Author: Tentag

After the TPLF’s 27 years dictatorship was overthrown by a spontaneous rebellion and PM Haile Mariam resigned , PM Abiy was elected in April 2018 by the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) to finish the term. PM Abiy immediately began reforms. 

The TPLF settled in Mekele and removed itself from the coalition during the transition of the EPRDF to the Prosperity Party. Though unsuccessful, the TPLF resisted every reform measure by PM Abiy and carried on innumerable direct and indirect actions to eliminate PM Abiy and his reforms. 

PM Abiy, over the last three years continued as a transitional leader until the June 21, 2021 successful elections. Prosperity Party won the election by 410 votes and his party now is headed to take power in October this year. 

TPLF”s eight months war that began in November 2020 against PM Abiy became the last act for most of the TPLF leadership and PM Abiy declared a unilateral cease fire on June 28, 2021 in Tigray, a move that pulled back the ENDF and Eritrean forces out of Tigray Killil ending the current conflict. 

The move was unexpected and concerned US Senator Coons, whose shuttle diplomacy to Addis has not born fruit so far. He wanted to know about the security of his staff after the sudden evacuation of the ENDF from Tigray. 

During this conflict with the TPLF, the West, with help from their experts, predicted a long protracted war with no end in sight. They envisioned the displacement of the majority of the region’s population and an ever widening war that will involve the horn region countries . So far, the horn did not explode though over the years , it has always been a struggle to maintain peace in the area. The current unilateral cease-fire means PM Abiy is going to fight this war on his on terms.

So far , the ENDF destroyed most of the TPLF party heads and a significant portion of their regional army…as described on a recent interview by the TPLF general Tsadkan Gebre Tensai who rejoined the party/war and now speaks on the conflict. He said a significant size of their army and armor was decimated in the initial three weeks phase of the war. 

Despite PM Abiy’s decision for a unilateral cease-fire, the remaining TPLF heads, (including the general and the two wanted terrorist figures Getachew Reda and a weathered Debretsion Gebremichael) said they will continue the war and began fires in Wolkait-Tsegede, Alamata/ Kobo and promised too attack Asmara. Except for Asmara , their probing attacks began in the Amhara regions in the past two days. 

We hear these three TPLF party heads giving interviews on Voice of America (VOA) to let us know they are alive and mobilizing Tigrean children for war. A New York Times picture shows Tigray kids carrying arms as big as themselves. 

The current TPLF party heads continue to make contradictory demands showing a clear rift among themselves. Getachew Reda’s written set of preconditions for the Federal government is nothing short of asking the elected Ethiopian government to surrender. 

For now, the TPLF intransigence and promise to continue the war has forced the Amhara killil government to mobilize the people in the region in preparation for a defensive war. The elected government of PM Abiy and the Amhara regional government are coordinating and mobilizing to address this threat. 

What is clear is the TPLF continues its role as the sought after mole/banda in servitude of the West just as it was when it was in power. It wants to raise itself again and serve as a local mercenary force bent on the destruction of Ethiopia. Nothing depicts this more than the suffocating West propaganda supporting the TPLF and constant demand/ desire for land and air access in Tigray to fortify and militarily build the weakened TPLF.

Even after the Ethiopian and Eritrean forces have left the Killil, the West’s political and “humaitarian” propaganda campaign is ongoing daily to salvage/revive the remaining aged figureheads of TPLF terrorists. 

The West’s vociferous attempts to demonize PM Abiy’s government has backfired and the Ethiopian people votes, as announced by the National Election Board, showed who their next leader will be . 

Ethiopians are not buying the West’s chorus about “feeling concerned” about “humanitarian situations in Tigray” and other Hollywood like drama that they cook up every other day…

Ethiopians future and their daily lives depends on their unity and struggle against internal and external enemies for sometime to come. 

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