I wish that I had something nice to say about the international mediators, but I don't. The AU, US, and UN all put humanitarian aid to innocent civilians on the negotiating table in #Tigray and kept it there all the way until the end.
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The world proved that they were not watching Tigray; but terrorists, tyrants, and autocrats were watching. They all saw the gap between US rhetoric about promoting human rights and the reality of our commitment. It will only get harder from here.
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Hundreds of thousands of innocent Tigrayan civilians paid for our weakness with their lives. More will starve tonight and die of easily treatable medical conditions until aid gets to them. But they aren't the only ones who will suffer.
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The Ethiopian regime has been protected by the international system, even after these atrocities were laid bare for the world to see. They will expect the same impunity in #Oromia and anywhere else the PP meets resistance. But the suffering won't even end there...
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The normalization of weaponized starvation and gross human rights violations in plain view in the 21st century is not now and will not in the future be confined to Tigray. It is not now and will not in the future be confined to Ethiopia or the Horn of Africa.
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Impunity for Crimes Against Humanity is bought and sold on the UNSC like a commodity and the US only emboldens bad actors through our continued capitulation. We have placed the bar for genocide very low and will regret our current policies long after we are forced to reform.
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And lastly... I hope that this peace agreement represents the first in a series of meaningful steps towards a lasting peace. If those steps fail to happen and soon, this will simply be the first in what will become a long series of broken peace agreements in an unending war.
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