Hundreds Massacred in Ethiopia Even as Peace Deal Was Being Reached | የአድዋ ማርያም ሸዊቶ ዕልቂት

👉 ገብርኤል 👉 ማርያም 😇 ኡራኤል 👉 ጊዮርጊስ 👉 ተክለ ሐይማኖት 👉 መርቆርዮስ 👉 ዮሴፍ 👉 መድኃኔ ዓለም

✞ የአድዋ ማርያም ሸዊት አስቃቂ ጭፍጨፋና ዕልቂት ✞

😢😢😢 ዋይ! ዋይ! ዋይ! 😠😠😠

ይቅር በሉን፤ አባቶቼና እናቶቼ ፥ ወንድሞቼና እኅቶቼ፤ ይቅር በሉን!

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“ከታናሹ ጀምሮ እስከ ታላቁ ድረስ ሁሉ ስስትን ያስባሉና፥ ከነቢዩም ጀምሮ እስከ ካህኑ ድረስ ሁሉ በተንኰል ያደርጋሉና። የሕዝቤንም ስብራት በጥቂቱ ይፈውሳሉ፤ ሰላም ሳይሆን። ሰላም ሰላም ይላሉ። ርኩስን ነገር ስለ ሠሩ አፍረዋልን? ምንም አላፈሩም፥ እፍረትንም አላወቁም፤ ስለዚህ ከሚወድቁ ጋር ይወድቃሉ፤ በጐበኘኋቸው ጊዜ ይዋረዳሉ፥ ይላል እግዚአብሔር።”

“The Eritreans and Tigrayan forces had been fighting for days in the surrounding area. The Tigrayan troops had taken territory and inflicted heavy losses on their foes before abruptly pulling back, leaving civilians exposed to Eritrean troops

ሕወሓቶች የትግራይን አረጋውያንን፣ ቀሳውስትንን ሕፃናትን ለሻዕቢያ የ‘ባህል ጨዋታ‘ ‘አጋሮቻቸው‘ ይጨፈጭፏቸው ዘንድ አሳልፈው ሰጧቸው። አዎ! በአክሱም ጽዮን፣ በደብረ አባይ፣ በደብረ ዳሞ፣ በውቅሮ፣ በዛላምበሳና በሌሎች ብዙ ቦታዎችም ተመሳሳይ Hit & Run ዘዴ እየተጠቀሙ ነው ሕዝባችንን እንዲህ ያስጨፈጨፉት። ቴዲ ርዕዮት ‘ቢኒያም‘ ከተባለው የቆሻሻው ግራኝ አብዮት አህመድ አጋርና የሲ.አይ.ኤ ቅጥረኛ ጋር ያደረገውን ቃለ መጠየቅ እናድምጠው፤ ወደዚህ የሕወሓቶች የሃምሳ ዓመት ወንጀል በግልጽ ይጠቁመናል።

በነገራችን ላይ፤ ይህ ቢኒያም የተሰኘው ሰው ልክ እንደነ ‘ስብሐት ነጋ፣ ኬሪያ ኢብራሂም፣ ጃዋር መሀድመና እስክንድር ነጋ‘ ፤ “ታሠረ” የተባለው ለስልት ነው፤ ሁሉም ለጋራ ዒላማ በጋራ የሚሠሩና የሉሲፈራውያኑ ቺፕ የተቀበረባቸው ሮቦቶች ናቸው።

