
BY ALMARIAM
PART TWO
The TPLF Hyenas forcibly recruited child soldiers. They conscripting and deploying child soldiers at this very moment!
On January 5, 2007, Tamil Tigers terrorists set off explosions that killed 6 people and injured at least 30 in the Sri Lankan capital of Columbo.
ON September 16, 2006, the TPLF Hyenas planted 3 bombs that went off in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa and publicly blamed Eritrea and other opposition groups.
Beginning in February 2009, the Tamil Tigers, “in spite of the futility of their military situation, not only refused to surrender, but also continued to prevent civilians from leaving combat areas ensuring their continued presence as a human buffer.”
Beginning in December 2021, the TPLF has been using child soldiers as human shields. In August 2022, TPLF Hyenas issued orders to shoot their own retreating troops.
The Sri Lankan defense forces defeated the Tamil Tigers in 2009 and rid their country of a malignant cancer once and for all bringing peace to their people.
The Ethiopian defense forces shall soon defeat the TPLF Hyenas and rid their country of a malignant cancer and bring peace to their people.
Kaari Betty Murungi (Kenya)
Betty Murungi is the chairperson of the Ratner hit team. Murungi replaced former International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda who resigned on June 22, 2021, four months after the Ratner hit team was established. Murungi has long been a longtime apostle, cheerleader and defender of the terrorist TPLF.
On April 2, 2021, when Murungi tweeted, “If there was a time for application of R2P in Tigray, the time is now,” she was advocating for humanitarian military intervention.
“R2P” is an acronym for “responsibility to protect” by international community in cases of mass atrocity crimes of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.
(Interestingly, Murungi deleted her Twitter account to destroy all trace of her tweets advocating for the terrorist TPLF, but her efforts were not entirely successful.)
Murungi got her chance to put her wishes into effect on June 22, 2021, when she replaced Fantou Bensouda as chairperson of the ICHREE.
Murungi was handpicked for the job by the president of the Human Rights Council because she had a solid track record of supporting the terrorist TPLF.
What is so shocking to the reasonable mind is that the president of the HRC did not even bother to do the MINIMAL DUE DILIGENCE to screen Murungi for simple things like bias, conflict of interest, appearance of impartiality, neutrality, etc.
Indeed, it is highly likely Murungi was selected precisely because she can be trusted to deliver a body blow to Ethiopia on behalf of the terrorist TPLF come what may. “R2P! Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!” In the end, Murungi torpedoed the UN Human Rights Council with her blatant partisan support for terrorist TPLF.
Murungi had been on the Council for less than three months when the ICHREE report on Ethiopia was issued. It is interesting that Murungi has a history of sabotaging human rights investigations.
Between 2009 and 2010, Murungi served as Vice Chairperson and Commissioner of the Kenya Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission in her own country Kenya.
That Commission was established after Kenya’s 2007 Presidential election which sparked violent clashes over electoral fraud allegations. In that violence, nearly 1,500 people were killed and almost 300,000 were forced to flee their homes.
Following the violence, a power-sharing coalition government was established which authorized the creation of a Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC).
The mandate of the TJRC was “to investigate and recommend appropriate action on “human rights abuses” committed between December 12, 1963 and February 28, 2008.” The TJRC was also tasked to establish as complete a picture as possible of the causes, nature and extent of the post-election violence.
As Vice Chairperson and Commissioner of the Kenya Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission, Murungi proved to be divisive and ineffective.
Murungi resigned claiming she “was unable to continue given the public position I have expressed with regards to matters facing the Commission’s Chair.”
Murungi said she was resigning because the Commission’s Chair was “unfit to hold such an office due to his past record as a senior government official.”
However, the hypocrite Murungi did not refuse to accept nor offer to resign after her PAST RECORD showed she is a dyed-in-the-wool terrorist TPLF supporter!
So, what happened to the TJRC?
In its 2013, the TJRC reported, among many other things:
1) Between 1963 and 1978, the government of President Jomo Kenyatta was responsible for numerous gross violations of human rights including killings, torture, and collective punishment, denial of basic needs and arbitrary detention of political opponents and activists;
2) Between 1978 and 2002, the government of President Daniel Moi was responsible for numerous gross violations of human rights including unlawful detentions, widespread torture and ill-treatment of political opponents;
3) Between 2002 and 2008, the government of President Mwai Kibaki was responsible for numerous gross violations of human rights, including unlawful detentions.
4) Security operations in Northern Kenya were accompanied by systematic and widespread torture, rape and sexual violence against girls and women.
In spring 2009, the Kenyan Parliament turned down a Constitutional Amendment Bill for a Special Tribunal for post-election violence.
On March 31, 2010, the International Criminal Court (ICC) opened an investigation into the post-election violence.
Six individuals, including the deputy prime minister, an ex-minister, and an ex-police chief were ordered to appear before the Court in The Hague.
