The good, the bad, the ugly and the gullible

Editor’s Note: Author of The “International Community” and Ethiopia: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Gullible uses the name The Queen of Sheba to remain anonymous.

The queen of sheba
December 7, 2020

The attack on the Ethiopian Federal Forces of the Northern Command by the TPLF clique has attracted a multitude of actors from the wide range of the so-called “international community”. To be sure, this international community is as diverse as the human race itself, with all kinds of interests, concerns, persuasions and expectations. This community, then, comes in multiple shapes and forms that could be laconically categorized —without scholastic distinctions— as the good, the bad, the ugly, and the credulous. Showing the complex ecology of this vast community in such a simplistic dichotomy may be imprecise, but it helps to envision the relationship between this community and Ethiopia.

The good

The international community has played an important role in providing financial, material and logistical support to the Ethiopian people and their governments. This community has financed the majority of the Ethiopian government budget through different mechanisms, including direct budget support, soft loans, and other arrangements.

On a humanitarian level, the massive support that Ethiopia had received at the time of the devastating famine and drought in the 1980s is a reminder of the good intentions of this branch of the international community. Most of this community was driven by a genuine interest in fostering human decency, promoting humanitarian values, and fighting extreme poverty around the world. Ethiopia has welcomed and worked closely with this branch of the international community for years.

The bad

The other wing of the community at the extreme of good is driven by sheer greed, self-interest, arrogance, and hegemony. This wing is dominated by a host of powerful and not-so-powerful governments, political entities, multinational corporations, and institutions employing a variety of subversive acts, including sheer brutality, conspiracy, white lies, and misinformation, to serve that interest in disguise. of international cooperation and international association.

Ethiopia has witnessed as many entities as there are in its long and proud history. The scandalous rejection of its protection at the United Nations when it was savagely attacked and then invaded by Italian fascists in the early 20th century is a poignant reminder.

The ugly one

While both good and bad wings are often obvious to discern, this category of the international community is cunning and devious and has been known to employ a mixture of acts under the guise of whatever is international. One such group widely accused of undermining Ethiopia’s interest has been some of the major international media outlets.

The media

The media play a key and fundamental role in informing and shaping the views of the international community, well, humanity as a whole. The Ethiopian conflict has shown the ugly face of some of the major international media in its lopsided and biased reporting. The media has shown massive partisanship, even violating basic journalistic decency. In several cases, viewers have been bombarded with recycled news, watered down facts patched with screaming headlines in favor of the TPLF clique.

It should be noted that the paid TPLF operatives and their antics, under the guise of journalists and analysts, blatantly misrepresented the facts, lied incessantly and even hinted at some disastrous actions as alternative measures to the clique. For example, these journalists and partisan analysts largely chose to ignore the massacres perpetrated by the marauding and fugitive forces of the TPLF clique. To add insult to injury, they presented those same perpetrators as victims who had to be rescued by stirring up the international community.

To this day, many of the international media have yet to clearly pinpoint the party that started the conflict and triggered the war. And yet, while the clique systematically and surreptitiously misinformed the international community and falsely accused the Federal Forces of the Northern Command of having started the war, one of its senior officials openly admitted in a televised interview that TPLF initiated the preventive initiative ” thunderous “attack comparing it to a story by Israeli forces. Most of the media continues to deliberately ignore this critical fact and portray the government as just as guilty, if not more.

Human rights and humanitarian organizations

TPLF has a long and dark history of playing humanitarian organizations as narrated and written by several of its own former members. A BBC report from more than a decade ago that uncovered the misuse of aid money and supplies by the TPLF clique is a case in point.

The history of some of the human rights organizations, such as Amnesty International, is not tarnished. In one of its reports on the situation in Ethiopia about six months ago, the organization produced such a sloppy report that it had to withdraw part of it and promised an internal investigation (at least it said so). But, in the recent conflict, most Ethiopians and the government watched with another surprise as the organization was hesitant to call out the TPLF perpetrators of the My-Kadra massacre that the UN recognized and ordered a further investigation.

