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Mekelle is not intimidated nor is Tigray Army provoked by cowardly air raids
Kalayu Abrha 10-21-21 History has been repeating itself several times in Tigray that after every major defeat of Ethiopian forces it is the air force that remains alive to fight in places where there is no battle. The air force is like a boxer outside the ring kicking and striking the air where there is no one in front of him to strike back. Seventy years ago, Weyenti of Tigray defeated Ethiopian forces at Emba Alaje and there was nothing that could prevent them from marching to Addis Ababa to dismantle the brutal monarchy. British Royal Air force was used by Ethiopia to strike Mekelle's Monday Market to kill hundreds of women and children. Derg’s cowardice from the usual center of power at Arat-Kilo did exactly the same thing soon after the defeat at the battle of Shire. Derg administration left Mekelle on its own but sent the air force to kill 18 civilians including 80 years old man. Instead of fighting in Badme face to face against the heroes, coward Isaias (as he is known as in the EPLF) sent jets to kill tens of primary school children in Ayder, Mekelle.
It has become the fate of Tigray to be a target of cowardly air strikes far away from the battlefield. This is clear testimony that what the enemy wants is not to fight heroically in battles and gracefully admit defeat as gentlemen but to murder innocent people with every available opportunity. Tigray will never be free from this as long as it remains part of Ethiopia. Every time such brutalities are done the optimism for a better future for Tigray within Ethiopia shrinks. After the devastating defeat of the axis of evil in Tembien enemy troops left Mekelle in a panic although they piled up lame excuses for their withdrawal. The Derg in Mekelle, led by Corporal Legesse Asfaw, was comparatively more gentlemanly because it did not deny evacuating Mekelle because of military defeat. The TDF which rose from the ashes like the mythological phoenix and evolved within a few months into an undefeatable force invaded the land of the invaders and aimed at breaking the cowardly siege of Tigray and punish the perpetrators of the destruction of Tigray at their locations. Although Amhara irregular forces, allied with Eritrean land-pirates and the PP army, had committed untold atrocities on civilians in Tigray the Tigray Army in the Amhara land it conquered did not take revenge on civilians. The difference between a civilized and barbarian army was quite clear. Unfortunately, the moral high ground of the Tigray Army was not reciprocated by the mentally deranged enemies who are confused and divided by their insatiable thirst for power. Every time they are defeated in the battlefield, they round up innocent Tegaru in business and the army in Addis Ababa and elsewhere in Ethiopia. They kill and burn innocent Tegaru; they Kill and throw into cliff; they kill and throw into rivers, and so on!! The most recent of the usual expression of cowardice after every major defeat is the air strike in Mekelle on Monday market day and during Muslim Id celebration. The second air strike happened today before noon. The air strikes in Mekelle are hundreds of kilometers away from the battle fronts and the people are suffering from famine due to the cruel humanitarian blockade by the inhuman Arat Kilo rulers. As if hunger is not enough to exterminate Tegaru they are bombing them from the air. The most inconsistent leader in the world, Abiy Ahmed, had mocked the Tigray army for not fighting like heroes in uniforms and face his troops directly instead of” hiding among the people”. Now the Tigray army is out in the open and fighting him face to face. If he were the hero, he boasted he was he would admit defeat of his evil intentions of exterminating Tegaru not conduct air strikes very far away from where the victorious TDF heroes are. You find heroes in the battlefield not planting flowers in their back yards or shooting at unarmed people. In the genuine world of heroism, no unarmed person is harmed. Even during the ancient sword fights a swordsman who has dropped his sword is not cut before he picks his sword and starts fighting again. His opponent will wait until he picks up his sword and is ready to fight.
The cowardly airstrikes on Mekelle may have two objectives. Firstly, to intimidate the people of Tigray and force it to stop manning and supporting the Tigray Army. The cowardly enemy may also hope for the Tigray Army in Amhara land to surrender or go back home. Secondly, it may be provoking the Tigray Army to resort to an act of revenge on civilians in the Amhara land out of anger and regret about its kind treatment. The latter can help Abiy to convince the world that Tigray Army is committing atrocity. He is working hard to equalize war crimes and use it for negotiations to avoid ICC. Since neither the people in Mekelle will be intimidated nor the Tigray Army be discouraged or provoked, Abiy and his team of murderers are advised to reduce their crimes. |