BY ADDISALEM MULAT
As things stand at present, the terrorist TPLF group leaders have come up with a new warfare strategy saying they do not have any problem with the people of Amhara and Afar in covering up the past atrocities they have committed with no ill-consequences in the two states. The far-fetched intrigue is part of the clique’s desperate move to divide the Ethiopian people and alienate the incumbent from its strong base.
But the truth is in the course of its brief stay invasion in the two states, the ragtag group has committed unspeakable crimes with malice aforethought against the people of Amhara and Afar communities.
It is a well-known fact that the criminal enterprise has perpetrated with impunity horrifying summary killings, gang rape, and ransacking that turned the lives of millions of noncombatants residing in Amhara and Afar states into chaos and a living hell.
The sad thing is that regardless of the fact that the criminal enterprise has accomplished inconceivable crimes in the length and breadth of the two states, the low-rated international media outlets, stooges, so-called rights groups, and other actors kept on perplexing the international community with cock-and-bull story making common cause with the criminal gang.
Disgracefully, the inappropriately named human rights organizations and the low-rated international media outlets had been driving fast to level an allegation against the incumbent turning a blind eye to acknowledge the crimes of the criminal organization.
It is evident that at the time when the illegal group ruled Ethiopia with an iron fist for nearly three decades, the country had gone through many twists and turns, highs and lows, peaks and valleys, elevations and depressions, and other things of a similar kind.
Other than that the entire system of the rouge group was reaching the highest pick getting at all hours of the day and night off the track.
With a view to backing the northern part of the country into a corner, turning the lives of civilians into turmoil, creating insecurity, inflicting mayhem, and other evil deeds, the terrorist TPLF group has been coming up with strings of intrigues opening floodgates for misleading information.
Although the incumbent has been going to the ends of the earth to get to the bottom of the problem in an atmosphere of calm from extending an olive branch to declaring a humanitarian truce, the criminal enterprise has continued getting itself engaged in a smear campaign against the positive moves of the country.
Failing to remember health stations, hospitals, schools, higher learning institutions, and other infrastructures that were turned into ashes, the group has been making an effort to mislead the people of Amhara and Afar bringing a wide spectrum of tactics going behind closed curtains into play.
Quite a lot of schools situated in every nook and cranny of the Amhara states have been destroyed as a consequence of the nefarious deeds of the terrorist group that has been working around the clock with its stooges residing at home and abroad.
In is regard, it is imperative to recall the destruction the disgruntled group brought. The mass graves, the rubbles of damaged social infrastructures are a living memory of the criminal acts of the killing squad.
Once a video released by the GETFACTet group stated that in Amhara State, 4,107 schools (3.823 primary and 284 secondary schools) were damaged, accounting for 42 percent. In Afar, 203 schools were damaged (32 percent completely).
Millions of civilians have been displaced from a diverse range of Amhara and Afar regions on the basis of the group’s criminal acts. Apart from that, the criminal enterprise has slaughtered 240 noncombatants encompassing 107 children in its attack conducted in Galicoma area positioned in Afar Region.
For the sake of truth, on the heels of the heinous acts of the terrorist TPLF hundreds of thousands of civilians have been displaced.
In sharp contrast to the current propaganda of TPLF’s mouthpieces and sympathizers of the outlawed clique, the group mercilessly massacred civilians in Amhara during its invasion. Chena-Tekelehaimanot is a stark reminder in this regard.
The organized crime groups executed more than 200 civilians at Chena- Tekelehaimanot village nearby Debat district of the North Gondar Zone, according to testimonies from villagers and government officials.
The henchmen of TPLF slaughtered 120 civilians over two days in a village in Ethiopia’s Amhara region. The killings in a village 10 km (six miles) from the town of Dabat took place on Sept. 1 and 2.
Prior to its invasion, the terrorist organization and its vigilante groups killed ethnic Amharas in Mai Kadra while fleeing.
Members of the gang Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) force were behind the mass massacre in Mai-Kadra town, killing more than 1000 ethnic Amhara people in a prearranged attack. Over 117 burial grounds were uncovered including mass graveyards in different places of the town.
Amharas were massacred in Mai Kadera by TPLF-affiliated forces. After committing such acts of unspeakable barbarity, the perpetrators fled westwards, mingling with the flood of refugees streaming into Sudan.
The massacre was a series of ethnic cleansing and mass murders carried out on 9–10 November 2020 in the town of Mai Kadra. Even though the Mai Kadra massacre is a fresh incident, TPLF’s crimes against the people of Amhara have been ongoing for decades.
Shockingly, a study conducted by collaboration of universities revealed the huge damage TPLF caused in Amhara state.
According to the study, over 288 billion Birr worth of property was damaged out of most of the property owned by farmers. The study also documents close to 1,800 mass killings, 1,782 gang rapes, and 579 tortures committed on civilians. In general, 828, 862 were direct victims. The information was revealed by carrying out field observations and door-to-door interviews with witnesses and victims’ families.
The researchers compiled videos, audio files, photographs, and other necessary information about the findings. The main objective of the study is to expose TPLF’s evil deeds and to aware the people of Ethiopia and the international community of these horrific atrocities.
The report also said over 24,236 people faced human rights abuses, while many others were allegedly kidnapped and their whereabouts are unknown. The war has claimed lives, displaced people from their homes, and left millions in need of food aid.
Similarly, TPLF armed gangs massacred more than 200 Afar including 100 children, women, and elderly sheltered in school and health clinics.
In the present climate, failing to learn from its past blunders the group has recently opened a salvo giving the cold shoulder to the peace deal proposed by the government.
As if its previous crimes are not enough, the unlawful clique is attacking civilians in Amhara and Afar states. To deceive the victims and sow discord among the Ethiopian people, the group is touting that it has no grudge against Amhara and Afar people.
In recent presser, the Ethiopian government is urging the international community to take stiff action against the group to stop its criminal deeds.
Despite the Ethiopian government’s unreserved commitment to keeping the door open for peace until now, the terrorist TPLF clique has continued its Communication Service (GCS) said.
While the readiness of the federal government to talk unconditionally is preserved, it will take action targeting the military forces that are the source of the anti-peace sentiment of the TPLF, GCS’s press release yesterday stated.
Therefore, “We called upon our people living in Tigray state to stay away from the areas where the TPLF military equipment and training facilities are located,” it warned.
Ignoring all of the peace alternatives presented by the government, the terrorist group TPLF armed group continued its recent attacks on the areas that are under the control of the Ethiopian National Defense Force(ENDF), as to the statement.
The statement said that the T-TPLF has continued carrying out a concerted attack on the positions where ENDF has been holding.
“It is known that the Ethiopian government has passed a decision to resolve the problem in the northern part of the country peacefully. Based on this decision, the Government has enacted a unilateral ceasefire. Even knowing that some humanitarian assistance vehicles and aid materials were being diverted for none humanitarian purposes.”
For the sake of the people of Tigray, the Federal Government has been facilitating humanitarian assistance to enter the Tigray Region unhindered. It has proposed a negotiation plan and announced designated Government negotiators. It has declared readiness to discuss any issues at any time, anywhere.
However, the TPLF clique that cannot live without war, is sacrificing the youth of Tigray and undertaking attacks in multiple areas. The government of Ethiopia’s efforts for peace and the sacrifices it has made thus far are well known.
Therefore, the international community must condemn the TPLF for its continued provocation and incitement of violence.
The Ethiopian herald September 1/2022
