Dear Tigray, just this once, choose truth over kindness. It is time to do yourself a favor. No one else will.
I feel this is an opportunity for friends & colleagues in the US & congressional representatives to stop the ongoing genocidal war on Tigray.
The biblical story of the Tower of Babel can serve as a metaphor illuminating the futility of efforts to build a nation-state based on one language and culture.
We have to pretend as if the first thing we thought about in the morning wasn’t suicide.
The Ethiopian government is determined to commit genocide and expects the world to remain quiet as it does so. Naturally, regimes look for scapegoats to mobilize society.
Eskinder's article serves as a prism for understanding carefully disguised support of this war that wishes to present itself as neutrality.
Attempts by the Ethiopian regime to Africanize the genocidal war on Tigray are nothing but a quest for a "bigger enemy" to detract from its humiliating defeats.
Recommendations to resolve the conflict in Tigray should take into account complexities & not just take midway brokering positions.
An attempt to save a despotic regime with blatant disregard for international humanitarian and human rights laws should be an affront to any human being.
As long as Isaias Afewerki is in power, the chances of this conflict being resolved with negotiations are slim to none and the HoA will never have sustainable peace.