By Gebreselema
It really baffles me why Tigreans leaders keep on doing the same thing over and over to get the same result. Albert Einstein said, “ doing the same thing over and over expecting different result is insanity.” I see this insanity on Tigrean leaders. Tigreans leaders are not able to see the big picture and not able to adapt to the new reality. As a result they have been doing the same thing over and over. I want to highlight and explain the need for mindset change in the Tigray political landscape because this is critical. Doing the same thing over and over is bleeding us to death.
People will tell me this is not the right time to do critics. But when are we going to do criticism? During the 27 years, Tigreans were told they do not need to say anything since their leaders were in charge and they knew everything. Then Tigreans laid all their eggs on Tigrean leaders. We know now what has happened to us when one lays all eggs in one basket. Yet, our people are still telling us let us shut up and saying nothing except raising money. It seems to me, we are only focusing on our enemies behavior and we are battling to prove them wrong at the expense of our demise. Our leaders are not able to abandon their old way of doing things. They are doing business as usual. I know they have many problems and it is hard for them since they are under siege. But the last 12 months were not worse than the previous 8 months. But it seems our leaders are stuck in their old ideology. We need an emergency ideology that can rescue our people from never ending genocide, rape, siege, blackout.
A problem has cause. To solve the problem, the cause of the problem has to be known. After knowing the problem, a solution has to be formulated in a scientific way. A problem cannot solved by ideology or set of idea held by few people. We have world class generals, but It seems to me we have no world class political leaders. We have been garnering victories after victories almost in all battle fields, but all those victories has not created a dent on the two year old siege, genocide, rape, blacking out, starvation. This shows, our people are not benefiting from all those victories.. Reason, the Alula operation was a game changing operation. But most of the operation after that were not game changing. We have been doing the same thing over and over and getting the same result which means we have been wasting time and lives only.
I do not know how to explain. But we must change and adapt to the new reality. We have to have a new set of strategies to rescue and to protect our people. These new set of strategies must be designed to end the siege, blacking out, bombing. Fighting all over around Tigray cannot be one of the strategies. Reason: fighting all around Tigray will only weaken us because our forces will be spread and keep us under siege and eventually we will be disarmed. To avoid this, we need to have a new vision.
The new vision must be based on our historical and ancestral line of thought. We have to throw away our current philosophy that put has us in danger. I recommend new strategies based on
1. Historical geography and land ownership
2.Historical civilization, culture, customs
If we do not fight based on our history, we will be do the same thing over and over and getting the same result. It is overdue we throw away anything that has evolved after Menelick. We must not inherit the legacy of enemies such as Menelick and Mussoloni legacy. We have to be free from these legacies. I hope every Tigraway takes this message and apply it before it is too late. If we do not go back and correct the wrong things that has kept us in darkness, and now put us in an under genocidal war, siege, starvation, bombing, our existence is in danger.
In my view, we must focus on ourselves instead of focusing on our enemies agenda. Our leaders must know they must completely abandon their old way for the sake of the lives of our people. Nothing is constant in this world. Their rigidity is costing us the whole Tigray. We must remove our weakness. Blaming only our enemies will not help us. We must understand our genocide has our own contribution. We have to remove our weakness that paved way for our genocide to happen.
In conclusion, fighting and victories only is not enough. We must have a strategy that ends the siege. That strategy is not in Wollo, Afar, Gonder, west Tigray. The strategy that can end immediately the siege, genocide, bombing, starvation is only one and that is Asmara and the rest is secondary. This strategy is the only strategy that can end Tigray genocide and it is a game changer locally, continentally and globally. In order to realize this, we have to help TDF in all avenues. Diplomacy will not help us to stop siege. Reason, the Menellick and Mussoloni geography of the current Tigray makes us irrelevant locally, continentally and globally. Thus the only way we can realize this strategy is using our own resources: be it human, TDF, and be it financial diaspora. Diaspora must not waste time on protesting at the gate of white house. Instead Tigreans must be pick up second job for TDF purpose. If I am working full time day time, I must pick up part time job and work for TDF, it could be two hours, or one hour or three hours or more each day and we do daily contribution to TDF. This is the only way to end the genocide. Doing the same thing over and over will not change anything.