Objectives of Starving
Tigray: Confession of the Ethiopian Regime
Isaac M. 01-06-22
The spokesperson of the Ethiopian regime, Mr Legesse Tulu confessed , without any hesitation and endeavour of hiding his regime’s agenda, that their policy of starving and sieging Tigray is meant to defeat the ‘terrorist’ TPLF; he publicly said that such an illegal siege can only be lifted if, and only if, the people of Tigray rises up to dispose of that political organisation. This is a confirmation of a deliberate practice of using starvation as a means of war in Northern Ethiopia by the Ahmed’s regime, which is an obvious breach of International Humanitarian Law (IHL).
Mr Tulu made several remarks that require the attention of the international community: First, ‘the reason why the Ethiopian defence force was ordered to not enter Tigray and stationed where it is now is to give a second chance to the Tigray people, a chance which was wasted in the first round of opportunity given to it by the State, to reflect and ditached itself from the terrorist force and protect its rights and privileges’.
This is clearly blaming the people of Tigray for not using what the regime calls a first round of reflection and opportunity to get rid of the TPLF given to it when the regime’s forces left Mekelle in summer 2020. As a matter of fact, the regime left Tigray simply because it was defeated by the Tigray Defence Forces (TDF). Thousands of its soldiers were captured (along their heavy artilleries and other weaponries), killed and wounded in the Tembein area, which led to the hasty departure of the Ethiopian and Eritrean forces from most of the Tigray region.
Whether the regime’s narrative is right or wrong, blaming Tigrayans as a people and threatening them for not rising up against their political leaders is morally and politically wrong. Who empowered the regime to blame the Tigray people and choose their wish of aligning with, or distancing themselves from, any political force? Only fascists and despotic regimes, such as Nazi Germany and Mussolini of Italy, empower themselves to blame and target a people.
