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TPLF’s nuisance morphed into full blown menace on Tuesday, November 3rd. While the rest of the world was engrossed in the US elections, TPLF militias conducted a sneak attack against the Ethiopian National Defense Force in the dark of night and murdered scores of soldiers in their sleep. This is not supposition on my part, TPLF’s own spokesperson Sekuture Getachew brazenly confirmed on Dimisti Weyane, the TPLF’s mouthpiece media, that they in fact conducted a “preemptive attack in the mold of Israel’s Six Day War”.

This was not a preemptive attack; this was a premeditated act of sedition. Mr. Getachew made it seem like the TPLF was striking out against a foreign enemy that constituted an eminent threat to a country’s sovereignty. To the contrary, the TPLF attacked its own nation’s military and murdered the very soldiers they trained not too long ago. When militias without a national mandate attack a country’s military, it is not an undertaking of defense nor is it an operation of prevention—it is an act of terror.

It was TPLF’s aggression that necessitated Mr. Ahmed’s response; what head of state worth his salt would have stood by as rogue elements bear arms and try to impose their will at the point of a gun? Responding to TPLF’s attack with indecisiveness would have led to horrible consequences; an emboldened TPLF would have severely weakened Mr. Ahmed, sunk the whole country into a civil war and destabilized the entire horn of Africa. Mr. Ahmed did not seek this war, he was countering an unprovoked attack. The media narratives being spun that Mr. Ahmed invaded Tigray or initiated the hostilities are either grossly misinformed or they are outright propaganda....continued...

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