Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on February 22, 2023
💭 President Joe Biden on Wednesday fell and caught himself before possibly tumbling down the stairs as he tried to board Air Force One in Poland.
The video shows Biden slowly ascending the stars to the taxpayer-funded jet to return home. While climbing the stairs, he fell and tried to quickly regain his footing. At the top of the stairs, he hurriedly turned around and saluted before entering the aircraft
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the early results of an investigation indicated that an explosion on Polish territory Tuesday, “was likely caused by a Ukrainian air defense missile fired to defend Ukrainian territory against Russian cruise missile attacks.” Stoltenberg said NATO’s investigation was ongoing after a meeting of NATO allies in Brussels.
🥶 “Volhynian Massacre” – A Historical Scratch On Polish-Ukrainian Relations
Despite the close relations between Poland and Ukraine, the history of mutual relations, is not without events that negatively affect contemporary relations. The most important for Poland is the so-called “Volyn Massacre” . This is a mass genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists against the Polish minority in 1943-1945 in the areas of eastern, pre-war Poland occupied by the Third Reich. The crime resulted in the deaths of some 100,000 Poles.
💭 The fish were removed by anglers and volunteers along a 124 mile stretch of the River Oder in Poland,
Anglers and volunteers have pulled at least 10 tonnes of dead fish from the River Oder, Poland’s second largest waterway, which flows along part of Poland’s border with Germany, with an investigation into the cause of the deaths underway.
Przemyslaw Daca – head of State Water Holding which manages the country’s waters described the situation as a gigantic ecological catastrophe, with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki vowing to find and punish those responsible.
[2 Esdras 5:7-13]
7 Fish will be washed up on the shores of the Dead Sea. The voice of one whom many do not know will be heard at night; everyone will hear it.
8 The earth will break open in many places and begin spouting out flames. Wild animals will leave the fields and forests. At their monthly periods women will bear monsters.
9 Fresh water will become salty. Friends everywhere will attack one another. Then understanding will disappear, and reason will go into hiding,
10 and they will not be found even though many may look for them. Everywhere on earth wickedness and violence will increase.
11 One country will ask a neighboring country if justice or anyone who does right has come that way, but the answer will always be “No.’
12 At that time people will hope for much, but will get nothing; they will work hard, but will never succeed at anything.
13 These are the signs of the end that I am permitted to show you. But if you begin to pray again and continue to weep and fast for seven more days, you will hear even greater things.”
👉 Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic of Poland Condemns Perpetrators of Massacre In Ethiopia as ‘Barbaric’
Statement regarding the massacre in front of the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Aksum in the Tigray region፡
Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated on Friday that it was “deeply concerned with the news of the massacre of civilians, which was alleged to have taken place at the end of last year in front of the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Aksum, an Ethiopian province of Tigray.
“We strongly condemn the perpetrators of this barbaric crime committed in a place of worship. We expect the Ethiopian authorities to immediately take all possible measures to clarify its circumstances and punish the perpetrators,” the statement reads.
“We call on the parties to the conflict to refrain from violence and respect human rights, to ensure the safety of the civilian population, and to properly protect places of worship and freedom of religion. We appeal for unimpeded access for humanitarian deliveries to the Tigray province,” the MFA stated.
The statement was possibly prompted by reports by British “Church Times” that surfaced about a week ago, revealing that at least 750 people died in a massacre that was carried out in front of the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Aksum in the Ethiopian province of Tigray. Reportedly, the people who tried to hide from the assailants in the church belonging to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church were dragged out of the building and shot to death.
Ever since the attack by Tigray People’s Liberation Front aligned security forces on the Northern Command bases and headquarters of the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray Region, the country has been wrapped in internal tensions and the integrity of the nation, a federation of ethnicities in fact, was put to a test. The crisis seems not solved just yet despite Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali’s trumpetting of victory in December, when the capital of the province Mekelle was captured by the ENDF.
As Polish Radio reported, both sides of the conlifct provide information difficult to verify as telephone and internet connections with the region have remained severed since the early days of military operations. Moreover, data acccessibility is closely monitored by the Addis Abeba government. Estimates are that thousands of people died in the conflict and over 100,000 refugees fled to Sudan.
The city of Axum where the massacre took place is located some 50 km from the Eritrean border and used to be a bone of contention for both the country and Ethiopia before current PM Abiy managed to broker long-awaited peace between the countries. The bulk of the city’s population is Tewaheedo Christian and belongs to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. The Ethiopian tradition has it that the Arc of Covenant is being guarded at the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Axum.
The past Ethiopian-Eritrean rivalry over the city is rooted in the fact that Axum used to be the first capital of an Ethiopian statehood and a place where Ethiopian Emperors used to be crowned. The city was listed by UNESCO in 1980 as a World Heritage site.