If urban warfare is equated to war crime, then how were Bagdad, Kabul, Tripoli fell to foreign invasion
Posted: 24 Nov 2020, 17:01
of the respecting countries, just very recently?
In my view the Ethiopian Government was forced to conduct this war after its own national army was ambushed by forces attachaed to the TPLF, in which the regional interest of the Tigray region overridden that of the national interest of the country.
Until now independent reports have already come out from this war and incriminated the TPLF and its waring forces of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. On the other hand so far there has not been known report incriminating the Ethiopian government on the same scale, even when we are tempted to believe that war is not a holy business, and rightly so.
Ethiopian military commanders have come out and expressed to the wider public that they have been very careful and in some cases aborted their mission of taking actions on selected sites considered to be of military interests, after the safety of civilians could no more be guaranteed by those actions.
And the military has now also issued a forewarning to the civilian citizens of the city of Mekelle to take care of the pending military action to enforce the rule of law and bring the perpetrators of the crimes committed against the national security of the country to face justice.
At the same time there are many voices that are ringing alarm bells of a war crime if the military goes on and take the stated actions, becuase, according to their claims, there could be civilian causalities in the city from those actions.
I also wish that no one get hurt by the war, even those in the fighting force of the Junta shouldn't get harmed but there are sometimes things that we can't avoid and that is also part of the reason that we demand there shouldn't be a war anywhere in the world. But unless the rule of law is respected, there is no more a guarantee that civilians will be protected in the future.
In the meantime those who are making war crime alarm bells to ring should also tell us how the cities mentioned above and others fell in the very recent past of our collective history, if urban warfare is to be equated with war crime?
In my view the Ethiopian Government was forced to conduct this war after its own national army was ambushed by forces attachaed to the TPLF, in which the regional interest of the Tigray region overridden that of the national interest of the country.
Until now independent reports have already come out from this war and incriminated the TPLF and its waring forces of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. On the other hand so far there has not been known report incriminating the Ethiopian government on the same scale, even when we are tempted to believe that war is not a holy business, and rightly so.
Ethiopian military commanders have come out and expressed to the wider public that they have been very careful and in some cases aborted their mission of taking actions on selected sites considered to be of military interests, after the safety of civilians could no more be guaranteed by those actions.
And the military has now also issued a forewarning to the civilian citizens of the city of Mekelle to take care of the pending military action to enforce the rule of law and bring the perpetrators of the crimes committed against the national security of the country to face justice.
At the same time there are many voices that are ringing alarm bells of a war crime if the military goes on and take the stated actions, becuase, according to their claims, there could be civilian causalities in the city from those actions.
I also wish that no one get hurt by the war, even those in the fighting force of the Junta shouldn't get harmed but there are sometimes things that we can't avoid and that is also part of the reason that we demand there shouldn't be a war anywhere in the world. But unless the rule of law is respected, there is no more a guarantee that civilians will be protected in the future.
In the meantime those who are making war crime alarm bells to ring should also tell us how the cities mentioned above and others fell in the very recent past of our collective history, if urban warfare is to be equated with war crime?