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18/06/2025

TAP Editorial Opinion : Guarding the Flame – Why TDF’s War Narratives Must Wait

In the aftermath of great wars, nations grieve, heroes are remembered, and stories are told. But timing, discretion, and wisdom matter as much as courage. In Tigray today, many TDF veterans and political leaders are racing to write their memories battlefront diaries, reflections on leadership, heroic accounts of resistance. While such efforts are valuable in principle, publishing sensitive operational details while our struggle remains unfinished is a strategic error with historical consequences.

When Memory Becomes a Liability: Lessons from Tigray’s Past

Tigray has walked this road before. After the fall of the Derg regime in 1991, some veterans of the 17-year armed struggle began publishing books and giving speeches detailing their operations. These included maps of liberated zones, tactical insights, command hierarchies, and even vulnerabilities faced in the mountains. What they shared was heartfelt and often inspiring but it was also a goldmine for analysts working for future enemies.

When the genocidal war of 2020–2022 broke out, the Ethiopian and Eritrean regimes applied those lessons ruthlessly. Armed with knowledge from our own post-struggle literature, they:

Blocked traditional supply routes such as the northern corridor to Sudan.

Enforced a total siege based on their awareness of our historical fallback zones.

Disrupted humanitarian operations using insights into local governance and logistics.

Hunted former fighters and informants using indirect identification patterns revealed through past memoirs and tributes.

The result: a complete blockade, mass starvation, and the systematic targeting of civilian and military infrastructure.

This Is Not Just a Tigrayan Problem: Global Experiences Echo the Danger

The perils of premature disclosure are not unique to Tigray. Around the world, resistance movements that exposed too much too early often paid a high price:

The Irish Republican Army (IRA) faced massive infiltration and counterintelligence sabotage after members publicized their operations too openly in memoirs and media interviews in the 1980s and 1990s.

The Palestinian resistance has repeatedly suffered from internal leaks and exposed command structures, which Israel's intelligence services later used to carry out precision strikes and assassinations.

Nelson Mandela, even after the fall of apartheid, insisted on the classification of certain documents related to ANC’s underground structures until national security was fully stabilized.

Tigray must learn from such precedents. A heroic story today can become a weapon in the hands of tomorrow’s enemy.

Tactics Are Not for Public Display Yet.

It is perfectly legitimate to honor the bravery of the fallen, to uplift the spirit of resistance, and to inspire the next generation. But let us never confuse commemoration with confession. Some of the most damaging disclosures currently appearing in public books and speeches include:

Internal TDF command decisions and battlefield deliberations

Descriptions of supply chains and military movement patterns

Intelligence operations and signals breakthroughs

Biographical details of key operatives or informants

Relationships with international facilitators or diaspora channels

Publishing such data today is not historical—it’s a breach of tigray security.

The Nature of Our Adversary Requires Ruthless Information Discipline

Tigray is not dealing with honorable rivals. The regimes in Addis Ababa and Asmara have shown no respect for international law, ceasefire agreements, or even basic human rights. They operate through disinformation, digital surveillance, and regional destabilization. They are known to harvest data from diaspora publications, social media chatter, and even interviews with returning veterans.

Every sentence we publish could be a clue. Every name we mention could become a target.

Strategic Recommendations Guarding Tigray’s Security and Legacy

1. Immediate Moratorium on Military Disclosures

TDF and the interim administration must enforce a publication freeze on all documents that contain tactical, intelligence, or command-level information. This includes books, articles, podcasts, and interviews until conditions are secure.

2. National War Records Review Council

A professional review board should be established to examine all publications related to the war. This body must be composed of retired commanders, intelligence officers, historians, and legal experts. Nothing should go to print without their review.

3. Secure Digital Archives and Oral Testimony Bank

The sacrifices of our fighters deserve to be preserved, but securely. Establish a sealed archive both digital and physical where testimonies, images, recordings, and strategy documents can be stored for deferred release over 15–30 years.

4. Publish Value-Centric Narratives

Encourage authors to focus on why we fought, not how we fought. The values of justice, unity, resistance, and survival are far more inspirational than the details of command chains or troop routes.

5. Mandatory Training on Information Security
Create mandatory workshops for political cadres, journalists, and returning fighters on information sensitivity. Let them understand the invisible line between patriotism and peril, between transparency and betrayal.

6. A Public Campaign: “Write Later, Win First”

Mobilize the public with a slogan-driven awareness campaign “Write Later, Win First.” The idea must be instilled that preserving life and sovereignty is more urgent than preserving legacy prematurely.

