Who were they then? Who are they now?

Gub re Medhin, Areya, Perth, Australia.

Translated by Yin Nea gal Bella chew, Ethioia.
This article tries to dig out and show who the TP!" leaders were and still are along with their
insincere lan to destroy #hristendo$ and %sla$ religions and esecially the A$ hara ethnic grou as
o& the co$$ence$ent by the grou 'TP!"( o& the ar$ed struggle in Tig )ay.
"ro$ the *ery beginning, TP!" has utterly been unde$ocratic by its nature. % $ysel& ha*e
been e+ressing in di&&erent $edia outlets that this $ercenary grou was and still is anti,Ethioia and
inhu$an in general. Though the eole o& Ethioia well -now the nature o& TP!" with regard to its
nihilistic and destructi*e beha*ior, on $y behal&, % would li-e to gi*e so$e &actual accounts as to how
it has been trying to destroy the illars o& both religions based on its anti,religion olicy.
"ro$ the start o& ./00, in its 1Woy yin2'which $eans 3re*olt42( bulletin, TP!" or the then T!"
had a colu$n -nown as 5#hristian )eligion and the A$hara5 under which the &ollowing was
reeatedly ublished in bold &or years, 6#otic 7rthodo+ #hristian religion is the $a8or instru$ent through which the
A$hara regi$e sustains its ruling. There&ore, the target o& our struggle, the A$ hara regi$e, and its
ruling tool, the #hristian religion, should both be destroyed.9 This bulletin was distributed a$ong
&ighters and the co$$on eole to distract their attention &ro$ staunch Ethioian to the then
&ledgling anti,Ethioian. %n its August ./00 edition, this bulletin added that not only the
A$ haras, but also the A$haric language should also be eradicated &ro$ the sur&ace o& the Earth
along with the sea-ers.
The high o&&icials o& TP!" who used to roagate oisonous anti,Ethioianand anti,religion stu&&s
&ro$ the Proaganda Bureau o& this de*ilish grou were :ib hat nega, Abbay say hi, and Meles
;ena we. These three indi*iduals in the higher hierarchy o& TP!" ha*e been -nown a$ong the &ighters,
e*en a$ong the eole by and large, &or the hatred,charged $adness they e+hibited towards the
A$hara and &or both the #hristian and %sla$ic religions.
The Public )elations 7&&ice o& TP!" was also led by these sa$e $ad eole. %n :ete$ber
./0<, these indi*iduals designed a new wa*e o& ca$aign to be launched on the eradication o&
7rthodo+ #hristianity in Tig )ay. To this end, they organi=ed a se$inar>wor-sho to sensiti=e their
cadres who will ha*e to carry out that destructi*e sche$e. %n that se$inar, which too- lace in an
underground secreti*e concla*e &ound in Egela district, the &ollowing rebels had articiated.
.. Mer sa )edda.
?. @ale-a :ay Guy Berhay.
A. Tewodros @agos.
B. Abbay Woldu.
C. @adass Ale$u.
D. @aile :elassie Gub )ay Eey dan.
0. @a )iya :ebagadis.
<. Eidu san Nega.
/. Goo ish Goo adan.
.F. Betaw Belay.
... @a dish G=ahen.
.?. )o$an Gub )ay :elassie.
.A. A&erra Techlay @i $anot.
.B. Welda Gabriel Modern.
.C. Addis ale$ Bale$a.
The a&ore$entioned cadres were bati=ed in the hilosohy o& anti,Ethioian and
anti,religion in the se$inar too- lace &or three days. A&ter they &inished the training, they were
assigned in three grous to acco$lish TP!"3s $ission in three regional locations.
The allocation was done as &ollows, '5!5 signi&ies )egion !eader(
)egion ..

.. Mer sa )edda.
?. Goo ish Goo adan.
A. @aile :elassie Gub )ay Eey dan.
B. @a )iya :ebagadis
)egion ?.

.. @ale-a :ay Guy Berr hey.
?. Eidu san Nega.
A. @adass Ale$u.
B. Betaw Belay.
C. @a dish G=ahen.
D. )o$an Gub )ay :elassie.
)egion A.
.. Addis ale$ Bale$a.
?. Theodros @agos.