ከአራት ዓመታት በፊት እነ ደብረ ጽዮን አዲስ አበባን ለቅቀው ወደ መቐለ ሲጓዙ ጋላ-ኦሮሞዎቹ እነ እባብ ዱላ ገመዳ አብረው ተጉዘው ነበር። በተቃራኒው አቅጣጫ ደግሞ እነ ሳሙራ ዩኑስ፣ አርኸበ እቍባይና ጻድቃን አዲስ አበባ እንዲቆዩ ተደረጉ። ለዘር ማጥፋት ጦርነቱ ከግራኝ፣ ኢሳያስና አማራ ኃይሎች ጋር ዝግጅታቸውን ከጨረሱ በኋላ፤ እነ እባብ ዱላ ገመዳ፣ ኬሪያ ኢብራሂምና ሌሎችም ከመቐለ ወደ አዲስ አበባ እንዲመለሱ፣ እነ ጻድቃንና የጋላ-ኦሮሞ ሰአራዊትን አሰልጥነው የጨረሱት የትግራይ ጄነራሎችና ኮሎኔሎች ከእነ ሰላዮቻቸው ወደ ትግራይ እንዲገቡ ተደረጉ። ዓላማቸው ግልጽ ነው፤ አክሱም ጽዮናውያንን መጨፍጨፍና ማስጨፍጨፍ፣ ተቃዋሚዎቻቸው የሆኑትን የመለስ ዜናዊ ተከታዮችን እያሳደዱ መግደል ነው። ይህን ዲያብሎሳዊ ተልዕኮ ሕወሓቶች፣ ሻዕቢያ፣ ኦነግና የአማራ ቡድኖች ለጊዜውም ቢሆን አሳክተዋል። የወስላታው የእነ ቢኒያም ተልዕኮም ይህ ነው። ቃለ መጠይቁ ጋር እንደምንሰማው፤ ጦርነቱ እውነት መስሏቸው፤ “ልጃችን ነው!” ብለው በቤቶቻቸው የደበቁትን ብዙ ወገኖቼን ሆን ብሎ ያስጨረሰ እርኩስ አረመኔ ነው። አይይይ! ስለዚህ ጉዳይ ሲጠየቅ ምን ያህል ስሜታዊ ባልሆነና ሮቦታዊ በሆነ ሁኔታ እንደሚመልስ ተመልከቱት። የጭፍጨፋው አካል ስለሆኑና በስነልቦናም የተዘጋጁበት ስለነበር ነው እንዲ ደፍረው ካሜራ ፊት ለመቅረብ የቻሉት። እርኩሶች! እያንዳንዱ የሕወሓት አባልና ደጋፊ ከሻዕቢያ እና ኦነግ/ብልጽግና ያልተናነሱ ሰይጣኖች ናቸው። ቆሻሾች የዲያብሎስ ጭፍሮች! አንድ በአንድ እየታደናቸሁ ወደ ገሃነም እሳት የምትጣሉበት ሰዓት ሩቅ አይደለም። ወዮላችሁ!

Soldiers from neighboring Eritrea went house to house killing villagers in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, witnesses say.

በጋላ-ኦሮሞ አጋንንት “አባቶች” ጉዳይ በየቀኑ እየወጡ የመግለጫ ጋጋታ ሲያሰሙ የነበሩት የቤተክህነት “አባቶች” አሁን ምን ይሉን ይሆን? ብጹዕነታቸው አቡነ ማቲያስስ ከክርስቶስ ተቃዋሚዎቹ ከእነ አርኸበ እቍባይ፣ አረጋዊ በርሄ እና ግራኝ ወጥተው ይናገሩ ዘንድ ፈቃዱን ያገኙ ይሆን?

ይህ እጅግ በጣም አሳዛኝ ዘገባ የወጣው ልክ በአድዋው ድል መታሰቢያ ወቅት ነው። ይህም ያለምክኒያት አይደለም። ማርያም ሸዊት በአድዋ ዙሪያ ነው የሚገኘ። የሮማውያኑ ሉሲፈራውያን ወኪሎች፤ ከሃዲዎቹን ሕወሓቶችንና የአዲግራት አካባቢ የሕወሓት ተቃዋሚዎቻቸውን (Bad cop /good cop እየተጫወቱ) ጨምሮ የእግዚአብሔር አምላክ፣ የቅዱስ ጊዮርጊስና የአድዋ ሕዝብ ድል የሆነውን የአድዋን ድል መታሰቢያ ለማጠልሸት ሰበባሰበብ እየፈለጉ የአድዋን ሕዝብ በማንቋሻሽ ላይ ይገኛሉ። በእንቅርት ላይ ጆሮ ደግፍ እንዲሉ በአድዋ ሕዝብ ላይ የዘር ማጥፋት ጥሪም ለማድረግ የደፈሩ የዲያብሎስ ጭፍሮች እየተሰሙ ነው። እንግዲህ ሉሲፈራውያኑ ሮማውያኑ የአእምሮ ቁጥጥር ስለሚያደርጉባቸው፤ ‘ሞግዚቶቻቸው’ ባሰኛቸው ሰዓት የድምጽ ትዕዛዙን (Voice to Skull) ጭንቅላታቸው ውስጥ ያስገቡላቸዋል። አብዛኛዎቹ እራሳቸውን ያሳዩና ያሳወቁ ሜዲያ ሰዎችም የዚህ ዲያብሎሳዊ ቴክኖሎጂ ሰለባዎች ናቸው። በጣም አዝናለሁ! ስለዚህ ጉዳይ ሳወራ ሃያ ዓመት ሆኖኛል። እንግዲህ እንደምናየው ሁሉም ጨፍጫፊያችንና አስጨፍጨፊያችን ከሆነችው አሜሪካ ጋር እንደሚያብሩ ይናገራሉ። ሁሉም የአባቶቻችን ጥብቅ ክርስቲያናዊ እምነት የሌላቸው፣ የሰዶም ዜጎች ርዕዮት ዓለም የሆኑትን አብዮታዊ ዲሞክራሲ/ሊበራል ዲሞክራሲ ግባችን ነው ብለው ዛሬም በይፋ ያውጃሉ። ሁሉም የራሳችን ሕዝብ የሚሉትን በመንደርተኛነት ደረጃ እያሰቡ በመከፋፈል ሁሉን አቃፊና ሰፊዋን አግዓዛዊቷን ኢትዮጵያን ነው የምንመኘው ይላሉ።

