When unfortunate historical circumstance allowed the TPLF (Tigray People’s Liberation Front) to take power in Ethiopia in 1991, dismantling the National Military Forces and replacing it with a force that is loyal to it was one of the first crimes the TPLF perpetrated on Ethiopians. Considering that a well-trained military is critical to nation building, it was clear from the get go that TPLF leaders including Meles Zenawi, Tamrat Layne and Seye Abraha were preparing the groundwork to loot the country and never had any interest in establishing a strong democratic nation.
On November 4, 2020, the same criminal group perpetrated the worst kind of treason, backstabbing and killing hundreds of members of the Ethiopian Northern Command Forces in their sleep. The TPLF humiliated hundreds, forcing them to walk naked and barefoot to neighboring Eritrea, drove heavy truck on some members of the military, and stripped down hundreds of women soldiers and left them in a gallery, humiliated and starving. At the same time, TPLF trained youth group called Samri, massacred close to one thousand Amhara Ethiopians in Mai Kadra. Despite heart-wrenching challenges, the Ethiopian military forces regrouped, demonstrating unmatched bravery by destroying TPLF forces armed with more than 80% of the country’s stolen heavy weaponry.
Left with only a few of its corrupt leaders, its diaspora misinformation wing, and billions of dollars looted from poor Ethiopians, the TPLF continued its misinformation campaign. Former members of the criminal enterprise, including former central committee member, Tedros Adhanom (World Health Organization) encouraged the manufacturing of fake news. Unfortunately people with influential positions considered by many Ethiopians as honorary TPLF members like Susan Rice (former national security advisor to Obama), Martin Plaut (former BBC editor), Alex de Waal (Tufts University), and Pekka Haavisto (Finland’s foreign minister) became consumers and propagators of TPLF lies and misinformation.
It became common for the Biden administration, the EU and some UN agencies to be quick to condemn the Ethiopian Military and friendly Eritrean forces based on misinformation while they demonstrate a lot of reluctance to condemn obvious criminal acts perpetrated by the TPLF, including the use of child soldiers. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who is acting like a border demarcation agent working for the TPLF, never had the courage to condemn the TPLF for its heinous crimes in Mai Kadra and the Afar region.
When the TPLF supporters manufacture news, western media outlets, including CNN, the Washington post and the NY times become propagators of the lies without doing any fact checking. For the majority of Ethiopians, the alliance between the TPLF, amnesty international, some UN agencies, the US and EU became extremely nauseating. Many Ethiopian Americans who voted for Biden felt like they have voted for an administration full of TPLF members, and they are vowing not to vote for a democrat the next round.
The bravery displayed by the northern command forces should be a great lesson to the enemies of Ethiopia. The galvanizing response by Ethiopians of all ethnic and religious background to join the Ethiopian military forces and defend their nation should remind enemies what Ethiopians did after responding to a call made by their beloved king in 1895 to fight against cruel colonial invaders.
The TPLF is now in its final days becoming very predictable. Despite a responsible ceasefire announcement by the military forces on June 28, 2021, the TPLF continued terrorizing neighboring Amhara and Afar regions for weeks. Well-known TPLF critics, including Araya Tesfamariam predicted TPLF’s plan to collect and throw the corpses of its own soldiers (poor Tigrean kids) into the Tekeze River and blame it on Ethiopian soldiers for international attention. TPLF did exactly as predicted and western media immediately started to accuse the Ethiopian government based on precooked genocide stories, which makes you, wonder how the Mai Kadra genocide never made it to their front pages.
The Ethiopian government implemented a ceasefire to save lives and to allow Tigrean farmers to prepare their land for cropping. Unfortunately, irresponsible TPLF leaders are determined to sacrifice poor Tigrean kids for a war that has no purpose while their own kids are enjoying looted treasures in the US and European cities. It is clear that Ethiopia cannot be at peace and prosper unless the TPLF is buried in concrete, and the Ethiopian military has the support of one hundred million citizens to punish terrorist TPLF leaders one last time and complete their burial.
To the remaining corrupt and moronic TPLF leaders and to TPLF diaspora members and supporters, let it be clear that Ethiopians from North to South and from East to West are declaring: no more corrupt, treasonous TPLF looters, no more selfish hyena dividers and inhumane torturers. To the Americans, we say, look at the mess you created in Afghanistan and Libya, and learn from your mistakes and keep your hands off Ethiopia! To Abdalla Hamdok of Sudan we say, fix your own problems, stop training terrorist TPLF members, invading your neighbor and being a tool for Neocolonialist powers!
We stand with our brave military forces and their families who are paying the ultimate price to protect our motherland and we ask all diaspora Ethiopians to do so by helping the Ethiopian military and their families!
Ethiopia Shall Prevail!
Long live Ethiopia and Long live the Ethiopian Military Forces!
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