Kiros Alemayehu was a genuine Ethiopian like many kings and generals before him, who stood and fought for Ethiopia and not Tigray. To mention a few, Emperor Yohaness, Alula aba Nega, Ras Mengesha etc were from Tigray but stood with Ethiopian patriots defending Ethiopia against foreign invasions.
TPLF on the contrary became an anti-Ethiopia group and was controlled by Eritreans. Meles Zenawi, who was eritrean by birth and persuasion, killed hundreds of Ethiopians from Tigray region who stood for Ethiopia and opposed the secession of Eritrea from Ethiopia. Meles Zenawi claimed Eritrea claimed Eritrea to be a colony of Ethiopia. Even the boundary between Ethiopia and Eritrea should have been delimited according to Wucchale Treaty, Meles Zenawi , Bereket Simon and other Eritreans purposely delayed the delimitaiton of the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea to permamnenty landlock Ethiopia.
Meles Zenawi and his henchmen killed many pro-Ethiopia Tigrayans. One of them was Kiros Alemayehu, whose songs refelected the need to keep Ethiopia united. Tigrayans need to remember Kiros Alemayehu and to try to bring the criminals who murdered Kiros Alemayehu to justice.
Here follows one of Kiros alemayehu's songs during Mengistu's time