ልብ እንበል፤ አንዳቸውም የጽዮንን ቀለማት የንጉሠ ነገሥት አፄ ዮሐንስን ሰንደቅ አያውለበቡም። የሚያውለበልቡትም የአማራ አክቲቪስቶች ሰንደቁን ይይዙ ዘንድ በጭራሽ አይገባቸውም፤ እንዲያውም ያቆሽሹታል እንጅ። ስለ አድዋ ድልም ይህ ትውልድ ‘በኩራት’ የመናገር ሞራላዊ መብት የለውም፤ በጭራሽ! ዳግማዊ ምኒልክም ሆኑ ኃይለ ሥላሴ፣ መንግስቱ፣ ስብሐት ነጋና ግራኝ አብዮት አህመድ በጽዮናውያን ላይ የዘር ማጥፋት የፈጸሙ ወንደማማች ሕዝብን የከፋፈሉ፤ ሃገር ለባዕድ አሳልፈው የሰጡ በከፍተኛ ደረጃ የተመዘገቡ ወንጀለኞች ናቸው። ስለዚህ ከአድዋ ጋር ምንም የሚያገናኛቸው በጎ ነገር የለም፤ ሁሉም ከሃዲዎች ናቸው!

ምን ያህል አለመታደል መሆኑን ለመረዳት እያንዳንዳቸው፤ ‘ወዲ አዲግራት፣ ወዲ አደዋ፣ ጓል ራያ ጓል እንደርታ፣ ጎንደሬ፣ ጎጃሜ፣ ወሎዬ’ እያሉ እራሳቸውን እንደ ሶማሌዎች አሳንሰው ይከፋፍላሉ። ሶማሌዎች አንድ ቋንቋና አንድ ሃይማኖት ኖሯቸው አንድ ሆነው በጋራ መኖር ያልቻሉት በዚህ የጠበበ፣ መንደርተኛና ዘላናዊ በሆነ አስተሳሰብ ሳቢያ ነው።

👉 Courtesy: The Washington Post

Just days before a deal to end the war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, soldiers from neighboring Eritrea last fall massacred more than 300 villagers over the course of a week, according to witnesses and victims’ relatives.

Eritrean forces, allied with Ethiopian government troops, had been angered by a recent battlefield defeat and took their revenge in at least 10 villages east of the town of Adwa during the week before the Nov. 2 peace deal, witnesses said, providing accounts horrifying even by the standards of a conflict defined by mass killings of civilians.

The massacres, which have not been previously reported outside the Tigray region, were described in interviews with 22 relatives of the dead, including 15 who witnessed the killings or their immediate aftermath. They spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.

The survivors are only now willing to talk: As long as Eritrean troops remained close by, villagers were cowed into silence. Once the soldiers finally pulled back in late January from much of Tigray, witnesses and relatives began to give accounts like the following: A toddler killed with his 7-year-old brother and their mother. Elderly priests shot in their homes. A nursing mother shot dead in front of her young sons. Family members beaten back as they clung to fathers and sons being taken to their deaths.

Residents of the village of Mariam Shewitto who had fled the violence said they returned from the bush to find the doors of their homes swinging open, the floors inside black with blood and the air heavy with the stench of death. Others searched for brothers and husbands among half-eaten corpses on a mountain where scores were executed and left to wild animals.

Satellite images first provided by Planet Labs and reviewed by The Washington Post show that at least 67 structures in the area, mostly in household compounds, were severely damaged during the time that witnesses said the killings happened. Additional imagery provided to The Post by Maxar Technologies shows military vehicles matching witness descriptions of Eritrean vehicles, less than three miles from where the massacres took place.