Discipline Is the Final Battle
Tigray’s fight is not over. There are still battles to be fought some political, some humanitarian, and some psychological. But victory will not come through firepower alone. It will come through discipline, intelligence, unity and silence when necessary.

We owe it to our martyrs to be wise, not just brave. To preserve the legacy of TDF, we must protect its secrets, safeguard its lessons, and silence our pride until the struggle is truly complete.

There will be a day to tell the full story. But until that day arrives, let us guard the flame not expose it to the wind.

15/06/2025

Tigray Will Not Be a Battleground Again: Ethiopia’s March to War Must Be Stopped
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By: Chento ze addis, June 2025

The skies over the Horn of Africa are once again darkening. In what appears to be a calculated and reckless turn, the Ethiopian government is signaling a willingness perhaps even a desire to provoke yet another war, this time with Eritrea. While the world watches with unease, those living in the crosshairs particularly the people of Tigray watch with dread. They’ve seen this horror show before. They were its victims just yesterday.

Let us be clear: if war returns to this region, it will be a war of choice, authored by those in Addis Ababa whose appetite for domination still outweighs their regard for human life, justice, or constitutional order.

A Regime Addicted to Conflict
The Ethiopian federal government, still unrepentant and unpunished for the atrocities committed during the Tigray Genocidal War, seems eager to divert public attention through the timeworn playbook of conflict escalation. Without accountability, without reform, and without a political roadmap, the government has resorted to military theatrics and inflammatory nationalism.

But this time, the danger is graver. By opening the door to direct confrontation with Eritrea, Addis is dragging the Horn into a confrontation with unpredictable consequences. Eritrea is not a passive actor, nor is it easily manipulated. This is not posturing it’s a powder keg.

Yet amidst this madness, the greatest crime is not just the war itself but the place chosen for it to unfold again: Tigray.

Tigray: Between Fire and Fury
Once again, Tigray is being positioned by geography and by politics as the battlefield for others' ambitions. The region, still staggering from a genocidal war, cannot afford to bleed again. Its cities are scarred, its villages razed, its people displaced and traumatized. To even suggest the use of Tigrayan soil for another war is not just immoral it is barbaric.

And yet Addis Ababa moves forward, indifferent to the destruction, believing it can use Tigray as a shield, a pawn, a strategic wedge. But Tigray is not disposable. Its people are not cannon fodder.

A Moral Stand for Peace
In contrast to the escalating provocations from the federal center, Tigray’s leadership both civilian and military has emerged as the voice of reason and restraint. Their public commitment to peaceful resolution, despite unimaginable loss and betrayal, is a testament to the strength of character that true leadership demands.

These leaders understand something the regime in Addis does not: there is no victory in endless war. No dignity in destruction. No legacy in domination.

Their focus is not on battlefield gains, but on reconstruction, reintegration, and reconciliation. They are rebuilding schools, repairing clinics, supporting farmers, and healing communities. They are attempting the impossible: to choose peace when they would be justified in choosing war.
That restraint deserves global recognition and support.

The World Must Not Stay Silent

Tigray’s stand for peace cannot survive in isolation. The African Union, United Nations, European Union, and regional actors must act decisively to prevent Ethiopia from plunging into another abyss. This means:
◇Imposing real consequences on provocateurs in Addis.
◇Supporting regional de-escalation mechanisms.
◇Demanding constitutional accountability and inclusive dialogue.
◇Backing Tigray’s right to self-administration and security guarantees.
The international community failed Tigray once. Another failure will be unforgivable.

A Declaration from Tigray to the World

Let this be the message from Mekelle to every capital that thinks another war is winnable:
We will not be baited. We will not be broken. "We will not let Tigray burn again to satisfy the insecurities of unaccountable men."

Tigray’s resilience is not a license for more suffering. Its patience is not consent to more bloodshed. And its silence is not surrender.

If war comes again, it will not be because Tigray wanted it. It will be because those in Addis could not imagine a future not built on ashes.

The Final Word: Peace Is Power

This is the moment for Tigray’s leaders to be supported, not sidelined. Their refusal to answer war with war is not passivity it is principle. Their commitment to sustainable peace is not weakness it is strategic courage. In their voices lies the last hope for a Horn of Africa not haunted by perpetual war.

The Ethiopian government must be stopped. Tigray must be defended not just by arms, but by international resolve and by history’s conscience.