A. Welda Gabriel Modern.
B. A&erra Techlay @i $anot.
Groued and organi=ed in this $anner, they -ic-ed o&& their destructi*e ca$aign in
Tig )ay and went to the resecti*e regions they were assigned to. A&ter that they continued to
wage hea*y,handed e+tensi*e anti,A$hara, anti,#hristian, and anti,%sla$ roaganda
acco$anied with &orce&ul actions such as -illings and -idnaings. "ollowing their $aster lan
o& eradicating #hristianity which they strongly belie*e is i$osed by the A$ hara uon the
eole o& Tig )ay to $a-e the$ sub$issi*e, TP!"3s cadres launched tough restrictions uon the
ordinary eole and the churches not to adhere to the doctrines o& this religionG they re*ented
churches &ro$ doing their routinely er&or$ed rituals such as $a-ing @oly Mass and celebrating
:undays as usual. These croo-ed eole o& the TP!" e+erted their &ull energy to dis$antle the
church and se*er the bond between the clergy and the lay. The eole were not allowed to go to
churches on :undays or other days on which :aints were co$$e$orated due to the &act that
holy days were declared to be wor-ing days. TP!" cadres warned the riests and the entire clergy
not to go to churches and gi*e any liturgical ser*ice anyti$e, i& they were caught doing so, they
would be unished se*erely. 7ccasionally, there were resistances &ro$ the eole and the clergy
as well. %n such instances, the cadres in the lower echelons used to consult the uer ones and
they were ad*ised by :eb hat Nega, to $ercilessly -ill those recalcitrant riests, $on-s,
nuns, or deacons in &ront o& the congregation so that that action could be ta-en as uniti*e to the
rest o& the oulation. That circular or directi*e &ro$ the abo*e was blindly i$le$ented by the
lower cadres. %n light o& this, in Enda sah$a district o& Adwa ro*ince, at a historical church
-nown as Enda :elassie, the leader o& the church, Abba @aile :elassie, was -illed by tsay guy Berr hey,
in &ront o& the eole. The cause o& the -illing was nothing else but these words H 6Please do not
desecrate our religionG it is a blessed religion49 At that ti$e, the eole got e+tre$ely shoc-ed
and rushed halter,s-elter in a bid to sa*e their li*es &ro$ additional $assacre that would ensue.
A&ter the $assacre, the -iller,@ale-a :eGuy Berr hay , along with his &riends, looted the church and
too- away all the roerty the church had. %n a si$ilar *ein, the leader o& a church in ;ana
district, na$ely Abba Areya, along with a nonagenarian $on- were instantly shot dead by
Ar-ebe 7uIubai hi$sel&, who was sent with Betaw Belay then as rein&orce$ent to the grou, &or
the si$le reason that the riest said, 6Please, do not desecrate our #hristian religion.9 The
anti,#hristian grou>co$$ittee o& TP!" led by :eb hat Nega, Abbay :ay @iYeah, and Meles ;ena we,
along with all its .C $e$bers had lundered, destroyed and burnt $any churches. Moreo*er,
countless riests and deacons, $on-s and other church goers had been -idnaed. :urrisingly,
the whereabouts o& all those -idnaed eole ha*e not yet been -nown to date and it is belie*ed
that they all are -illed.
#oncerning %sla$, though they tried their le*el best to desecrate this religion and its
leader, Prohet Moha$$ed, they couldnJt succeed as they wished. The &ollowers o& %sla$ were
not as easily sub$issi*e as the #hristians. 7& course, the TP!" cadres atte$ted to de&a$e the
holy Eoran and downlayed the role o& the rohet in &ront o& the congregation when the eole
gathered &or raying. But the cadres encountered serious rotest in all the three regions.
Esecially in region three, the A&ars decided to &ight those anti,religion bandits nec- and nec-
and $anaged to chec- the rein,less whi$s o& TP!" &ro$ &lourishing in their localities. To this
e&&ect, those Musli$s in region three hunted and -illed the TP!" cadres who were assigned there
to destroy their religion. A$ong those -illed cadres, Tea geast As say&a, Yehualashet Gub re Medhin,
'Ala$in(, and :ay @iYeah Abra ha, are 8ust &ew. Many $ore unluc-y TP!" cadres &aced such ill,&ate
in this region. But surrisingly, when TP!" leaders were>are as-ed about the death o& those
cadres, they unasha$edly -ee on saying that the cadres died due to &ighting with the Kerg
regi$e or with this or that rebel grou with which they encountered s-ir$ishes. They are
naturally big liars. 7ther cadres such as Addis ale$ Beeli$a, Theodros @agos, and A&erra Techlay @i $anot,
escaed at night &earing the &ate descended uon their colleagues. Ne*ertheless, &or
&ear o& rerisal by the A&ar eole, TP!" couldn3t dare to enter the A&ar region until the year
./<B.
This ti$e around, TP!"2s stores were &ull o& con&iscated and looted holy Bibles and Eorans.