The agreement between the Ethiopian government and Tigrayan rebels brought about a cease fire in a two-year war that had made northern Ethiopia one of the deadliest places in the world. But the deal did not address the status of Eritrean troops. Neither the Ethiopian nor Eritrean government has made any public statement on how Eritrean soldiers who perpetrated mass killings like the most recent one near Adwa could be brought to justice.

Joint investigations by the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, whose head is appointed by parliament, and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights have documented crimes against humanity and war crimes carried out by all sides up until June 2021. The head of the EHRC, Daniel Bekele, said they had identified many other incidents requiring investigation and they would be dealt with under a transitional justice mechanism.

The U.N. International Commission of Human Rights Experts, a separate body, also documented war crimes by all sides, and said the government and its allies may have committed crimes against humanity. In January, the Ethiopian government asked the United States to support its bid to terminate the commission, calling its work “highly politicized.”

Eritrea, a heavily militarized one-party state often dubbed “the North Korea of Africa,” has consistently denied committing war crimes. On Feb. 9, President Isaias Afwerki told a news conference that such allegations were “fantasy … lies and fabrication.” Eritrean Information Minister Yemane Gebremeskel did not respond to requests for comment on the killings near Adwa.

A senior official working with Ethiopia’s Justice Ministry did not specifically address the killings but said it would be seeking public input around the country, including in six places in Tigray, on issues such as accountability and redress for abuses during the war.

War arrives on their doorstep

The civil war erupted in November 2020 when Tigrayan fighters seized federal military bases across Ethiopia’s northern region, claiming an attack by government forces was imminent. The Eritrean military entered the conflict almost immediately to help fight against its longtime enemy, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). The TPLF had dominated Ethiopian politics for nearly three decades, but its power was curtailed after Abiy Ahmed became prime minister in 2018.

During two brutal years of fighting, the conflict largely passed by many of the tiny villages outside of the northern town of Adwa.

But on the morning of Oct. 25, the war arrived on the doorstep of 92-year-old Gebremariam Niguse in the village of Mariam Shewitto. The Eritreans and Tigrayan forces had been fighting for days in the surrounding area. The Tigrayan troops had taken territory and inflicted heavy losses on their foes before abruptly pulling back, leaving civilians exposed to Eritrean troops, villagers said.

“We were too close to the road,” one of Gebremariam’s relatives recounted bleakly. “We were the first house they came to.”

The Eritreans shot Gebremariam dead in the compound of his home. They also killed his son, two daughters, a son-in-law, daughter-in-law and 15-year-old granddaughter, relatives and witnesses said. The daughter-in-law, Tsige, had her 5-month-old baby on her back when the soldiers arrived, one relative said. The soldiers told her to untie the baby and set it down, then shot her dead in front of her 10-year-old son and his four younger brothers, according to the relative. The boys stayed with the bodies of their parents, too terrified to leave, for a night and a day, the relative said.

The soldiers continued their slaughter deeper into the village, gunning down many people in or near their homes, witnesses and relatives said. The victims included 15-year-old Samson Gebreyohannes Legesse, who sold eggs to save up for the university; an elderly priest who was shot in the chest and discovered in his living room by his son clutching a cross; and another priest killed along with his son and grandson.

The killing in Mariam Shewitto continued for three days as soldiers went house to house, witnesses said. At least 140 people were killed, according to a tally of names provided by survivors. While some men were killed with their families, others were taken, tied up and marched to a mountain called Gobo Soboria, where they were shot dead. When the soldiers came for a man named Hagos Gebrekidan, his 10-year-old son clung to him, crying, until the Eritreans pulled him off and took Hagos away, a witness said.

One man said he was hiding on the mountain, but a group of soldiers found him. He was marched past groups of bodies with their hands bound behind their backs before he broke free and ran. He was shot but survived by tumbling into a ravine and hiding under some bushes, he said. He tried to stanch his bleeding for hours with his shirt while listening to the Eritrean soldiers just above looking for signs he was still alive.

Another man from Mariam Shewitto, in his 60s, said that eight soldiers came into his house and demanded to know where his children were. When he said they were not home, they shot him and looted the house, down to the bedsheets.

“They came to check if I was dead twice, but when they kicked me, I just played dead,” he said. Eventually, he crawled into the forest and met a small girl, begging her for help. Neighbors tore up some women’s clothes to bandage his wound and, lacking medicine, smeared honey on it. For four days, they took him into their house late at night but returned him to the forest before dawn, fearing soldiers would discover him in their home and kill them all, he said.