Ironically, while I engaged global public opinion to fully prosecute Kenyatta and Ruto before the ICC, Murungi did not utter a word!
Now, Murungi becomes a champion of human rights in Ethiopia while she callously turned a blind eye to the deaths of 1,500 Kenyans and displacement of 300 thousand of her own brothers and sisters!
Kenyan Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai wrote:
“The real intention of the just-formed Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) therefore, is to facilitate impunity, hoodwink and massage the victims and yet again, sweep the crimes under the carpet. None of the leaders has ever been made to account for crimes they commit against the state. Why now?
Radhika Coomaraswamy and the Myanmar hit job
Radhika Coomaraswamy, a Sri Lankan, is the third member of the Ratner Hit Team sent to Ethiopia.
Coomaraswamy is the former UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Children and Armed Conflict. She also served as Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission in Sri Lanka from 2003-2006.
Coomaraswamy’s claim to fame is that she was the lead author of the 418-page Global Study on the Implementation of Resolution 1325 (full involvement of women in all efforts for maintaining and promoting peace and security) published in 2015.
In 2017, after alleged atrocities against the Rohingya people in Myanmar, Coomaraswamy was appointed a member of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar.
In 2018, the Coomaraswamy expert panel accused Myanmar authorities of committing
1) crimes against humanity including murder, imprisonment, enforced disappearance, torture, rape, sexual slavery and other forms of sexual violence, persecution, and enslavement;
2) crimes against humanity which meets the legal requirements of war crimes (murder, cruel treatment, outrages upon personal dignity, attacking civilians, displacing civilians, pillaging, attacking protected objects, taking hostages, sentencing or execution without due process);
3) rape and other forms of sexual violence on a massive scale; and
4) arbitrary and frequent denial of humanitarian assistance to people in need and blocking movement of relief personnel for long periods of time.
Coomaraswamy group “recommended prosecution of senior generals of the Myanmar military for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in an international criminal tribunal.”
Coomaraswamy was a UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women from 1994-2003.
In 1996, Coomaraswamy submitted an addendum to her report on violence against women to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, citing evidence that proved to be a hoax and a fabrication.
Coomaraswamy effectively committed academic fraud by using the fabricated evidence of Yoshida Seiji (who claimed to have worked during World War II as a labor mobilization manager and witnessed sexual exploitation (“comfort women”) of Korean women by Japanese troops) to bolster her credentials as fighter for women’s rights.
What is extraordinary is the fact that in her investigation of human rights violations in Tigray region, Coomaraswamy reported no evidence of violations of the rights of children even though she was a celebrated UN Special Representative on Children and Armed Conflict.
Conscription of child soldiers by the TPLF has been documented extensively by the BBC and other sources.
I have documented with video evidence the top TPLF terrorist leader stating in an interview that “the war will be a people’s war, starting with children.” Despite ample evidence of use of child soldiers by the terrorist TPLF, Coomaraswamy, Ratner and Murungi turned a blind eye, deaf ears and muted lips.
Ratner, Coomaraswamy, Murungi and the Ethiopia hit job
The mandate of the “International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia” is to
1) Conduct a thorough and impartial investigation into allegations of violations and abuses since November 2020 by all parties to the conflict; 2) establish the facts and circumstances surrounding the alleged violations and abuses, to collect and preserve evidence, to identify those responsible for future accountability efforts; 3) provide guidance on transitional justice, including accountability, reconciliation and 4) engage with all relevant stakeholders.
The main “conclusions” of the ICHREE Commission quoted directly from the “REPORT” are as follows:
1) The Commission finds reasonable grounds to believe that the ENDF shelled Mekelle on 28 November 2020, killing and injuring civilians and striking civilian objects days after Tigrayan forces had left the city with their assets.
2) The Commission finds reasonable grounds to believe that the ENDF conducted a drone strike against the Dedebit IDP camp on 7 January 2022, killing and injuring approximately 60 civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure.
3) The Commission finds reasonable grounds to believe that Tigrayan forces killed civilians and persons rendered hors de combat, raped, looted, and damaged or destroyed civilian infrastructure and property in Kobo and Chenna in late August and early September 2021.
4) The Commission finds reasonable grounds to believe that the ENDF, EDF, and Fano have committed widespread acts of rape and sexual violence against Tigrayan women and girls.
5) The Commission finds reasonable grounds allied regional State governments have implemented a widespread range of measures designed to systematically deprive the population of Tigray of material and services indispensable for its survival, including healthcare, shelter, water, sanitation, education and food.
The ICHREE report has been meticulously and rigorously refuted point-by-point by the Ethiopian Government. The Ethiopian Government’s rebuttal is a tour-de-force of legal and methodological analysis. I recommend the reader to review the rebuttal in its entirety.
Editor’s Note: The views entertained in this article do not necessarily reflect the stance of The Ethiopian Herald
THE ETHIOPIAN HERALD WEDNESDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2022