

Ethiopia: Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in Eastern Australia & New Zealand Diocese Office – Stop Amhara Genocide (02.10.2024)





“Ethiopia has officially appointed Ambassador Taye Atske-Selassie as the country’s new President. The announcement came during the 4th-year opening ceremony of the 6th House of People’s Representatives and the 4th House of Federation joint session today” (Ethiopian Press Agency, 07.10.2024).
The demotion from being the Minister of Foreign Affairs to become the Ceremonial President has begun. Taye Atske-Selassie will be the silent partner and confidant of the Prime Minister of Ethiopia.
The ones that think Atske-Selassie will be a defiant or a man of honour is wrong. He will be there to serve his Prime Minister and his party. That’s why he was appointed and elected to the role of President.
He has gone from serving as an ambassador to become the Foreign Minister and now he has gotten a token office. That is what his getting and that because the PM knows what his getting.
Atske-Selassie wouldn’t be in the mix, if Abiy wasn’t sure that he had a loyal cadre on his side. The new President has praised most of the achievements and the government programs of Abiy. That will he continue to do, and he won’t budge.
As President he will accept the fate of war in the Amhara region. He won’t stop or be in the way of conflicts elsewhere on the Horn of Africa. As we have seen him openly defend and be a voice of the Federal Republic in regards to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Somaliland. Therefore, Abiy has an ally and a man that will carry his water in this man.
This is man that serves one purpose and one purpose only. That’s to be there and be the man that supports the Prime Minister. It don’t matter what he does or how he operates. This President will be the spokesperson and the figurehead of that government. He will be there for the glory and the prestige, but he won’t have a say.
Abiy has now his puppet and he will dance when the Prime Minister says so. Peace.


“It is clear that the more the group gets additional terms in office, the more consequences and national destruction it will bring. Therefore, the TPLF Central Committee decided at its meeting on September 24, 2017 to resign the individuals in the group from their administrative positions on behalf of the TPLF and replace them with other representatives of the party. Hence, the following individuals have resigned from their administrative responsibilities as of October 7 today” (Tigray People’s Liberation Front, 07.10.2024).
Today is the day.. the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) have initially takeover the Tigray Interim Regional Administration (TIRA). This is appointing a new leadership from the TPLF-D and not from the TPLF-R.
Getachew Reda is in real trouble here. Reda is currently being chastised and being fired by the party that he has been a part of. Now TIRA is getting a new leadership and the TPLF is appointing them.
The problem here is that the TIRA was created as a part of the Pretoria Agreement. That is the current interim government in the Tigray region. This is a creation of Abiy and such to ensure he has allies and people he can control in Tigray. That’s why he allowed it to happen… and let Getachew Reda take the reigns.
Now with the time going, the Debretsion Gebremichael is trying to reign it in. They are trying to take control of the TIRA. An entity that it doesn’t directly “own” or has “ownership” of. As it is a creation made for having puppets in Tigray.
Prime Minister Abiy wouldn’t allow “hardliners” or anyone who opposes him in office in Tigray. He would have other excuses to freeze it or stop it from functioning. That’s why Debretsion Gebremichael is playing a dangerous game.
Debretsion Gebremichael is already struggling to get the TPLF rectified and get it as a legal political entity. The Federal Authorities haven’t accepted it after calling it a “terrorist” organization during the war in the North. Therefore, his playing with fire and won’t win here.
The winner here is Abiy. Reda is losing too, but Debretsion won’t feel victorious either. Especially, if the people around the PM won’t accept the changes or allow it. Because, that isn’t up to the TPLF. The TIRA is destined and decided from a far. That won’t be an easy gambit.
Getachew Reda can easily linger on in office. Even if the TPLF-D sacks him. That’s because Abiy wants to keep him. It gives him the energy and weakens the TPLF. That’s a victory for the Prosperity Party. As the TPLF is doing more in-fighting and less governance. The TPLF aren’t governing, but fighting for roles and offices. That’s what Abiy wants to corrupt and make people weak enough to take his bait. Therefore, TPLF-D is losing here and not winning.
The TPLF as a whole is losing by the share definition of mediocre acts it’s doing. Instead of focusing on the betterment and restructuring the state after the war. Instead of looking into the pressing matters and the questions lingering after the Cessation of Hostilities. It is instead bound by internal spite and conflict, which could have been resolved over a cup of coffee.
These gentlemen knows better and they are playing a high stakes game. Neither will win here. The victor here is residing in Addis. He is grinning and laughing at this. Because, he see them fight over the spoils and the little token he gave after fighting them. This isn’t the strong party of old, and neither is it showing any sort of strength. Peace.




