The Politics of Tigray-Tigrinya

 The Politics of Tigray-Tigrinya

By Addis Zemen  08 Feb 2013

The politics of Tigray-Tigrinya emerged around the early 1940s with the help of Brigadier Stephen Longrigg, who was then a British military administrator in Eritrea. His plan was to establish a pro-Western government in the Horn of Africa in collaboration with the Tigrayans in the northern part of Ethiopia. For many years, the average citizen of Ethiopia and/or Eritrea was unaware of this hidden political agenda. Unfortunately, in the last 50 years or so, many became victims of a horrific war in the Horn of Africa, including Yemen, Somalia and Djibouti which resulted in family breakdowns, disease, famine, oppression and forceful migration merely because of the Politics of Tigrya-Tigrinya.

Tigray-Tigrinya: How it all started

In 1941, the British and Italians devised a political strategy to defend their interests in the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa. They called it the “Politics of Tigrynia and The Politics of Showa”. (History tells us that the Tigrayan Yohaness IV, not only he conspired against Tewodros with the British but also he cooperated with the British in defeating Tewodros in exchange for arms. By the same token the Shoan Menelik II conspired with the Italians against the Tigrean Yohaness IV in exchange for arms.)

The politics of Tigrinya, therefore, was intended to install a pro-Western government in the Horn of Africa with the help of aristocrats in Tigray. According to the plan, first the government of Shoa must be weakened and then the state of Eritrea shall be divided into two or three sects. To implement this plan, Stephen Longrigg made a deliberate effort to instil Tigrayan nationalism inside Eritrea by authoring an article in English language under a pen name “Concerned Eritrean.” Woldeab Woldemariam (whose origin is from Tigray), supposedly translated the article into Tigrinya and published it in the newspaper “Haddas Eritrea”. They argued that there were strong ties between segments of the Eritrean population and Tigray. They refer to Tigray as having close ties with the highlands of Eritrea, thus in the 1950s it was called “Tigray-Tigrinya” by the Unionist pro-Ethiopia groups in Eritrea, and later in 1968 it was called “Hilmi Abay Tigray” (A dream for the Greater Tigray Republic) as it is stated on the 1976 TPLF manifesto.

Tigray-Tigrynia: elimination of Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF)

Iysayas Afeworki, like many of his close associates, considers himself as one of the inheritors of the Axumite Kingdom. He is one of the top accomplice in the politics of Tigray-Tigrinya (his origin is from Tigray). In 1969, the CIA had launched its own secret operation known by the code name of “seed planting project” at Kagnew military base in Asmara. At that time the United States had completely lost faith in the HaileSelassie government. The project was therefore intended to prepare an alternative means to defend American interests in the Horn of Africa. Tesfamichael Giorgio (an Eritrean assassinated by Iysayas in 1992), then a governor of a district in Eritrea, had participated in the negotiations at Kagnew between the CIA and Iysayas Afeworki. Iysayas’s job was to destroy Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) and then use the EPLF to oust the soon to be communist government in Ethiopia. “If you satisfy our conditions,” said Richard Copeland, a CIA agent in Eritrea, “and you want independence, in return you shall have your independence.” As planned, Iysayas and TPLF (Tigray-Tigrinya) collaborated and destroyed ELF by driving it out of Eritrea. Also as planned, he regime in Addis Ababa collapsed and Eritrea won its independence.

Tigray-Tigrinya – The Empire of Jealousy disguised as a Strategic Policy

Tigray-Tigrinya state of mind is driven by Jealousy. Just like in the era of Mengistu Hailmariam’s Red Terror regime, citizens of both countries still continued to suffer under the rule of Tigray-Tigrinya. (some say that Tigray-Tigrinya agents have played a big role during the red terror communist regime). This empire of jealous men is armed with spy agencies, satellites, cash, bullets and other harmful ammunition to terrorize the region. Citizens are continuously harassed, poisoned, tortured and assassinated. It also functions as an organized crime of money laundering and human trafficking. It does not care whether you are an Ethiopian or Eritrean, innocent or guilty, poor or rich, illiterate or scholar, believer or atheist, citizen or immigrant, Christian or Muslim. Understand this, the terror in the Horn of Africa, especially in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia is harbored by the politics of Tigray-Tigrinya.

