whole
world. Why Tigray is smiling while weeping is because it is celebrating its
sons and daughters in the diaspora who are out in the city streets of America,
Europe, and Australia, for several weeks now, in a determination no less than
those who are in the trenches of Tigray to wipe the barbarians out. In the
traditions of human societies, it is unusual to celebrate heroes outside the battlefield.
In our modern age where world nations are intricately woven by the strong
fabric of international laws and the soft and hard methods to enforce them,
facing a lawless and immoral enemy in the battlefield alone does not ensure
victory. Even war has its rules, but it all depends on what kind of enemy one
is facing. An undisciplined, cowardly, and brainwashed horde can frustrate even
the bravest of defenders because its "heroic" deeds are on civilians
rather than on the armed combatants in the battlefield.
As if the barbaric nature of the invading Amhara
musketeers, PP Army, and the Eritrean Alibaba's 40,000 thieves, are not enough
to reck havoc on Tigray society, the ideologists behind them in the cities are
pathological liars, blanket deniers, and educated illiterates. The latter would
cover the eyes and ears of the world community, because they dare to abuse the
international diplomatic codes of conduct with impunity. They bark at the
world diplomatic community for interfering in the internal affairs of Ethiopia.
Non-interference does not include gross abuse of human rights in the darkness.
Non-interference does not include invading own citizens to punish them for
conducting democratic election. Non-interference does not include inviting a
foreign power to kill, rape and loot your own citizens. Non-interference does
not include allowing and assisting as much lawlessness as one state in a
federal arrangement to invade another state within the federation and setup its
administration in the territory of the invaded state. Non-interference does not
include the invited former Italian colony to colonize a regional state within
Ethiopia! A sovereign territory of Ethiopia. Non- interference does not include
the destruction of UNESCO heritage sites even if they are located within the
jurisdiction of the offender state. Non-interference does not include forced
identity changes such as the Amharanization of the Tigrigna speaking Western
and Southern Tigray. Non-interference does not include installing a puppet
government replacing a democratically elected government of Tigray.
All the above is done in the name of "law
enforcement". In practice it is " law-breaking enforcement". The
world community of states depends on the reputable international media for
information about what is happening around the world. In Tigray that was intentionally
blocked. The rigid international codes of diplomacy do not allow states to
contact the offended particularly when they are within the jurisdiction of a
sovereign state. Heads of states are obliged to contact heads of states. When
Hitler and his human hounds were exterminating the Jews in their millions the
diplomatic community would call Hitler and ask him to "exercise
restraint" or would express its "grave concern" about the
atrocities on Jews. Hitler would say "this is a gross interference into
the internal affairs of the sovereign German State". The world community
would remain "concerned" until six million Jews perish in the hands
of the Nazis. Now the world community talks about the holocaust and visits
memorials for the last seventy years. This is the grave implication of the
impotent diplomatic codes of conduct in international affairs.
It is the diplomatic "tradition" of
non-interference that has become a prime cause of the gross violations of human
rights by unelected and elected but dictatorial governments worldwide. Where
citizenship is no more a protection for some sections of the people of a state,
the world has the obligation to protect them as they are citizens of the world.
Ethiopian and Eritrean leaders tricked the USA and the world by posing as
reformers and peacekeepers, while having a finalized plan of the atrocious
Tigray war in their pockets. One was awarded the Nobel honor "not for what
he has done so far; but as an encouragement to what he is going to do in the
future". The reputable Noble Committee had no idea about what it referred
to as "the future" could be: one of the most brutal wars the region
has ever seen! Integrity is never embarrassed; it acts! The Nobel Committee
must admit in public that it has committed a grave mistake because of the lack
of foresight. In fact, it had already learnt a lesson from An San Sucki, who
turned a blind eye to the Rohingian massacre, with the Nobel Prize on her
shelf. The USA took away its eagle eye away from the world because its watchful
diplomatic routine was distracted by the un-American presidency it had for four
years. While USA was stunned by what was impossible to happen on US soil: The
Attack on the deep seated American Democratic tradition. The Eritrean,
Ethiopian, and Amhara invaders used the the sad American predicament as a smoke
screen to brutalize the people of Tigray. The smoke screen was dissipated by
the heroic Tegaru in the diaspora; and now the world can clearly see the
tragedies that were unfolding in a complete media blackout.
