TPLF Authoritarian Killing Regime
Posted: 01 Sep 2020, 06:37
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TPLF Grouped and organized in this manner, TPLF kicked off their destructive campaign in Tigray and went to the respective regions they were assigned to. After that they continued to wage heavy-handedly extensive anti-Amhara, anti-Christian, and anti-Islam propaganda accompanied with forceful actions such as killings and kidnappings. Following their master plan of eradicating Christianity which they strongly believe is imposed by the Amhara upon the people of Tigray to make them submissive, TPLF‟s cadres launched tough restrictions upon the ordinary people and the churches not to adhere to the doctrines of this religion; they prevented churches from doing their routinely performed rituals such as making Holy Mass and celebrating Sundays as usual. These crooked people of the TPLF exerted their full energy to dismantle the church and sever the bond between the clergy and the lay. The people were not allowed to go to churches on Sundays or other days on which Saints were commemorated due to the fact that holydays were declared to be working days. TPLF cadres warned the priests and the entire clergy not to go to churches and give any liturgical service anytime, if they were caught doing so, they would be punished severely. Occasionally, there were resistances from the people and the clergy as well. In such instances, the cadres in the lower echelons used to consult the upper ones and they were advised by Sebhat Nega et al. to mercilessly kill those recalcitrant priests, monks, nuns, or deacons in front of the congregation so that that action could be taken as punitive to the rest of the population. That circular or directive from the above was blindly implemented by the lower cadres. In light of this, in Endatsahma district of Adwa province, at a historical church known as Endasilasie, the leader of the church, Abba Haile Silasie, was killed by Tsegay Berhe in front of the people. The cause of the killing was nothing else but these words – “Please do not desecrate our religion; it is a blessed religion!” At that time, the people got extremely shocked and rushed helter-skelter in a bid to save their lives from additional massacre that would ensue. After the massacre, the killer, Haleka Tsegay Berhe, along with his friends, looted the church and took away all the property the church had. In a similar vein, the leader of a church in Zana district, namely Abba Araya, along with a nonagenarian monk were instantly shot dead by Arkebe Ouqubai himself, who was sent with Belay Bitew then as reinforcement to the group, for the simple reason that the priest said, “Please, do not desecrate our Christian religion.” The anti-Christian group/committee of TPLF led by Sebhat Nega, Abbay Tsehay, and Meles Zenawi along with all its 15 members had plundered, destroyed and burnt many churches. Moreover, countless priests and deacons, monks and other church goers had been kidnapped. Surprisingly, the whereabouts of all those kidnapped people have not yet been known to date and it is believed that they all are killed.
Concerning Islam, though they tried their level best to desecrate this religion and its leader, Prophet Mohammed, they couldn‟t succeed as they wished. The followers of Islam were not as easily submissive as the Christians. Of course, the TPLF cadres attempted to defame the holy Koran and downplayed the role of the prophet in front of the congregation when the people gathered for praying. But the cadres encountered serious protest in all the three regions. Especially in region three, the Afars decided to fight those anti-religion bandits neck and neck and managed to check the rein-less whims of TPLF from flourishing in their localities. To this effect, those Muslims in region three hunted and killed the TPLF cadres who were assigned there to destroy their religion. Among those killed cadres, Tigist Assefa, Yehualashet G/Medhin, (Alamin), and Tsehaye Abraha are just few. Many more unlucky TPLF cadres faced such ill-fate in this region. But surprisingly, when TPLF leaders were/are asked about the death of those cadres, they unashamedly keep on saying that the cadres died due to fighting with the Dergue regime or with this or that rebel group with which they encountered skirmishes. They are naturally big liars. Other cadres such as Addisalem Balema, Tewodros Hagos, and Aferra T/Haimanot escaped at night fearing the fate descended upon their colleagues. Nevertheless, for fear of reprisal by the Afar people, TPLF couldn‟t dare to enter the Afar region until the year 1984.
