1. Ethiopia remains one of the largest recipient of humanitarian assistance in the world & now further exacerbated by disasters such as continuous infightings, #COVID19 pandemic, swarm of desert locust & climate induced crop failure.
2. Worse-off is the recent call for bloodshed by the grossly incompetent leadership of @AbiyAhmedAli. The nation is inching everyday into balkanization because of his shortsighted policies.
3. Government institutions have not failed to appeal for increased global support whereas ill conceived orchestration of civil wars against his own people perpetuates as a grand tragedy. #StopWarOnTigray#TigrayGenocide
4. Conflicts have become the hallmark of Ethiopia under @Abiyahmed crooked administration & more multipliers are added by the day.
5. According to the most recent data from @UN, the declaration of war over #Tigray by this illegitimate administration further worsens the already dire situation faced by the nation further risking 9 million more displacements.
6. @Abiyahmed rebuffed all calls for an inclusive national dialogue from #Tigray, @IGAD@AU@EU & @UN yet he had no shame whatsoever to go on tv screen intimidating civilians in broad day light that he will conduct airstrikes in big cities.
7. What the world failed to comprehend is that these disasters will spillover into the wider region deteriorating the already fragile situation even further. It’s totally inconceivable that a #NobelPeacePrize winer would end up fabricating tonnes of conflicts.
8. The administration as opposed to the honeymoon period hijacked all the reform agendas & engaged in stifling dissenting voices, mass detention of leaders of the opposition political parties with formidable support…
9. ...sending journalists & public intellectuals to gulags for simply exercising their rights of freedom of expression & opinion.
10. The nation cannot afford neither a one-man show nor a failed unitarist system & the international community shall not remain an onlooker while this modern day state collapse, #Genocide & ethnic cleansing are underway in its watch. #StopWarOnTigray #IStandWithTigray
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1. The war on #Tigray is not between the federal government & a rogue element in the North as @AbiyAhmedAli would have the world believe.
2. It is rather a conflict between an authoritarian, unitarist & ultra-nationalist fascist forces of dictator @AbiyAhmedAli coupled with President for life Isaias Afewerki of #Eritrea on the one hand, & pro-autonomy, pro-constitutional, multi-national federal forces on the other.
1. The #WarOnTigray, as the Oromo public intellectual @awolallo rightly put it in his latest appearance on @AJENews, is ''an extension of the war that @AbiyAhmedAli has been prosecuting in places like Oromia”.
2. The recent military confrontation in #Tigray cannot be properly understood without making a reference to the underlying nature of & the alignment of forces in the already ongoing conflict dynamics all over #Ethiopia.
1. We’ve learnt from credible sources that the tyrannical regime of @AbiyAhmedAli & his cronies are in a political & diplomatic charm offensive in galvanizing domestic & international partners so as to label Tigray’s ruling party, the TPLF, as a terrorist government. #Ethiopia
2. It is a fact that the TPLF is the only legitimate party and government in Ethiopia that is in power with a renewed mandate to govern Tigray with more than 2.7 million people voting for it.
Contrary to what is transpired by @AbiyAhmedAli & his mouthpiece media outlets, Abiy declared war on #Tigray because Tigray is the only region in #Ethiopia
1. To hold election as per the 🇪🇹n constitution exposing the unconditional extension of power by Abiy Ahmed. #SayNoToWar
To those who want us to take @AbiyAhmedAli ‘s recent cheap political ploy seriously, we say no for so many reasons including: 1/n
Because Abiy waged war on Tigray the minute he blocked foreign investment in our land. Right when he failed to reopen the road blockade or when he aided & abetted it resulting in record level inflation in the region that made life unbearable for the already impoverished public2/n
When he went off on his selective prosecution raid only on Tegaru public figures. When he chose not to trial suspects involved in the June 22/2019 assassination of General Seare Mekonnen, Chief of staff of the National defense Forces of Ethiopia, & Major General Gezai Abera. 3/n