Satellite imagery collected by Maxar Technologies on Oct. 27 shows at least 25 vehicles — identified by three analysts as military vehicles — either stopped or moving very slowly less than three miles east of Mariam Shewitto. Survivors said Eritrean vehicles were in the area at the time.

Less than two miles farther to the east, largely confined to an area just south of Mariam Shewitto Church, more than 60 structures were severely damaged by Nov. 1, according to a review of satellite imagery provided by Planet Labs.

When the Eritreans finally left Mariam Shewitto on Nov. 1, the villagers emerged from hiding and searched for their loved ones. Survivors found that many of the bodies had been partially eaten by animals. Some bodies still had faces; others had identity cards in their pockets. Others were just limbs. Yohanis Yibalh, a taekwondo enthusiast who drove a motorcycle taxi, was seen being marched away; only part of his body was found, a relative said.

One woman said she lost her husband and 11 other relatives. When she discovered her husband in his distinctive white and gray shirt and coffee-colored trousers it was so late in the afternoon that there wasn’t enough time for a proper burial. She and two other women scraped soil over his body to protect it from hyenas, she said.

She recalled her husband was a kind man who always brought home treats for their three children. When asked for her fondest memory of him, she hesitated, then offered, “Every day was special.”

Horrors on all sides

As Tigray emerges from the war, few places have been left unscathed, and no side is blameless.

Peace deal ending Ethiopia’s Tigray war yet to dispel fear of more atrocities

Residents, rights groups and journalists have documented frequent mass killings of civilians, systematic gang rapes and sexual slavery by Eritrean soldiers.

Ethiopian government troops have also been blamed for repeated war crimes and other atrocities. The Ethiopian government has said it has arrested more than 50 of its own soldiers for crimes that included rape and killing civilians, but the trial records and identities of the soldiers have never been made public. Ethiopian prison guards also killed scores of Tigrayan detainees at a camp near Mirab Abaya in November 2021, and at least seven other locations, according to an exclusive report in The Post, citing witness accounts.

Ethiopian guards massacred scores of Tigrayan prisoners, witnesses say

Tigrayan fighters have also been credibly accused of war crimes, including the rape and murder of Eritrean refugees living in their region and the forcible recruitment of young people into their ranks by jailing relatives if they refused. When Tigrayan forces pushed into the neighboring regions of Afar and Amhara, residents reported hundreds of rapes, looting and the killing of civilians. Early in the war, a Tigrayan youth militia in a town called Mai Kadra killed hundreds of mostly Amhara laborers. The TPLF leaders have denied these allegations, saying in particular their group did not carry out killings in Mai Kadra.

While the Ethiopian government has extensively documented crimes committed by Tigrayan fighters, it has not yet conducted such detailed investigations into crimes against Tigrayan civilians.

Hundreds of civilians killed in Tigray, Ethiopia’s rights commission says

Many of those left behind are glad for the November cease fire. But survivors are living surrounded by the dead.

“We want the world to hear what happened,” said a woman who reported losing seven close relatives in the massacre near Adwa. “We want people to know what happened to our families.”

Too many to mourn properly

The week of slaughter by Eritrean soldiers extended well beyond Mariam Shewitto to villages including Geria, Adi Bechi, Adi Chiwa, Mindibdib, Kifdimet and Kumro, according to lists of victims shared with The Post and cross-checked by reporters. Some of the lists were neatly typed; others were scrawled on notepaper or recited over the telephone.

In Kumro, between 35 and 40 villagers were killed, one woman said. “They were hiding, but the old ones stayed in their houses. They thought they would be safe,” she said. Her 11-year-old son found his grandfather’s body, she said. The soldiers had burned the thatch that covered the stone houses, the fodder for their livestock, even the beehives, she said.

In Rahiya, Eritrean troops killed a teacher named Letemichael Fisseha Abebe with her 7-year-old son and another aged 20 months, a relative said. Her husband Dawit Weldu, also a teacher, was killed four days later in nearby Endabagerima along with his brother, a construction worker, the relative said.

A local official in Endabagerima said at least 80 people were killed there. Residents said many were buried at a famous monastery nearby. Some of the dead were families from outside the area that had come to take nearby holy waters, said a resident. No one knew their names.

At least 48 people were killed in the village of Geria, according to lists provided by two survivors. The victims included seven Muslims, many farmers, a 65-year-old mentally ill woman and a priest.

