Amnesty International — A tool of Chaos and Instability
By Aman Nebiat
Survivors of the Mai-Kadra massacre, carried by Tigray Region youth group called Samri, recover at the Gondar University Hospital, in the city of Gondar, Ethiopia, Nov. 20, 2020.
For more than a 100 years, the African continent has suffered brutal colonization by European countries and each African state has a unique history of colonization that can fill volumes of books. One of these countries is South Africa which was tossed back and forth between Portugal, the Dutch and England until finally it was “
granted” its independence in 1910. Three years later, the controversial 1913 Land Act was passed which banned black South Africans from owning any land and forced them to live in reserves. To this day, the vast majority of black South Africans live in utter poverty and do not own any land. As a result, the South African government is forced to come up with a solution to settle the legacy of this cruel Act in a fair and equitable way; which has proven to be controversial and not an easy feat.
In 1914, National Party (NP) an all-white Afrikaner brotherhood was established and in 1948 came to power. As soon as it came to power, the NP established the Apartheid legislation that consolidated the barbaric 1913 Land Act and broadening it to include arrest and murder of Zulu leaders and ANC Party leader
Nelson Mandela. This went on, until a revolt that started in 1984 brought the Apartheid to its knees in 1989.
Today, it is very important to look at the status of the African continent with this dark and ugly history of colonialism in the background as the days of European armies landing on the shores of African states killing Africans openly are long gone and replaced with silent, more sinister and hateful means of colonization that employs global institutions such as the UN, EU, IMF, World Bank, WTO, HRW, Amnesty International, USAID, NATO, AFRICOM, AMISOM, AGOA and more while forcing Neo-Colonialism Agenda to the African institutions such as African Union & IGAD.
All of these institutions are tightly controlled and run by the US with Britain, France, Canada & Japan acting as allies all serving to advance world hegemony agenda of the United States. With all of these institutions working in unison pushing a revisionist policy of the United States to spread “
Liberal Democracy” especially since the start of the Unipolar World order in the 1990s, African nations with their fragile governments, internal ethnic conflicts left by the colonial powers as time bombs and debilitating poverty and illiteracy, stood no chance to assert themselves and reject the
Silent Invasion/Neo-Colonization.
In addition to the aforementioned global institutions, the Golden Goose has laid some rotten eggs who have committed some of the most unspeakable crimes against humanity. Burning an entire village full of women and children [
https://www.hrw.org/report/2008/06/12/c ... gaden-area] and forcible sterilization of young girls of the Amhara Ethnic group [
https://satenaw.com/who-is-directly-res ... ara-women/] are just examples that have been employed by a government party entrusted as a neighborhood watch and to do the dirty job.
One such government was the TPLF that ruled Ethiopia for 27 years baptized as a “
Regional Power House” and given free rein to do whatever it wishes, as long as it obeys its masters’ orders. Since it came to power with the help of the EPLF in 1990, the TPLF drafted a national constitution that included in it the famous “
Article 39”; a racist constitutional law that is similar to the Apartheid legislation passed by the former NP party of South Africa.
The aim of Article 39, was to break the once cohesive and united Ethiopian population along ethnic lines and included a clause that gave any Ethnic groups the right for self-determination up-to separation into its own statehood. Furthermore, each ethnic group was encouraged to see the other ethnic groups as a threat to its existence and with time this started to create tension and animosity among regions which resulted in ethnic based killings, forced displacements and made it easy for the TPLF to ethnically profile, harass, arrest and torture anyone.
This went on for 27 years under the watchful eyes of its masters and never once has the TPLF faced any kind of sanctions, charges for crimes against humanity other than the lame
The US urges all sides to exercise restraint,
The UN calls on all sides to negotiate
which meant for TPLF to
do what you want; just don’t do it openly to make us look worse than we are.
Even as the TPLF gunned down 75 protesters in broad day light who were protesting the 2015 rigged election results where the TPLF claimed to have won 100% of the votes, the diplomatic, financial and weapons supplies from the West continued to flow in for this trusted rotten child; the “
TPLF”. [
Fast forward to 2018, after 27 years of suffering, chaos, and destructions Ethiopians have had enough and the famous FANO & QERRO youth chased the heinous demons with sticks and rocks to Mekele city in Tigray North of Ethiopia. Dazed and totally caught off guard, these criminals started regrouping in Mekele and for 2 ½ years engaged in all sorts of sabotages and criminal activities to undermine the efforts of the Prosperity Party to unite Ethiopians and create an all-inclusive government.
Furuthermore, though it failed to achieve its main objective of creating unrest and to unseat PM Dr.
Abiy Ahmed’s government, assassination of
Hachalu Hundessa the popular Oromo singer and a known critic of the TPLF in late June of 2020 is a prime example. [
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020 ... y-alliance]
On September 9, 2020 the TPLF held a local parliamentary election defying the Ethiopian Federal Governments’ order not to do so. As the world and the Ethiopian Government was fighting off the deadly transmission of Covid-19 pandemic, the TPLF junta leaders belligerently held elections running against themselves and jeopardizing the health of the Tigray people and claimed again winning the rigged election with 100% of the votes.
