BY SOLOMON DIBABA
Terrorist TPLF used outright theft, treachery and official corruption in all its forms to destabilize and destroy the social fabric and economic bases of the country and created the social psychology of animosity and arrogance between the people of Tigray and the rest of Ethiopians in other regions. Terrorist TPLF has done no serious economic development programs in rural Tigray and was falsely reporting on socio-economic development in rural and urban areas accomplished by the major international NGOs as if it was done only by terrorist TPLF and REST.
The entire history of the terrorist group indicates that it began destroying Ethiopia with its dress rehearsal in Tigray which was replicated through ethnocentric federalism that was responsible for a total political crisis that has continued unabated in the country for more than three decades. The group conducted an unprecedented betrayal on the people of Tigray by focusing on the enrichment of its leadership through 32 terrorist TPLF companies that siphoned out billions of dollars in cash, gold nuggets and precious stones.
Over the last two years the group has exterminated more than 650,000 Tigrayan youth in the name of liberation of the region and formation of what it called Greater Tigray by invading the restive regions of Afar and Tigray through three rounds of war in which the youth, girl children, the elderly, the disabled and underage children were deployed to war against the people of Ethiopia.
Mention any crime against humanity and violation of human rights, terrorist TPLF has committed all. Terrorist TPLF attempted to destroy the unity among Christian denominations by forming regional denominations of the Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Ethiopian Islamic Affairs Council and the Evangelical Churches Union of Ethiopia.
While attempting to destroy Ethiopia right from Tigray, Amhara and Afar, the terrorist group organized surrogate terrorist organizations like Shene, Agaw Council, Kimant fighters, Gumuz fighters and other terrorist organization to destroy Ethiopia and Ethiopian nationalism from within. The group is now effectively serving for the promotion of third party interest in Ethiopia through the support it receives from Sudan and Egypt as well as diplomatic support from major EU countries and some officials in the State Department.
These third tier actors of war and conspiracy on Ethiopia were trained, armed and deployed by terrorist army commanders. They take orders from terrorist TPLF and also join the rank and file terrorist TPLF when the need arises. Shene is operating in Oromia, Gambela and Benishangul to help distract the attention of the ENDF which they thought was engaged only in the northern part of the country. Shene is fighting alongside terrorist TPLF and Al-Shabab forces while the Al-Shabab group wants to expand into Oromia, Sudan and link up with the Al-Qaida group in the Magreb in North Africa. The entire network is arranged in such a way that the Horn of Africa will turn into a zone of siege in which no East African country will be spared.
It is interesting to note that despite their ideological and political differences, some of which are diametrically opposite and antagonistic, the entire global conspiracy group have common interest of destroying the political order in Ethiopia and establish puppet regimes in the Horn of Africa which would ultimately be subservient to the interest of terrorist TPLF’s dream of Greater Tigray which in reality is against the interest of western hegemony on the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea littoral areas.
The terrorist group pursued two sets of objectives which included regionalization of the war which envisaged destroying the basic elements of Ethiopians and Pan Africanism and implant neo-colonial regimes by changing the map of the Horn of Africa, establishing puppet regimes in Eretria and banana republics ruled by so called Greater Tigray on the Ethiopian territory. In this sense, the strategic objective of terrorist TPLF surpasses the current Ethiopian territory to control the Horn of Africa on behalf of western neo-colonial ambitions.
The strategy of the terrorist group for the destruction of Ethiopia is also linked up with terrorist TPLF’s official and strategic alliance with Al-Shabab and other terrorist groups across Africa.
The terrorist group embraced a fascist ideology of Greater Tigray through its media outlets which were busy inculcating hatred, animosity and spirit of vengeance between citizens in Tigray and the people of Ethiopia across the country. They used the slogan of Tigray Tiserehe! And Greater Tigray while the group coined another ideology of Revolutionary Democracy and Developmental State for the rest of Ethiopia to conceal its secret objective of establishing Tigray Republic.
But the truth is quite the reverse, over the last two years, terrorist TPLF dehumanized and subjected them to untold hunger, destitution, war trauma and destruction of the family fabric in the region by forcibly detaching kids from their mothers and deploying them to the battle front. The terrorist group is enslaved by the ethno-fascist group which is out to depopulate Tigray through the artificial policy of hard and animosity it created on the people of Tigray against the rest of Ethiopians. This is exact copy of what Nazi Germany has done through its SS security network it created in Germany at the wake of the Second World War.
Despite all these inhuman actions that terrorist TPLF has conducted in Tigray and the rest of Ethiopia, the so called democratic western countries failed to make the terrorist group accountable for the crimes it has conducted in Ethiopia. In spite of the fact that the propaganda machinery of terrorist TPLF has fanned for two years accusing the ENDF for genocide, all investigations conducted on human rights and crimes against humanity in Ethiopia disproved that genocide has not been conducted in Ethiopia.
The most urgent issue now is to liberate the people of Tigray from the bondage and oppression of the ethno-fascist clique that is hiding in Mekele. The sufferings of the people of Tigray must end here and now. As proudly Ethiopian citizens, the people of Tigray must be freed from the blockade to which they are subjected by scores of terrorist individuals who falsely pose as liberators and freedom fighters. Peace needs to prevail in Tigray and the rest of Ethiopia. Gun tottering kids and youth need to go to schools and farmers should get back to their farms and feed themselves.
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
