Why do @StateDept @AsstSecStateAF and @StateDeptSpox simply call directly for what is needed. A TPLF called request for a cessation of hostilities and a return to peace talks. This the only path tto stop the killing. Peace is in the TPLF's gift.
https://twitter.com/StateDeptSpox/status/1581065323435868160
@StateDept @AsstSecStateAF @StateDeptSpox The TPLF cannot win this war of seccession, everyone knows this except the TPLF and their Egyptian allies - but nobody says it to them? Why? There is only one path to peace but even now the both-sidesism continues. This was is and always will be a war of choice started by TPLF.
Preparations are now needed by both Ethiopia and the IC for a plan to win the peace. The people of Tigray have been traumatised - they have been told daily for two years that Ethiopia wishes to kill them all - i.e. #TigrayGenocide, which is not true and never has been.
Whilst an Ethiopian Interim Govt. for Tigray is being prepared, without a lot of work to build confidence and prepare to smother Tigray with kindness after the war ends, there is a risk of TPLF continuing to stoke fear and violence once again in an insurgency.
Western Powers are equally guilty of promoting the #TigrayGenocide narrative, and they need to play a role in the phase to come with helping to undo it. TPLF cannot remain, but the Tigrayan people will remain. And it will take a long time & a lot of resources to heal the wounds.
My understanding is that the major IC players, the UN's @HannaTetteh US's @MikeHammerUSA and the EU, presumably @EUSR_Weber unless she has been releived are in Bahir Dar at the Tana Forum which provides a perfect opportunity to work on a plan for the peace.
But for the sake of all the peoples of Ethiopia, the Horn and East Africa it would be better if it comes sooner rather than later, and a clear plan is agreed to prevent further influence by malign external actors in Ethiopia's stability.
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