BY MESERET BEHAILU
ADDIS ABABA – A former U.S. diplomat Tibor Nagy and journalist Ann Garrison have registered strong protest over President Joe Biden’s statement on the World Humanitarian Day.
Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, Tibor Nagy has tweeted that: “Unfortunate that President Biden’s statement on World Humanitarian Day limits mention of suffering in Ethiopia’s Northern Conflict to only one region (Tigray state) since other regions have also been victimized. Wording matters!”
Journalist, Contributing Editor Black Agenda Report, Ann Garrison on her part said that, Biden mentions about merely Tigray state instead of discussed Ethiopia on the World Humanitarian Day. It shows that, the Biden administration is clearly biased on standing the sideline of the terrorist TPLF aggression.
As to her, the Biden statement has denied the massive damages of properties in Amhara and Afar states due to terrorist TPLF attack.
It is to be recalled that Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported that, the massacres of hundreds of Ethnic Amhara in Mai-Kadra. It is the worst known episode of violence against innocent civilians in the depending bloodshed in the northern Ethiopia. In this regard, the victimized citizens said: “Militiamen, polices, and the youth drawn from Tigray state attacked us with guns and machetes.” This horrible activity was revealed by Amnesty International on Nov.09. 2020.
The massacre in Mai-Kadra, as confirmed by Amnesty International’s East Africa Researcher, Fisseha Tekle, “hundreds of Amhara laborers were brutally murdered by retreating T-TPLF youth fighters known as Samre.”
Furthermore, the terrorist group has also attacked the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) stationed in Tigray state on Nov.04, 2020. TPLF official, Sekuture Getachew acknowledges “pre-emptive strike” against Ethiopian federal troops in an interview, TPLF official, Sekuture Getachew acknowledges “lightening pre-emptive strike” against Ethiopian federal troops stationed in the Tigray state.
After the terrorist group attacked the northern command forces, invasion had been also carried out on the states of Amhara and Afar while the group has committed crime against humanity such as slaughtering and killing innocent civilians, displacing people, looting and destroying public and private properties in the stated areas.
Cognizant all that in mind, the terrorist group is still preparing for another round of senseless and bloodies war by recruiting child soldiers forcefully and the group always stands anti-peace, instead of drawing important lessons from its past mistakes. So far, neither the Biden Administration nor the westerns afraid to face the reality on the ground what things are happing in Ethiopia.
THE ETHIOPIAN HERALD TUESDAY 23 AUGUST 2022
