By Getahune Bekele -South Africa
Stupidity of this nature, witlessly attacking bases of the Northern Command and killing hundreds of Ethiopian soldiers on the night of 4 November 2020; deserves a standing ovation. That horrifying miscalculation by TPLF warlords and the criminal Adwa elite changed the course of history forever.
The attack halted Tigray’s legendary rags-to-riches march and stopped her meteoric rise and for the first time in 27 years, the doddering Stalinist old man, Sebhat Nega, failed to adorn his young concubines with opulent gold jewelry. The godfather of TPLF is now in jail.
Back to rags and back to rat holes for the still at large hateful TPLF warlords and for the filthy rich Adwa elite who possessed attributes peculiar to the gods for 27 years, never having to answer for their blood-curdling crimes and shattering economic sabotage. But the end is here.
As Ethiopia’s punishing counteroffensive gains momentum, the strategic towns of Maychew and Ambalage are taken by ENDF few days ago. Mekelle is next.
Behold the guillotine for the looting TPLF machine and for those who fanned the flames of civil war in this vast, diverse and strategically important nation. Of course Tigray is falling with the genocidal ethnic hate she carefully nurtured for 27 years to keep Ethiopians divided. Now it is over. Her spectacular and dramatic fall is ushering in a new era of togetherness for all Ethiopians, including Tigrayans.
A chance for all to ‘De-Tigranize’ the nation and undo TPLF’s structures of hate.
Squeezed between Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan, Tigray has been a De facto state for nearly three decades with zero de jure recognition from the west. The file photo above shows the eccentric terror connoisseur, Abbay Woldu, former president of Tigray, relaxing behind the yellow and red flag of his fiefdom. With him were former puppet PM of Ethiopia Hailemariam Desalegn and ICC fugitive Omar Al-Bashar of Sudan.
As it is clear for everyone to see, the now jailed brute, Abbay Woldu wasn’t sharing the podium with heads of state as governor of a tiny province, but as a powerful tyrant in the Horn of Africa region; more powerful than an ordinary ruler of a self-governing territory. Some say, breakaway territories often find it difficult to fit neatly into the established global order, but Tigray had no such problem.
In that sense, Tigray differed from Russian puppet sub-states like Abkhazia, South Ossetia or Transdniestria. TPLF’s homeland was more like Cook Islands. New Zealand gives the Islanders citizenship and defense as poor Ethiopia gave citizenship and defense to all ethnic Tigrayans for 27 years and beyond. As if that wasn’t enough, all ethnic Tigrayans enjoyed “master-race” status under the institutionalized ethnic apartheid system espoused by the late organ-eating TPLF warlord, Meles Zenawi- a symbol of modern day tyranny.
In the past three decades, when discontent morphed into protest against a repressive minority rule set up and controlled by one corrupt family from the town of Adwa, (birthplace of the late Meles Zenawi) in Tigray, when one privileged family tyrannized and terrorized millions, and when such dangerous perversion from the promised democratic rule was repeatedly exposed, strangely, TPLF remained the darling of western powers.
The prospect of violent conflict was looming large when Tigray annexed chunks of fertile and strategic land from adjacent Amhara and Afar provinces. When the Adwa elite used political power to steal, when the TPLF kleptocrats directed state funds to themselves and openly export their ill-gotten wealth to foreign nations in anticipation of losing power, of course, the prospect of insurrection was looming large.
No nation saw the evils of Thievocracy like the severely tyrannized Ethiopians.
For example, Tigray got no direct foreign aid or assistance but the bulk of the 3-billion dollars yearly aid meant for the indigent people of Ethiopia, for 27 years, allegedly went straight into the coffers of the secessionist enclave, contributing to what Ethiopians called “an unfair success of one region based on medieval ethnic apartheid system.”
Moreover, Tigray borrowed billions in the name of Ethiopia and spent the money, among other things, on pruning her war-chest, building torture catacombs and constructing defensive trenches across the mountainous province just like the paranoid communist Albania did several decades ago.
TPLF warlords and the Adwa elite knew war was imminent. One day, Ethiopians who were paralyzed by brute force will lose their fear. Now they have lost that fear and the anti TPLF insurrection is in full swing.
For vitriolic mass murderers with potent mixture of rage and hate, who were fixated on bringing a Rwanda-like genocide to Ethiopia, for the likes of Debretsion Gebremikael and Getachew Reda, it is game over. TPLF and the people of Tigray are separate entities. No place to hide from the long arm of justice both for the warlords and for the thievocrats of Adwa.
Currently, the consummate allies of the genocidal terrorist group, Susan Rice and Samantha Power are helplessly watching as Africa’s thieving de-facto State, Tigray, accelerates her descent to become a failed terror principality. The iron-curtain province is already on her knees. Soon, her more than 2-million vicious combatants who are fighting Ethiopians inside Ethiopia proper will have no home to go back to. Moreover, if the war drags on and on, the already faded support for the TPLF inside its own private fiefdom, Tigray, will lead to desperation and the desperation would explode into unprecedented mayhem, followed by open rebellion and insurrection against the most feared TPLF warlords and the Adwa elite.
As sacrificing thousands of starving combatants in Afar and Amhara regions, losing the propaganda war they once dominated too, is another crashing blow to the increasingly nervous junta. Tigray’s well-funded hype- squad led by US based race rioter Alula Solomon and the keyboard warriors who are tasked with creating and disseminating falsehood against Ethiopia are now silent. No one is buying their story. Everyone in Tigray knows that TPLF’s promise of returning to power and restoring the dead ethnic apartheid system isn’t just a poppycock dream but a cruel lie.
Even the TPLF anthem titled “if we are not in power, Ethiopia must disappear” is no longer serving as a rallying cry for the doomed warlords and the stricken Adwa elite.
Moreover, impoverished and malnourished Tigray mothers who lost their children in the senseless invasion of Ethiopia are reportedly demanding answers in hopeless despair. Sadly, they have lost their kids to the fast collapsing autocratic and nepotistic junta.
At the end of the Second World War, shortly after the surrender of Germany, English writer James Stern recounted the following in one German city.
“Crowed is gathered around a serious of photographs which though initially seeming to depict garbage instead reveal dead human bodies. Each photograph has a heading ‘WHO IS GUILTY?’ The spectators are silent, appearing hypnotized and eventually retreat one by one. The placards are later replaced with clearer photographs. ‘THIS TOWN IS GUILTY! YOU ARE ALL GUILTY!’.”
The same fate awaits hardcore TPLF terrorists and the voracious Adwa elite.
For the destruction and brazen pillaging of their country, Ethiopians have correctly assigned collective responsibility to the infamous enclave “heroes”. Soon, they will be forced to locate mass graves in Mai-kadra and they have to perform the gruesome task of exhumations by their own.
All TPLF warlords are guilty of mass murder, extreme treason and pillaging. They are guilty of savagely looting blood banks and bakeries in more than 50 towns and scores of villages across Ethiopia proper.
The Adwa elite is guilty.
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