BY AL MARIAM
PART TWO
Prophet of Doom and Gloom Coons also declared in his op-ed, “Ethiopia is at risk of becoming this generation’s Yugoslavia: a great nation and a regional leader that violently shatters along ethnic lines.”
Coons is either willfully ignorant or maliciously deceitful in overlooking the fact that it is the terrorist TPLF that created apartheid South Africa-style Bantustans called “kilils” and organized Ethiopian society according to strict ethnic, cultural and linguistic lines.
The TPLF’s aims in spreading the propaganda of a balkanizing Ethiopia along “kilil” ethnic lines (“ethnic federalism”) were two-fold: 1) As a “representative” of a minority ethnic group, the TPLF created ethnic enclaves to prevent the Ethiopian people from ever coming together at the national level and stamp out any sense of Ethiopian nationalism. 2) In the event, the TPLF is ousted from power, the kilils will serve as powder kegs of ethnic conflagration and implosion which will allow the terrorist TPLF to sneak back to power.
Coons’ Yugoslav admonition on Ethiopia is nothing new. He merely parrots what the TPLF, the so-called think tanks and other know-nothing Western press-titutes have been braying for years. In January 2019, Foreign Policy pleaded, “Don’t Let Ethiopia Become the Next Yugoslavia.”
In November 18, 2020, two weeks after the terrorist TPLF attacked the Ethiopian Northern Command, Foreign Policy began pushing “Ethiopia is about to become the next Yugoslavia canard (bull****).
In December 2020, Foreign Policy editors posed the question, “Is Ethiopia the Next Yugoslavia?” For decades, TPLF leaders bragged Ethiopia will become another Yugoslavia if they are no longer in power.
In 2005, the late TPLF thug master Meles Zenawi predicted that after his TPLF gets the boot, there will be the equivalent of an “Interahamwe-type Hutu militia which massacred Tutsis in Rwanda”. Zenawi repeated his prediction of ethnic bloodbath time and again. Zenawi’s sidekick and step-and-fetch it, Bereket Simon, went one step further when he predicted, “Strife between different nationalities of Ethiopia might have made the Rwandan genocide look like child’s play.”
TPLF “general” Tsadkan Gebretensaye straight up predicted civil war when the TPLF is ousted from power. TPLF boss Abay Tsehai predicted Ethiopia will be Africa’s 21st century Rwanda. He said things in Ethiopia are getting out of control and Ethiopia and is careening into becoming the next Rwanda.
TPLF boss Seyoum Mesfin, also expected a civil war but believed his TPLF will crush all opposition and remain dominant. In a bizarre interview, Seyoum effectively equated Ethiopians to Nazis and Tigreans to Jews in the Third Reich. The fact of the matter is that before the terrorist TPLF created “ethnic federalism” based on “kilils”, Ethiopia was divided into 12 provinces or governates-general (taklaighizat) and administered centrally without the legal requirement that one be a member of a particular ethnic group to live in a particular “kilil” ultimately creating a consciousness of ethnic insularity and forcing Ethiopians to abandon any sense of national identity.
In point of fact, Coons is clueless about what he is talking about! But Coons is not as dumb as he appears. By talking about Ethiopia as the new Yugoslavia, he is trying to use the credibility of his office and his close association with Biden to create alarm, panic, confusion and hysteria and convince Ethiopians and the world that Ethiopia is going to hell in a hand basket and that the US must intervene militarily and save the day.
On March 2, 2021, Coons tweeted: While the Ethiopian gov’t has taken a few initial steps to open some humanitarian access and communications channels into and within Tigray, much more is needed to improve the operating environment for aid workers, scale up the response and get lifesaving assistance to all who need it.
Coons did not mention a word about terrorist TPLF attacks on humanitarian trucks, use of humanitarian tricks to transport child soldiers and obstruction of deliveries. On March 10, 2021, Coons coordinated with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and for the first time Blinken used the term “ethnic cleansing” to describe human rights abuses he said have been carried out in the “Western Tigray” region of Ethiopia.
On March 17, 2021, Coon’s partner in dismantling Ethiopia, and co-sponsor of S.3199 (“Ethiopia Peace and Stabilization Act”) and indicted criminal, Senator Bob Menendez “called on President Joe Biden to assess whether parties to the conflict in Ethiopia are guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity, or genocide.”
On March 19, 2021, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan announced Biden was sending Coons to “convey the administration’s grave concerns about the humanitarian crisis and human rights abuses in the Tigray region.” The real reason was to deliver an ultimatum to PM Abiy Ahmed that if he does not negotiate with the terrorist TPLF, Ethiopia will face crippling US sanctions.
