What a fountain of wisdom. Those parliamentarians, are the luckiest people on earth!
የወተት ፖሊቲካ።
What a fountain of wisdom. Those parliamentarians, are the luckiest people on earth!
Re: የወተት ፖሊቲካ።
Seriously has this guy forgotten his current job of being a leader of a country with a population of 120, 000,000 people as we have been deafened of hearing it over and over? Wouldn't, shouldn't, and/or couldn't he address and attempt to find some solution to the unenviable situation the Ethiopian people find themselves in? ኣየ ናይ "ዓባይ ኣስጦብያ" ነገር!
Re: የወተት ፖሊቲካ።
Did he able to figure out this on his own without any external help or guidance?
Re: የወተት ፖሊቲካ።
He loves to pontificate on obvious facts because he cannot deal with deep issues. That is the sign of a weak mind. What is inexcusable is his back-stabbing character. He said the following and now wants to start war against the Eritrean people? What did the Agames do differently that has made them the most despised people in the region?
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Ethiopia: The attack on the Northern Command
BY: RASMUS SONDERRIIS
https://abren.org/ethiopia-the-attack-o ... n-command/
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
This is a brief take from Getting Ethiopia Dead Wrong by Veteran Horn of Africa Correspondent, Rasmus Sonderriis
On the third of November 2020, around one thousand senior Ethiopian commanders stationed in Tigray went for a dinner party with regional government officials. The invitation, however, was a ruse to take them prisoner. https://www.fanabc.com/english/about-10 ... a-rescued/
That same night, while the world was focused on vote-counting in the US presidential election, a total of five federal military bases in Tigray came under fire. https://www.africanews.com/2020/11/27/t ... -into-war/
Defenders were killed or captured, though those in the Sero Base, near the border with Eritrea, held out https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethi ... SKBN28R1IE for a grueling ten days. Tigrayan soldiers turned on their comrades of other ethnicities, many of whom had lived in Tigray for decades, working https://www.fanabc.com/english/endf-we- ... e%20region. alongside the local communities. Reports about soldiers killed in their pyjamas https://www.africanews.com/2020/11/27/t ... pyjamas%22 and arbitrary https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethi ... een%20shot. cruelty shocked https://www.fanabc.com/english/endf-we- ... l-mission/ the Ethiopian public.
Thankfully, Michael Pompeo, Secretary of State under the outgoing Trump administration, condemned it immediately.
U.S Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s message on X (formerly Twitter), acknowledging the surprise attack on Ethiopia’s Northern Command by TPLF forces.
Wisely, Secretary Pompeo left it open to interpretation how to “de-escalate tensions”, but surely
meant arresting those responsible for such a ferocious assault on the constitutional order.immediate action to restore the peace
For the first year or so, the world press https://www.spiegel.de/international/wo ... 20Nov.%204. downplayed or omitted this manifest casus belli altogether, even in longreads https://www.spiegel.de/international/wo ... d4543f722b on the war, which focused obsessively on the prime minister’s personality and on how the Nobel Peace Prize had gone https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/20 ... .%E2%80%9D to his head.
The Economist, for instance, as late as October 2021, while TPLF troops were marching on Addis Ababa, published a shockingly defamatory and inflammatory leader, https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/ ... n-citizens to which we shall return in Part 3, attributing the cause of the conflict to an
Abiy Ahmed deciding to attack the regional government of Tigray,increasingly paranoid and erratic
which he accused of rebellion.
This shallow phrasing amounts to speculating that the attack on the Northern Command was made up.
In fact, only ten days into the war, the high-ranking TPLF leader, Sekoture Getachew, speaking on Tigrayan television,
confirmed that an elaborate plan had been executed, using soldiers from inside and outside the bases, with the aim of taking over the firepower of the Ethiopian army. Some two weeks later, this was admitted https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p090j32c by Getachew Reda, with the excuse that
whatever we did, we did in self-defense.
In January 2021, Kjetil Tronvoll mentioned https://www.ethiopia-insight.com/2021/0 ... %20treason. it in an article, as did, https://www.tghat.com/2021/03/31/who-st ... on-tigray/ in March 2021, the diehard pro-TPLF magazine Tghat, albeit portraying it as a preemptive strike justified https://tghat.com/2021/03/15/debunking- ... on-tigray/ by an enemy plan to commit genocide. Accordingly, the world press eventually began to incorporate this event into its timeline.
High-ranking TPLF official, Sekoture Getachew, speaking on Tigray Television confirmed what he dubbed, “a lightening speed surprise attack to incapacitate Ethiopia’s northern Command”
From the first day https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/worl ... igray.html of the war, Declan Walsh and co-author Simon Marks, writing in The New York Times, put the war down to the notion that
Mr. Abiy presented a radically different face,
from his Nobel-Peace-Prize face that was.
They studiously ignored the crucial dispute over the control of the army, except for stating https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/worl ... 0months%2C that
Mr. Abiy said his hand had been forced by Tigrayan leaders who brazenly defied his authority.
Of course, there is no quotation mark around the prime minister saying: they brazenly defied my authority. But this is how The New York Times interprets his denunciation of the attack on the Northern Command, which it does not even bother to mention. What the New York Times would take for granted at home in the US, namely state monopoly on violence under democratic rule of law, is reduced for Ethiopia to the big man exercising “his authority”.
Then acting U.S Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of African Affairs, Robert F. Codec unequivocally declared TPLF as initiator of the war.
Eleven days into the war, Mr. Walsh and Mr. Marks did report https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/15/worl ... is%20month
a purported Tigrayan attack on an Ethiopian army base in Tigray early this month.
This is when Kjetil Tronvoll is introduced https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/15/worl ... n%20Norway. in the New York Times as a
a scholar of Ethiopian politics.
Conversations with him might have colored Mr. Walsh’s views, as he continued to overlook not only the foregoing two and a half years of political developments as the source of the tension, but also the attack on the Northern Command as the point of no return. The New York Times explanation https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/21/worl ... Ahmed.html would continue to focus on the “messianic” prime minister, who had
plunged Ethiopia into a war.
Finally, by December 2021, Declan Walsh must have felt challenged, as the attack on the five federal bases had become acknowledged as fact and was getting more mention https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-5 ... ts%20ranks. in the media. This accounts for the timing of the “new evidence” that the prime minister
had been planning a military campaign in the northern Tigray region for months before the war (…).
Mr. Walsh was rationalizing his early choice of virtually ignoring the attack on the Northern Command.
That this is how the war began is no longer controversial. Yet even as of 2023, The Guardian’s official view frames it as a mere accusation: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/ ... ry%20bases.
Once again, legitimacy to rule Ethiopia is reduced to the big man exercising “his authority”. And “challenging his authority” is a hell of a euphemism for raiding national armories and usurping the command of the national army.Fighting broke out in November 2020 when Ethiopia’s prime minister Abiy Ahmed deployed the army to arrest Tigrayan leaders who had been challenging his authority for months and whom he accused of attacking federal military bases.
To read the full story of Getting Ethiopia Dead Wrong: https://rsonderriis.substack.com/p/gett ... dead-wrong
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3 years ago this time, forces loyal to TPLF attacked the ENDF northern command. Half of them were brutally murdered in their sleep and the rest run to #Eritrea. The people of Eritrea
, openly received them and cared for them until they could reorganize. The rest is history. The EDF stood with the ENDF to bring peace and justice in Ethiopia. Now Abiy Ahmed Ali has turned this upside down. To what end?Re: የወተት ፖሊቲካ።
I don't see any Adgi N'hamedu, anywhere! 
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