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Why do Western leaders support Ukraine but ignore Tigray’s genocide? (Washington Examiner)

Post by sarcasm » 10 May 2022, 07:52

On Sunday, first lady Jill Biden became the latest Western official to travel to Ukraine and show her support for its people.

The Ukrainian people deserve such attention. While the White House at first encouraged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to flee ahead of the Russian onslaught, the former comedian-turned-reformist leader stayed and showed himself to be truly Churchillian, in sharp contrast to those in Washington and Berlin. Ukraine’s resistance has come at a tremendous cost, although the price of liberty and freedom is always worth paying. The Russian war machine has inflicted tens of billions of dollars in property damage upon Ukraine. Russian bombardment has killed thousands of Ukrainians and displaced millions. Russian forces summarily executed Ukrainian men, women, and children, often after inflicting brutal torture and sexual abuse. In Mariupol and elsewhere, Russia has engaged in a deliberate campaign of starvation.

That Russian President Vladimir Putin’s megalomania, paranoia, and vengeance have taken a huge human toll is apparent. There should be no moral equivalence: Castigating human rights abuses should be black and white.

Unfortunately, a comparison of the genocide in Tigray shows that it is — but for the wrong reasons.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is a zealot. African leaders and diplomats with whom he has met say he has a messiah complex. While the Norwegian Nobel Committee once brought his reformist rhetoric at face value, it was naive. Like Putin, Abiy’s background is in intelligence and the secret police. While ascendant but before becoming prime minister, Abiy bragged to diplomatic visitors about the new technology that he had acquired to track dissidents.

The Tigray War erupted in November 2020 after Ethiopia’s northern Tigray province defied Abiy’s decree that it delay elections, ostensibly because of the coronavirus pandemic. Its defiance of the prime minister, while rooted in the law, led Abiy to accelerate his efforts to disenfranchise the region. Abiy apologists say the Tigray People's Liberation Front started the fight when it attacked an Ethiopian army post. But this is disingenuous: Ethiopia had already mobilized troops and prepared for a campaign against the defiant province’s leadership before skirmishing erupted.

There are other parallels. As Putin sought to dehumanize his adversary and justify aggression by calling those in Ukraine’s democratically elected government and its Jewish president Nazis, Abiy and his apologists suggest the Tigrayans with whom Abiy once worked in coalition were collectively guilty for past Ethiopian abuses. This is not to whitewash the TPLF —successive Ethiopian governments have fallen short on human rights — but there is a difference between targeting those who abused their positions and an effort to punish collectively an entire province and ethnic group.

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Re: Why do Western leaders support Ukraine but ignore Tigray’s genocide? (Washington Examiner)

Post by euroland » 10 May 2022, 08:35

Eden wedi Junta
The question is, how much of the stolen Ethiopian money did you pay to this fake journalist to write this useless fake article?

Last, Chigray isn’t Ukraine. Ukraine didn’t invade Russia and loot dough from Russian farmers while rapping and killing it’s citizens. Ukraine never attacked the Russian soldiers while sleeping amd run over them with Cino Trucks while chasing them up North.

sarcasm wrote:
10 May 2022, 07:52
On Sunday, first lady Jill Biden became the latest Western official to travel to Ukraine and show her support for its people.

The Ukrainian people deserve such attention. While the White House at first encouraged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to flee ahead of the Russian onslaught, the former comedian-turned-reformist leader stayed and showed himself to be truly Churchillian, in sharp contrast to those in Washington and Berlin. Ukraine’s resistance has come at a tremendous cost, although the price of liberty and freedom is always worth paying. The Russian war machine has inflicted tens of billions of dollars in property damage upon Ukraine. Russian bombardment has killed thousands of Ukrainians and displaced millions. Russian forces summarily executed Ukrainian men, women, and children, often after inflicting brutal torture and sexual abuse. In Mariupol and elsewhere, Russia has engaged in a deliberate campaign of starvation.

That Russian President Vladimir Putin’s megalomania, paranoia, and vengeance have taken a huge human toll is apparent. There should be no moral equivalence: Castigating human rights abuses should be black and white.

Unfortunately, a comparison of the genocide in Tigray shows that it is — but for the wrong reasons.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is a zealot. African leaders and diplomats with whom he has met say he has a messiah complex. While the Norwegian Nobel Committee once brought his reformist rhetoric at face value, it was naive. Like Putin, Abiy’s background is in intelligence and the secret police. While ascendant but before becoming prime minister, Abiy bragged to diplomatic visitors about the new technology that he had acquired to track dissidents.

The Tigray War erupted in November 2020 after Ethiopia’s northern Tigray province defied Abiy’s decree that it delay elections, ostensibly because of the coronavirus pandemic. Its defiance of the prime minister, while rooted in the law, led Abiy to accelerate his efforts to disenfranchise the region. Abiy apologists say the Tigray People's Liberation Front started the fight when it attacked an Ethiopian army post. But this is disingenuous: Ethiopia had already mobilized troops and prepared for a campaign against the defiant province’s leadership before skirmishing erupted.

There are other parallels. As Putin sought to dehumanize his adversary and justify aggression by calling those in Ukraine’s democratically elected government and its Jewish president Nazis, Abiy and his apologists suggest the Tigrayans with whom Abiy once worked in coalition were collectively guilty for past Ethiopian abuses. This is not to whitewash the TPLF —successive Ethiopian governments have fallen short on human rights — but there is a difference between targeting those who abused their positions and an effort to punish collectively an entire province and ethnic group.

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