TPLF: A Menace in the Horn

By StaffJul 29, 2006
There are probably very few people in the world, if any, who have suffered from lack of peace and stability as much as the peoples of the Horn of Africa. Despite their keen quest and wish for peace, these peoples have yet to breath an air of tranquility mainly because of one meddling thorn amongst them.
Ever since coming to power, the TPLF had done little else but escalate the existing differences among the Ethiopian peoples through its sub national politics, preside over a nation of internal conflicts and mistrust and undermine the peace of its neighbors. And now a time when the Ethiopian people are unmistakably voicing their opposition to the TPLF leadership, the regime is resorting to its customary diversion strategy of creating non-existent threats and foes.
Accordingly, the TPLF is trying to present “the Shaebia and the Somalis” as an immediate threat to the Ethiopians so as to distract and put a halt to the mounting popular oppositions in the country.
Clearly aware that without open aggressions and conflicts with other nations and thereby distract the Ethiopian people from their internal affairs, the TPLF regime has long since been trying and is still trying to provoke war with every neighboring country. Consequently, the regime launched an open aggression on Somalia; transgressed a ruling adopted by an international court with regards to the border conflict with Eritrea; invaded sovereign Sudanese territories and conducted repeated raids in northern Kenya in addition to having tried to forge a manipulative alliance with Djibouti for the use of its ports. Indeed, the TPLF regime is resorting to all these actions not to build up its internal strength but to disturb the peace in the region at the behest of certain quarters.
All the other governments in the Horn region have been expressing their goodwill to see comprehensive peace and stability restored in Somalia with the participation of all the Somali citizens. The only regime in the region, which is doing just the opposite, is certainly that of the TPLF.
As had been repeatedly made clear, the Government of Eritrea, unperturbed by false accusations, still maintains that the Somali people have the right to solve their own problems and overcome their ideological and political differences on their own terms. The government of Eritrea will also continue to strengthen its efforts to witness a unified Somalia first and above anything else.
Source: www.shabait.com