There is no honor in dying for the arrogance of the powerful. But there is everlasting dignity in living for the peace of the many.
Let those who ignite wars remember: the people they burn will one day rise, not to retaliate—but to rewrite history in the name of peace.

14/06/2025

: Ex Federal governments Minster of Peace says the war on Tigray was a strategy to reshape the ENDF

A former senior official in Ethiopia’s ruling Prosperity Party has said the 2020 attack on the army’s Northern Command, was deliberately orchestrated to justify a purge of ethnic Tigrayan soldiers from the national army.

Ato Taye Dendea, former Minister of Peace of the FDRE and senior member of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity party, said in an interview with Horn Observer, recorded prior to his arrest, that the government intentionally provoked the war to remove Tigrayan personnel from the Ethiopian national defense force.

“Do you think it is TPLF who started the war? It is us who deliberately started it,” Taye said in Affaan Oromo during an interview with Horn Conversation. “We had no other way to single out ethnic Tigrayan members of the national army.”

The federal government has long maintained that the Tigray People’s Liberation Front initiated the war by attacking Northern Command bases in November 2020. That narrative formed the basis for a full-scale military campaign on Tigray, which lasted two years and resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths, mass displacement, and widespread human rights abuses and destruction.

Taye’s remarks appear to confirm what critics and rights groups have claimed for years that the war was used as a pretext for a politically motivated ethnic purge.

His comments align with a previously leaked and verified audio from Brigadier General Tesfaye Ayalew, a senior military commander of the ENDF, who was heard saying the military had to “clean out our insides” referring to the dismissal, disarming and detention of more than 17,000 ethnic Tigrayan soldiers.

“Even if there may be good people among them, we can’t differentiate… so we excluded them from doing work. Now the security forces are completely Ethiopian,” he added in the leaked recording, which was later verified by international outlets.

Rights groups and UN experts have repeatedly reported widespread ethnic profiling of Tigrayans across Ethiopia following the starting of the war on Tigray. Many ethnic Tigrayans were dismissed from their jobs, detained without charges, or disappeared.

31/05/2025

The Weaponization of Intelligence and the Dangerous Path Toward Renewed Repression
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The recently circulated document titled “Strategic Warning and Policy Recommendations to Ethiopian Federal Authorities”, allegedly authored by the Horn of Africa Geopolitical Review, demands not only a critical reading but a moral and political reckoning. Beneath the cloak of national security analysis lies a calculated and incendiary attempt to reignite the politics of fear, dehumanization, and authoritarianism in post-war Ethiopia.

Let us begin with the central claim: that remnants of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) have entered into a clandestine alliance with the Eritrean regime. This narrative, absent any verifiable evidence and suspiciously timed, is a classic tactic of regime-aligned propaganda—resurrecting ghosts of past conflicts to justify current repression. It seeks to recast the victims of a genocidal war as traitors plotting a second round of destabilization. This is not intelligence. It is information warfare, designed to manipulate public perception and furnish a pretext for renewed surveillance, intimidation, and extrajudicial targeting of Tigrayans.

The report’s recommendations read like a manual for internal political purge: covert national intelligence operations to trace “returnees from Eritrea,” digital surveillance of private citizens, the criminalization of independent media, and the diplomatic isolation of an already battered region. This is not statecraft. This is state overreach.

Make no mistake: these are not mere suggestions—they are strategic blueprints for the reactivation of systemic repression. The Tigrayan people, already subjected to a campaign of collective punishment through blockade, famine, airstrikes, and sexual violence, are once again being cast as a threat to national cohesion rather than its victims. It is as if the past two years of horror and humanitarian catastrophe were not enough. Now, even the faintest attempts at reconstruction, return, or regional dialogue are to be surveilled, interrogated, and crushed.

There is a grim irony in the accusation that Tigrayan actors are aligning with the Eritrean regime. The Eritrean state, under Isaias Afwerki, was not a neutral player in Ethiopia’s civil war—it was a key architect of the devastation in Tigray. It bombed civilian centers, slaughtered innocents, and oversaw systematic looting and destruction of infrastructure. Eritrea’s continued occupation of northern Tigray remains a violation of both the Pretoria Agreement and international law. If the Ethiopian federal government is to act with urgency, let it do so not against manufactured conspiracies, but against the very real and ongoing aggression of the Eritrean regime within its own sovereign borders.

