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The Amazing, Eritrean Ghost Army.

Post by Zmeselo » 26 Dec 2020, 10:48




Martin Plaut is telling us (12/26) Eritrean forces have withdrawn from Tigray in time, when two UN observer teams arrive in Ethiopia. One is headed to Adigrat. They will not find any Eritrean forces, but they have already prepared an excuse. We still vividly remember the lies of the, "2000 Eritrean soldiers in Somalia" and "Eritrea delivering planeloads of weapons to Al shabaab" lies. Shameless!

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The tegaru themselves, testifying of the truth:



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The Tedros Adhanom-Michelle Bachelet Conspiracy of Lies and Disinformation on Ethiopia EXPOSED

By almariam

http://almariam.com/2020/12/26/the-tedr ... a-exposed/

On December 26, 2020


Michelle Bachelet is the former president of Chile (2006-2010)

Tedros Adhanom is a high level member of the terrorist group https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/Re ... rator=2127 known as the Tigrean Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF).

Today, Michelle Bachelet is the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Today, Tedros Adhanom is the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO).

Both Adhanom and Bachelet have their official headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

On May 20, 2018, Adhnom appointed https://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?optio ... 35&lang=en Bachelet as the
new Chair of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health of the World Health Organization (WHO).
On December 22, 2020, Bachelet came out swinging with an official statement damning the Ethiopian Government.

I thought Bachelet was a spokesperson for the TPLF, when I read her statement. Could Bachelet have replaced TPLF junta spokesman GetachewComicalReda, Ethiopia’s equivalent of Saddam Hussien’s “Comical Ali” who made up stories about Iraqi victories against the Americans.

Bachelet in a statement https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pag ... aPage=true said:

Seven weeks after the conflict began in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, the continuing lack of overall humanitarian access, coupled with an ongoing communications blackout in many areas, raises increasing concerns about the situation of civilians.

We have received allegations concerning violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law, including artillery strikes on populated areas, the deliberate targeting of civilians, extrajudicial killings and widespread looting.

Based on multiple accounts, the Amhara “Fano” militia has reportedly committed human rights abuses, including killing civilians and carrying out looting. The UN Human Rights Office has also received information, which it has not been able to verify, concerning the presence of Eritrean troops in Tigray, their involvement in the hostilities and related serious violations of international law…

To avoid continued conflict and loss of life, Ethiopia should address its longstanding ethnic divides through accountability, inclusive dialogue, reconciliation and respect for human rights.


Within minutes, Adhanom tweeted https://www.facebook.com/54491392557810 ... 58715/?d=n Bachelet’s most inflammatory and damning allegation (not fact):



We have received allegations concerning violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law, including artillery strikes on populated areas, the deliberate targeting of civilians, extrajudicial killings and widespread looting” says United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner, Michelle Bachelet.

This underscores the need for independent human rights monitors to be given access to Tigray to adequately assess the human suffering resulting from the conflict, verify allegations and to help ensure accountability for violations.


It does not require great genius to figure out the game Adhanom and Bachelet are playing, from their posh offices in Geneva.

It is a game called,
Let’s use our high offices to bring down Ethiopia, to demonize Ethiopia, to portray the Ethiopian government as a barbaric and savage force that attacks poor civilians in artillery barrages.
It is manifest to me that Adhanom and Bachelet concocted this statement.

After all, Adhanom gave Bachelet the prestigious chairmanship of the maternal health partnership, once held by none other than Nelson Mandela’s widow Graça Machel.

It is clear the Bachelet’s statement was concocted and designed, as an indictment of the Ethiopian Government.

Seven weeks after the conflict began in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, the continuing lack of overall humanitarian access… raises increasing concerns about the situation of civilians… In other words, the Ethiopian government which solely controls humanitarian access has intentionally blocked humanitarian aid endangering the well-being of civilians.

We have received allegations concerning violations of international humanitarian law including artillery strikes on populated areas, the deliberate targeting of civilians, extrajudicial killings and widespread looting. In other words, Ethiopian troops using their arsenal of artillery batteries are attacking Tigrean civilian targets indiscriminately massacring them and looting their property.

Based on multiple accounts, the Amhara “Fano” militia has reportedly committed human rights abuses, including killing civilians and carrying out looting. In other words, Amharas (using Fano as code name) are massacring Tigreans and looting their property.

To avoid continued conflict and loss of life, Ethiopia should address its longstanding ethnic divides through accountability, inclusive dialogue, reconciliation and respect for human rights. In other words, the Ethiopian government is hiding its own human rights crimes and should ultimately negotiate with the TPLF and reconcile with them.


I don’t know exactly, what kind of relationship Adhanom and Bachelet have. Their photographs taken in public show a degree of intimacy that exceeds the boundaries of expected decorum, between high level international civil servants.

I don’t know if Bachelet is returning the favor to Adhanom who appointed her as Chair of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health of the World Health Organization which in 2020 mobilized https://www.who.int/pmnch/media/news/20 ... ovid19/en/
financial and policy commitments amounting to $20.6 billion.
What Adhanom and Bachelet do privately is none of my business.



But it is my business, when they use their official positions to promote their private partisan political agenda to harm Ethiopia.

It is my business when Adhanom and Bachelet conspire to propagate lies, damned lies and disinformation on Ethiopia.

Adhanom is a dyed-in-the-wool TPLF cadre, even as he pretends to be WHO director.

In my book, once a terrorist always a terrorist.

It does not matter, if a terrorist wears designer suits and pretends to be a leader of an international organization.

