By Teodros Kiros ( Ph.D.)
In my recent article, The Future Life of Tigrayans, I argued that Tigrayan life future is being annihilated by ethnic cleansing in the hands of Abiy Ahmed, the illegitimate Ethiopian prime minister.
The Tigrayan government under the guidance of its heroic Generals tested in the crucible time is carefully navigating the next move, now that the boarder remains closed and Tigray is enclosed by poverty, absence of goods, and most importantly the precarity of existence.
However, I would like nervous Tigreans in the diaspora to stop comments on very private and sensitive military matters from the comfort of our living rooms in the West.
Military decisions must be left to the government of Tigray in concert with the time tested brilliant Generals in the ground, who are navigating possibilities anchored on military alertness and informed diplomatic strategies.
The next course of action should be decided by the Generals in concert with the Tigrean administration. It is futile and irresponsible to criticize the Generals from the diaspora. From here our task is to support our Generals, who strike me as brave, strategic, shrewd and morally intelligent folks.
We are lucky to have them at this time, and we must at the least, support them, cheer them and pray for them as they are attempting to reconcile diplomacy and aggression.
I am confident that in time they will surprise with the right decision to the right degree, the right place, for the right reason and the right time.
I say brothers and sisters in the diaspora, criticize less, trust more, and praise and pray even more.
I am 100% in support of Tigray Generals, and I have zero issue with the generals. I am thankful that these generals are alive and well. However, I do not believe TPLF has the capability to get Tigray through these difficult times. The TPLF’s way of thinking is frozen in time past, and it is no more applicable to the current situation and current times. The people of Tigray are in the current state of existential treat from the blood thirsty Amhara chauvinists and expansionists, FANO, the genocidal Ethiopian and Eritrean governments and foreign actors like Iran, Turkey, UAE and China because of egregious errors committed by TPLF.
TPLF is still saying that the people of Tigray have given me power to govern Tigray. Under TPLF’s watch 500,000 Tegaru dead, 120,000 girls and women brutally raped, public and private infrastructures decimated, heath and higher education institutions destroyed. Still, the death of Tegaru is continuing unabated. If TPLF has an inkling of democracy, justice, and humanity it would have resigned from power and created all-inclusive transitional government in Tigray once it returned to Mekelle (I may add because of the gallant Tigray Defence Forces).
Tigray will prevail against all odds!