
“Tigray media activists say no humanitarian aid has entered Tigray region after the 21 WFP trucks for which there was huge media coverage, accuses PM Abiy’s regime of using this method of releasing trucks to ease IC pressure, but maintains deadly siege on the region” (Morad News, 05.04.2022).
Since 24th March there has only been 21 World Food Programme (WFP) trucks and that’s been about 12 days. The Tigray region needs massively more from the aid organization to help the ones in need after the humanitarian blockade that been steadily going on since November 2020. It is not like the 21 trucks could even patch the hurt. That is only a tear-drop in an ocean of need.
The ones celebrating these returning is doing it early. They only entered to create some fancy headlines. Just like the Press Release on the 24th March and the follow-up. While we know the stakeholders of the conflict haven’t been participating in the announcement. That was only done to foil the international community and make it seem peaceful. Alas, it couldn’t be further from the case.
The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) or the Federal Government only allowed in bare minimum and nothing has ever entered since. It was just a window of relief, which is barely that. Since, the reports of the amounts of which is really needed. Shows the 21 trucks isn’t it… and we all should know that.
The OCHA reports over the last year shows the endless needs for the Tigray region. Also in Afar region and parts of the Amhara region. These are part of war-zone and where the conflict has been during civil-war. That is just the mere reality here and this is why you know the “humanitarian truce” wasn’t legit when none was talked to or engaged with.
The Prosperity Party and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali still have grievances towards the leadership of Mekelle. He wouldn’t allow a free flow of aid or humanitarian convoys in the area. The PM and the Federal Government has already weaponized food-security and is happily serving food insecurity to innocent civilians within Tigray region. That’s why we know the WFP is only coming in with breadcrumbs… when they need a bakery to built and spread the produced breads across the region yesterday.
That is why the “Humanitarian Truce” is a lie. This is not legit. It is only done to create some friendly headlines. Hoping some senators or representatives isn’t sanctioning or suddenly ceasing some bilateral agreements with the regime in Addis Ababa.
We know they have initiated and successfully achieved the creation of a man-made famine, possible large scale starvation and people dying of lack of nutrition. As well, as the lack of basic necessities as water and electricity. The hospitals doesn’t have medicines or the ability to cater to the sick. That’s all been a deliberate scheme to hurt the region and everyone for being under control by a defiant party – Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). Which has been vilified beyond recognition and the justification for that… is their past transgressions, which the TPLF should answer for in the courts. Not by starving and killing this generation Tigrayans. That’s just show this is a collective punishment and not targeting the ones who did things in the past.
Alas, Abiy and PP has ensured that they will be remembered for this bloodshed. The massacres of Western Tigray, the looting and destruction of the region as a whole. And taking away on generation opportunity to get a better life. Just because one party didn’t decide to join the new formation of the Prosperity Party after the end of the coalition EPRDF.
21 trucks isn’t enough. Everyone knows that. It is just a beginning and hardly even that. When the numbers are so vast and the amount of people lacking food is enormous. Peace.