The tale of TPLF fairytale regime of Ethiopia: From ethnic liberation to Federal banditry

November 22, 2014

It is rather baffling TPLF’s crimes are all around us but yet barrage of books, articles and news pieces are written and bogus institutions and Medias created to make the fairytale TPLF led regime looks real and acceptable. Whether they do it because they believe TPLF is a legitimate entity or simply to take advantage of the chaos it was empowered to create to divide-exploit the people and the nation is not clear. But one thing is abundantly clear for all; Ethiopians are under occupation of a confused mercenary like ethnic regime led by TPLF. If institutions, including Medias can’t see this reality, either they are as bogus as the fairytale regime –tangled up with their own petty interest or part-and-partial of TPLF willingly conspiring to commit crimes.

by Teshome Debalke

A strange phenomenon is happening with Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF). It appears the inevitable identity crisis of to be-or-not-to-be a Tigray Chiefdom it claimed to fight for or a Federal bandit it turned out to be in Nations and Nationality it created and occupied is coming home to roost. That is not all; it still agonizing whether to stick with the Marxism ideology it was baptized to control and brutalize the population or the crony capitalism it adapted along the way to extort and robe the people and the nation.

Intoxicated by political power and daylight robbery its enablers afforded it, it is having difficulty to choose between the empty bravado it pumps up its juveniles in the imaginary ethnic ‘Tigray’ people it liberated (use and abuse) in an imaginary Region (open air prison) and the Nations and Nationalities of Ethiopia it crafted to divide and exploit as a make-believe Federal government.

To make matter worst, the self-professed ‘Tigray’ liberators turn bandits actually believe they duped Ethiopians and the world –telling their fairytale over-and-over again with crafty propaganda—aimlessly drifting away from reality to believe it themselves. In fact, it is amazing how many fairytale story tellers mushroomed in the last decade alone around the fairytale regime in order to sustain its rule and unprecedented corruption.

It all started in one unfaithful day four decades ago when a half-dozen Ethiopian `juvenile armed with Marxist books sat around a table in a tearoom in Addis Ababa and decided to start a revolution to ‘free’ the ‘oppressed people’ of Ethiopia from ‘Feudalism’ as many of their contemporaries did. With too many ‘revolutionaries’ competing to free the same people in the name of the same ideology, the sorry juveniles with too much time on their hand figured out the only chance they got in the competition was to curved out an imaginary ethnic group called Tigray and made their newly minted identity a rallying cause for liberation-leaving the rest of the ‘oppressed people’ Ethiopia behind.

‘Imaginary ethnic group to liberate out of the way, they had to come up with an imaginary territory to match their newly minted identity and began drawing and redrawing territories to fit a fairytale history out of their back pockets. Short of the Fascist Italian occupied territory their Arabs led ‘Eritrean’ Liberation Front comrades declared their own, they started slicing and dicing wherever their juveniles mind took them to curve out a territory called Tigray and became a fairytale Liberation Front and found out they were conspiring in a territory they declared an enemy they no longer belong. Read more…

(Left to right), Professor Ephraim Isaac , Director of the Institute of Semitic Studies at Princeton University, Dr. Haile Selassie Belay, Former governor of Tigray Province and former Dean of Alemaya University, Dr. Tilahun Beyene, Associate Dean of the University of Maryland Dr. Ahmed Moen, Associate Professor and Interim Director Health Management Sciences of Howard University Dr. Mulugeta Eteffa, Former Ambassador of Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Permanent Mission in New York Source: Peace and Development Center-
Dr. Astair GM Amante, Associate Professor at Arizona State University and one of the Founder of HAPDC picture `not found.