By Teodros Kiros ( Ph.D.)
Patience is a virtue, and when it is combined with love and action, the characteristics of the lion and fox, it becomes power. In this sense the Tigrean leadership and the valiant Tigrean people, the young and old, women and men, non-binaries, the sick and the healthy, all those who have taken arms in defense of dignity, are defending themselves against aerial bombardments, and a wave of Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers, by extending loving care for those who are being captured and ferocious actionality against the barbaric Ethiopian and Eritrean leadership on the battle ground, with impressive military bravura.
In the middle of this sea of war, are all those Ethiopians and Eritreans, our brothers and sisters ,to whom I will continue to appeal to change sides and come to the defense of justice, to the defense of the civilian men, women, babies and the elders who are being massacred by drones and air power in Tigray and its major cities.
The Ethiopian and Eritrean leadership is recklessly thinking that if the Tigrean countryside is ambushed, Tigrean peasants will flee to Mekelle, and food and other services provided by the generous and self-sacrificing Tigrean farmers to the Tigrean fighters will cease. Wrong strategy, which is doomed to fail, and yet it is being pursued to no avail, other than boosting the egos of the vacuous Ethiopian and Eritrean Generals, sacrificing the lives of the docile Ethiopian and Eritrean fighters-against their will.
The Militarily bankrupt and incompetent Ethiopian and Eritrean Generals are wrong again. They previously incorrectly calculated that they will March to Tigray in three days to only discover that they are stuck without movement for the past two months. They are again miscalculating that they will cut off the food pipe line to the Tigrean fighters by destroying their cities and villages, and supposedly severing the bonding and ties between the Tigrean fighters, and their mothers and fathers in the countryside. This will never happen. The bonding is deep and the trauma so severe, and the willingness to die, while starving embedded in the heart of every Tigrean, with the exception of some Tigrean traitors in Addis and perhaps among us in Tigray.
While they are thus miscalculating, the world is beginning to wake up and powerful institutions such the UN, The European Parliament, The IMF, and soon the US, will come to our defense.
Our friends are expanding because our stances are using power effectively, power as a blend of love and action, strategy and patience. Patience with the world which closed its eyes against Tigray and is waking from slumbers of deep sleep.
Hail to the Tigrean leadership and thanks to the UN, The European Parliament, the IMF and President Uhuru of Kenya for speaking JUSTICE TO POWER. May this intelligent language of the heart continue, and our friends increase in numbers, as the war continues and the quest for peace shines.
It is about time that the world uses its five senses and see, touch, and hear us, Tigreans, the victims of genocide.