Tigray-Tigrinya: The Traitor

Tigray-Tigrinya might very well be a pro-Western agent stationed in the Horn of Africa. Ninety percent of its high level agents are individuals who had strong links and connections with Tigray, in particular. The rest are volunteers who knew nothing about its true identity or individuals with personal interest. In 1998, a senseless boarder war had erupted between Eritrea and Ethiopia because of a small town named Badme. Hundreds of thousands of innocent lives had perished needlessly. Many left their families to escape the brutal war. What is shocking however is that the border conflict was carefully orchestrated and instigated by the puppet regimes in Asmara and Addis Abeba. The war was conducted ruthlessly. It was a senseless war. For the outsiders, it looked like a border issue. Unfortunately, the war was invented in order to keep both citizens hostage to an endless state of conflict thus securing Tigray-Tigrinya power for an indefinite period of time. During the war, citizens were falsely accused of treason. Some were locked in prison for many years without trial and many were executed. They systematically evicted citizens using threats of violence. Many young women were raped; some committed suicide and others fell into the hands of human traffickers. Thousands of innocent lives have disappeared without a trace and others were killed in poverty. Tigray-Tigrinya erroneous policy made citizens of both countries poor and destitute. Many became homeless and Orphans because of it.

Tigray-Tigrinya: Phase II-divide and rule

Here we go again. While Iyasyas Afeworki and his secret agents from Tigray are vandalizing the state of Eritrea, Ethiopian information minster Bereket Simon, Abay Woldu and Seye Abraha, on their part, are dissecting Ethiopia into many pieces, a plan that was initiated in 1940s. Minster Bereket Simon recently made a comment that his government is willing to help anyone who is persecuted in Eritrea because of his/her ethnic or religious background. (Facts: in Eritrea all citizens are persecuted regardless of their ethnic or religious background). Now, his government is arming and organizing Eritrean opposition groups in Northern part of Ethiopia to oust the government of Iysayas Afeworki. According to Bereket Simon, groups like Democratic Movement for the Liberation of the Eritrean Kunama (DMLEK), Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front (ARDUF) and/or Red Sea Afar Democratic Organization (RSADO) should have the right to self-determination up to secession, if they wish to do so. What does this mean? Civil war! It is a threat against Eritrea that wars and violence will follow if the now/future Eritrean government fails to recognize opposition group’s demand for self determination.

Tigray-Tigrinya: The Trap

Eritrean opposition groups are now armed and trained in Northern part of Ethiopia to fight the regime in Asmara. Similarly, Ethiopian opposition groups are also managed and financed by Iysayas Afeworki to fight the regime in Addis. This is in fact another trap! It is meticulously designed by Tigray-Tigrinya leaders to control, monitor and finally sabotage the activities of both opposition groups before they strike. In the last ten years or so opposition group’s agenda of freedom and democracy has not moved an inch forward due to the manipulation of Tigray-Tigrinya security agents. TPDM (DMHIT), whose main task is to protect and serve the empire of Tigray-Tigrinya, is the only group who is making a substantial progress in power and number (TPDM has been training in a secret location in Eritrea for the last 20 years since 1991 and is directly financed by Isayas Afeworki).

Tigray-Tigrinya: Final Thought

Things will not get better in Ethiopia or Eritrea while Tigray-Tigrinya operation of deception is in power. We have enough evidences to show just how quickly Ethiopia and Eritrea are engulfed by Tigray-Tigrinya made disasters. It created a refugee crisis that has percolated throughout the Sahara desert, Europe and the greater Middle East. Ethiopia and Eritrea under the Tigray-Tigrinya apartheid regime are not the same country you once knew. Both countries are ruled by evil individuals who hate their country, their flag and the people. They claim victory when they see the suffering they have inflicted upon us, citizens. The grim reality is best understood by analyzing the mentality of Tigray-Tigrynia in power, and you need look no further than the network of hundreds of underground prisons spread across Ethiopia and Eritrea to see how evil and barbaric its leaders are. We must therefore act now. Let us all work together to restore the dignity of our people and country.




