When Drone Terror Becomes “Normal”
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Do drone and missile attacks kill, destroy, and terrorize? You bet they do. Do drones misfire, strike the wrong targets, kill innocent civilians, and cause devastating collateral damage? Far too often.
Abiy Ahmed has reportedly launched drone strikes against Tigray 21 times since the Pretoria Agreement alone. Today, his government again deployed drones, carrying out two rounds of strikes in the Enderta area. Similar drone attacks have been carried out by the hundreds in Amhara and Oromia, killing and injuring many innocent civilians.
Yet the international community signals indifference and remains conspicuously silent. Why? Perhaps because these attacks have largely been one-sided and unanswered. When drone strikes are not reciprocated, they somehow begin to look routine—even legitimate—as though the death and terror they inflict do not warrant statements of concern, urgent calls for restraint, or condemnation.
A drone does not make killing cleaner, less terrifying, or more acceptable. Silence does not make it legitimate either.
The double standard is glaring. Absurdity and hypocrisy at their worst.
@TiborPNagyJr@flyethiopian “Human rights reports indicate that employers, including state-linked organizations like Ethiopian Airlines, have placed Tigrayan staff on leave, removed them from jobs, or banned them based on identity “ he was one of those
@AmericanMama How about those Somali investors and refugees hold significant assets in Kenya, fairplanet reported that with over $1.5 billion invested in Nairobi
"Even if America decides that I should no longer enter America, it's ok. I will enter Zimbabwe. I will enter Botswana. I will enter Nigeria. I will enter Africa, my home."- Julius Malema
@Rothmus Its worse than you think. ANCIENT Ethiopia was White. This is an image of an Ethiopian King 1700 years ago. The sub-Saharan African demographic that is now there is 50% Eurasian, the Black half having never established any civilization.
This is the young man who was executed yesterday in Adi Gudom by the TPLF military wing.
His name is Birhanu Kahsay. He used to work at a gas station in the town to support his family.
His funeral is conducted today in Wejerat Bahri Hatsey town.
May he Rest in peace.