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people cherish – the independence
and unity of Ethiopia and Africa.
But this was bound to anger TPLF
and Westerners since both desired
to oppress and exploit Ethiopia and
Africa. To quench their tyrannical
thirst, TPLF declared war on its own
nation by attacking the Northern
Regiment of the National Defense
Force. The current government of
Ethiopia and the National Defense
Force, with the support of the peo- Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, joins the army in the battle field
ple, retaliated to protect the nation
and bring TPLF to justice. These
overwhelming evidences of crime play a crucial role by echoing the ers of truth. From recent history,
are negligible to Western media propaganda of TPLF and diaspora we must learn that we should have
which chose to echo the terrorist’s sympathizers who live luxuriously asked Libyans, instead of Obama
propaganda. using money they robbed Ethiopia and Western media, before disman-
of while in power. tling the nation. Now too, anyone
Western media have directly and I believe that only the truth has the who wishes to know about Ethiopia
indirectly encouraged these terror- power of disenchanting the world just has to listen to Ethiopians. The
ists using historically severed and of Western propaganda. Manipu- #NoMore movement by Ethiopi-
contextually distorted narrations. lation and propaganda have been ans, Africans and the defenders of
TPLF had hidden behind the people the age-old weapons of tyrants and freedom across the world expresses
of Tigray and now uses them as oppressors in their myopic aim of the spirit of Ethiopians.
human waves to attack the nation, replacing truth with falsehood – it
specifically the people of Amhara never works. Yet, it can be effective In the end, the weight of ignorance
and Afar. Western media speak the in reducing truth to mere opinion. and conceit in Western media is
same false narrative by framing the If and when we present counter-ar- evident in generalized reports on
attack on TPLF as an attack on guments to falsehood, we enter Africa. They begin by saying, “In
Tigray. Worse still, they continue to the labyrinth wherein untruth is Africa, …” when reporting a par-
ignore the suffering of hundreds the thesis and truth the antithesis. ticular event in a particular African
of thousands of people in Amhara What we must do is speak truth as nation. Too often we hear Western
and Afar who are victims of the the only form of reality. We cannot media report on the spread of
terrorist attacks by TPLF and OLF argue against a swindler who claims COVID-19 in Africa, the poverty
Shene. The ethnic terrorists hate the apples are oranges; we only have or economic situation in Africa, the
people of Amhara and Afar only to bring actual apples and orang- political situation in Africa, women’s
because they are paragons of being es. Similarly, we cannot argue with rights in Africa, and absurd African
Ethiopian. Amhara and Afar never tyrannical Western media when they reports ad infinitum. Well, Africa is
descend to an abysmal ethnic iden- defend TPLF; we just have to show a continent rather than a nation! I
tity for they wholeheartedly identify the true nature of the terrorist, think that such media narratives are
themselves with Ethiopia. I am not which is what I have tried to do. For just symptoms of the neo-colonial
ignoring the suffering in Tigray for too long, we fought a losing battle ambitions for oppressing the whole
I know they too have been used and with colonialism and neocolonialism of Africa. Therefore, the tyranny of
manipulated by TPLF. The people by trying to show that it is neither a Western media is another expression
of Tigray were a scape goat during mission to civilize nor democratize. of neocolonialism’s tyranny.
TPLF’s tyrannical reign, and now We must have spoken the truth –
the humanitarian aid is consumed by colonialism is the worst crime in As to Africans, I have only one
the party, which also intensifies the history and neocolonialism is its message: We are oppressed and ex-
people’s suffering to trick the world. evil child. Now, we must condemn ploited collectively, and so we must
Their worst crime was to instill ha- the tyranny of Western media for struggle for independence collec-
tred in their hearts and use them for they are the agents of neo-colonial tively as Africans.
human wave attacks. Western media propaganda, instead of the defend-

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