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TPLF's Post Halloween Drama

Post by The-lice head destroyer » 19 Apr 2021, 21:45






Film aficionados will tell you that a plot is not a story, rather a series of events providing conflict in the story. A plot is sometimes referred to as the ‘spine’ of a story. Plots are the results of choices made by the characters: the characters take action (or don’t) and events happen as a result. Whether the story is about a quest, comedy, journey or tragedy there are five elements that help create a strong plot. A plot often seems to get confused or conflated with the characters, setting, and theme.

As we shall see below, TPLFs 6-month long drama was not just confusing, with scenes unimaginable in the 21st century, or in any civilized African society, it also feeds into the racist western narrative that Africans are barbaric, and leaders of African Liberations are not fit, to govern the very countries that they liberated. Most importantly, the TPLF drama exposed in real time, a global governance structure that thrives on crisis and underdevelopment in Africa, with entities such as TPLF, as its mercenary tool.

Exposition is the beginning of the story and prepares the way for upcoming events to unfold. It is in this part of the plot, where major characters are introduced, the setting is established, and major conflicts of the story are revealed. In this TPLF drama, the setting is the Tigray region of Ethiopia, a region that bore the brunt of TPLF’s decadence and excesses for the last three decades-a classic example of the “haves and the haves not”. The major characters are the TPLF elite and their henchmen, and the conflict is the rule of law, the TPLFs Achilles heel.

As Americans prepared for Halloween, a celebration observed in many countries on 31 October, by decorating their homes with pumpkins, skulls and ghostlike figures, picking their costumes and buying candy to give to the many that will knock on their doors for “trick or treat”, the TPLF clique was busy preparing for an extended Halloween-like event of its own. Just days after Halloween, on 3 November 2020, TPLF militia snuck up onto the Ethiopian Northern Command with their own version of “Trick or Treat”, killing and wounding many, and robbing their weapons (treat). But the spooky adventures in the pitch of dark, did not end there. TPLF organized a youth gang called “Samri” who massacred over a thousand innocent civilians in MaiKadra. How one trains youth to kill is unimaginable, but in this real life TPLF horror drama, one can only expect the ugliest.

These gangs are not phantom, they are hiding in UN run refugee camps, yet the glaring western media lens, that bears witness to imaginary dramas in Tigray, cannot see things right under their own noses. Rehearsed script on hand, but Tigray remains in their drama lens, reality on the ground in stark contrast.

Turning the lights off in Tigray, TPLF sent the entire region into a hellish nightmare, that has spooked its suffering population, holding them hostage as its marauding militia continue with the scripted rampage.

Rising Action is that point in a movie where the main problem or conflict is revealed. During the point of rising action, the protagonist will struggle to face the conflict which could be internal (protagonist vs. self) or external (protagonist vs. antagonist, protagonist vs. nature/society) and chronicles how the main characters deal with the curveball that comes their way. In this TPLF drama, the conflict is definitely internal. It’s the culmination of a three-decade long ride of absolute lawlessness, kleptocracy and belligerence. The scripted daily wails on cyberspace belie a sinister agenda.

Next scene in the TPLF drama was a story of a fake Axum Church massacre, its ghostwriters spanned the globe. Amnesty International, a fake priest in Boston, Massachusetts, a celebration in Axum and a TPLF head boasting about the city’s liberation, like in the movies, all taking place at the same time. As that drama played out, the main attraction was the scene on the grand stage, the Security Council in New York. That scene was a cyber theater box-office flop. The audience was left dizzy. The ghosts took over Axum before the hyenas came, fumbling the ending, as none was captured on film. All the drama was for naught. Turns out, not all were well versed on TPLF’s scripts and some floundered.

Climax is the turning point in the story, often centered around the protagonist’s most difficult challenge or their bleakest moment. The climax is the most exciting part of the story and initiates a turning point in the characters’ lives. The climax is where the protagonist receives new information, accepts the information – realizes it and may or may not necessarily agrees with it and then acts on that information. TPLF, believing its own lies, has yet to come to terms with its predicament. It is still “waiting for Godot”.