At least 34 of the victims were buried in Abune Libanose Church near Kumro, said a woman who attended a mass ceremony for the dead at the end of November. “The mourning was bitter for us. Some people didn’t come because they were afraid,” she said, her words tumbling out. “We didn’t know who to cry for. Your father, sister, mother, brother?”

Families gathered in groups to exchange condolences, she said. Some mourners had lost so many relatives they weren’t sure which group to stand with.

Individual condolences would have taken hours, even days, so representatives from each group would murmur “Tsinat Yihabkum” — “may God give you strength” — to another family’s group, then move onto the next one.

There were no priests to wave incense or perform the traditional ceremony of fithat on the bodies. She said they were all among the dead or mourning.

💭 Selected +365 Comments Courtesy of The Washington Post፡

🛑 ከሦስት መቶ ስልሳ በላይ አስተያየቶች በዚህ ዘገባ ላይ ተሰጥተዋል። ዓለም ለዩክሬይን ከሰጠችው ከፍተኛ አትኩሮት ጋር እያነጻጸሩ ብዙዎች በአዎንታዊ መልክ አስተያየት መስጠታቸው በጎ ነገር ነው። በሌላ በኩል ግን ከዚህ በፊት አስተያየት ወይንም ጥላቻቸውን ለመግለጽና የዘር ማጥፋት ጥሪ ለማድረግ ማንም የማይቀድማቸው ግብዞቹ የኦሮማራ ምንሊክ አርበኞች ዛሬ ዝም ጭጭ ብለዋል! በቦረና ጉዳይ ተጠደምደዋል!

• – Excellent reporting on a woefully underreported war.
• – Important reporting, makes for horrific reading that shocks me to my core. Utterly barbaric.
• – Important reporting to recognize the horror of war and invasion across the world and not just in the Steppes at the Black Sea. All of these atrocities are crimes against humanity. The International community must respond with commensurate outrage against an attack on Ethiopia as it does against an attack on Ukraine.
• – We only care about the white Christians of Ukraine.
• – There certainly is bias in the relatively sparse reporting of wars in Africa between the native peoples there, and the war in Ukraine. So I appreciate this reporting.
• – Maybe if WP and other media made mention of this war and atrocities as much as they do what’s happening in Ukraine some of the violence could have been prevented. It’s so obvious to see what others deny exists. Our prayers to those left behind.
• – My heart goes out to these victims. Can’t their killers be tried?
• – Very heartbreaking. Children who had nothing to do with the conflict being killed. There has been almost no reporting on the war there last year. The loss there is great yet nobody without a connection to the people seem to care.
• – And the Prime Minster Abiy Ahmed Ali still has his Nobel Peace Prize? Jesus Wept!
• – For two years I have followed the sparse reporting here on the civil war in Ethiopia. Nearly every article has comments from people purporting to be Ethiopian and calling for the genocide of ethnic minorities like those in Tigray.
• It’s disgusting. I understand this is humanity at its worst, but the moderation needs to be stepped up. These articles do not attract thousands of comments.
• – This is why no one pays attentions to wars in Africa. Ethiopia used to be a great place, one of the founders of the Christian Church, and with one of the world’s oldest alphabets. Now it’s just Rwanda. Even Russians are not going door-to-door killing Ukrainians.
• – What the press is not saying…Ethiopia was historically a Christian nation.
• The Muslims eventually took over, militarily supported by Muslim nations like Turkey. I’m really not sure the two faiths will ever peacefully get along.
• – I visited Ethiopia more than twelve years ago. A fascinating country with a lot of youth and not enough employment possibilities. The northwestern, mountainous region of the Tigrayans had for centuries prevailed politically and culturally. It holds the lion’s share of the holy sites of Ethiopian Christianity that dates from the earliest centuries of the faith, even earlier than the Christianization of Germanic Europe and of Scandinavia. The numerical growth of other sectors of Ethiopia have ultimately eroded the political near monopoly of the Tigrayan, who are Semitic, whilst the rest of the huge country is racially ‘negro’, though everybody is coloured. The Tigrayan refused to fully accept the rule of national leaders not of their sort, the loss of their region’s prestige. There is a lot of politics, and financial reasons for the civil war, also the Christian and Moslem divide. Wonderful the cuisine of Ethiopia, wonderful people I met there.
• – Showing that “never again” was forgotten before the ink dried. shame on all our governments for ignoring human rights to make a buck.
• – There but for the Grace of God. May the victims rest in peace and may these nations/groups stop the horrors.

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