“Several incidents occurred. There was gaps during the war. In areas, such as Adigrat, Adwa, and Aksum, there was terrible actions that took place. At that time, the Shabia army also arrived. Since it was a situation where one could not check and balance the other, there was some anti-democratic actions. At that time, it was like that, but leadership was also involved. It wasn’t a good job. Of course. It wasn’t as bad as they portrayed it; factories was dismantled and taken, property was looted, and people were killed. The massacre wasn’t quite like it was narrated. There was damage, but what was said wasn’t the kind that was portrayed for media consumption. The one at fault is the TPLF itself. When the Shabia army passed through there, they opened fire on them. How did they do that? They infiltrated the city with militia and armed people. It was like sudden attack. This was transpired within the city. And to defend themselves, they (Eritrean soldiers) didn’t differentiate one from the others, they took measures. That’s what happened. It’s not like they went into every house; it was a city, right? It (Eritrean soldiers) was fired upon and since there were many people in the city when retaliation was given, there were casualties. The provocations was done intentionally to cause harm. If you organize an armed group and send them into a city where an army is peacefully passing through then open fire, it has to defend itself. And to defend itself, it’s difficult to identify who is armed and who is not. They took action against those who attacked them. They followed and took action against those who fled or scattered; in the midst of this, peaceful people might have been harmed” – Field Marshal Berhanu Jula, Chief of the General Staff of the Ethiopian National Defense Force (01.10.2024).
The truth will be revealed and be told eventually. Now it is done for one reason or another. As the authorities, the state and the army itself wants to change the story. There are drip drops of knowledge. The ones involved will speak and say their peace.
Now the ENDF Field Marshal Berhanu Jula is speaking about the war in the north. He is addressing the conflict and how things went down. It is now over a year since the Pretoria Agreement and Cessation of Hostilities. We can wonder if it is in regard to this… and they want to downplay their own role. That would make sense now. However, it is telling that this is being said now!
Especially, when a Field Marshal says this and it co-incidentally fits the stories that was reported in 2021 about it. Now in 2024 the Army Commander is speaking and he does it with intent. We cannot know why right now… but it is for reason. Just look at the reports from 2021 and how conveniently it adds up!
Amnesty first reports:
“Between 19 and 29 November 2020, Eritrean troops operating in the Ethiopian city of Axum, Tigray, committed a series of human rights and humanitarian law violations, including killing hundreds of civilians. Over an approximately 24-hour period on 28-29 November, Eritrean soldiers deliberately shot civilians on the street and carried out systematic house-to-house searches, extrajudicially executing men and boys. The massacre was carried out in retaliation for an earlier attack by a small number of local militiamen, joined by local residents armed with sticks and stones” (Amnesty, February 2021).
EHRC states:
“Information collected during this preliminary investigation confirm that during the two days of November 28 and November 29, grave violations of human rights were committed and that in Aksum, over one hundred residents including visitors from other parts of the country who came to mark the annual Aksum Tsion celebration and internally displaced persons from other parts of Tigray, were killed by Eritrean soldiers” (EHRC, March 2021).
About the November 28th November Amnesty wrote this:
“From about 3 to 4 pm, lines of Eritrean trucks and tanks reportedly entered the city from the east. Their numbers bolstered by the new arrivals, Eritrean soldiers went on a rampage, shooting at civilian men and youths who were out on the streets attempting to flee in panic. The killing, which one witness said began around 4 pm, was carried out on a large scale and continued until the evening” (Amnesty, February 2021).
EHRC report says this:
“On November 25, members of ENDF were seen to be leaving Aksum and on November 26, residents said they could not see any “soldiers moving around the city”. On November 27, however, “a large number of Eritrean soldiers began coming into Aksum”. “They took up posts in three different locations of the city: ‘Maye Kuho’; ‘Samuna Fabrika’ and ‘Tsele’a’. On November 28, 2020, we started hearing heavy gun fire all around the city.”” (EHRC, March 2021).
You can it and it is evident, right?
Field Marshal spoke about this to make others look like villains and continue the blame-game. Meanwhile, he will treat it like a nothing affair. Because, if this had mattered. Something would have happened and the leaders in Addis Ababa would have called and notified Asmara about the transgressions. However, they were all in on it and didn’t mind the cost of the conflict. Therefore, this is to shade both the Eritrean involvement in the war and TPLF itself.
This just shows how they are throwing the allies under the bus and putting blame on them after the fact. Now they can do that after a fallout. That’s why the Field Marshal can address it and does it so blatantly.
The massacre of Axum should have consequences, but we haven’t seen any. Neither has the ENDF, Fano or EDF gotten any sort of punitive actions. Neither has the leaders in charge taking any accountability or tried to dig deep into the actions itself. This is why the investigations into it has gone nowhere. That’s because no one in office or in power wants the sinister acts revealed. Peace.