And yet, the report calls for diplomatic pressure against Eritrea—not for its invasion of Ethiopia or its obstruction of peace—but for allegedly conspiring with Tigrayans. This is a bizarre inversion of reality that insults the intelligence of the Ethiopian public and the global diplomatic community. It is not just bad analysis—it is dangerous misdirection.

Particularly alarming is the recommendation to investigate media outlets like Zara Media for “foreign-aligned destabilization.” This is a brazen attempt to label independent journalism as treason. Zara Media, like many regional outlets, has been a critical voice in telling the untold stories of war, survival, and truth in Tigray. To criminalize such platforms is to strike at the heart of democratic expression and press freedom in Ethiopia. When media is silenced, what follows is not peace—it is silence under fear.

What this document ultimately reveals is the persistence of a political culture that views dissent, memory, and regional identity as existential threats. Instead of embracing the opportunity for healing after Pretoria, this report signals a desire to revive the logic of domination, erasure, and securitization.

We must resist this turn. Ethiopia cannot afford another descent into paranoid nationalism. The cost—in lives, legitimacy, and nationhood itself—would be catastrophic. What the country needs is the opposite of what this report demands. It needs transparency, truth-telling, inclusive dialogue, and justice for all communities. It needs a reckoning with the crimes of the war, not a scapegoating of its survivors. It needs the demilitarization of politics—not its further entrenchment.

To the federal authorities, we say: the strategic miscalculation would not be in ignoring this report—it would be in acting upon it.

To the international community: beware of being drawn into Ethiopia’s internal political games under the guise of counter-intelligence or regional diplomacy. Call out disinformation when you see it. Stand by the principles of human rights and transitional justice.

To the people of Ethiopia, especially the Tigrayan people: your struggle, your suffering, and your resilience cannot be erased by documents designed to rewrite history. Continue to speak, to rebuild, to demand truth. The future belongs to those who fight for peace with dignity—not those who trade in fear and falsehoods.

29/05/2025

Vehicles, Rot, and Silence: Tigray’s Slow Suffocation Must End
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In the arid heat of Ethiopia’s northern highlands, over 110 trucks sit stranded—silent, unmoving, and decaying. They are stuck across Afar, Serdo, Adaytu, and Woldia, blocked from entering Tigray. These are not just vehicles. These are vessels of survival—loaded with food, medicine, fuel, and the fragile dreams of a region that has suffered more than its share of tragedy.

This is not a temporary hold-up. This is not a border miscommunication. Let us name it for what it is: a blockade.
And blockades—especially after war—do not just deny access. They deny dignity. They deny life.

Tigray has survived two years of war that brought horror into every household. Hunger became common. Families scattered. Hospitals collapsed. And when the Pretoria Cessation of Hostilities Agreement was signed in 2022, it was received—perhaps hesitantly—as a breath of hope. For the first time in years, peace was possible. Healing was imaginable. Trade and recovery could return.

But how do you heal when food is stopped just kilometers away?
How do you farm when fertilizer and fuel are stuck behind a checkpoint?
How do you treat a patient when medicine sits unused in a locked freight vehicles?

Inside those immobilized vehicles are boxes of perishable vegetables and fruits, slowly decomposing in the sun. Tomatoes, cabbages, oranges, bananas—all harvested in good faith, packed with care, and sent by Ethiopian traders eager to revive the economy. But time is not neutral. The sun does not wait for negotiations. These once-valuable goods are now rotting, liquefying into waste. Merchants are losing everything.

In another truck, medical supplies lie unused: insulin, antibiotics, vaccines, and oxygen tanks. Hospitals in Tigray are running out. Staff have been pleading for restock. Patients are dying—not from lack of knowledge, but from lack of access.

Fuel, which powers not just cars but clinics, water systems, and entire livelihoods, sits in tankers going nowhere. Farmers ready to harvest now watch helplessly as crops spoil. There is no diesel for machines, no vehicles for delivery, no chance for recovery.

And yet—there is no war. There is no gunfire to justify this. No active fighting to blame. Only invisible walls erected by silence, politics, and disregard.

How did we get here—again?
Is this what peace was supposed to look like?

To the Federal Government: If you are committed to peace and national unity, this is the moment to prove it. The Pretoria Agreement was not just a ceasefire—it was a promise. A promise of life returning to normal. Of access restored. Of dignity upheld. You cannot celebrate peace while enforcing a siege.

To regional actors: You are not bystanders. If you obstruct aid or trade, directly or indirectly, you are participating in the quiet erosion of human life. Every hour these vehicles are delayed, another child sleeps hungry. Another diabetic slips into crisis. Another mother loses her income.