On March 23, 2021, Politico observed, Coons is Emerging as what some sources called a ‘shadow’ secretary of state for a president beset with foreign-policy challenges. He is a senior member of the Foreign Relations Committee, but it’s highly unusual for a senator who doesn’t chair a panel to travel internationally on the president’s behalf. Truth be told, Coons was Susan Rice’s gofer; (More on that later.)
On April 17, 2021, Coons tweeted, I’m disappointed PM Abiy has not yet fulfilled his commitments to withdraw Eritrean forces, remove obstacles to humanitarian access, and hold perpetrators of human rights abuses accountable. I’m concerned by atrocities continuing to occur across #Ethiopia—inside and outside of Tigray.
On June 9, 2021, Coons tweeted, I look forward to continued work with @SecBlinken to urge the Ethiopian government to fulfill its public commitments, open humanitarian access, and reach a political solution to this conflict.
On October 1, 2021, Coons tweeted I condemn the gov’t of #Ethiopia’s unprecedented decision to expel the leadership of UN agencies providing life-saving aid to millions across the country. The gov’t should focus on advancing peace rather than obstructing the delivery of food, medicine, and other vital supplies.
Coons did not mention the “leadership of the UN Agencies” were caught red-handed meddling in Ethiopia’s internal affairs in flagrant violation of UN rules and policies. On March 29, 2022, the TPLF Support Troika, Coons, Risch and Menendez, threatened to deploy the nuclear option on Ethiopia by passing S. 3199, “Ethiopia Peace and Stabilization Act.” In a statement the Troika declared:
The vote today in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will empower the Senate, if necessary, to move forward and consider the Ethiopia Peace and Stabilization Act on the floor if the progress of recent days does not hold.
On March 29, 2022, Coons under withering criticism and pressure tweeted, If the humanitarian truce and ceasefire is upheld, this bill will not be necessary. I pray it won’t be, and as long as this peace continues, I’ll work to make sure this bill goes no further. However, my colleagues and I must be ready to pass this bill swiftly if fighting resumes. I told Coons what I thought of him and his bill, which is presented in full in this commentary.
Chris Coons, Senator from Delaware
As Coons champions the cause of “human rights” and rides his white horse to save black Africans, what has he done for the people of Delaware? What has he done for African Americans in Delaware? The total population of Delaware in 2020 was 986,809. African Americans represent over 22 percent of the population.
Coons was first elected to the Senate in a 2010 special election. Since taking office Coons has introduced dozens of bills and resolutions in the Senate. The question is how many of them have anything to do with Delaware or the people of Delaware? Coons sponsored/introduced 60 bills/resolutions between 2011-22 on international affairs. Not one of them had anything to do with Delaware or the people of Delaware.
Coons sponsored/introduced 33 bills/resolutions between 2016-22 on commerce. Coons sponsored/introduced 18 bills/resolutions between 2014-2022 on labor and employment. Coons sponsored/introduced 17 bills between 2013-2022 on energy. Coons sponsored/introduced 15 bills between 2011-2021 on health. Not one of them had anything to do with Delaware or the people of Delaware.
Does Coons really represent Delaware, or the people of Delaware in the U.S. Senate? Today, 114,000 Delawareans, mostly African Americans, are “food insecure.” “Food insecurity” is defined as a lack of consistent access to enough food for every person in a household to live an active, healthy life. When “food insecurity” occurs in Africa, Coons, USAID, etc., are quick to call it “starvation” or “famine.”What has Coons done to rescue 114,000 Delawareans from food insecurity? Not a doggone thing!
On March 29, 2022 Coons tweeted:
While I’ve been encouraged by Addis’ announcement of a humanitarian truce and the TPLF’s agreement to a ceasefire last week, I still voted to advance an amended version of the Ethiopia Peace and Stabilization Act to punish parties who continue to fuel the conflict.(Italics added)
Coons is ready and eager to punish “starving” Ethiopians with crippling sanctions than take care of his starving African American constituents. Incredible hypocrisy! It is like the proverbial American commander in the Vietnam War who said, “It was necessary to destroy the village to save it.”
For Coons, it is necessary to destroy Ethiopia with crippling sanctions in order to save it! On May 30, 2020, Coons tweeted “I was proud to march today with fellow Delawareans protesting the killing of George Floyd and the unjust deaths of so many other African Americans. We must demand justice for George Floyd and actions to address structural racism.”
But when Biden signed the toothless and symbolic George Floyd Executive Order, Coons was nowhere to be seen. Coons talks the talk and does the photo ops but does not walk the walk!
Regrettably, an executive order is not worth the paper it is written on. Since assuming office on Jan. 20, Biden has rescinded 31 of Trump’s 220 executive orders. There is no guarantee the next Republican president (guaranteed!) will not rescind many of Biden’s executive orders
Editor’s Note: The views entertained in this article do not necessarily reflect the stance of The Ethiopian Herald
The Ethiopian Herald June 7/2022
