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The Ethiopian People: Main Victims of TPLF Adventurism

Written by Administrator
Tuesday, 08 April 2008
TPLF’s Sub-national Politics Driven by its chronic inferiority complex, the TPLF regime pursues sub-national politics so as to diminish other nationalities in a bid to compensate for its own lack of self-esteem. To this end, the TPLF manipulated the Tigrayan people’s struggle for equal rights and used it to secure its narrow-minded interests and vengeful objectives. As a result, the sub-national politics in its worst form dominated the Ethiopian government system and was even featured in the national constitution. Realizing that the TPLF version of federal administration could only lead to ethnic clashes and political tension, the Ethiopian people had from the start opposed the regime’s sub-national politics. However, the TPLF presented its backward political philosophy as a democratic political system pursued by Western nations and imposed it on the Ethiopian people without their consent. The result was just as the Ethiopian people predicted from the beginning; under TPLF rule, Ethiopia experienced ethnic conflicts and political turmoil incomparable to any other time in history. The number of the TPLF regime’s brutal suppressions of the Ethiopian people’s opposition at gun point is countless. From the first day of its arrival in Addis Ababa, the minority clique had begun its power reign by spilling the blood of innocent civilians. The massacre of university students in Addis Ababa in 2001; in Nekemte, Ambo and other areas of the Oromo region in 2002; as well as the post 2005 elections turmoil in different parts of the country are but some of the few examples of the regime’s gross crimes against the Ethiopian people. Following its own devious counsel that ‘conflict among people prolongs stay in power,’ the TPLF has continuously instigated ethnic clashes in different parts of Ethiopia for the past 16 years claiming the lives of thousands of people. The ethnic-base conflicts between the peoples of Gerina and Borena, Mejenger and Shiko, Guji and Borena, Sidama and Guji, Gude’o and Guji, Gamo and Dawro, Hadia and Kenbata, Silte and Gurage, Oromo and Harere, Afar and Somali, and the Nuer and Agnwak had erupted in different periods, caused the death of many people and are clear examples of the consequences of the TPLF regime’s sub-national politics. However, it is impossible to remain in power through employing such tactics, i.e. suppressing and terrorizing the people. The TPLF regime is now in danger of being consumed by the fire it had itself ignited in different parts of Ethiopia. For political forces such as the TPLF who came to power representing only a specific section of the society, the most prudent and wise move would be to foster good relations between the people they represent and other nationalities. Only through such an approach can one establish a firm ground for the development and stability of one’s people. Based on this outlook, if one asks what the TPLF regime has done for the people of Tigray, owing to whose sacrifice it is in power in the first place, the answer is quite regrettable. The people of Tigray have yet to spend a day of peace and stability under the TPLF rule. The minority clique had mercilessly used and manipulated the Tigrayan people so as to secure the narrow interests of its members. Moreover, Tigrayans have also been forced to face the animosity of other Ethiopian nationalities as a result of the TPLF regime’s brutality. Not only had the regime alienated the people of Tigray from their fellow countrymen but also estranged them from the Eritrean people as well, their long-time friends and neighbors. The time is not far when the TPLF regime’s rule will come to an end. Hence, at such a crucial time, it would be in the best interest of everyone concerned if the people of Tigray and other Ethiopian nationalities, as well as the political forces in the country, could learn from the TPLF regime’s shameful experience and realize that only conflict and chaos can come out of pursuing sub-national politics.
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