Adhanom will stop at nothing to materially, financially support the dead TPLF, lobby governments and international organizations to revive the TPLF and spread lies and disinformation on Ethiopia.

Adhanom was recently caught, https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/ethiopi ... QRjDoOjIg8 secretly mobilizing military and diplomatic support for the TPLF. I have presented those details, in my recent commentary. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/ethiopi ... QRjDoOjIg8

I have offered my solution to the Adhanom problem, in my November 18, 2020 commentary. http://almariam.com/2020/11/18/why-tedr ... andbasket/

Suffice it to say, that the only solution to the ongoing Adhanom criminal conspiracy is for 1) the Ethiopian Government to issue a warrant for his arrest for violations of so many sections of the Ethiopian Criminal Law (Articles 17, 18, 238-242, etc.) and 2) lodge a complaint with the WHO Board and appropriate UN authorities and demand a full investigation into his covert political activities on behalf of the TPLF.

The bottom line is, Adhanom is incorrigible. He thinks he can outsmart everybody and no one will be able to figure out his behind the scenes conspiracies, shenanigans, lobbying, gunrunning and the rest.

Like the rest of his TPLF buddies, Adhanom can run for now but eventually he will be caught and brought to justice.

Adhanom! You can run but you will never be able to hide, under Mama Bachelet’s skirt.

POSTSCRIPT: The UN Human Rights Council is a citadel of hypocrisy and a travesty of human rights

I have always known the UNHRC, currently led by Bachelet, to be another one of those useless global bureaucratic (with a lot of American taxpayer) money pits that talks about human rights while walking with the worst human rights violators in the world. The Atlantic says https://www.theatlantic.com/internation ... ts/563276/ it is a
deeply flawed body.
All it does is put its stamp of approval on the self-serving human rights reports issued by countries, in its “Universal Periodic Review”.

In my June 2017 op ed in The Hill, https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/ ... ts-council I supported Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, in her argument the U.S. should withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council.

In June 2018, U.S. Secretary of States Mike Pompeo said, https://usun.usmission.gov/remarks-on-t ... s-council/ the
Human Rights Council has become an exercise in shameless hypocrisy – with many of the world’s worst human rights abuses going ignored, and some of the world’s most serious offenders sitting on the council itself.
Of course, he was referring to the presence of the TPLF, among others, at the Council.

The Council is a den for some of the world’s wickedest human rights violators, who have taken seats only to gain international respectability.

Consider the following evidence, on Ethiopia.

In its 2014 Universal Periodic Review, http://lib.ohchr.org/HRBodies/UPR/_layo ... ItemOpen=1 UNHRC reported that in Ethiopia,
Freedom of expression continued to thrive,
and that,
Ethiopia had zero tolerance for torture and inhuman, degrading or other cruel treatment.
However, Human Rights Watch (HRW) in 2014 reported https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2014/c ... s/ethiopia the existence of
severe restrictions on the rights to freedom of expression
in Ethiopia and the occurrence of
torture and abuse
in its prisons.

The 2014 U.S. human rights report https://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2 ... htsreport/ singled out Ethiopia for
stifling free and open media and the development of civil society
and
In its 2009 Universal Periodic Review, http://lib.ohchr.org/HRBodies/UPR/Docum ... TH_1_E.pdf HRC reported http://lib.ohchr.org/HRBodies/UPR/Docum ... TH_1_E.pdf Ethiopia had made
significant progress in freedom of expression
and
peaceful assembly and demonstration occurred without any barrier.
HRW https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2009/c ... s/ethiopia and other reports https://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2 ... 135953.htm sharply disagreed. It is extraordinary that the HRC ignores http://freeassembly.net/reports/ethiopi ... nications/ its own findings contradicting its periodic reviews on Ethiopia.

The defunct TPLF regime in Ethiopia is infamous for gross human rights violations. In November 2016, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights issued a resolution http://www.achpr.org/sessions/59th/resolutions/356/
condemning the deteriorating human rights situation
in Ethiopia and singled out
undue restrictions on fundamental human rights and freedoms resulting from the state of emergency.
http://www.ictpolicy.org/blog/wp-conten ... 5-2016.pdf

During TPLF Ethiopia’s membership in the HRC, there have been numerous instances of documented https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2017/c ... s/ethiopia gross human rights violations in Ethiopia. https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/265466.pdf

Despite the overwhelming evidence, the HRC has neither suspended, sanctioned or otherwise demanded compliance with global human rights conventions from Ethiopia.

To add insult to injury, for over a decade, the TPLF regime refused https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/04/21/fea ... -have-hide entry to all of the HRC’s special rapporteurs with impunity.

In August 2016, then UNHRC Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein urged http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethio ... SKCN10L1SY an independent investigation into the use of excessive force in Ethiopia, which was ignored by the regime.

Today, the High Commissioner Bachelet preaches and sermonizes Ethiopia on human rights violations.

Give me a break!

Truth be told, I don’t give a damn about the UNHCR.

But when the High Commissioner of the Council colludes and conspires to disseminate lies and disinformation on Ethiopia, I shall rise to defend!

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Re: The Amazing, Eritrean Ghost Army.

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Post by Zmeselo » 26 Dec 2020, 20:12



All the drama, in one frame! Thanks, to Alemayo Tefera's great cartoon!

Carrying this drama, thousands of TPLF trolls & Fake News factories in their last pay days and a new covid variant for the new year. But Eritrea & Ethiopia, shall prevail!
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