On this eve of an eminent battle for the city of Mek’ele, it has become crystal clear that the TPLF will not give up and disarm for the good of the very people their acronym is named after. As noted plenty of times, the full responsibly of what is about to unfold lays at the feet of Debretsion Gebremichae, Fetlework Gebregziabher, Getachew Reda and the TPLF leadership who have decided to plunge the whole of Tigray into the hell of war and made a Machiavellian choice of using 500,000 residents of Mek’ele as human shields. They are doing this in order to avoid consequences for their actions when they started a campaign of terror on the night of November 3rd by butchering Ethiopian National Defense Forces soldiers in the dead of night while they were sleeping.
Though some in the press are spinning this as “Abiy’s war of choice”, the truth is that the TPLF left Mr. Ahmed no choice at all the minute they picked up guns in order to achieve political and economic objectives. Imagine if you will what America would have done if rogue elements in Texas, with enough firepower to almost have parity with the US military, attacked Fort Hood? What would the president of the United States have done if these same extremists started killing civilians in Dallas? What would our government have done if these outlaws then barricaded themselves in San Antonio and started launching rockets at St. Louis and then doubled down on their malicious deeds by lobbing missiles into Canada in order to expand a local conflict into a continental war?
Would the director of Human Rights Watch be giving a moral equivalency between an unprovoked attack and an attempt by the US to restore law and order? Yet this is exactly what Gerry Simpson, the director of Human Rights Watch did, going as far as using pictures unrelated to Ethiopia in order to spin a narrative that could destabilize the entire Horn of Africa let alone Ethiopia. Would Susan Rice have called the Commander-in-Chief a war criminal because he sent the military in to confront homegrown terrorists? Would the international press be howling collectively and...continued...
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Re: Breaking! Eminent Battle for Mek’ele
Brilliantly written and factual piece/chronicle
The double standard of the West is something constant.
Thank you Tewodros, for providing such insightful perspective on the conflict!
The double standard of the West is something constant.
Thank you Tewodros, for providing such insightful perspective on the conflict!