
The information coming out from Ethiopia is concerning. The Federal Government are targeting all Tigrayan people. There is a direct purge on all of this ethnicity. The ones fleeing from the Republic right now is of this ethnic background. As civil servants, officers and others are suspended from their jobs. This is all a deliberate attack on everyone associated with the Tigray.
The Prosperity Party have issued harsh orders. They are calling it a Law Enforcement Operation. However, we all know that this is warfare and not just a cause to catch some random criminals. The state has issued orders or war and doing military operation within the regional state of Tigray. They are targeting the elected regional government of Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). The local government and former governing party who has defied the Prime Minister.
This is the revenge of Prime Minister Ahmed Ali Abiy. That is the tragic reality. Because, of a man who doesn’t want to listen and have dialogue. A man who doesn’t want to negotiate, but consolidate all power. This is why his attacking TPLF and the Tigray region. It is to boost his ego and get of his last big enemy. An enemy, which he wasn’t able to play or make belief to become a subject under him.
The PM has been able to let other parties in, write deals and agreements, but later arrest and criminalize their efforts at a later moment. This is what he has done to his opposition in Oromia. Where the Oromia leadership and party leaders are behind bars. Where activists are lingering in jail too. Where the state have brutalized protests and done what it could to silence dissent.
Now, the PM is focused on destroying and silencing the Tigray leadership. He has ordered soldiers, airstrikes over cities and moves in a pincer way to block all movement of Tigray soldiers. They are even in Sudan and gotten safety there. The Federal Government soldiers are able to cross into Sudan to be safe. While the Tigray will be extradited like the ones who fled to exile in Djibouti. The PP is able by friendships abroad to ensure a helping hand for everyone who flees the conflict.
There are reports of possible 500 soldiers who has fallen. These numbers are hard to verify. As there are no internet, telephones and such. There is blockage of all food and supplies to the region. The Regional Government is using donkeys to get supplies in. Fuel is blocked as well. The Federal Government is ensuring that all things are stopping.
This will ensure that all citizens and everyone who happens to live in the region will be hit by this. There is no one who is not touched. The TPLF and PP is punishing everyone. While Amhara government and the PP is attacking the TPLF. The TPLF who represents the Tigray Regional Government. A government the House of Federation has dismissed and said is unconstitutional.
The PP is quick to use the Constitution against the TPLF. However, they are using it quickly against others, but not following it themselves. As they can easily pull the trigger, cause violence and suspend elections. That is what they have done. While misusing power and not having a official mandate themselves.
The Prime Minister have ordered and issuing warfare in the region. They are taking border towns, but with casualties. This is an act of revenge. An act of a coward who didn’t want to talk and listen, but choose instead to pull the trigger. That is why the PM has said no to Special Envoy Kalonzo Musyoka from Kenya and also interference from IGAD. Therefore, the PM is entrenched on his own agenda. Hoping he can blow and bully the TPLF away.
This here will not be a quick fix. The ramifications will linger on for years. The damage done now will be impossible to recover quick and find solutions too. The PM is creating more problems for himself and he cannot save face.
The PM is a Lord of War now. The ballad of bullets and the songs of death will be his songs. Civilians will either get caught in cross-fire or starve, as the big-men is causing this devilish havoc on them.
The Federal Government is using the rule of law and the Constitution as a shield, but that will not save it. Because, the effects and the aftermath of the war will haunt it. The deceased and the bloodshed made by it. Will be the legacy the state remains. The Prime Minister will be remembered for sending soldiers into a constitutional dispute in the midst of a global pandemic. The Prime Minister will be remembered for issuing this war and working hard to defend it. However, pointless that is, because there is no way he can make some reasonable sense of it.
It is total devastation and the costs of lives shouldn’t be this cheap. Nevertheless, the value of lives is only for the elites, while the peasants can be sacrificed on their alter of wealth. Since that is how it seems. This is why the PP and Abiy can forge stories and destroy lives to stay in power. While citizens are struggling in the midst of all of this.
The TPLF is the former oppressor and has blood on their hands. They should answer for their sins as well. However, that should be answered in Courts of Law and not on a battlefield. The TPLF isn’t saints, but this is a illegitimate war towards them. The PP knows this, the PM knows and everyone with some sense see that.
The PM want credibility and legitimacy for doing this. He wants international community to believe it, but its all game of power. This is to bury the ones who defied him. The ones who didn’t follow him and didn’t act accordingly. That is why he waged war. A constitutional dispute turned into civil war.
Where the big-men will most likely survive, but innocent civilians will die. Where soldiers ordered will go into combat and die too. On orders of the same big-men who will not be in the field, but look at stats in secure buildings. They will drink coffee and eat good, while the public will starve. There is no victor here. Only the ones who lose the least. There is nothing positive coming out of this. Only more people in the trenches and more people dying.
For one simple reason: One man’s ego to have all power within his hands.
That’s it and that’s the tragedy here. That its one man who decided to do this and he will not be touched. However, his soldiers, his citizens and everyone in the nearby areas will be bystanders who suddenly hit by it.
The amount of casualties reported only shows the tragic effects of doing this. There isn’t good to take away from this. Civil War creates nothing good, a war only creates more hopelessness and destructive actions, which in the dissolve morality. This is why some will defend this and say its alright. If you do… then there is no difference between you or the former oppressor. The TPLF should answer for sins and now the PP needs to answer for theirs. As they are creating it today… and tomorrow.
On a battlefield made by one man’s ego and not a just war. A war created over little or practically nothing, but the lives it costs is priceless and cannot be returned. Peace.