By ANF
Many sources indicated TPLF have been destroying civilians and opposition parties in increasingly trend overtime. Mechanized countries kept silent of such massacres and genocides. Demonstrations to TPLF over years appeared now a kind of selecting demonstrators and devil them with punishment. Demonstrations to industrialized countries never restrained from channeling huge resources to TPLF, and TPLF rejected request of powerful organization including UN to investigate the crisis, nor such organization have ever seen overstepping on TPLF. Hadn’t the direction already a lesson so?
Diaspora
Except TPLF and their affiliated, Diaspora disliked the TPLF in damaging people. Diaspora also contributed quite happy for investing in land, house, and so on that strengthen resources for TPLF and offensively and egoistically displace poor farmers. Simple: cease investing at back- home and enhance investment in destroying the criminal TPLF. How to go about on the later?
Role of Ethnicity in this Revolution
Obviously, TPLF used divide and rule but such approach is obsolete now. A clear collusion between Oromo and Amhara are expected to remove TPLF. However, there is a worry about further ethnic conflicts including and beyond these two groups in the aftermath.
Oromo needs self-rule. Ogaden needs self-rule. Amhara needs self-rule. I mean all of them cannot afford oppressive TPLF. That is a civilization. That is freedom. That is liberty. That is democracy.
On TPLF
TPLF sit in the central government, pool military forces from one region and dispatch them to other region for storming citizens. Uprooting TPLF from this means making them powerless and this is the only realist course of action for all. What about TPLF? TPLF has an option to rule Tigray if this front even explores a chance to exist very soon.
Who will rule the country? As any developed countries, no region rule over the other. Each region will rule their own. The country wouldn’t bear further centralization that oppresses one ethnicity over the other-albeit-after stability, peace and self-rule of each region is ensured, say, for a year, each region will discuss whether cohabitation, economic integration, labor exchange and other cooperation is possible. Every region need to rethink its stability and sustainability in this manner that enhance its local military and civil administrations.
Priority of intervention points in the current context are:
- Deny any meeting, communication, and negotiation with TPLF and its agents.
- Implement defection from TPLF’s military forces through recruitments.
- Execute defensive on top priority along with massive demonstration.
Deny any meeting, communication and negotiation with TPLF and its agents
Collectively the most important element is refusing any meeting and obstructing any financial sources to the TPLF’s military speed up loss of army. Stop any communication including asking for demonstration, political dialogues. No more negotiation to see a resignation of TPLF peacefully because there was/is no scope for that but that should be mandatory after all.
Implement defection from TPLF’s military forces through recruitments
Key practical role of Diaspora: work more days to contribute $200 monthly for military forces than to waste time in rallying, and demonstration. Rallying and demonstration is still valid though. These resources should be an excess to pay defector military forces, for example, how many Oromo and Amhara are abroad who are above 18 years old, working as a family or single! Flexibility of such fundraising in practical terms-be it through various organization including political party, community , and then directly channel it to military force is appreciated (there is no such restriction of mandate, roles and so forth beyond paper works). Recruiting the military forces from TPLF is cheap because these forces are already trained and likely also access to more weapons and it deplete TPLF’s military forces and make expensive to TPLF to retain the forces. Locally and vastly, the call for defection can be more effective through family of the military forces.
Execute defensive on top priority along with massive demonstrations
Army defectors and all competent people with rifles and shotgun but restrict grenades to optimize selective defense approach. And hold strategic positions including houses which has a hole, window or from roofs. Call massive peaceful demonstration around those strategic places. Still there are remnants agents of TPLF but innocuous, so continue the peaceful demonstration. If violent agents/military forces of TPLF start to harm people, just then selectively act defensive actions from there.
ANF, August 14, 2016