Ethiopia: The West’s Diplomats Meet in Secret to Decide How to Help the TPLF [BREAKING EXPOSE]
Posted: 24 Nov 2021, 13:35
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Vicky Huddleston, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs and US Assistant Secretary of State for Africa to Berhane Gebre-Christos:Abiy is not listening… Obasanjo has not been extraordinary helpful or very active, and so are there any other opportunities that you see?
Former ambassadors and current diplomats for the United States, Britain and EU had a Zoom meeting this past Sunday with an official for the TPLF in what amounts to a green light from the West for the terrorist group’s attempts to overthrow the democratically elected Ethiopian government. And there’s evidence to prove it: a phone-cam video of the two-hour meeting.I couldn’t agree more that you know, Abiy should step down, there should be an all-inclusive transition government.
said Vicki Huddleston, who was Chargé d’Affairs ad interim in Ethiopia during years the TPLF were in power.I hope that you’ll have military success fairly soon, because it seems as if the situation is only becoming more drastic,
The Western powers — Britain, the EU and especially the United States — have been posturing for months that they have not taken sides in the conflict and are pushing negotiations only in the interests of peace. But the Zoom talk rips away the façade, revealing a chummy circle of foreign policy elite, both retired and still active who mostly know each other and are in sympathy with TPLF objectives. They include Donald Yamamoto, one of the U.S. government’s most senior Africa experts who serves as the current American ambassador to Somalia, and Spain’s diplomat Carmen de la Peña.Even if Abiy sticks to his guns, which unfortunately he seems to be doing, you either hope that people around him either in government or in the military realize that this is going nowhere and might force him to, well, accept the cessation of hostilities or force him to step down?
Others who attended included: former British ambassador Robert Dewar and one of Finland’s top former ambassadors, Kirsti Aarnio. It’s unclear how many other Western diplomats were online, or for that matter, how many of these secret consultations they have had with the TPLF while feigning neutrality to the world.maintain contacts with our former employees. Just the other day, I was talking to the existing EU ambassador to Ethiopia.
Only TPLF soldiers are not right outside of Addis, but at least more than 200 kilometres away.With troops now right outside of Addis — and as you know, the evacuations have begun — that’s a very alarming situation…
The who’s who of Western diplomacy listened to former Ethiopian Foreign Affairs Minister Berhane Gebre-Christos, now a stalwart TPLF official, give a meandering talk in which he claimed without evidence that Abiy Ahmed started planning the invasion of Tigray from when he took office as prime minister in 2018.TPLF and OLF-run, masquerading as NGO.
Berhane, you might remember, was the lead spokesman for the coalition of separatist groups that joined together and introduced themselves at a Washington news conference almost three weeks ago.He started preparing himself to invade Tigray, since the first day.
Berhane told reporters, then.There is no limit for us,
His fellow leaders were noticeably less articulate, with one mumbling that the coalition would form a new regime in Ethiopia byDefinitely, we will have a change in Ethiopia before Ethiopia implodes.
Even as these representatives made their debut, ethnic organizations back home let it be known that they had never heard of these men. But others had… It soon turned out that one had worked recently as a limo driver in Toronto, while another had apparently been a limo driver in Calgary. The “dream team” — who also apparently needed to have new suits bought for their news conference — quickly became a laughingstock on social media, with Ethiopians at home and in the diaspora dismissing these new leaders as Uber drivers.force or negotiation, whatever they wish.
and negotiations could lead to government accountability.because they have committed so, so, so much heinous crimes
This, of course, is not at all true as the Ethiopian army still exists with an intact command structure and has, in fact, had scores of new recruits rush to join for the anti-TPLF effort.no defence capability today — there is no defence force, there are militias.
Stéphane Gompertz also posited the idea of an amnesty or pardon,It’s a huge honor and privilege to see you Ambassador Berhane, you haven’t changed at all. I’m really impressed at how you’ve kept your youthful appearance and are articulate and as convincing as ever, I have to say.
The stunning presumption here is that only the Ethiopian side is guilty of war crimes while survivors of the Mai Kadra Massacre say differently,in order to — precisely to — encourage the other side [the Ethiopian government] to give up this useless fight.
commented Donald Yamamoto on the issue of negotiation.Abiy is not listening, he’s not listening at all right now,
It’s not clear at all who Yamamoto expects the TPLF to negotiate with if not the prime minister of Ethiopia and his cabinet, who received a clear mandate in the democratic elections held earlier this year in which approximately 80% of the eligible population voted.And how are you going to reach him? A person who’s really in a corner. And [African Union envoy Olusegun] Obasanjo has not been extraordinary helpful or very active, and so are there any other opportunities that you see?
and then through an all-inclusive political dialogue there would be a “transitional arrangement.”would serve a very short period of time
The diplomats’ reactions are hard to fathom since Berhane demonstrated yet again the contradictory TPLF positions that a powerful and sinister Ethiopia had put Tigray back into the “Stone Age” and had inflicted genocide, while at the same time as far as Ethiopian generals went:There will be, no exclusion. Definitely the exclusion will be with PP, Prosperity Party… If they are defeated militarily, then PP will have no place.
Most of them are incompetent.
said Huddleston who also wondered,I couldn’t agree more that you know, Abiy should step down, there should be an all-inclusive transition government,
In his response, Berhane purred,I think — I worry because you know, the Tigrayans, yourself and leaders in Tigray have been very effective in carrying out the conflict [sic] and fighting back, and to me that sort of means that Tigrayans will be charge of a new government. And as competent as you are and the fact that you could probably do an excellent job, still, I think that probably would be a huge mistake.
Given Yamamoto’s high seniority in the State Department, it’s unlikely the TPLF wouldn’t interpret his supportive comments — and those of Huddleston’s — as any less than an American endorsement of a military coup. And here were seasoned diplomats, talking on an open Zoom call. What then are U.S. officials saying to the TPLF, behind closed doors?I assure you, that we’re not interested in controlling Addis and so on.
The full video:Keep thinking of how we can get an international coalition to help us.