One day into the 72-hour ultimatum on Ethiopia’s Tigray city, Ethiopia claims many have surrendered, though there is growing pessimism the attack on the city can be avoided.
The Ethiopia Human Rights Commission found that some 600 people were killed in a Nov 9. massacre in Tigray, stabbed or hacked to death. That, and failure to care for the displaced, is raising concern.
PM Abiy Ahmed’s harsh statements against the Tigrayans only add to those concerns, and even if the fighting ends, the government may keep cracking down on the Tigrayans.
Reflecting that problem, Ethiopia has loudly rejected mediation over the ongoing problem, meaning their endgame is not resolving the dispute but just crushing it.
There is no way that the TPLF can be negotiated with. It has richly earned the enmity of literally everyone else in Ethiopia, not to speak of the entire nation of Eritrea. Like the LTTE in Sri Lanka, only its total destruction will solve the issue.
“Annihilate the opponent is the only option” sounds very Nazi, even if it was in fact the only solution to the Nazi Party itself.
This is very suspicious, dangerous talk, even if some rare times warranted.
The TPLF reminds me exactly of the LTTE in Sri Lanka. Ethnofascist organisations with an alleged left wing ideology that ruthlessly crush all competition, and adopt a maximalist posture. The LTTE had to be annihilated to bring peace to Sri Lanka, and exactly the same thing will have to be done to the TPLF.
These “Nobel Peace Prize” winners like Obama and Abiy sometimes leave much to be desired.