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SunnySide · 09-20-2021, 04:36 PM

Mon, September 20, 2021, 1:27 PM

The United States on Monday condemned a recent speech by a prominent ally of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed which compared Tigrayan rebels to the devil and said they should be "the last of their kind".

"Hateful rhetoric like this is dangerous and unacceptable," a State Department spokesperson told AFP in response to the speech last week by Daniel Kibret, who is often described as an adviser to Abiy and was nominated to the board of the state-run Ethiopian Press Agency last year.

Since fighting broke out in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region last November, thousands have been killed and hundreds of thousands forced into famine-like conditions, according to the UN, with the war spreading to the neighbouring Afar and Amhara regions.

The UN's special adviser on genocide prevention and the USAID's chief have previously voiced concern about hate speech and dehumanising rhetoric in the conflict, but Daniel's comments were the first to draw specific criticism from Washington.

At an event in Amhara attended by high-ranking officials, Daniel called for the total erasure of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which dominated national politics for nearly three decades before Abiy took office in 2018.

"As you know, after the fall of Satan, there was nothing like Satan that was created... Satan was the last of his kind. And they (the TPLF) must also remain the last of their kind," Daniel said.

"There should be no land in this country which can sustain this kind of weed.

"They should be erased and disappeared from historical records. A person who wants to study them should find nothing about them. Maybe he can find out about them by digging in the ground," he said to applause.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-blasts...172715488.html

NPR radio does a good job of covering what is happening in Tigray, Ethiopia and Eritrea. They have reporters who are there "embedded" who interview the Tigray people feeling the border bc of Ethiopian gangs/militia.

Hearing the actual people speak and being interviewed aobut what they are going through really makes an imprint. Pullls your strings.

Tigray is getting squeezed from all sides. They were on the front lines of the long wars btw Ethiopia and Eritrea fighting against Eritrea.

I thought Ethiopia was going to massacre all of Tigray when they encircled them but I think their young new PM who campaigned on peace for all and made peace with Eritrea was talked out of it after he was practically spearheading it.

Seems Ethiopia has decided to just lay seige on Tigray and let the people starve while militias hunt people down.

Sad.

Has a day gone by in this world that hundreds of people didnt die of starvation or rape or torture?

I remember my Ethiopian clients so happy about this new young PM. He was going to bring peace. He let all the eritrean political prisoners free from jail.

Didnt he win a nobel peace prize?

Its literally brother on brother. its like me killing my dopelganger in South Carolina.

09-20-2021, 04:36 PM	#815
SunnySide Playmaker Join Date: Sep 2019 Posts: 4,568	Re: All things Middle East related Mon, September 20, 2021, 1:27 PM The United States on Monday condemned a recent speech by a prominent ally of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed which compared Tigrayan rebels to the devil and said they should be "the last of their kind". "Hateful rhetoric like this is dangerous and unacceptable," a State Department spokesperson told AFP in response to the speech last week by Daniel Kibret, who is often described as an adviser to Abiy and was nominated to the board of the state-run Ethiopian Press Agency last year. Since fighting broke out in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region last November, thousands have been killed and hundreds of thousands forced into famine-like conditions, according to the UN, with the war spreading to the neighbouring Afar and Amhara regions. The UN's special adviser on genocide prevention and the USAID's chief have previously voiced concern about hate speech and dehumanising rhetoric in the conflict, but Daniel's comments were the first to draw specific criticism from Washington. At an event in Amhara attended by high-ranking officials, Daniel called for the total erasure of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which dominated national politics for nearly three decades before Abiy took office in 2018. "As you know, after the fall of Satan, there was nothing like Satan that was created... Satan was the last of his kind. And they (the TPLF) must also remain the last of their kind," Daniel said. "There should be no land in this country which can sustain this kind of weed. "They should be erased and disappeared from historical records. A person who wants to study them should find nothing about them. Maybe he can find out about them by digging in the ground," he said to applause. https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-blasts...172715488.html NPR radio does a good job of covering what is happening in Tigray, Ethiopia and Eritrea. They have reporters who are there "embedded" who interview the Tigray people feeling the border bc of Ethiopian gangs/militia. Hearing the actual people speak and being interviewed aobut what they are going through really makes an imprint. Pullls your strings. Tigray is getting squeezed from all sides. They were on the front lines of the long wars btw Ethiopia and Eritrea fighting against Eritrea. I thought Ethiopia was going to massacre all of Tigray when they encircled them but I think their young new PM who campaigned on peace for all and made peace with Eritrea was talked out of it after he was practically spearheading it. Seems Ethiopia has decided to just lay seige on Tigray and let the people starve while militias hunt people down. Sad. Has a day gone by in this world that hundreds of people didnt die of starvation or rape or torture? I remember my Ethiopian clients so happy about this new young PM. He was going to bring peace. He let all the eritrean political prisoners free from jail. Didnt he win a nobel peace prize? Its literally brother on brother. its like me killing my dopelganger in South Carolina.