According to eye witnesses, the atheist TP!" ites used to utili=e those holy boo-s to ignite &ire as
ordinary ieces o& useless aers. This shows their atheistic nature and conte$t to religion.
The &ollowers o& %sla$ in all the three regions stood &ir$ in unison and $ade clear that TP!"
should ne*er *iolate their right o& belie*ing in Allah, and &ollowing %sla$ic religion. They dedicated
their li*es &or their belie& and to 5die or de&end %sla$5 was their co$$unal $otto. The leadershi o&
TP!" was highly &rustrated by the une+ected stand o& Musli$s. The Musli$ oulation in and out o&
towns understood that the architects o& the anti,religion ca$aign were :eb hat Nega, Abby :ay @iYeah,
and Meles ;ena we. The li&e o& these to lanners o& TP!" was endangered and because o& that they
were &orced to reconsider their &ree $o*e$ent, rather, they were obligated to ha*e bodyguards &or any
o& their &ield tri. 7n the other hand, that ti$e was a ti$e during which TP!" was in*aded by two
resistance $o*e$ents, na$ely EKL, and EP)P, and hence the &ighting $orale o& the TP!"
co$batants was beco$ing unsea-ably low. %n this crucial ti$e, the uer echelon o& the TP!" issued
an order to the cadres to te$orarily susend the anti,%sla$ ca$aign but to rigorously go on the
anti,#hristian one, &or the ca$aign to destroy #hristianity did not &ace that $uch threat li-e in the
case o& the %sla$ic one, rather, it was roceeding according to the lan, e*en to the surrise o& $any in
the religion, there was substantial suort &ro$ the clergy the$sel*es to denounce #hristianity and
beco$e renegade in a bid to e+anding Mar+is$ and !eninis$. Musli$ Ethioian sisters and brothers
in the 5liberated5 areas o& the TP!" stoed obeying TP!" as o& that ti$e and re$ained resected and
&eared by those bandits &or a long eriod o& ti$e. But on the other hand, the #hristianity &ollowers
continued to ser*e TP!" as loaders, unloaders, and coolies Mu until the resent ti$eN.
%n the "irst TP!" #on&erence, held in "ebruary ./0/, :eb hat Nega, was elected as #hair$an o&
TP!" while Meles ;ena we and Abbay :ay @iYeah, were elected as chie& roagandists. These three
anti Ethioian eole indi*iduals united their e&&orts to i$le$ent the newly designed se*eral action
lans o& TP!". The $a8or action lan &ro$ which $any others had been deri*ed was &or$ulated in the
a&ore$entioned con&erence,
%n the "irst #on&erence held in "eb. ./0/, the leadershi o& TP!" had unani$ously decided the
&ollowingO %n the &irst lace, we eole in TP!" ne*er belie*e that there is God. %n any case, the
Ethioian 7rthodo+ #hurch, the $ain instru$ent &or the A$ hara regi$e to sustain its ruling, $ust be
wied out o& the liberated Tigrian soils. %n the long run, when we will ha*e established our own
Tigrian Go*ern$ent Min the :tate o& the Ke$ocratic )eublic o& Tig )ayN, we shall create a
Mco$$unistN society that doesn2t belie*e in any &or$ o& God.
Based on the abo*e anti,7rthodo+ stand o& TP!", the &ollowing actions were ta-en by its
cadres in the Kerg,&ree areas o& Tig )ay.
.. All churches were ordered to deli*er their $obile and &i+ed assets and roerties to TP!".
?. All riests and $on-s were instructed to ut o&& their religious head scar*es and co*ers or hoods
and instead, they were ordered to ut on TP!"3s ca which reads, woy yenti 'rebellions4(. This
instruction was ractically seen and $any riests and the clergy were turned out to be rebellions
carrying ri&les on their shoulders, instead o& ser*ing God carrying Pesus2 cross and the Bible.
A. All newlywed deacons and riests were &orced to di*orce their wi*es and 8oin the ar$ed
struggle. To this e&&ect, countless $arriages were dis$antled and e+,wi*es and e+,husbands
*oluntarily or in*oluntarily 8oined the ar$ed struggle, lea*ing aside the church and the
7rthodo+ dog$a they had been strictly &ollowing be&ore.