TPLFs drama includes harrowing tales, mimicking its 27-year rule. In this 6-month long saga, the only part it chose for itself, is one of the “victorious” victim. It’s cries for help reached the doorsteps of its patrons, before the drama even began, for they too had a role to play, and as if on cue, when the producers cried roll from their underground hideouts, the bold headlines began. The post Halloween show had begun in earnest. The climatic scenes played out at the UN Security Council, where Council members were relegated to playing in an orchestrated game of charades. The curtains on the bad movie were about to close, and the audience remained numb.

Falling Action is the point that occurs immediately after the climax and reveals the details of the consequences good or bad, that the main characters must deal with after the turning point of events. It sets the stage for the resolution.

TPLFs drama was especially gruesome. There was a scene where the leaders of the TPLF had their heads cut off- supposedly to hide their identity, but knowing their mentality, it was probably more like a moment of “post dead bravado”, to make up for their real-life inferiority complex. Only in a movie would the dead come back to live through an embarrassing episode.

Resolution is the part where the outcome of the event and the fate of the protagonist and antagonists are revealed. This part is where the protagonist resolves the conflicts and the loose ends of the storyline are tied up unless, there is a sequel planned wherein there are cliff hanger scenes to enable further development in the plot line

But TPLFs orchestrated drama did not have a plausible end, or tenable sequels… cliffs, but no cliffhangers. In the end, all that can be said about the drama is that it was suicidal. The script was ill-conceived and downright stupid from the get go. One that only a warped TPLF mind could conjure. From their bunkers and hideouts, the producers of the drama egged the civilian props to serve as human shield, while others in faraway lands handed out props and scripts for, the “let’s see who rolls the best” shows in European citadels. Rolling on the ground and howling like human zombies to the delight of the western audience.

There were scenes in the TPLF drama that did not quite fit in, making the scenes even more incoherent. The dramatists were themselves playing their desired imaginary roles, to dress up like an Eritrean. But even in the drama, they could not mimic the Eritrean soldier, after all, it is not the “accent” or the “uniform” that makes one an Eritrean soldier, it’s the ingrained discipline and culture defined for generations, that is his/her characteristic. TPLF props can pretend to play the role of the Eritrean soldier, but it would not be an act that it can deliver, even in a Halloween scene, let alone in a battle.

Were it not for Ethiopia’s sons and daughters, and friends in neighboring states, Ethiopia would have been engulfed in an intractable conflict with a venomous clique creating unfathomable drama, leaving blood trails of the innocent, wherever it goes.

TPLF committed suicide…the walking dead (TPLF surrogates) will have to relive the horror for generations to come.

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Re: TPLF's Post Halloween Drama

Post by TesfaNews » 19 Apr 2021, 21:53

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The TPLF clique could have surrendered and saved their Tigray from War

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Re: TPLF's Post Halloween Drama

Post by The-lice head destroyer » 19 Apr 2021, 22:02








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


18 April 2021



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.

Appalled, I sent the following email to the school’s dean, Dr. Michelle Williams:

Friday, April 2, 2021

Dear Dr. Williams,

I am an Ethiopia expert writing about the Harvard School of Public Health’s plan for Dr. Tedros Adhanom to deliver this May’s commencement address and be given the Julius B. Richmond Award.

Dr. Tedros shares responsibility for crimes against humanity that include the knowing facilitation of mass murder, torture, arbitrary imprisonment, kidnappings, and forced disappearances of thousands of Ethiopians, including children, when he was the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front’s politburo member and Ethiopia’s third highest official. Please read my complaint to the International Criminal Court that lists the unmistakable evidence of his misconduct from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the U.S. Department of State, and other reliable sources.

I respectfully urge you to revoke Dr. Tedros’ invitation to speak and the award out of respect for his victims and their families. I don’t represent the Ethiopian government, but I know it, too, would be disturbed to see this discredited individual so honored.

Please let me know your decision, and feel free to contact me if you would like more information.

Sincerely,

David Steinman

Not long afterward, I received the following reply:

4/2/2021

Dear Mr. Steinman,

On behalf of Dean Williams, thank you for writing with your concern about the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s choice of Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as our 2021 commencement speaker. As director-general of the World Health Organization—the world’s premier global public health institution—Dr. Tedros is able to share perspectives and insights about global health efforts worldwide, including in low- and middle-income countries, that will resonate with the concerns of our Harvard Chan School community. Among his current efforts, Dr. Tedros is advocating for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines across the globe, as poor countries are at serious risk of being left out of vaccine distribution. We believe that, in this time of a global pandemic, it is important—and indeed, most valuable—for our public health students to be able to hear the voice of the person serving at the highest level in global public health.

