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Harvard’s School of Public Health, cancel Tedros Adhanom's award!!!!

Post by Kuasmeda » 19 Apr 2021, 20:07

Two years ago, I published a historical thriller, Money, Blood and Conscience, about an Ethiopian-American love affair during the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) dictatorship. I later decided to add to the book a nonfiction “afterword,” an author’s note to the reader. It called for Ethiopia’s former TPLF rulers to be held accountable for crimes against humanity.

While writing the afterword, I realized that I had to include Dr. Tedros Adhanom among the TPLF leaders who should be prosecuted. As foreign minister from 2012 to 2016, Tedros had been Ethiopia’s foreign minister and a TPLF Executive Committee member. He shared control over Ethiopian security forces and proxies while they murdered, tortured, kidnapped, and unjustly imprisoned thousands of Ethiopians including children. He even arranged some of the kidnappings himself.

Tedros was simply too high up in the hierarchy of power, too much a part of the system, not to share responsibility for its crimes. Yet this international criminal now leads the World Health Organization, the planet’s most important public health agency.

To a world long indifferent to Ethiopian lives, Tedros is a hero. Lady Gaga called him a “superstar” when he co-hosted a Covid-19 awareness concert. In countless events and press conferences, he looked like a kindly, old uncle, a selfless, untiring hero saving the world. The Ethiopians he had helped murder were swept under the rug amidst the adulation. They were just black Africans, after all, who lacked Tedros' multimillion dollar public relations budget.

Tedros’ international renown—and perhaps a failure of imagination—presumably make it hard for his professional colleagues to comprehend that he really is guilty of terrible crimes.

The psychological denial of Tedros’ criminality is due to an additional factor. Doctors and public health officials tend to shy away from human rights issues. They prefer to “stay out of politics.”

There are good arguments why they should. Global health professionals sometimes must work in unstable political environments, even wars, to reach those in need of healthcare. A refusal to criticize unsavory hosts may be the only way health workers will be allowed to function in dangerous territory.

Unfortunately, that practice too often extends beyond the war zone to places where moral courage is more affordable. Recently, it manifested in an announcement from Harvard University's prestigious T.H. Chan School of Public Health that Tedros had been invited to deliver its May 27, 2021 graduation commencement address and will be given the school’s highest honor, the Julius B. Richmond Award.

It was bad enough that the WHO Assembly elected an international criminal without a global outcry. But Harvard is the last institution one would expect to be insensitive to victims of international crimes. The school’s decision to roll out a virtual red carpet for Tedros and present him to its graduating class as a trustworthy, honorable man insults those dead, injured and traumatized Ethiopians and further normalizes his crimes. It is scandalous.
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Re: Harvard’s School of Public Health, cancel Tedros Adhanom's award!!!!

Post by Axumezana » 19 Apr 2021, 23:15

What is the problem if Dr. Tedros wins the award? As a Tigrayan, Ethiopian and African should't we be proud of our heros. If Dr. Tedros had committed any crime in the past , the Ethiopian government could charge him. We have almost destroyed Ethiopia because of hate and unforgiveness.

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Re: Harvard’s School of Public Health, cancel Tedros Adhanom's award!!!!

Post by Weyane.is.dead » 20 Apr 2021, 05:38

Well done Harvard :mrgreen: soon the criminal weyanay rodent will be out of job and out of a country :mrgreen:
Kuasmeda wrote:
19 Apr 2021, 20:07
Two years ago, I published a historical thriller, Money, Blood and Conscience, about an Ethiopian-American love affair during the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) dictatorship. I later decided to add to the book a nonfiction “afterword,” an author’s note to the reader. It called for Ethiopia’s former TPLF rulers to be held accountable for crimes against humanity.

While writing the afterword, I realized that I had to include Dr. Tedros Adhanom among the TPLF leaders who should be prosecuted. As foreign minister from 2012 to 2016, Tedros had been Ethiopia’s foreign minister and a TPLF Executive Committee member. He shared control over Ethiopian security forces and proxies while they murdered, tortured, kidnapped, and unjustly imprisoned thousands of Ethiopians including children. He even arranged some of the kidnappings himself.

Tedros was simply too high up in the hierarchy of power, too much a part of the system, not to share responsibility for its crimes. Yet this international criminal now leads the World Health Organization, the planet’s most important public health agency.

To a world long indifferent to Ethiopian lives, Tedros is a hero. Lady Gaga called him a “superstar” when he co-hosted a Covid-19 awareness concert. In countless events and press conferences, he looked like a kindly, old uncle, a selfless, untiring hero saving the world. The Ethiopians he had helped murder were swept under the rug amidst the adulation. They were just black Africans, after all, who lacked Tedros' multimillion dollar public relations budget.

Tedros’ international renown—and perhaps a failure of imagination—presumably make it hard for his professional colleagues to comprehend that he really is guilty of terrible crimes.

The psychological denial of Tedros’ criminality is due to an additional factor. Doctors and public health officials tend to shy away from human rights issues. They prefer to “stay out of politics.”

There are good arguments why they should. Global health professionals sometimes must work in unstable political environments, even wars, to reach those in need of healthcare. A refusal to criticize unsavory hosts may be the only way health workers will be allowed to function in dangerous territory.

Unfortunately, that practice too often extends beyond the war zone to places where moral courage is more affordable. Recently, it manifested in an announcement from Harvard University's prestigious T.H. Chan School of Public Health that Tedros had been invited to deliver its May 27, 2021 graduation commencement address and will be given the school’s highest honor, the Julius B. Richmond Award.

It was bad enough that the WHO Assembly elected an international criminal without a global outcry. But Harvard is the last institution one would expect to be insensitive to victims of international crimes. The school’s decision to roll out a virtual red carpet for Tedros and present him to its graduating class as a trustworthy, honorable man insults those dead, injured and traumatized Ethiopians and further normalizes his crimes. It is scandalous.
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