorist TPLF group, Dessie and Kombolcha and dozens of towns were freed by Ethiopian Defence Forces. However, a sign of destruction is fresh with mass graves uncovered and looted and destroyed hospitals and warehouses standing empty.
The wanton destruction of Dessie Hospital in Amhara region glaringly testifies that TPLF cruelty has no limits. Razing to the ground a Hospital? This is the most unforgivable crime. We shall remember not only the wicked acts of TPLF but also the deafening silence of WHO. While the UN Spokesperson has to follow his briefing notes-WFP, we expect facts to be told straightforward and without evasion. Indeed warehouses in Kombolcha were deliberately ransacked and looted by the TPLF criminal marauders. But accusing the locals is incriminating the victims! twitted Taye Atseke-Selassie, Amabssdor and Permanent Ethiopian Representiative to the UN.
Even though the terrorist TPLF group soldiers engaged in looting humanitarian aids warehouses situated in various parts of the northern part of the country, the UN turned a deaf ear to the unfolding reality. As the United Nations does not want to take sides with the truth, it has continued joining hands with the terrorist TPLF group.
In his briefing, the UN Secretary-General Spokesperson Stephane Dujjaric disclosed that large quantities of humanitarian food supplies – including nutritional items for malnourished children were stolen and looted in Kombolcha town of the Amhara State.
“The small-scale theft of food escalated into mass looting of warehouses across Kombolcha in recent days, reportedly by elements of the Tigrayan forces.
Though Dujjaric did not mention the exact amount of food taken, sources close to the matter and eyewitnesses who preferred anonymity indicated there were around five million quintals of food from the WFP.
Following massive criticism from the government of Ethiopia, Ethiopians in the Diaspora, and other key entities over the UN laxity, the UN Ethiopia announced that none of the 149 trucks in the convoy that reached Mekelle returned.
Be that as it may, regarding the current humanitarian situation in Ethiopia, Mitiku Kassa, Commissioner for the National Disaster Risk Management Commission of Ethiopia (NDRMC), and Dr. Catherine Sozi, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Ethiopia held a joint press conference on December 9th, 2021, according to information obtained from MoFA.
Commissioner for the National Disaster Risk Management Commission of Ethiopia (NDRMC) Mitiku Kassa said, “The UN has failed to squarely condemn the destructive acts of the TPLF that exacerbated the dire humanitarian situation in all of the affected areas. The UN should also openly condemn the TPLF for using food as a weapon of war in the Amhara region by blocking aid supply from people who are under the Safety Net Program.”
The Commissioner also called on the UN to cooperate with the government of Ethiopia in supporting more than 8 million food-insecure people because of the invasions of the TPLF in the Amhara and Afar regions.
Mitiku questioned the UN for being reluctant to denounce the TPLF for hijacking more than 1000 aid trucks. He also questioned the UN’s silence over the 203 unreturned trucks that entered the Tigray region last month, since November 23, 2021.
In a previous interview with The Ethiopian Herald, Mukerem Miftah (Ph.D.), Policy Study Lecturer at Ethiopian Civil Service University said that the UN’s stance regarding Ethiopia’s law enforcement operation is biased towards the terrorist TPLF and it does not take into account the reality on the ground.
There is much evidence to support this. The United Nations was established to maintain international peace and security, promote the well-being of the peoples of the world, and international cooperation to these ends. It is difficult to say that the UN, since its inception, has been serving countries of the world fairly and impartially with a global structure.
Since the 1990s, conflicts have erupted in Bosnia, Kashmir, Rwanda, Palestine, and elsewhere. As a result of these conflicts, large numbers of people around the world have died. But the UN has done nothing to stop these conflicts and save lives other than issuing statements. The UN has not been successful in the past in promoting world peace and stability.
The organization has problems in making the stance of a few influential countries the right political decision and stance of the world. Foreign powers are exerting undue pressure on the current Ethiopian government because of its commitment to protecting Ethiopia’s national interest, unlike the previous TPLF-led EPRDF government.
It is worth recalling that the UN Refugees Agency in Sudan provided members of the terrorist TPLF group with a diverse range of training and multiple cards intending to accelerate Ethiopians agony. To everyone’s dismay, the group has been buttressed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as a camouflage for their unembellished crime claiming to be displaced persons.
It was to be recalled that the expelled UN members were found diverting humanitarian assistance, repositioning communication apparatus to the rough TPLF group, encroaching security arrangements, disseminating fictitious stories, politicizing humanitarian assistance, and other things of a similar kind.
A UK-based Ethiopian Diaspora, Ermias Kebede (Ph.D.) stated that Western media’s reports about the condition of Ethiopian women and children sheltered in Sudanese refugee camps aimed to execute a certain political agenda rather than to lure humanitarian intervention. “The outlets deliberately snub many young members and associates of the TPLF who massacred ethnic Amharas in Maikada sheltered in the camps.”
Noting TPLF associates went to Sudan to try to attack the Ethiopian National Defense Forces, Ermias emphasized that the international media amplified the refugee crisis for political operatives. “This is a very important part of the conflict. This was used by the media and Western politicians to justify their attacks against the Ethiopian and Eritrean governments.”
BY ADDISALEM MULAT
THE ETHIOPIAN HERALD DECEMBER 14/2021