To the Ethiopian public: You have the right to know. This is not just a Tigrayan issue. It is a test of our collective morality. Today it is Tigray. Tomorrow, it could be Oromia. Or Amhara. Or Gambella. We must not normalize the weaponization of access in our country.

To the international community: You welcomed the Pretoria Agreement. You applauded the promise of peace. Now is the time to defend it—not with words, but with urgent pressure. Do not wait for mass death to awaken your conscience. Famine does not come overnight—it comes slowly, silently, with every truck that does not move.

This blockade is not about security. It is about power. And the cost is being paid by civilians who have suffered enough. It is not a policy tool—it is a human rights violation, an economic strangulation, a slow suffocation of hope.

And yet, we believe this can be changed.
Open the roads. Unblock the aid. Release the freight vehicles. Let medicine move. Let trade resume. Let Tigray breathe.

Let Ethiopia live up to its highest values—not its darkest impulses.
Let the trucks move. Let the people live.

28/05/2025

When Patriots Turn Against Their People – The Painful Betrayal of Generals Guesh Gebre and Teklay Ashebir
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In every liberation struggle, there are figures who emerge as heroes—men and women who carry the hopes of a nation on their shoulders, who rise through fire and blood, and who become symbols of resilience and sacrifice. Generals Guesh Gebre and Teklay Ashebir were once counted among those few. Their names echoed across the hills and valleys of Tigray as warriors who stood firm when the existence of our people was threatened.

But history, especially in moments of national trauma, does not immortalize people for their past glories alone. It also judges them by their choices in the critical moments that follow. And today, with heavy hearts and deep concern for the future of Tigray, we must confront a painful truth: these former generals have crossed a line from sacrifice to treason.

By aligning themselves with individuals and factions who have become mere tools of Abiy Ahmed’s regime—a regime that unleashed unimaginable suffering on Tigray—they have not simply taken a political stance. They have turned against the moral foundation of our struggle. They have betrayed the very people they once swore to defend. This is not mere political divergence; it is complicity in the weakening of Tigray’s path toward justice and self-determination.

There is no honor in standing beside those who attempt to erase the memory of genocide, who dismiss the tears of mothers searching for their sons, and who trade the hopes of an entire people for a seat at the table of power. The generals' alliance with former TDF elements now serving the federal regime is not a bridge to peace—it is a knife in the back of the nation they once fought for.

What makes this betrayal more bitter is the context: these are not outsiders who never understood the soul of Tigray. These are men who lived through the fire, who bled with the people, who led fighters through the mountains when the world turned its back on us. Their fall from grace is not just political—it is deeply moral. They know what Tigray has endured. And yet, they choose to side with those who brought it to its knees.

Let us be clear: Tigray’s cause is not built on hate or division, but on justice, dignity, and the inalienable right of a people to determine their own destiny. That cause cannot and will not be defeated by shifting allegiances or political opportunism. The truth remains, even when generals abandon it.

We do not write this to erase their past contributions. But we write it to mark their current betrayal. Because memory without accountability is dangerous. And because silence in the face of such treason would be another wound to a people who have already suffered too much.

There is still time for redemption—but only through a return to principle, to truth, and to the people. If that path is not chosen, then these men must live not with the honor of patriots, but with the legacy of those who stood on the wrong side of history at its most decisive hour.

Tigray will endure. Its cause remains just. But let this moment be remembered—not for who betrayed us, but for how we stood firm, even when the betrayal came from those once closest to the heart of the struggle.

However, Tigray will win.
Not because the path is easy, and not because the pain has been small—but because the cause is rooted in justice, resilience, and the unbreakable will of a people who have faced darkness and refused to be defeated.

Victory does not always come quickly, and it rarely comes without cost. But when a people are united, when they remember their purpose, their martyrs, and their identity, no force—no betrayal, no regime, no manipulation—can truly destroy them.

Tigray will rise not only through arms or politics, but through truth, perseverance, and the unwavering spirit of its people—at home, in the mountains, in the diaspora, in every village that still holds onto hope.

History has shown: justice may be delayed, but it can never be erased.
Tigray will win—because the cause is just, the people are strong, and the truth is on their side.

28/05/2025

As insurgency intensifies and civic space shrinks in the West African state, a different kind of battle is unfolding online where AI-generated images, deepfake anthems and algorithmic fervour have turned the young military leader into a digital messiah.