The last 24 hours must be humiliating for the rulers in Addis Ababa. As the armed rebellion in Amhara region is worsening for him. The Para-Military Group Fano, which has been deemed as unorganized and lack of leadership. That one can take over a bigger slice of the Amhara Region and even enter into Gondar (Gonder).
The armed group of FANO is able and has taken over 3 districts of the Gonder city. The historical city and the second biggest in the region are taken over by FANO. That’s a big fall and a utter failure of the ENDF. The Federal Government is just lacking composure and the tactical advances to ensure the safety of a city like this.
We know the citizens and everyone else will feel the pain of this. The armed forces will be brutal, and their actions will be questionable. Innocent lives will be taken from both sides. Just so they can supreme.
The Amhara region is steadily becoming a warzone and a place of insecurity, as the ENDF isn’t able or capable of controlling the FANO. That’s what is happening here, and the Federal Government is weakened as a result. That the former ally turned enemy becomes its worst nightmare. That’s what is going down…
The Prosperity Party and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali should be in dire straits here. They should revise their strategies and their ways of handling things. The way things are going. It is only going from bad to worse. There isn’t much to salvage from this and the trying to consolidate power at any means possible. Only ensures more conflict and more suffering on the third-party individuals that get caught in the crossfire. That’s what is happening and the whole Amhara region is caught up by it.
Some are saying the FANO should just start marching to Addis Ababa and overthrow the government. However, that’s a major task and it doesn’t have allies outside the region. It’s a regional force and made up by rebels, para-miliary trained forces and some former Regional Special Forces, which was disbanded and joined FANO. Therefore, the mentality and amount of training differs. Meanwhile the ENDF structure is supposed to be on another level, but that’s overstretched and lack proper coordination. At least how it looks like right now. When it cannot defend a city like Gondar.
This should send shockwaves across the nation. That a para-military group and former allies of the PM has taken over a city of this stature. It is the utter embarrassing acknowledgement of how Abiy has failed his nation. This is a sign of how he cannot keep the reign or be even credible as a Commander-in-Chief. No, his a lying and conniving man who has been made a fool of.
FANO now has a say and the ones paying the price is the people of Amhara. They are now under siege by their own militants. That’s what they are and we don’t know how this will end. It will be a bloodshed and innocent lives will be taken as a consequence. Warfare isn’t for the faint hearted. It will be bloody and everyone will point the finger at each other while doing it.
Abiy needs to reconsider and restructure things around him. His not assessing or having the personnel that can keep things in order. Neither is his wavy and selfish interests making things better. The lonely King with a crown and a palace in Addis Ababa won’t save anyone. Everyone else is left to ashes and he rules over it. That’s not bringing prosperity but bringing judgement day really fast. This is the legacy of the medemer terror and the plights that was carried during his time.
It is just tragic, and we will never know the true scope of the losses. We will not know the full extend and the cost of all of it. Only a fragment and rest will be kept shut. This is a dark day and more dark days to come. The utter failure and embarrassment will continue to persist. Because the price of consolidating power will continue as long as Abiy is in power. Peace.

