Three senior members of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), including former foreign minister, Seyoum Mesfin had been killed, the Ethiopian Defense Forces (EDF) announced on Wednesday.
Seyoum Mesfin alongside Asmelash Woldeselassie, ex-parliamentary chief whip, Abay Tsehaye, former federal affairs minister and Kiros Hagos, a military officer who reportedly defected from the EDF a few months ago, were killed when the four men defied commands to surrender, Tesfaye Ayalew, the head of the deployment department with EDF told Ethiopian News Agency.
In recent days, the federal army announced that it had arrested and killed a number of TPLF political and military leaders who were accused of perpetrating an attack against the northern command of the federal army. Among those arrested were Sebhat Nega, veteran TPLF politician and former executive director of the Ethiopian Foreign Relations Strategic Studies Institute, Abay Woldu, Tigray region’s former president, Abraham Tekeste, the region’s former vice president and finance minister in the federal government from 2016 to 2018. Solomon Kidane, former deputy mayor of Addis Ababa, Tekelewoyni Assefa, former CEO of Relief Society of Tigray and, Kidusan Nega, former speaker of the region and one of the siblings of Sebhat were also arrested.
I don’t relish death to anyone, period. Rest In Peace, Seyoum Mesfin and Abay Tsehaye, and May Gods have mercy on you in the after-life.
True, it is sad to see such things happen. However, what these individuals have committed is simply staggering. Setting up command posts and mowing down protestors by mobilizing tanks and helicopter gunships! The kind of torture they inflicted on any who dissented from Tplf rule! You should have heard Seyoum’s words just a month ago on EthioTube! He in effect was saying that there was no way forward without Tplf back at the helm. Seyoum and Abay Tsehay are retired and yet could order an army to commit massacre! Think about this for a moment. Justice finally caught up with them! Ethio-Eritrea border clashes claimed over 80,000 young lives (recruited from outside Tigray; Meles/Seyoum/Sebhat, etc had said Tigray youth had paid enormous price and now it should be the turn of others!).
Here is what I would suggest. Ethiopians have to speak up regarding Tplf’s heinous crimes over the years (always with evidence, please). Secondly, several task forces should be organized to legally go after Tplf members among whom are Tsadkan and Seye now hiding in Boston, America. Their public speeches and deeds are out there. Berhane Gebrekristos is out somewhere in Shanghai guarding and allocating the tens of millions stolen from our homeland and from international aid! Patriotic Ethiopians have their work cut out for them.
I know for Shure you are hiding behind the walls of social media world.The few self-appointed like you noisy Ethiopian Diaspora opposition, who are bent on violence and terrorism are responsible for the thousands of lives lost and they deserve nothing less than unconditional condemnation for their continued attempt to wreak havoc and instability by engaging to megalomaniac dreams of unitary vision. Defeatists normally deploy themselves to destructive ploys by generating desperate acts. The vast spectrum of lies and deception that have been deliberately infused to the public by ostracized individuals who are deeply resentful and have become fathers of all lies by undermining the ongoing civil war waged against the people of Tigray. It is perhaps sad to say, but nonetheless true that the hate mongers helped to create the conditions in which the current war to be ignited. As the French philosopher Alain Badiou put it, the truth is “indifferent to difference” and in its essence universal in nature – it is not impressed by ethnicity, nationality, or race: truth is “the same for all.” Their propaganda machine has doggedly worked to suppress the truth and they are waging an ill-fated assault on Tigreans with their bogus and pathological lies. Their footprints of lies and deceptions in the cyber world must be challenged. Ethiopia under EPRDF rule made a stride progress in world stage, now it is gone, what you have is empty flowering speech. Seyoum, Abay and Weldeselasie they died fighting for what they believe as hero. Their legacy lives for ever in the hearts and minds of Tegaru.
Dear Bereket;
Thanks for responding. Your comment however makes for strange reading. I wish someone would point out to you that you are defending the indefensible! Your word choices in fact say a lot more about you than you bargained for! You utterly failed to address the issues! Let me play it back to you if perchance to wake you up out of “Tegaru” torpor!
“hiding behind walls of social media world … self-appointed noisy … opposition, bent on violence and terrorism … responsible for thousands of lives lost deserve unconditional condemnation… wreak havoc and instability engaging to megalomaniac dreams of unitary vision. Defeatists …destructive ploys … lies and deception … civil war … hate mongers … propaganda machine … to suppress truth … waging an ill-fated assault … pathological lies. ..lies and deceptions in the cyber world… empty flowering speech. ..
To me and millions more Ethiopians (regardless of ethnicity, nationality, or race) the picture you painted is to Tplf specifications. I see you are an intelligent guy and could do better than this. Take care.