28/05/2025

For Tigray, Let Us Lay Down the Sword and Reclaim Our Shared Soul

A message from a corps

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I have always condemned war not because I have the luxury to do so from afar, but because I have walked through its shadows. I have heard the wails of mothers burying sons, witnessed fathers dig graves with trembling hands, and watched children learn the silence of trauma before they ever learned to speak in full sentences.

For the people of Tigray, war is not some ancient metaphor or abstract political argument. It is the fresh wound we carry on our backs. It is the shadow that darkens our festivals, haunts our dreams, and shortens the laughter in our homes. We are a people who have known what it means to be erased, starved, humiliated yet still rise. That is why I must raise my voice today not in condemnation of any one faction or grievance, but in defense of the soul of Tigray, which is now under siege again not only by external enemies, but by the growing rift among us.

A House Divided Cannot Stand

The “Hara Meret (ሓራ መሬት)” corps may feel abandoned. Perhaps they were overlooked in the reconfiguration of the post-war order. Perhaps they carry grievances that are real, deeply personal, and sharply political. They may believe they were the backbone of the resistance, yet are now treated like expendable shadows of a past many are trying to forget.

But grievances however deep must not lead us back to the gun. Not now. Not after all we have endured together.

When Mekelle was under siege, it wasn’t factions who fought it was Tigrayans, unified in suffering and sacrifice. When Humera burned, it wasn’t one division that held the line, but a people. When the massacres of Mai-Kadra and Axum happened, we didn’t ask which corps mourned louder we mourned as one.

We did not bleed separately.
We did not starve separately.
We did not bury our dead in partisan graves.

A Tigrayan Is Still a Tigrayan

I remember a young fighter named Senait, no more than 18, who stood guard for three nights straight at a checkpoint outside Adi Nebrid. She had lost her entire family in an airstrike. Still, she smiled when she handed out water to passing IDPs mothers, elders, wounded men. “I have nothing left,” she told me, “but if I help one more person, I’m still winning.”

Are we still winning now, Senait?

What would Senait say if she saw her brothers-in-arms now turning their rifles inward? If she heard the rumors clashes, splinters, mobilizations not against invaders but against each other?

We are losing something more dangerous than a battle we are losing our moral compass.

We are losing Mulugeta, the 22-year-old who carried his best friend through a minefield. We are losing Luel, a medic who used to whisper prayers into the ears of the dying so they wouldn’t leave this world alone. We are losing our history of resilience and righteousness, of never raising our hand against our own kin.

What Are We Really Fighting For?

Let us ask ourselves:

Will this path rebuild the torched school in Adwa, where children once traced their dreams in chalk on crumbling walls?

Will it bring back the nurse in Abi Adi who worked with no electricity, no medicine, only the strength of her will?

Will it comfort the widow in Wukro who still sets a place at dinner for a son who never returned from the war?
The answer is no.
This is not justice. This is not strength. This is not what our martyrs died for.

The Enemy Still Watches

Let us not fool ourselves the enemies of Tigray are not idle. They are watching, silently and smugly, as we unravel from within. The same forces that brought siege, r**e, and famine now count on our exhaustion, our bitterness, our fragmentation. They know they could not break us from without. So now they wait for us to break ourselves.

Do not give them that satisfaction. Do not become the architects of the very collapse you once fought to prevent.

We Are Not Too Far Gone
To the leaders, the commanders, the thinkers, the angry, the grieving, the hopeful: it is not too late.

We can still choose the harder path: the path of dialogue over destruction, reflection over retaliation. This path may not satisfy every grievance, but it will save what we all claim to love Tigray.

Let us sit together, not as enemies, but as survivors. Let us name the fallen not to justify further bloodshed, but to remind us of the cost of every life lost. Let us build the kind of Tigray they dreamed of a just, inclusive, self-reliant Tigray where no one feels voiceless, and no group is reduced to silence or rebellion.

Let us lay down our swords and lift up our souls. Let us reclaim not just our land, but our humanity, our shared dignity, our sacred duty to future generations.

Tigray Must Choose Life

Tigray deserves peace. Tigray deserves unity. But more than that, Tigray deserves truth, healing, love, and a future.

Let us choose life over loss.
Let us choose memory over revenge.
Let us choose each other again.
We once stood as one in the darkest nights. Let us not fracture in the promise of daybreak.

For Tigray, for the ones we buried, for the ones still standing let us reclaim our shared soul.

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