This time around, TPLF‟s stores were full of confiscated and looted holy Bibles and Korans. According to eye witnesses, the atheist TPLfites used to utilize those holy books to ignite fire as ordinary pieces of useless papers. This shows their atheistic nature and contempt to religion.
The followers of Islam in all the three regions stood firm in unison and made clear that TPLF should never violate their right of believing in Allah and following Islamic religion. They dedicated their lives for their belief and to „die or defend Islam‟ was their communal motto. The leadership of TPLF was highly frustrated by the unexpected stand of Muslims. The Muslim population in and out of towns understood that the architects of the anti-religion campaign were Sebhat Nega, Abbay Tsehay, and Meles Zenawi. The life of these top planners of TPLF was endangered and because of that they were forced to reconsider their free movement, rather, they were obligated to have bodyguards for any of their field trip. On the other hand, that time was a time during which TPLF was invaded by two resistance movements, namely EDU and EPRP, and hence the fighting morale of the TPLF combatants was becoming unspeakably low. In this crucial time, the upper echelon of the TPLF issued an order to the cadres to temporarily suspend the anti-Islam campaign but to rigorously go on the anti-Christian one, for the campaign to destroy Christianity did not face that much threat like in the case of the Islamic one, rather, it was proceeding according to the plan, even to the surprise of many in the religion, there was substantial support from the clergy themselves to denounce Christianity and become renegade in a bid to expanding Marxism and Leninism. Muslim Ethiopian sisters and brothers in the „liberated‟ areas of the TPLF stopped obeying TPLF as of that time and remained respected and feared by those bandits for a long period of time. But on the other hand, the Christianity followers continued to serve TPLF as loaders, unloaders, and coolies [up until the present time].
In the First TPLF Conference, held in February 1979, Sebhat Nega was elected as Chairman of TPLF while Meles Zenawi and Abbay Tsehay were elected as chief propagandists. These three anti-Ethiopian people individuals united their efforts to implement the newly designed several action plans of TPLF. The major action plan from which many others had been derived was formulated in the aforementioned conference:-
In the First Conference hel
TPLF Grouped and organized in this manner, TPLF kicked off their destructive campaign in Tigray and went to the respective regions they were assigned to. After that they continued to wage heavy-handedly extensive anti-Amhara, anti-Christian, and anti-Islam propaganda accompanied with forceful actions such as killings and kidnappings. Following their master plan of eradicating Christianity which they strongly believe is imposed by the Amhara upon the people of Tigray to make them submissive, TPLF‟s cadres launched tough restrictions upon the ordinary people and the churches not to adhere to the doctrines of this religion; they prevented churches from doing their routinely performed rituals such as making Holy Mass and celebrating Sundays as usual. These crooked people of the TPLF exerted their full energy to dismantle the church and sever the bond between the clergy and the lay. The people were not allowed to go to churches on Sundays or other days on which Saints were commemorated due to the fact that holydays were declared to be working days. TPLF cadres warned the priests and the entire clergy not to go to churches and give any liturgical service anytime, if they were caught doing so, they would be punished severely. Occasionally, there were resistances from the people and the clergy as well. In such instances, the cadres in the lower echelons used to consult the upper ones and they were advised by Sebhat Nega et al. to mercilessly kill those recalcitrant priests, monks, nuns, or deacons in front of the congregation so that that action could be taken as punitive to the rest of the population. That circular or directive from the above was blindly implemented by the lower cadres. In light of this, in Endatsahma district of Adwa province, at a historical church known as Endasilasie, the leader of the church, Abba Haile Silasie, was killed by Tsegay Berhe in front of the people. The cause of the killing was nothing else but these words – “Please do not desecrate our religion; it is a blessed religion!” At that time, the people got extremely shocked and rushed helter-skelter in a bid to save their lives from additional massacre that would ensue. After the massacre, the killer, Haleka Tsegay Berhe, along with his friends, looted the church and took away all the property the church had. In a similar vein, the leader of a church in Zana district, namely Abba Araya, along with a nonagenarian monk were instantly shot dead by Arkebe Ouqubai himself, who was sent with Belay Bitew then as reinforcement to the group, for the simple reason that the priest said, “Please, do not desecrate our Christian religion.” The anti-Christian group/committee of TPLF led by Sebhat Nega, Abbay Tsehay, and Meles Zenawi along with all its 15 members had plundered, destroyed and burnt many churches. Moreover, countless priests and deacons, monks and other church goers had been kidnapped. Surprisingly, the whereabouts of all those kidnapped people have not yet been known to date and it is believed that they all are killed.
