@martinplaut While the EU is talking about policy change, this genocidal government is doing those massacres. Dictator PM Abiy Ahmed should be accountable for this genocide.
@martinplaut That is how abiy ahmed is, murdering civilians when he gets slapped by Fano left and right. He even once said to his colleague that he was going to wipe out Amharas, and that is what he's doing.
🔺Last year, January 2025 was the first time I traveled to my birth place #Ethiopia🇪🇹 since the war in #Tigray.
Given my often publicly expressed outrage about atrocities committed in #Tigray during the war, especially a foreign entity (#Eritrea)being involved in the conflict, as well as my advocacy on behalf of people of #Tigray, it was expected for me to be curious and try to look into #Tigray and #Tegaru, while I was in the country.
Upon my return to the #US, I discussed what I have learned in my travels and the sentiment of #Tegaru I encountered in #AddisAbaba with a friend, who was with me making the "case" of #Tigray in the diaspora.
He readily dismissed me, telling me that I was just dazzelled by the newly installed and spruced up bright lights of Addis Ababa.
In fact, he admonished me for traveling to #Ethiopia, my birth place, while a government that I criticized was still in power. Implying that I was supposed to impose self-exiling as a form of protest, isolating myself from family, friends and a country of my birth indefinitely.
That was when it started to dawn on me that throughout the war in Tigray, the fog was a whole lot thicker than the regular fog of war. The manipulation was way craftier than run-on-the-mill persuasion.
As I repeatedly stated, I NEVER regret that I advocated for people of #Tigray. I vociferously condemned #Eritrea's involvement in the war and #Ethiopian government and its supporters, "otherizing" #Tegaru through toxic propaganda.
If any other ethnic group in #Ethiopia is subjected to the same way and level of intensity, I definitely would do it again.
However, looking back, I realized I was manipulated in more than few ways.
The first one was the unprovoked TPLF attack on Ethiopian 2nd command army base. Which has Ignited the war.
For the longest time, I believed that was IMPOSSIBLE and it never happened.
Now, I hear TPLF commanders, who are still in charge not only admitted it, but brag about doing it. It doesn't mean this justifies the atrocities committed on people of Tigray, but it reveals that TPLF is equally (perhaps even more) is responsible to it.
The second one is my encounter with young Tegaru, who left Tigray for Addis and the rest of the country in my January 2025 trip to Ethiopia. Many of them were participated in the war, wounded and some lost limbs, their eyesight and all of them psychologically scarred.
The conversation I had with them ripped me with guilt about the sloganeering and bravado we do on Twitter and Facebook in the diaspora from our air-conditioned houses and comfortable couches, gambling with their lives and futures.
These young folks were participants of today's demonstration in Addis Ababa.
Their demonstration in heavily pouring rain today was a call to end the gambling with their lives by the TPLF. To end the hypocrisy of the TPLF supporting members of the diaspora and a demand to return to normalicy.
A demand to reconciliation and a first walk for a long way of healing.
@NatyYifru Behaind all this fake show offs , there're millions of Ethiopian's 😭😭😭in #Tigray, #Amhara, #oromia and more cities manufactured #abiy wars and starvations , so sad You all are fooled by his devilish work like the foriegners.
@fthethiopia@martinplaut You're still backwards talking about Tplf than what both the Amhara, oromo, gumuz and tigrian people have been facing the past 8 years of #Abiy's terrorism . Shame on you!