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gagi wrote: ↑

31 Jan 2021, 20:35

https://jeffpearce.medium.com/tigray-in ... 0796ac9c87

"Today, there are news websites full of Debretsion Gebremichael’s statement from an audio recording — even without confirmation whether he’s still alive or when it was made — and I feel I have to say something.

He goes on. Allegedly, “the enemies are committing unspeakable atrocities upon” the women of Tigray, but he wants them “to send your sons and daughters to join the struggle.”

This is despicable. His supposedly “battle-hardened” conventional forces were pummeled in two short months, and in a last desperate bid to keep the fight going, he will throw civilians against the military tide.
This is not heroic, this is not valor, or a romantic Les Misérables barricade moment.

By his own admission, the TPLF is on the losing side of this conflict, but he is calling on ordinary people to hurl themselves as sacrificial cannon fodder against conventionally trained soldiers and heavy weaponry. That is insane.

And so I ask: Why is it that the Western media, in brazenly ignorant editorial after editorial, wants to park the blame for this conflict at the feet of the federal Ethiopian government, but this man can demand that ordinary, innocent people race to their deaths?"

gagi wrote: ↑

31 Jan 2021, 20:35

https://jeffpearce.medium.com/tigray-in ... 0796ac9c87

"For the international community, Debretsion wants it to bring “the criminal aggressors Abiy Ahmed and Isaias Afeworki [committing grave crimes against humanity] to an international court.”

Ethiopians have not forgotten how this conflict started, even if the Western media would like to ignore the facts: It began with a brutal, premeditated attack by a regional militia on the national army, which was followed, by the way, by the Mai Kadra massacre, in which close to 600 were killed. And the TPLF had already stripped its region of funding to build up its military, worsening an already dire humanitarian crisis in Tigray prior to the war.

Not too long ago, the popular hashtag on Twitter was #StopWarOnTigray, and it’s still being used sometimes. But it’s a lie, except for a few sincere diaspora residents and Westerners who bought its message at face value. They assumed it meant peace. What it really means is, “Let the TPLF get its way.”