Sincerely,

Marsha Lee

MARSHA L. LEE | Senior Administrative Manager
Office of the Dean | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

This exchange sums up the dilemma. Besides patient rights and healthcare access, how much should civil and political human rights matter to public health professionals? The school’s young experts going out into the world on their noble mission are already burdened with mastering their complex profession. Is it fair to expect them to defend human rights too?

And shouldn’t they be allowed to learn from the man widely hailed as the field’s top expert?

Tedros’ advice may not be as reliable as claimed. As an Ethiopian official, he lied about his country’s poverty rate, political repression, and famine. And, of course, he famously botched his handling of the Coronavirus outbreak.

But even granting that Tedros has useful knowledge and experience to impart, Harvard overlooks the other lesson his appearance will teach--that one can facilitate mass murder and child torture and still be respectfully welcomed in the halls of academia. Harvard’s students may miss that lesson, but many international criminals will not.

Can this gap between pedagogy and ethics be bridged? Perhaps the lesson to be drawn is that the prioritization of human rights is situational. One can imagine desperate scenarios where vital humanitarian interests override human rights concerns. For example, turning a blind eye to a dictator’s human rights violations could conceivably be the price of responding to a lethal pandemic in time.

But circumstances are rarely so extreme, and a commencement address by video link does not resemble such an emergency. Perhaps knowing when and how to stand up for human rights and when to subordinate them to other concerns is a skill that schools like Harvard’s need to teach better. The school offers a program called Human Rights in Development. Its website maintains that it “is concerned with the realization of human rights in the context of poverty reduction and development strategies.” Yet Harvard’s unwillingness to bear the embarrassment or inconvenience of canceling Tedros' speech and/or award, or at least providing its students before the ceremony with historical context about their speaker, conflicts with that concern.

This year’s graduating class could scarcely have a stronger example before it of the potential peril to global health in ignoring civil and political human rights violations. If the WHO Assembly had found Tedros’ human rights record disqualifying, another director-general without his track record of Ethiopian cover-ups would likely have better resisted Chinese pressure to downplay Covid’s transmissibility for so long. Millions of deaths and injuries and the loss of trillions of dollars, devastating the same WHO member states who scorned human rights to elect Tedros, might have been prevented.

I therefore responded to Harvard as follows:

4/2/2021

Dear Ms. Lee,

Thank you for your reply. I understand I will not change your decision. But please let me share this thought:

I’m sure Dr. Tedros has technical information of value. There are many other ways and places those lessons can be taught. To present a co-commander of mass murder to your students in an honored, respected fashion without also cautioning them that they are being addressed by an international criminal, and without the slightest mention of the harm he did to vulnerable populations—will mitigate against the social responsibility your school must teach as well.

Permit me to suggest that at least some context be shared with your students so they can better understand the contradiction their guest represents. I know some Ethiopian human rights organizations that would be glad to work with you on that. I will be happy to put you in contact with them if you like.

Respectfully,

David Steinman

This last proposal met with a deafening silence.

Harvard’s negligent failure to grasp this teachable moment does its students a disservice. Furthermore, critical lessons from the WHO’s handling of the Wuhan outbreak cannot properly be taught without discussion of Tedros’ dark Ethiopian past and the global politics that public health professionals strive to avoid. Awarding Tedros and welcoming him with unqualified distinction will instead give Harvard’s graduating class an object lesson in how to legitimize, and thus enable, crimes against humanity.

The world is exposed to an elevated risk of more catastrophes like the present one if public health training continues to model such flawed and short-sighted values.

I hope that the school’s graduating class sees this article, so it can view Tedros’ visit in a more multi-dimensional way. Doing so will help prepare it for the difficult challenges ahead. The world it so admirably wants to protect will be a little safer.

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Re: TPLF's Post Halloween Drama

Post by sesame » 19 Apr 2021, 23:38

This is by far the most brilliant and entertaining analysis I have read so far. What a way of capturing the entire drama. The author has nailed it. Thanks for sharing!

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Re: TPLF's Post Halloween Drama

Post by The-lice head destroyer » 20 Apr 2021, 00:02

The Dramabitch Agame societies are a embarrassment for any man kind.

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