As a result o& TP!"3s atheistic actions with resect to the Ethioian 7rthodo+ #hurch in
Tig )ay, arents were le&t without their children to loo- a&ter the$ at their old age. churches were le&t
closed &or not ha*ing deacons and riests to gi*e ecclesiastical ser*ices, lots o& recious ite$s, such as
arch$ents o& antiIuity and crosses, were looted and sold by TP!" ites and a great nu$ber o& churches
along with their historical docu$ents were set on &ire in a bid to erase the old history and write a new
one which is de*oid o& any cultural and traditional tie with the Ethioian 7rthodo+ #hurch Mand by the
e+tension the A$ hara eoleN.
The general co$$and and detailed instructions gi*en to carry out an all out destruction uon the
church was gi*en by those three de*ilish eole o& the TP!"G :eb hat Nega, Abbay :ay @iYeah, and Meles
;ena we. %n addition, Ar-ebe 7uIubai, the Eritrean Tsad-an Gub re Tinsay, Awu2alo$ Woldu, ;eri
As-ghedo$, :eeye Abraha, and :eyuo$ Mes&in should be $entioned here as chie& collaborators with
this regard. These gullible ser*ants o& TP!" and :eb hat, Abbay, Meles syndicate ha*e layed a great
role in the untold su&&ering o& #hristians and Musli$s. They had burnt so $any churches in the
northern art o& our country Ethioia.
B. As the destruction o& churches by TP!" was on unabated continuation, the &ollowing grou o& high
le*el cadres was assigned to gi*e a se$inar to those church eole who *oluntarily or in*oluntarily
le&t the church in a bid to ser*e 5their organi=ation5, TP!".
.. Mulegeta, #hal to.
?. ;eriy As-ghedo$.
A. Mer resa )edda.
B. A- lilu KenbarIay.
C. Gub ray Eey dan Kesta.
D. Gobe =ay Welde Aregay.
0. Abbay Woldu.
<. Eidu san Nega.
/. gday, Berr hey.
.F. Betaw Belay.
As o& the year ./<. and the &ollowing si+ $onths, these cadres were disatched to region . and
? to ollute the clergy in changing their religious $ind and &orce the$ to rebel against their God, to
Whose ser*ice they once dedicated their soul and &lesh, and $a-e the$ ready to ser*e TP!". A&ter
being ha$$ered &or about si+ $onths, those e+,clergy traitors started to ser*e TP!" as olitical cadres
to reach Mar+is$ and !eninis$ a$ong the congregation they used to reach the words o& God. The
ones who once uon a ti$e ro$ised to sow the words o& God and sa*e the non,belie*ers &ro$ eternal
eril literally beca$e not only anti,religion but also anti,God. The riests, uon their graduation
cere$ony, sang and danced along with the then TP!"3s $usic band leader the late, E yaa,su Berr hey. They
conde$ned God &or their stuidity to belie*e in @i$ u until then, and $ost o& all those e+,riests and
deacons shouted a slogan in all the oenings o& $eetings and con&erences, 6Kown with the A$hara
and their 7rthodo+ #hurch.9 Who -nows, so$e o& the clergy $ight ha*e regretted &or their being
5&oolish5 to ser*e God be&ore they 5recei*ed5 their new religion, TP!" is$, coated with the cursed
co$$union o& Mar+is$ and !eninis$.
The &ollowing social e*ents were &orbidden by law in TP!"3s &ree territories.
.. Wedding &easts.
?. Me$orial ser*ices to the dead and &uneral rayers.
A. Batis$ to the newborn or any batis$ to a con*ert.
B. Traditional $e$orial &easts $ade in the na$e o& this or that :aint.
C. Annual cere$onial holidays o& churches in the na$e o& ar-, :aint, etc.
Anyone who tries to disobey the a&ore$entioned instructions would be labeled as anti,TP!"
and would as a result be harshly unished a&ter ta-en to a secreti*e underground -nown as
5FD5Mbado shidshteN, a code gi*en to their hellish risons. The Public )elations 7&&ice orders its
&erocious sta&& to ta-e strict uniti*e actions and they ro$tly con&iscate all the roerty o& *icti$s
who were said to ha*e transgressed those un&airly and un8ustly i$osed 8ungle rules and regulations
o& TP!". %n line with i$le$enting this rule, so $any eole were accused o& breaching this
directi*e, at ti$es e*en &alsely to ta-e re*enge those who were not on good ter$s with the$, and as
a conseIuence thousands o& eole were sent to 5FD5'@alewa Wey yane , :ecurity o& TP!"( and all
o& the$ were e+ecuted there. This olicy o& TP!" which was begun in early ./D0 went on
unabatedly &or the ensuing decades u until today. As a result $any eole lost their li*esG churches
and $onasteries were changed to nothingness in both $aterial and hu$an resources.
