Wufer Tebeges

Aesop

01/06/2020

At last, Wufer Tebeges sounded loud! The path is clear now. What the Tigrean people have been waiting for has manifested. Tigreans are not strangers to humiliation. The ostracization, the imprisonment, the torture, the killing, and the bombing: they been through it all! It suffices to read, the outsider yet the preeminent geopolitical thinker, Kaplan’s book: Surrender or Starve ! There’s also Fire from the Ashes”, John Young’s, Paul Henze’s books, etc. etc. Above all, the Tigrigna fiction (?) Minkuhquah Zeiterfo Geza tells it all.

Tigreans been through it all! The Tigrean oracle resembles the marathon athlete. The long-distance runner starts with his crew. She seems as vulnerable as everyone in the crew. She seems vulnerable because how much every competitor trained for this moment is never disclosed. Tigrai has prepared for this moment 27 years ago, i.e., ever since Meles said: “Ti’ kunetatmistefetre...” back in 1991. They knew about entropy (everything goes from order to disorder) before they every became literate (leave alone master thermodynamics). That is why Tigreans always remain humble. They make no presumptions for they’ve deciphered the abstract law of nature embedded deep. The ordinary peasant asks: “Who would believe me if I told them I defeated the best equipped, best trained, best populated force in black Africa?” and concludes “No one!” So, he stays humble because he/she respects the fallen: reverence to the price paid.

The concern was lest the current Tigrean generation inherited the Spartan zeal of its adroit uncles. This is no longer a concern for Tigreans today. The vain and conceited have fracked this potential without involving the TPLF. Without meaning to do it, the vain and the boisterous, drilled Tigrean fuel using their open declaration of genocide (ESAT), fabricated documentaries (PP media), betrayal (PP leaders), and targeted imprisonment (PM’s initiative).

Today, every single Tigrean is aware of the magnitude of the conspiracy. The local conspirators aren’t just plotting against developmental state. Developmental state has, understandably, many ideological rivals across the globe. Nor are they singularly bent towards dismantling federalism. Federalism has supporters all over Ethiopia. The local conspirators aren’t just against TPLF. TPLF has few detractors within Tigrai. These people are, as Temrat Negera and Haileyesus whatever put it: against Tigrigna. Not Tigrai, but Tigrigna speakers as such. They seek to subdue every Tigrigna speak that Afework Gebreyesus battered in his Atse Menilik book 100 years ago.

I think the Oromo and Eritrean personality cults are focused on their qualm against TPLF. They know, from experience, that TPLF is a force to be reckoned with. They know they can’t subdue it through ideas. TPLF is the first to notice and declare the fact of diversity and nothing can’t be done about it. So, they wish to restore their lost honor by claiming TPLF’s head. Well, TPLF has learned from Yohannes IV. There’s no one head to take but millions to reckon with.

These personality cults are so obsessed with TPLF’s death that they are willing to coalesce with the devil. The Eritrean dictator coalescing with the force that wants to retake Massawa (watch Tamerat Negara thanking Isaias for retarding Eritrea). The aspiring Oromo personality cult (we know who it is) is trying to take the federalist lane that PM has abandoned lest the TPLF jumps in. It seems all Oromo politicians want is power by any means. There is no Amhara force that pursues federalism. There is no Tigrean force that pursues assimilationism. But there are Oromo forces (except few conscious scholars/activists) that pursue both. And, they congratulate each other for winning external accolades (like the unearned Nobel Peace Prize, for example). Well, all past dictators, whether monarchies or military rulers, wanted was power. And the pursuit of naked power is a toxic addiction that leads to humiliation and rehab.