Don’t Turn Away From These Images and These Crimes - Nicholas Kristof (NY Times)
Posted: 20 Jun 2021, 06:59
Didn't his America, which he is now crying to call to stop what he called scorched-earth counterinsurgency wage the same in many different places around the world to stem-out the same insurgency he is trying to defend now? What was he doing then back to have turned away from the same image? Hypocrisy of the superlative class.... a scorched-earth counterinsurgency campaign of murder, rape, pillage and famine by Ethiopian and Eritrean troops against rebels and also against innocents like Rahel in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.
he should have also told us how he came to that figure and who gave it to him. That is where his pack of lies are coming to the surface for everybody to see. This is shameful, not the UN-SC that refused to interfere in the internals of other sovereign member states. He has no morality to call the body that name.Countless thousands of Tigrayans have already been killed, and tens of thousands of children are in imminent danger of starving to death. This month the United Nations declared that Tigray was in the midst of the world’s worst famine in a decade.
Did it happen to him that the mutiny he is claiming to be the cause is also caused by no one else but the same rebel he told his readers some paragraphs before this one the government is using a scorched-earth counterinsurgency?Then last November he dispatched armed forces to crush a mutiny in Tigray, leading to civil war.