TPLF junta armed itself to the neck and with all plans finalized, the top junta leadership gave a green light to start the offensive. On Nov 4, 2020 “
TPLF militia” and “
Special forces” backed by locals composed of children as old as 15 year-olds both boys and girls attacked the camp of the Ethiopian National Defense Force Northern Command famously known as the “
Semien EZ”; while soldiers were sleeping exhausted after weeks of hard work helping Tigray people to battle the worst locust swarm the resgion has seen in 25 years. [
https://www.ena.et/en/?p=18561]
This act of National Treason and Terrorism, forced the Ethiopian Federal government and local Amhara regional forces to take action and restore order in the country. In return, the TPLF junta fled towns it previously governed while on their way massacred over 600 innocent civilians in Mai Kadra, a town with majority residents of the Ethnic Amhara, just to simply instigate an ethnic-based civil war in Ethiopia. [
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-ethi ... KKBN2840LR]
The TPLF junta continued their rampage of killing innocent civilians in many towns and villages, placing them into mass graves as the Ethiopian Federal Army chased the criminal TPLF junta out to caves and the outskirts saving many lives of the terrorized local civilians. Additionally, as it fled every city, the TPLF retreating militias took some 13,000 inmates out of the prisons with them and congregated them in Mekele providing them with Eritrean Military Uniforms and instructed them to loot and massacre the general population, pretending to be the Eritrean Forces. Ironically, the TPLF claimed on Nov., 19 2020 that the town of Axum was under its control though the town of Shire had fallen to Ethiopian Defense Forces.
In light of this reporting, how is it that Amnesty International issued a slanderous and politically motivated report accusing Eritrean Military Forces for murdering 800 civilians who took shelter at a church in Axum while TPLF has claimed that it occupied the city? [
https://www.reuters.com/article/ethiopi ... NKBN27Z0Z8.]
Additionally, why is it that all of the witnesses Amensty International used are all from the Refugee Camp in Hamdayet Sudan who allegedly have committed the Mai Kadra massacre before crossing in to Sudan? [
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/ ... -humanity/]
Furthermore, why has Amnesty International completely ignored all of the atrocities committed by the TPLF and is squaring the blame at Eritrea who has been a victim of the indiscriminate shelling by the TPLF? AI vilified Eritrea without even requesting any clarification or any sorts of communication with Eritrean officials, even though the Ethiopian Federal Government has time and again explained that Eritrean military did not enter Ethiopia? The AI report leaves so many voids and unanswered questions, however, nothing better can be expected from Amnesty International; an organization who is known for publishing intentionally misleading and politically motivated reports.
Crimes against humanity regardless of who commits them should be condemned in the strongest words, globally. During the 30 years of its struggle for independence, the EPLF was known for its human treatment of captured soldiers let alone to kill innocent civilians and rape women and children and this honored tradition of respect for humanity is true and fabric of the Eritrean Army now. [
Amnesty International was silent, when over 100,000 Eritreans were deported from Ethiopia between 1998–2000 and when half a million Internally Displaced Eritreans were living in temporary makeshift shelters for more than 20 years; due to TPLF’s illegal and flagrant occupation of Eritrean land.
In its latest report on the so called non-existent “
Axum Massacre; by Eritrean Soldiers,” Amnesty International has proven once again to Ethiopians, Eritreans, the HOA and the world at large that, contrary to what it claims to stand for, it is actually a defender of criminals and murderous groups specifically the TPLF in this case. Eritreans equivocally reject with the strongest words the libelous and politically motivated witch hunt report issued by Amnesty International and demand an investigation to be made to the making of the report. [
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/ ... -humanity/]
In this century, led by social media, AI should care about its reputation and not report such irresponsible report to defame innocent people and write careless reports that can instigate war and mislead the international community to take the wrong decisions to further disqualify their credible involvement with Eritrea and Ethiopia. In the last 27 years of TPLF era, the people of Eritrea and Ethiopia have suffered tremendously caused by such misguided and sinister reports by AI and the likes. Additionally, in the last 2 ½ years, Amnesty International has poured salt to our injuries by reporting lies and fabricated negative stories against Eritrea aimed at disturbing the peace and friendship established between the two brotherly nations of Ethiopia and Eritrea. To this point, AI is no different than the murderous TPLF you chose to defend at the expense of all the suffering of Eritreans and Ethiopians. The ball is on your court to prove yourself to the international community that you stand for humanity, while independent organizations will soon be investigating the truth and tell the world of what really happened. In which the,
Truth Stick might get stretched out but it will never break
as only time and evidence will uncover the truth.
Eritrea will always prevail. Peace & prosperity to the world but mostly to HOA, a region that has suffered tremendouly in the last 80 years.
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