Concerning Islam, though they tried their level best to desecrate this religion and its leader, Prophet Mohammed, they couldn‟t succeed as they wished. The followers of Islam were not as easily submissive as the Christians. Of course, the TPLF cadres attempted to defame the holy Koran and downplayed the role of the prophet in front of the congregation when the people gathered for praying. But the cadres encountered serious protest in all the three regions. Especially in region three, the Afars decided to fight those anti-religion bandits neck and neck and managed to check the rein-less whims of TPLF from flourishing in their localities. To this effect, those Muslims in region three hunted and killed the TPLF cadres who were assigned there to destroy their religion. Among those killed cadres, Tigist Assefa, Yehualashet G/Medhin, (Alamin), and Tsehaye Abraha are just few. Many more unlucky TPLF cadres faced such ill-fate in this region. But surprisingly, when TPLF leaders were/are asked about the death of those cadres, they unashamedly keep on saying that the cadres died due to fighting with the Dergue regime or with this or that rebel group with which they encountered skirmishes. They are naturally big liars. Other cadres such as Addisalem Balema, Tewodros Hagos, and Aferra T/Haimanot escaped at night fearing the fate descended upon their colleagues. Nevertheless, for fear of reprisal by the Afar people, TPLF couldn‟t dare to enter the Afar region until the year 1984.
This time around, TPLF‟s stores were full of confiscated and looted holy Bibles and Korans. According to eye witnesses, the atheist TPLfites used to utilize those holy books to ignite fire as ordinary pieces of useless papers. This shows their atheistic nature and contempt to religion.
The followers of Islam in all the three regions stood firm in unison and made clear that TPLF should never violate their right of believing in Allah and following Islamic religion. They dedicated their lives for their belief and to „die or defend Islam‟ was their communal motto. The leadership of TPLF was highly frustrated by the unexpected stand of Muslims. The Muslim population in and out of towns understood that the architects of the anti-religion campaign were Sebhat Nega, Abbay Tsehay, and Meles Zenawi. The life of these top planners of TPLF was endangered and because of that they were forced to reconsider their free movement, rather, they were obligated to have bodyguards for any of their field trip. On the other hand, that time was a time during which TPLF was invaded by two resistance movements, namely EDU and EPRP, and hence the fighting morale of the TPLF combatants was becoming unspeakably low. In this crucial time, the upper echelon of the TPLF issued an order to the cadres to temporarily suspend the anti-Islam campaign but to rigorously go on the anti-Christian one, for the campaign to destroy Christianity did not face that much threat like in the case of the Islamic one, rather, it was proceeding according to the plan, even to the surprise of many in the religion, there was substantial support from the clergy themselves to denounce Christianity and become renegade in a bid to expanding Marxism and Leninism. Muslim Ethiopian sisters and brothers in the „liberated‟ areas of the TPLF stopped obeying TPLF as of that time and remained respected and feared by those bandits for a long period of time. But on the other hand, the Christianity followers continued to serve TPLF as loaders, unloaders, and coolies [up until the present time].
In the First TPLF Conference, held in February 1979, Sebhat Nega was elected as Chairman of TPLF while Meles Zenawi and Abbay Tsehay were elected as chief propagandists. These three anti-Ethiopian people individuals united their efforts to implement the newly designed several action plans of TPLF. The major action plan from which many others had been derived was formulated in the aforementioned conference:-
In the First Conference hel