Thread by @mekdes_asefa

1/ Some things never change. If you are under any illusion about how the #TPLFTerroristGroup is using the humanitarian aid situation in Tigray and think TPLF is concerned for the people of Tigray, here’s a thread on TPLF playbook used 37 years ago and one that is being used now

2/ BBC article by @martinplaut in 2010
“Millions of $ in Western aid for victims of the Ethiopian famine of 1984-85 was siphoned off by rebels to buy weapons, a BBC investigation finds”. The article is based on witness accounts of ex TPLF leaders and the CIA assessment of 1985

3/ Gebremedhin Araya (TPLF former treasurer) and Dr. Aregawi Berhe (TPLF co-founder) gave a very detailed account of this & estimated $95m channeled into rebel fight. The CIA concluded that some funds for relief operations are almost certainly diverted for military purposes.

4/ According to the former TPLF leaders, Meles and his top cadres hatched out and successfully executed a scam to use a front “humanitarian relief” organization called “Relief Society of Tigray” (REST) for aid delivery claiming and convincing NGOs that it was separate from TPLF.

5/ To magnify the severity and extremity of the famine situation for the NGOs, the TPLF leaders ordered the exodus of large number of victims into Sudan creating a mushroom of refugees settlements in the Sudanese boarder areas overnight. But the drama doesn’t end here.

6/ The TPLF leaders stage managed an elaborate marketing “drama” for the NGOs to buy and deliver to the population in Tigray by making the most trusted and inner circle members to pose as “grain merchants” and solicit business from the NGO. The deception games had three stages

7/ Stage 1 – TPLF officials posing as merchants would approach NGOs to offer to sell grains for quick delivery (same grains acquired from NGOs stashed in warehouses for FIGHTERS), complete the transaction and delivered the money which Gebremedhin then delivers to Meles and Sibhat

8/ Stage 2 – Stacking warehouses with sand. The NGO representative would perform visual inspections of the stockpiles, give their approval and cross back into the Sudan for additional grain purchases. Meanwhile the actual grains being stacked away in secret warehouses.

9/ Stage 3 – stockpiles of grains were trucked around to new locations, giving the appearance of fresh supplies for the NGOs. With no means of verifying whether the grains were the same or fresh ones, they would perform cursory inspection and make payments.

10/ The same people that diverted aid money for a famine which was described as “a biblical famine in the 20th Century” and “the closest thing to hell on Earth” are now crying that they are honestly worried about their people and the world is echoing humanitarian aid with them.

11/ The same people that ordered the mass exodus of people for a promotional purpose, are now doing exactly the same thing, this time with their own marketing agent @nimaelbagir reporting on the victims from Sudan, their TPLF star witness Gerre and all MSM echoing her stories

12/ This time, ‘Victims’ of TPLF 5.0 massacred Amharas in Mai Kadra before getting into Sudan and starve children for image consumption by @AFP in their main hospital on the same day their general is claiming their people are meeting the food needs of the army on state TV.

13/ The same media BBC et al that promoted the famine attracting NGOs to help Tigray through TPLF and exposed that aid was diverted 25 years later is now insisting that aid is delivered to the all-new, crueler, more desperate TPLF 5.0 despite current evidences of aid diversion

14/ But more interesting would be an answer to my question from @martinplaut
What changed between 2010 and now for you to be such a huge fan of them now? Or were you having a domestic then (perhaps they behind on some sort of payment) and it was a punishment of sorts?

15/ And don’t suspect for a minute that Ethiopians do not know what happened in Hawzen. The people of Tigray have always been pawns for the TPLF’s greedy and selfish agenda and that hasn’t changed in half a century and it won’t change in another one.
Tigray should say #NoMore

16/ To read more on the 1984/85 dramas which was my major source, please read this article ‘Licensed to Steal’ by @AlMariam1

google.com/amp/s/www.huff…

#NoMore
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