
“Any steady body of water must be in a tidal wave to move from its original position. To be a storm, it must be caused by volcanoes or hurricanes” (Muluneh, 09.08.2021).
The Amhara Regional Director of Communication Gizachew Muluneh published today a piece called “If we stop the storm, we won’t be afraid of the storm”. It was published at the Amhara Communications Facebook Page and at the Ethiopian Press Agency.
We know that the Tigray Defence Force (TDF) is advancing within the Amhara region and therefore, the Amhara Regional State who has been so invested in the conflict. It has to show force and release texts to defend it’s war. They had first the war in Tigray region with the Amhara Regional Special Forces and “Fano”. Both working for the cause of the Regional State and annex parts of it too.
This is why the piece was released today, as the roads are besieged and the propaganda needs to revitalize the new recruits ahead of warfare in the nearby area of bigger and centralized areas of the Regional State.
As he states: “Most of the waves in front of us, which are against our very existence, have been hit hard by our common arm; If there is a tidal wave left, it can only be called a tidal wave. The Amhara Special Forces: Militia, the Coalition of Nationalities and the National Defense Forces, retaliated. As a result of their self-defense measures, TNG was forced to lose its manpower to invade the Amhara region” ((Muluneh, 09.08.2021).
We know the advances are hitting hard and it is showing the force of the TDF. As several of armies has attacked it and they are still able to get further into the region. The Amhara and ENDF should have the capacity to stop this. However, they have been losing and the brigades haven’t been prepared for what is meeting them. This is why the Amhara regional government sounds the horn and the “wave” have to be hit now.
He continues: “The whole people of Amhara must continue their struggle to survive where they are, recognizing that we have no choice but to prevent the storm of catastrophe that has come to destroy us. It does matter” (Muluneh, 09.08.2021).
They are now calling it all destructive force. That’s how powerful the TDF is… and the storm will clearly take everything in its way. We know it has shown restrained and played by the rules. Even when all the government propaganda machinery claims it to be the vicious and vindictive. As the projection of their own acts in Tigray region comes home to haunt them. While the continues vilifying of the enemy continues. That is a never ending cycle and the leaders of Amhara continues with it.
He further says: “Therefore, in order to summarize the threat to our existence as a nation and as a people, our main goal should not only be to bury the melt-in-your-mouth, but also to fight the hurricane that caused the storm. Because without a hurricane, there is no such thing as a storm” (Muluneh, 09.08.2021).
Here his stating that they have to go to the “root” and stop the waves before they occur. This is meaning they want to kill and get rid of the Tigrayan before they even step on the soil of Amhara. That is something the Amhara has been doing since November 2020. They have worked on this and this sort of message is the defence of the massacres and the annexation of Western Tigray. Therefore, the Director says it metaphorically and we should all be aware.
In the end he says: “The first option is to pay the price for the risks and fight together to sustain our existence, uplift our history, and build a region and a country where true democracy and peace are guaranteed” (…) “There is no doubt that the hero will always be the first choice for our people and our fighters. And in order to be successful in our first choice and to be the proud people on the world stage, we must unite to eradicate the erroneous terrorist weed and the common enemy and cancer of our people. And it will happen. Victory for our heroes !!!” (Muluneh, 09.08.2021).
Here we see the same symbolism as the state has done before and the genocidal narrative of “cancer” and “weed”. That is how the Tigrayan people is called by the Amhara and the Prosperity Party. They have no qualms calling them that… and we know the ones fighting the genocidal war is heroes, while the other is terrorists. That is just how their rhetoric goes and its a never ending story.
It shows the intent and what the state is willing to public. This warfare in Ethiopia is showing the sinister side of the Republic and it’s current leadership. When they are promoting propaganda like this and uses state media to push it too. Peace.














