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Starvation Has Become a Weapon of War in Ethiopia. U.S. Action Is Urgent (Washington Post Editorial)

Post by sarcasm » 15 Jun 2021, 18:54

Opinion by the Editorial Board

FOR MONTHS humanitarian agencies have been warning that famine could spread in the Ethiopian region of Tigray if government forces and allied troops from neighboring Eritrea did not end a brutal campaign to subjugate the area. Now that emergency has arrived. U.N. agencies reported last week that more than 350,000 of Tigray’s 6 million people are living in famine conditions, and 2 million more are at risk. Some 140,000 of those facing starvation are children, according to UNICEF, which says 33,000 are at imminent risk of death.

This humanitarian catastrophe, which U.N. officials say could rival the epic Ethiopian famine of 1984 if not arrested, is a deliberate result of the military campaign waged in Tigray since late last year by the government of Abiy Ahmed and the allied Eritrean regime of Isaias Afwerki. According to U.S. and U.N. officials and press reporting, the forces of the two governments have burned farmers’ fields and stores and slaughtered or stolen livestock. They have also systematically blocked aid deliveries to the parts of Tigray not under government control. Eritrean forces, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator Mark Lowcock said last week, are “trying to deal with the Tigrayan population by starving them.” Food, he told the Reuters news agency, “is definitely being used as a weapon of war.”

Forced starvation of children is only the latest atrocity Ethiopian and Eritrean forces have resorted to in what, so far, has been a failed effort to crush the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which has controlled the region for decades and dominated Ethiopia’s government until Mr. Abiy came to power in 2018. The United Nations has also reported mass rapes of women, massacres of civilians, and ethnic cleansing. More than 2 million people have fled their homes, leaving their fields behind. Tigrayan men are being rounded up and summarily executed.

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Re: Starvation Has Become a Weapon of War in Ethiopia. U.S. Action Is Urgent (Washington Post Editorial)

Post by Fiyameta » 15 Jun 2021, 19:22

When the expiration date approaches on grain reserves in Western countries, and since the Animal Rights Groups in those countries don't allow the expired grain to be consumed by cattle for fear of exposing their livestock to mental retardation, the grain is dumped in Tigray as food-aid for human consumption. For the last 30 years, over 2 million Tegaru have been surviving on the expired food-aid, which is the leading cause of the intellectual disability prevalent among Tegaru.

With Tigray now under total control of the Ethiopian government, and the Western countries have nowhere to dump their expired grain reserves, the TPLF terrorists that have turned begging into an art form are increasingly agitated as they watch their own people consume Ethiopia-grown organic food for the first time in 30 years. :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: Starvation Has Become a Weapon of War in Ethiopia. U.S. Action Is Urgent (Washington Post Editorial)

Post by sun » 15 Jun 2021, 19:48

sarcasm wrote:
15 Jun 2021, 18:54
Opinion by the Editorial Board

FOR MONTHS humanitarian agencies have been warning that famine could spread in the Ethiopian region of Tigray if government forces and allied troops from neighboring Eritrea did not end a brutal campaign to subjugate the area. Now that emergency has arrived. U.N. agencies reported last week that more than 350,000 of Tigray’s 6 million people are living in famine conditions, and 2 million more are at risk. Some 140,000 of those facing starvation are children, according to UNICEF, which says 33,000 are at imminent risk of death.

This humanitarian catastrophe, which U.N. officials say could rival the epic Ethiopian famine of 1984 if not arrested, is a deliberate result of the military campaign waged in Tigray since late last year by the government of Abiy Ahmed and the allied Eritrean regime of Isaias Afwerki. According to U.S. and U.N. officials and press reporting, the forces of the two governments have burned farmers’ fields and stores and slaughtered or stolen livestock. They have also systematically blocked aid deliveries to the parts of Tigray not under government control. Eritrean forces, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator Mark Lowcock said last week, are “trying to deal with the Tigrayan population by starving them.” Food, he told the Reuters news agency, “is definitely being used as a weapon of war.”

Forced starvation of children is only the latest atrocity Ethiopian and Eritrean forces have resorted to in what, so far, has been a failed effort to crush the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which has controlled the region for decades and dominated Ethiopia’s government until Mr. Abiy came to power in 2018. The United Nations has also reported mass rapes of women, massacres of civilians, and ethnic cleansing. More than 2 million people have fled their homes, leaving their fields behind. Tigrayan men are being rounded up and summarily executed.

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If that is the case please ask Alula Solomon to send the millions of dollars collected to the provisional administration of Tigray region to be distributed to the needy citizens as well as giving orders to all of those thousands of criminals summery released from Tigray prisons by the tplf on its final forced relinquishing of power because they are now they seem to be robbing foods from distribution centers, private homes and other storage. Additionally tplf itself needs to stop sabotaging food distribution and infrastructure maintenance and through that punishing their own people just to make them angry and rebel so as to blame their frustrations on the good government trying their best honestly to help them as much as they can and as fast as it is possible.

Also some of those pro tplf aid organizations need to stop smuggling in weapons and smuggling out out tplf anti government rebels. Once all the sins in your side of the equation is solved peace will descend on the Tigriyan sky and angels will start going from house to house singing peace and prosperity for the Tigriyan people, the Eritrean people and the Ethiopian people. If you are waiting for the Robocope to come in and put the tplf back in Menelik palace right on Menelik's throne, then you must be waiting until the second coming of our LORD, JESUS CHRIST.


All the best and patience in the world for the waiting, because it is much more better to wait than to get it easily, because it is said that , easy come easy go, Or better yet, sii rooxxu ye taxxequt surrii sii rooxxu yiffettal" Yibaalal ekko.

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Re: Starvation Has Become a Weapon of War in Ethiopia. U.S. Action Is Urgent (Washington Post Editorial)

Post by Tog Wajale E.R. » 15 Jun 2021, 19:51

Great ,, ☆ Begging, Hunger, Prostituti*ons Is Tigrayian Agga*mes Cultures, Deal With It Bissbiss Shettattam☆.



We Put The Dedebit Woorgach Agga*me Tigrayian Back To Stone Ages.

Bissbiss Shettattam Agga*me Mighty Amara People Will Rule Tigrai Next 1000 Years To Come. Go Figure Bissbiss Shettattam Agga*mes.
We Are Not Done Yet Until We Make Tigrai Like Aleppo Syria. Go Figure.

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