The Founding of TPLF Tyrannical Regime (1979)
Posted: 01 Sep 2020, 06:58
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 held in Feb. 1979, the leadership of TPLF had unanimously decided the following: In the first place, we people in TPLF never believe that there is God. In any case, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the main instrument for the Amhara regime to sustain its ruling, must be wiped out of the liberated Tigrian soils. In the long run, when we will have established our own Tigrian Government [in the State of the Democratic Republic of Tigray], we shall create a [communist] society that doesn‟t believe in any form of God.
Based on the above anti-Orthodox stand of TPLF, the following actions were taken by its cadres in the Dergue-free areas of Tigray.
1. All churches were ordered to deliver their mobile and fixed assets and properties to TPLF.
2. All priests and monks were instructed to put off their religious head scarves and covers or hoods and instead, they were ordered to put on TPLF‟s cap which reads „woyyenti‟(rebellions!). This instruction was practically seen and many priests and the clergy were turned out to be rebellions
carrying rifles on their shoulders, instead of serving God carrying Jesus‟ cross and the Bible.
3. All newlywed deacons and priests were forced to divorce their wives and join the armed struggle. To this effect, countless marriages were dismantled and ex-wives and ex-husbands voluntarily or involuntarily joined the armed struggle, leaving aside the church and the
Orthodox dogma they had been strictly following before.
As a result of TPLF‟s atheistic actions with respect to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in
Tigray, parents were left without their children to look after them at their old age; churches were left closed for not having deacons and priests to give ecclesiastical services, lots of precious items, such as parchments of antiquity and crosses, were looted and sold by TPLFites and a great number of churches along with their historical documents were set on fire in a bid to erase the old history and write a new one which is devoid of any cultural and traditional tie with the Ethiopian Orthodox Church [and by the extension the Amhara people].
The general command and detailed instructions given to carry out an all out destruction upon the church was given by those three devilish people of the TPLF; Sebhat Nega, Abbay Tsehay, and Meles Zenawi. In addition, Arkebe Ouqubai, the Eritrean Tsadkan G/Tinsay, Awu‟alom Woldu, Zer‟ay Asghedom, Siye Abraha, and Seyuom Mesfin should be mentioned here as chief collaborators with this regard. These gullible servants of TPLF and Sebhat-Abbay-Meles syndicate have played a great role in the untold suffering of Christians and Muslims. They had burnt so many churches in the northern part of our country, Ethiopia.
As the destruction of churches by TPLF was on unabated continuation, the following group of high level cadres was assigned to give a seminar to those church people
In the First Conference held in Feb. 1979, the leadership of TPLF had unanimously decided the following: In the first place, we people in TPLF never believe that there is God. In any case, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the main instrument for the Amhara regime to sustain its ruling, must be wiped out of the liberated Tigrian soils. In the long run, when we will have established our own Tigrian Government [in the State of the Democratic Republic of Tigray], we shall create a [communist] society that doesn‟t believe in any form of God.
Based on the above anti-Orthodox stand of TPLF, the following actions were taken by its cadres in the Dergue-free areas of Tigray.
1. All churches were ordered to deliver their mobile and fixed assets and properties to TPLF.
2. All priests and monks were instructed to put off their religious head scarves and covers or hoods and instead, they were ordered to put on TPLF‟s cap which reads „woyyenti‟(rebellions!). This instruction was practically seen and many priests and the clergy were turned out to be rebellions
carrying rifles on their shoulders, instead of serving God carrying Jesus‟ cross and the Bible.
3. All newlywed deacons and priests were forced to divorce their wives and join the armed struggle. To this effect, countless marriages were dismantled and ex-wives and ex-husbands voluntarily or involuntarily joined the armed struggle, leaving aside the church and the
Orthodox dogma they had been strictly following before.
As a result of TPLF‟s atheistic actions with respect to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in
Tigray, parents were left without their children to look after them at their old age; churches were left closed for not having deacons and priests to give ecclesiastical services, lots of precious items, such as parchments of antiquity and crosses, were looted and sold by TPLFites and a great number of churches along with their historical documents were set on fire in a bid to erase the old history and write a new one which is devoid of any cultural and traditional tie with the Ethiopian Orthodox Church [and by the extension the Amhara people].
The general command and detailed instructions given to carry out an all out destruction upon the church was given by those three devilish people of the TPLF; Sebhat Nega, Abbay Tsehay, and Meles Zenawi. In addition, Arkebe Ouqubai, the Eritrean Tsadkan G/Tinsay, Awu‟alom Woldu, Zer‟ay Asghedom, Siye Abraha, and Seyuom Mesfin should be mentioned here as chief collaborators with this regard. These gullible servants of TPLF and Sebhat-Abbay-Meles syndicate have played a great role in the untold suffering of Christians and Muslims. They had burnt so many churches in the northern part of our country, Ethiopia.
As the destruction of churches by TPLF was on unabated continuation, the following group of high level cadres was assigned to give a seminar to those church people