Comments by "Stephen Jenkins" (@stephenjenkins7971) on "Ethiopia's war in Tigray turns into defeat" video.
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@joninator7858 First of all, the US have condemned the TPLF before in Etruria, but TPLF actions have not been so blunt as to massacre entire villages, at least not obviously. What we can say definitively is that Ethiopia has kicked out UN parties from the country, hidden knowledge on the ground from the international community, and has definitely started retaliatory massacres in Tigray -which is specifically what the US has condemned and sanctioned Ethiopia for. Regardless of the "why", that was beyond disgusting of Ethiopia to engage in.
"every Ethiopian knew that the TPLF were brutal and oppressive" Great, but no one else in the world knows this. Including the US. Maybe if Ethiopia allowed international observers to remain, we could have learned of this and condemned it; but that still wouldn't change that Ethiopia MUST BE BETTER; not just "not as bad". And frankly, it seems WORSE in terms of human rights violations. The US cannot be seen backing Ethiopia at this current juncture.
Oh please, the US has been very tight-lipped about everything going on in Ethiopia, including the other massive human rights violations in the region. It took claims of a GENOCIDE occurring to make the US finally take a stand, and you're bitching about the US not condemning TPLF for...taking USAID trucks??? You realize that there was a bunch of other fucked things going on in this war which the US has not condemned, right? Why is that the barometer?
The second the TPLF goes into a different ethnic group's land and starts massacring the population like Ethiopia has to Tigray, the US will condemn it. Until then, the US is gonna keep its mouth shut since any peep from the US is construed as massive support and legitimacy.
The US really doesn't care about who is in power, as long as they aren't committing massive human rights violations in front of the world. It can be a Communist government for all it cares.
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@joninator7858 "In November 2020, Genocide Watch upgraded its alert status for Ethiopia as a whole to the ninth stage of genocide, extermination, referring to the Gawa Qanqa massacre, casualties of the Tigray War, 2020 Ethiopia bus attack and the Metekel massacre and listing affected groups as the Amhara, Tigrayans, Oromo, Gedeo, Gumuz, Agaw and Qemant.[22] Peace researcher and 2007 founder of the Institute for Peace and Security Studies, Mulugeta Gebrehiwot, stated on 27 January 2021 that the killings of Tigrayans by the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) and Eritrean Defence Forces (EDF) were "literally genocide by decree. Wherever they're moving, whomever they find, they kill him or her, [whether it's] an old man, a child, a nursing women, or anything."[5]
Peace researcher Kjetil Tronvoll stated on 27 February that for the first time in his three decades of studying Horn of Africa conflicts, he considered the possibility that the term genocide might apply to the actions of the EDF in the Tigray War. He listed separate components as widespread and systematic: massacres of civilians based on their identity as Tigrayans; sexual violence as an aspect of a genocidal campaign; deliberate looting of infrastructure and looting and destruction of food resources for inducing starvation; and destruction and looting of cultural heritage to attack cultural identity. Tronvoll suggested that seen together, the pattern of all these separate war crimes and "likely" crimes against humanity could establish genocidal intent by the EDF against Tigrayans in Tigray Region. He stated that the federal Ethiopian authorities could hold part of the responsibility by having "invited and accommodated" the EDF to participate in the Tigray War."
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@theelectricprince8231 "In November 2020, Genocide Watch upgraded its alert status for Ethiopia as a whole to the ninth stage of genocide, extermination, referring to the Gawa Qanqa massacre, casualties of the Tigray War, 2020 Ethiopia bus attack and the Metekel massacre and listing affected groups as the Amhara, Tigrayans, Oromo, Gedeo, Gumuz, Agaw and Qemant.[22] Peace researcher and 2007 founder of the Institute for Peace and Security Studies, Mulugeta Gebrehiwot, stated on 27 January 2021 that the killings of Tigrayans by the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) and Eritrean Defence Forces (EDF) were "literally genocide by decree. Wherever they're moving, whomever they find, they kill him or her, [whether it's] an old man, a child, a nursing women, or anything."[5]
Peace researcher Kjetil Tronvoll stated on 27 February that for the first time in his three decades of studying Horn of Africa conflicts, he considered the possibility that the term genocide might apply to the actions of the EDF in the Tigray War. He listed separate components as widespread and systematic: massacres of civilians based on their identity as Tigrayans; sexual violence as an aspect of a genocidal campaign; deliberate looting of infrastructure and looting and destruction of food resources for inducing starvation; and destruction and looting of cultural heritage to attack cultural identity. Tronvoll suggested that seen together, the pattern of all these separate war crimes and "likely" crimes against humanity could establish genocidal intent by the EDF against Tigrayans in Tigray Region. He stated that the federal Ethiopian authorities could hold part of the responsibility by having "invited and accommodated" the EDF to participate in the Tigray War."
This applies to both of you; this is far too egregious for the US to ignore any longer.
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