It is a cardinal rule of war never to hesitate, never to give the enemy a respite. Abiy, who is not a warrior, has hesitated and allowed months to pass by giving the enemy and the enemy's masters time. He, being more a pastor than a warrior, a very reluctant warrior, is probably feeling guilty about the death and destruction of the TPLF. What he doesn't seem to understand that there are powerful forces in the West who do not want peace in the region and who want servants like the TPLF to spoil that peace.
Why has Abiy not publicized the TPLF crimes? We learn from Araya Tesfamariam that the TPLF thugs murdered, in cold blood, over 600 members of the Northern Command. But Abiy, instead of flooding the media with the names and pictures of these victims, chose to suppress the information. If he was hoping for the remnants of the TPLF to surrender, then he has miscalculated. The news today that the central command of the TPLF is getting decimated suggest that Abiy, or more likely his generals, has finally realized that when you go to war, you go to win and not compromise. He should finish them off and show their dead bodies so that the world knows that the Junta is finished.