Past Ethiopian governments had been using famine to kill Tigrayans & Abiy looks to follow that trend!
Posted: 30 Dec 2023, 12:39
1- During the 1958 "Tigray Famine" Emperor Haileselesie refused to send basic emergency food aid to Tigray, even though he had the money, and over 100000 Tigrayans died.
2- During 1983- 1985 "Ethiopian Famine" 1.2 million Ethiopians died( majority Tigrayans) because the then Military government used food as a weapon of war.
Abiy is currently trying to use same tactic to destroy the people of Tigray by denying the existence of famine in Tigray as a delaying tactic to kill the people of Tigray.
Extracted from " Wikipedia - Tigray Province"
"The decline of Tigrayan ethnic population in Ethiopia (and in present-day districts like Addi Arkay (woreda), Kobo (woreda) & Sanja (woreda)), during Haile Selassie's rule is likely to have been his immense oppression & systematic persecution against non-Amhara ethnic people of Ethiopia (in particular, his immense systematic persecution of Tigrayans). For example, on the 1958 Tigray famine, Haile Selassie refused to send basic emergency food aid to Tigray province even though he had the money; so in consequence over 100,000 people died of the famine (in Tigray province).
Later on, the Mengistu Haile Mariam-led military dictatorship (Derg) also used the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia as government policy (by restricting food supplies) for counter-insurgency strategy, and for "social transformation" in non-insurgent areas (against people of Tigray province, Wello province and so on).Due to organized government policies that deliberately multiplied the effects of the famine, around 1.2 million people died in Ethiopia from this famine where majority of the death tolls were from Tigray province (and other parts of northern Ethiopia)."
2- During 1983- 1985 "Ethiopian Famine" 1.2 million Ethiopians died( majority Tigrayans) because the then Military government used food as a weapon of war.
Abiy is currently trying to use same tactic to destroy the people of Tigray by denying the existence of famine in Tigray as a delaying tactic to kill the people of Tigray.
Extracted from " Wikipedia - Tigray Province"
"The decline of Tigrayan ethnic population in Ethiopia (and in present-day districts like Addi Arkay (woreda), Kobo (woreda) & Sanja (woreda)), during Haile Selassie's rule is likely to have been his immense oppression & systematic persecution against non-Amhara ethnic people of Ethiopia (in particular, his immense systematic persecution of Tigrayans). For example, on the 1958 Tigray famine, Haile Selassie refused to send basic emergency food aid to Tigray province even though he had the money; so in consequence over 100,000 people died of the famine (in Tigray province).
Later on, the Mengistu Haile Mariam-led military dictatorship (Derg) also used the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia as government policy (by restricting food supplies) for counter-insurgency strategy, and for "social transformation" in non-insurgent areas (against people of Tigray province, Wello province and so on).Due to organized government policies that deliberately multiplied the effects of the famine, around 1.2 million people died in Ethiopia from this famine where majority of the death tolls were from Tigray province (and other parts of northern Ethiopia)."