
BY SOLOMON DIBABA
Ethiopian defense forces are advancing in their legitimate defense against the recent barbaric attacks on the people and government of Ethiopia is gross violation of the 5 month ceasefire obstructing the direly needed relief supply for the needy in Tigray and unprovoked attack on Kobo over the past several weeks.
Even then, in total denial of international law and various conventions that provides for the sovereignty of Ethiopia, the western powers, their media outlets and so called human rights organizations remained totally silent when terrorist TPLF conducted a rampage of massacre in northern Ethiopia and even resorted to reverberating the false narrative that the ENDF has started the attack. The west is accustomed to taking the lies and propaganda trumpeting from terrorist TPLF as the most refined truth with no need for verification.
In total disregard of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country, they continued to refer to terrorist TPLF as “the Government of Tigray “and the terrorist armed group as “Tigray Defense Forces, illegally endorsing a regional terrorist group as a government. What could have happened if the same situation happens in Europe and the US? The writer of this article leaves the answer to the reader.
The western powers have recently come up with a barrage of releases and “concerns on the situation in Tigray” forgetting the fact that these are Ethiopian citizens who are languishing under the yoke of a terrorist clique that lives on misinformation and shameless lies and the main purpose of ENDF is to free citizens in Tigray from the barbaric rule of a home grown terrorist group.
On the 17th of October BBC wrote that “Diplomats are warning of a civilian bloodbath in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray if rebels are pushed out of towns by Ethiopian and Eritrean troops.”
Dr. Tedros Adhanom the WHO Director General twitted “Cities are being carpet bombed, Civilians are being killed and those wounded cannot be saved because of a siege” Samantha Power, the USAID Chief twitted “If Ethiopian and Eritrean troops took control of them during the current offensive there was “significant risk of further assaults and killings being perpetrated against civilians.
She added “The staggering human cost of this conflict should shock the world’s conscience,” she added. A resident of Tigray’s main city of Mekelle told the BBC there was almost no food in the city. “The carnage is horrendous. Likely as many as 100,000 have been slaughtered over the last weeks”
It is interesting to know how the USAID chief got the figure of 100,000 slaughtered. She never mentioned where and why and by whom. This indicates the extent to which she is willing to save the killers from Tigray by generalizing the information. The Government of Norway came up with a presser which read “Norway is deeply concerned about the situation in and around the city of Shire.”
The main point is who is the culprit here? Who has slaughtered 100,000, where? Why? And when? Terrorist TPLF completely disrupted the smooth flow of relief food into Tigray by waging a third round of war on Amhara and Afar regions and yet the western countries are blaming the Government of Ethiopia for every crime that the terrorist group has committed in Ethiopia.
The Government of Ethiopia has declared its intentions to control all airports in Tigray and to open up Shire Airport for delivery of relief supplies to Tigray both on land and air. The government has already opened the land route from Kombolcha to Dessie, Kobo, Alamata, to be used for relief supplies in cooperation with local and international NGOs.
But speaking to reporters on the 17th of October 2022, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said” The situation in Ethiopia is spiraling out of control. Violence and destruction have reached alarming levels. The social fabric is being ripped apart, said Guterres. “Hostilities in the Tigray region of Ethiopia must end now, including the immediate withdrawal and disengagement of Eritrean armed forces from Ethiopia.”
“Civilians are paying a horrific price. Indiscriminate attacks, including in residential areas, are killing more innocent people every day, damaging critical infrastructure and limiting access to vital services. Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes since hostilities resumed in August, many of them for the second time. There are also disturbing reports of sexual violence and other acts of brutality against women, children and men”, said the UN chief.
For over three weeks since August, the UN Secretary General has never uttered a word when terrorist TPLF broke the ceasefire and despite all the detailed information at his disposal, tries to cover up the crimes that terrorist TPLF is committing in Tigray, Amhara and Afar regions. The Secretary General is well aware of the fact that terrorist TPLF has conducted hundreds of killings, rape and destruction of public and private properties in the northern part of Ethiopia but fails to condemn a series of terrorist acts on a founding member of the UN.
Contrary to the assertions of the Secretary General, Redwan Hussien, A Special Security Advisor to the Prime Minister twitted “There is nothing out of control and everything is going on as planned.”
The western countries and their media outlets have already become a pawn in the hands of terrorist TPLF propaganda and are not even interested to verify the facts from credible government sources. They refer to “both parties” putting a sovereign government on equal footing with a home grown terrorist group. They were advising their citizens in Addis Ababa to leave the city based on totally false information that terrorism TPLF is “at the gates of Addis Ababa.” The great betrayal and systematic conspiracy that the western media and governments are conducting on Ethiopia will only help to encourage lawlessness and terrorism in Ethiopia.
Despite the cordial diplomatic relations that Ethiopia has enjoyed, it is regrettable to see that the major western countries are preferring a terrorist organization to a full-fledged sovereign government in their ultimate desire to humiliate Ethiopian people and their government to bow down to their neo-colonial ambitions of controlling the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa.
Editor’s Note: The views entertained in this article do not necessarily reflect the stance of The Ethiopian Herald
The Ethiopian Herald October 21/2022