Mereja.Forum

[DefendTheTruth]

Peace is one of the most precious commodities that the humans cherish in the world we all share. To protect and preserve peace is the most important duties of all those responsible for administering the affairs of this world and all of its residents.

One thing that should be clear to all is that peace can’t also be ensured just because we keep wishing for it. It has to be actively protected and ensured by all players of the field.

Nobel Peace Prize for Peace is one of the prestigious recognition of the accomplishments of those engaged in keeping peace, including crafting laws, implementing those legislations and taking extra measures as needed, when and where peace is endangered to restore it and sustain it.

Ethiopian PM, as world Peace Laureate, is not engaging himself in destroying peace, he and his administration are engaging themselves in an effort to ensure peace, as such he is proving himself as a true man of peace.

The notion that he is engaging to destroy peace would imply that his opponents in the current conflict in the country are victimized by his attempt to destroy peace. Facts on the ground don’t support this framing. He has shown extremely high level of restraint to rushing to declare war, even in the face of his opponents repeated attempts, who have been the prime instigators of violence, including on the personal life of the PM himself on multiple occasions, starting right after he was inaugurated to office.

He is the first leader of the country, who came to power without resorting to any means of violence in its recent history, while his opponents came to power by means of violence and kept the power by mere means of violence for nearly three decades in the same country. They couldn’t come into terms with such state of the matter and it is not any secret that they wanted to reverse the course of history back to the same old tactic of grabbing power by means of violence.

Just few weeks into his start of office there was an attempt to assassinate him at a big rally that was organized in the capital city of the country, which hundreds of thousands of citizens were attending.

Shortly after that the whole brigade of Army officers were dispatched to his office to kill him and initiate a violence to unseat the government once again un-peacefully and bring back those who have been just removed by popular resistance in all walks of life of the country.

Ever since he came to power there were countless attempts to instigate violence in the country the purpose of all of which remains solely removing the government by means of used to violence instead of peaceful transition. In all of those instances the PM and his government didn’t immediately rush to declaring war and showed extreme level of restrains. This can only be achieved by a man of peace and the PM deserved to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, in my view at least.

Restraints and patience also have got their respective limits and it came to that point with the current PM of Ethiopia, when the renegade remnants of the old Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF) openly ambushed the national Army of the country that themselves have been leading for nearly 3 decades until 2018, to steal its armaments and all kinds of military hardware from it and make it under the control of the group, exposing the country to additional security risks for its national sovereignty and integrity. This is his constitutional duty and failing to fulfil this duty would have amounted to dereliction of duty as a head of government.

If there is someone, who could consider that this may be assumed as overstepping his responsibility as a head of a government then I should say I might have lost words to describe it.

If it is, on the other hand, considered to be his responsibility to protect the rule of law in the country and bring the perpetrators to face justice, then the other option to describe the PM is that he is truly a man of peace and as such he deserved the internationally recognized Nobel Peace Prize and not destroying peace and the international media outlets shouldn’t confuse their respective audience if they may care about their own credibility.

[DefendTheTruth]

They say, truth can get thin but will never get brocken. And if we can say with our own conscience, then we have to give credit to where it is due and always be prepared to give priority to the issue that truly also deserves that same priority.

Now, information is coming out that many of the western media I was referring to in the post were either bribed or at least lobbied by one side of the conflict and that should have been the reason behind the clrear distortion of their reporting with regard to the conflict.

The massive distortion didn't manage to destroy the truth and the truth finally started to come out from the shadow of falsehood.

One of the truths that I came across today is the following article, in my view of course.

Ethiopia’s Conflict: A War Won to Preserve the Nation-State

Notwithstanding criticisms by some spectators, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was obligated to respond with force to safeguard the sovereignty of Ethiopia, in a similar manner to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s all-out war to preserve the Union. The nation-state, which Prime Minister Abiy was defending, is not a coalition or association of separate states or semi-autonomous regions. Rather it is a unique sovereign concept of self-governing that transcends various ethnic or religious beliefs. The nation-state is uniquely required to serve all its citizens and ensure the posterity of its people. That is why throughout history, bloody wars have been fought to preserve the precious nation-state above all other considerations. The military conflict was not a civil war, but more precisely, it was a war to preserve the integrity of the Ethiopian nation.