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Tigray-Tigrinya the key to tricking Tigray into independence

It is by now clear for most Ethiopians that we cannot live in peace with Tigreans. One has to only see their crazy claims on this forum that some Tigreans have some mental problem and you cannot live with them in peace in one country. They claim every person, history, land, resources whatever which does not belong to them. They claim lands from Gondar, Wollo, Afar, Beshangul, Eritrea and even from Wollega. There is a need to have a final cure for this sickness and I believe it lies in the independence of Tigray.

Tigreans will not easily be willing to be independent so someone has to trick them into independence. The key to trick them to accept independence lies in one word "Tigray-Tigrinya". I suggest, Eritreans should promise them to create a Tigray-Tigrinya country after Tigray became independent. As far as I can tell, Tigreans will do whatever it takes to be part of Tigray-Tigrinya even becoming independent. Eritreans therefore should convince TPDM to aim for independent Tigray in the hope that after that they will be part of a Tigray-Tigrinya country. After the independence of Tigray, Eritreans can show them their middle finger or whatever :lol: But in any way, Tigray must become independent.

The people of Amhara, the past and a vision for the future
We the Amhara people need to start to deeply analyze the past especially what our warlords and feudals did to us and to other ethnic groups. It may be understandable in the time of colonization that our leaders went to the south and made oromia and the south the focus of the country. But by doing so they also have absolutely forgotten the Amhara people and region and left it alone without any meaningful development and most importantly without any vision for the future. We have to also acknowledge the injustice committed by them not only to our poor Amharan people but also to the Oromo and the southern people. Untold injustice was committed against the Oromo people and also the southern people. The feudal took the land of the native people, made them subject slaves, dominated their culture and language and many many atrocities were committed. We cannot do as if these kind of things never happened. I know the feudals were not only Amharas but nevertheless the majority were. We have to try to understand these people and what they have to go through. Noways our people are being driven out of Beshangul, the southern region and Oromia. The whole experiment of our forefathers that has the total focus on Ethiopia has failed and what we have is absolutely nothing to show. It is time to stop thinking about Ethiopia and start thinking once for ourselves and the future of our children.

After acknowledging the past, we need to have a clear cut from the past and also need to have a clear vision to our people. All our skilled men have been used and are still being used to develop other regions. We need a new vision that aims to bring our people out of poverty and to focus on developing our region. We need to build a home/bet for us and for our future generation. We need to use every skilled manpower to the benefit of our region in every economic sector. It is time to focus on our region and to invest in our region and for once forget Ethiopia.

If Ethiopia becomes a united and democratic country in the future, we are glad but if it disintegrates, we will have still our HOME and our people will not be left defenseless and homeless.

Ethiopia and the Oromo quest for freedom
After the independence of Tigray from Ethiopia, we Ethiopians, particularly Amahras need to have an honest discussion with our Oromo brothers. It is a matter of time but sooner or later Oromia will be independent. But Oromia is not like Eritrea or Ogaden, which after its independent Ethiopia can continue to exist. We need to be clear that OROMIA IS NOT dependnet on Ethiopia rather it is verse versa. Ethiopia and the Amhara region is dependent on Oromia, whether it is in terms of economy, infrastructure like telecommunication, import and export, you name it.

So we need to sit with our Oromo brothers and craft a plan to make Ethiopia, particularly Amhara independent of Oromia in a foreseeable future by building direct transportation to Djibouti or Sudan, making every infrastructure and industry independent of Oromia etc. This transition period could be 15 or 20 years and after that Oromia can become peacefully independent if the oromos wish.

I know my idea is not all perfect but it is a basic framework on which all non-Tigreans in the region could work on honestly. Have your say.