In the past three difficult years, millions of Ethiopian citizens have been internally and externally displaced, yet this sect of the international community has remained eerily silent. As a matter of interest, this was the moment when the TPLF declared Tigray the only peaceful region of the country, although accumulated evidence has been implicating it in most conflicts and atrocities. To put things in perspective, this current conflict has displaced some 40,000 Ethiopians in Sudan, many of whom Tigre’s militia and special forces are suspected of committing the My-Kadra massacre. While one displaced Ethiopian is far too much, the noise of 40,000 in contrast to the millions is simply saying the unpleasant nature and modus operandi of this wing of the international community.

Recently, the Ethiopian government was accused of reversing its commitment to unrestricted access to the humanitarian mission in the affected regions of Tigray. Although the government has categorically denied it, one wonders if it is to be blamed at all given the betrayal, partisanship, misinformation and twists orchestrated by the clique operatives and sycophants and even more so the heavy burden of the TPLF’s history. With help. and humanitarian mission in the past.

It is remarkable that some of the so-called human rights organizations have turned a blind eye when the TPLF massacred and brutalized its citizens, in the past and today. These same organizations suddenly became human rights defenders and saviors of the nation when in reality they are operating undercover to throw a lifeline on the heinous clique.

The facilitators and the antics

The hired gunmen and antics of the TPLF clique have come out in full force in what appears to be a highly coordinated public relations siege. Unhindered by ethics and integrity, they manipulated the mainstream media and social media platforms to beatify the TPLF and demonize the federal government. They first pontificate elevating the TPLF as a formidable force with unmatched strength and time-tested determination at home and beyond. When that notion of invincibility collapsed when the TPLF forces were thunderously crushed in a rather humiliating defeat, they quickly turned the narrative towards human suffering and displacement, pressing the international community for a negotiation to save the losing cabal from annihilation. .

So far the invincibility of the TPLF and its enabling losers and shenanigans. The TPLF, which boasted of its 17 years of struggle, and its brilliant victory over the last 27 years of its rule in an incessant and arrogant manner, lost the war in a crushing defeat in so many days with its leaders now running for their lives in ravines, caves and mountains.

It is important to mention the retraction and the apologies of some of the main international media, such as the BBC, which have been misused by some of the enablers and shenanigans of the cabal. In its relentless search for the prime minister as the culprit who described him as a “Nobel Peace Prize winner who sent his troops into battle,” the BBC and others attempted to destroy his well-deserved trophy and presented him with obscene dissonance.

Two weeks after the TPLF clique attacked the Northern Command and admitted to starting the war, the International Crisis Group, which describes itself and its analysts as not taking sides, is still ignorant of the fact when it wrote in November 22, 2020, more than two weeks after the attack: “On November 4, the second most populous country in Africa plunged into a serious conflict between federal troops and security forces in the Tigray region, one of Ethiopia’s ten states “. So much for “not taking sides” and the empty sermon of non-partisanship.

The credulous

The TPLF clique recognizes that the international community at large is naive and prone to easy manipulation. He is known to have paid handsomely to muzzle critical voices and alternative viewpoints as one of his sustained strategies to achieve this. The tireless effort and enormous resources it deployed to launch the popular media, ESAT, is an example of this.

The clique’s public relations machinery has been for the most part effective, both in keeping it in power and sustaining it during the brief war. What is remarkable, however, is how it managed to take even the most enlightened members of the global community, academics and researchers, for a ride, as was recently discovered in signatures requested by the cabal and its supporters. On the list, one would quickly become aware of many who might have known that it was not better to sign a document with the ulterior motive of supporting a clique that has continued to slaughter and commit genocide, as the recent My-Kadra case vividly demonstrated.

In conclusion

In the end, it’s the classic story of the infamous Humpty Dumpty who climbed on the wall and met his fate, heartbreakingly.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.

Humpty Dumpty had a big fall.

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men

I can’t get Humpty Dumpty back together.

RIP Humpty Dumpty. RIP TPLF. Long live the international community in the service of human dignity, human development and global justice.

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