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Well, this Tigray conflict is really showing the sinister and evil sign of men. Professor Beyene Petros is no difference. He is now an ally of the administration in Addis Ababa. Another token supporter and a mouth-piece for them. I don’t know for what reason, but he got to get something for his words and actions. People tend to do these things for a reason and not without any sort of positive package coming their way.
It is really insane that a man is saying there is no warfare in the Tigray Region. When it’s not long ago. When the Prime Minister Ahmed Ali Abiy said the government was fighting on 8 fronts. The Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF), Eritrean Defence Force (EDF) and Amhara Para-Military Group “Fano” was involved in fighting the Tigray Defence Force (TDF). Alas, we are just supposed to forget that.
Also, there is a telling. That he says this. As there are so many who are starving, internally displaced, exiled and massacred. There are so many indications of war and this man is bluntly saying in his place of peace. That the war doesn’t exists.
This is outrageous and obnoxious that someone can utter these words. As the warfare is persisting to this day. That has been happening on the steady since early November 2020. The deaths, murders, the victims and the innocent who has died, because of the conflict.
Still, the old professor is saying it is inactive. How disgraceful isn’t that to all the folks who has died? To all the people who has suffered, who are suffering and who are lingering on the edge of starvation. What redeeming factor does the Professor have for them?
Well, he got none and surely his pay-off must be sweet. Hope it tastes of honey, smell of roses and limited edition exports of grandeur, which the ordinary man never can afford. Because, his surely serving the cause of Addis Ababa and Asmara. They are both giddy at this and they have a token buddy on their side.
It is like the fatalities, the destroyed villages, hospitals, factories and so on. Is just a distant memory. The looting, the rapes and the murders are water-under-bridge. Who needs to know about that… when you have masterminds like the professor dismissing it.
Who cares if there been plenty of divisions from two armies coming to aide of the state fighting TDF and the TPLF. Right? They are just fighting in an non-existing conflict, which people are dying from too. These people are dying natural deaths for no apparent reason. People are raped for no apparent reason. Society is broken down, local government twisted to pieces and the region is suffering for no apparent reason.
How foolish are you Mr. Professor? What do take people for? The bullets are singing and their song is “murder”. What are you thinking?
No conflict, therefore, no need for ceasefire. Who are you kidding? The dead will not speak out, but we the living got too. Since this is just fools errand and I hope he got the bag. I hope this old man got his hefty pension and perks to infinity. Because, there is no other way he can reason in such a manner. This is not common sense.
You are not sending armies, para-military groups and using these sorts of tactics and not called warfare. Warfare is a part of war. This is civil war and not a police operation catching a chicken thief. No, this is a mechanical and a tactical war. Which was supposed to be ended in late November after a few weeks, but is still on-going to this day.
The state will have to suffer the consequences of it for decades and a generation who was scorned will never forget the ills the Addis Ababa administration put them through. They will be torn and scorn for life. That is because of the will of power and to keep everyone under the spell of one man. He could not co-exist without the former allies in Mekelle. That’s why he had to destroy them and the blunt cost of that was the total destruction of the whole Tigray region. Which the Professor claims is “peaceful” or without war.
Professor Beyene Petros better get his mind right. He needs it. There is too many bad reports and proof of warfare. He just want to be a voice in support and get brownie-points with the leadership. Clearly he have gotten that today. However, his name will also be in upper-echelon of ridicule, as we all know this is a bogus attempt of whitewashing the war. Peace.

