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Ethiopian officials admit using a Biafra-like siege to starve Tigray (Ethiopia Insight)

Post by sarcasm » 13 Aug 2022, 08:12

Ethiopian officials admit using a Biafra-like siege to starve Tigray
11 August, 2022by Jan Nyssen


The federal government may blame the TPLF for Tigray’s suffering, but its medieval siege strategy is an open secret.

In 2004, Eskinder Nega, an Ethiopian journalist, activist, and politician, oversaw the publication of at least five columns in his Askual newspaper that labeled Tigrayans the Jews of Ethiopia and called for Ethiopians to emulate the strategies used by Nazi Germany.

When the civil war broke out in November 2020, such ideas have been implemented against Tigrayans by the Ethiopian government in concert with its allies in Eritrea and the Amhara region.

Comparisons to the Holocaust may seem a bit extreme. But events in Tigray are eerily reminiscent of the 1967-1970 Nigerian civil war.

In response to a secessionist war waged by Lt. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu in a predominately Igbo-populated territory called Biafra, the Nigerian government purposefully starved the population—leading to the death of up to a million children.

As evidence of the similarities, in 2021, the state-owned Amhara Media Corporation said Tigray’s future is “like Biafra” and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed boasted that the Ethiopian government decides whether aid gets into Tigray or not.

Despite a slight improvement in the humanitarian situation since April, these genocidal plans are ongoing in Tigray. Much of the Ethiopian public seems to support these policies, or chose to remain silent out of fear and pressure, while the international community has not taken them seriously enough.

Manmade famine
Policies implemented by the Ethiopian and Eritrean governments that appear designed to induce famine conditions in Tigray have been documented since the beginning of the war.

In June, despite the blackout imposed by Ethiopian authorities, determined reporters reached Tigray over rocky footpaths and, in a rare occurrence, filmed the horrors of the war. On 2 July, ARTE TV broadcasted their documentary, titled “Tigray: in the land of hunger”, which showed the effects of manmade starvation and the devastation of the region’s health system.

The events discussed by the interviewees and depicted in the 24-minute report include the Aksum massacre perpetrated by Eritrean soldiers, an eleven-year-old boy at the hospital who weighed only eight kilos, and people simply dying at home because they know that the medical centers are out of supplies and so can’t help them.

The UN recently posted celebratory announcements rather than telling the truth that its workers are still prevented from reaching much of the starving population of Tigray.

On 29 June, the UN claimed on social media that, since 1 April, the World Food Programme (WFP) has delivered enough food to Tigray to feed 5.9 million people per month.

However, the WFP Ethiopia country brief contradicts this. It states: “In the Tigray Region, WFP delivered food assistance to 461,542 people in May.”

Also, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ (OCHA) 17 June situation report notes: “Food partners in Tigray assisted more than 340,000 people with 5,303 MT [metric tons] of food during the reporting week.”

“Cumulatively between early April and 8 June, more than 20,000 MT of food have been distributed to more than 1.2 million people in the region,” OCHA’s report continues.

The reality is that from April to June 2022, a period of three months, the WFP only transported enough food to Tigray to feed 5.9 million people for one month in total.



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Re: Ethiopian officials admit using a Biafra-like siege to starve Tigray (Ethiopia Insight)

Post by Cigar » 13 Aug 2022, 11:30

Sarcasm the coward, funfun, filthy agame, stop comparing apples and oranges you mother fu’cker liar.
Before you talk about the pain your ungrateful funfunat agames are going through, before blaming the Ethiopian govt for your miseries, before you fool yourself what your masters are saying about your starvation (according to you) first of all start with WHO IGNITED THE WAR, WHO COMMITTED THE FIRST GENOCIDE specially if you want to blame others of committing genocides.
And if you are not one mother fu’cker honest, you should come to the same conclusion that you, your woyane and your people deserve the miseries and the deep shi’t they are in as we speak.
It is logic that had you not start this war, you wouldn’t have wasted a million rag tag rat agame militia lives and wouldn’t be begging for the restoration of the necessities of life as you are doing every freaking second.
Facts matter you idiot.
If you willingly jump off a 10 story high building and you somehow make it being broken to pieces, you can’t blame others for your stupid actions.

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