%n ./D0, TP!" incororated its core belie& that 5A$ haras are arch ene$ies o& Tigrian
eole5 into its rogra$ and that stand was enshrined in its docu$ents as one o& the *anguard
olicies the organi=ation should &ight against. !et us see the &ollowing anti,A$hara, $antra stated in
the olitical rogra$ o& TP!".
The A$ hara Mregi$eN has i$o*erished Tig )ay and its eole to the e+tent o& e+osing
Tigrians to econo$ic e+loitation, absolute o*erty, star*ation, $igration and dislace$ent, and
&inally as a result o& these and other oressi*e $easures by the A$ haras the entire eole o&
Tig )ay were sub8ected to ha*e a conte$tible social status to which eole were asha$ed o& their
being Tigrian. This suression and segregation uon Tigrians was urosely enhanced by the
A$hara Mregi$eN. As a result, Tigrians were &orced to lead an atrocious li&e e*erywhereG they were
obligated to su&&er low standard o& li*ing, une$loy$ent, beggary, i$$igration, and rostitution. %n
addition, Tigrians were in&luenced by the A$ haras to go o&& their own history, &orget their own
language, and detach &ro$ their culture. The A$ haras snatched the AFFF years rich history o&
Tigrians and used it to glitter theirs in &ront o& the rest o& the world. Today3s history o& Ethioia
Mwhich $ay not include Tig )ayN is a -ind o& hodge,odge created within the last .FF years since the
co$ing into ower o& Mthe so calledN Meneli- ?nd. There&ore, the general li&esan o& Ethioia is not
that $uch longer than the A$hara3s e+ansion during the reign o& their Eing, Meneli- the ?nd, in the
ast .FF years. Be&ore that historical coincidence, there has ne*er been a country -nown as
Ethioia.
The A$ hara nationality sub8ected Tigrians to ay high ta+es and tributes to the central
go*ern$ent led by the A$ haras and thereby i$o*erished the region to the e+tent o& changing the
social and econo$ic li&e o& its eole into a nonentity. The eole o& Tig )ay ha*e been considered by
the A$ hara regi$e as sea-ing ani$als and ha*e been i$$ersed in an untold oression
characteri=ed by inhu$an handling and boundless cruelty. %n addition, the eole o& Tig )ay ha*e been
discri$inated against and none o& its hu$an and olitical rights ha*e been resected by the regi$e.
The oressi*e A$ hara ruling class MTP!" uses the 5she5 ronoun to address the 5A$hara ruling
class5N has e$loyed suression and sub8ugation to elongate her syste$ o& e+loitation uon
Tigrians.
The anti,A$hara state$ents o& TP!" which % ha*e rando$ly e+ressed here abo*e are
e+licitly indicated in the olitical rogra$ o& the organi=ation &ro$ ages < H .B, .C H .D, and .<.
Generally sea-ing, this docu$ent o& TP!" incri$inates the A$ haras &ro$ the beginning to the end.
Q TP!" staunchly clai$s that the A$ haras would ne*er get any eace and stability until the ti$e
their doo$ e*entually co$es to e&&ect. 'c&. age .D o& the docu$ent(
As all Ethioians -now, there is no such a thing as 6A$hara )egi$e9G there has ne*er been as
well u until this eriod o& history. %n Ethioia, there ha*e been so $any -ings reigned o*er the entire
nation or in so$e art o& it. As a $atter o& historical &act, all those -ings used to assu$e their -ingshi
based on their regional not necessarily o& their ethnic bac-ground. Q %n light o& this, a&ter the seat o&
the Ethioian -ingdo$ was trans&erred &ro$ the north to the hinterland :how,wa4 during the reign o&
E$eror Meneli- the ?nd, Ethioia was said to ha*e been 8oining the rest o& the $odern world in ter$s
o& introducing $odern way o& ad$inistration. This rocess o& $oderni=ing the state aaratus and the
nation by and large was begun by Meneli- ?nd at the newly built caital, Addis Ababa, and continued by
E$eror @aile :elassie % until the ti$e he was deosed by a $ilitary cou acco$anied by oular
urising.
The seat o& E$eror @aile :elassie % was Addis Ababa. A&ter Meneli-3s reign, the $obility o&
the Ethioian -ingdo$, which had been sub8ect to a relay syste$ &or centuries, along with its alace
&ro$ one region o& the country to another was outdated &or once and &or all. Be&ore Addis Ababa was
selected by Meneli-3s wi&e, E$ress Tyitu, to ser*e as caital city, historical towns and cities li-e
A+u$, !asta,!alibela, and Gonder ha*e ser*ed the sa$e urose in the ast. %n those ast relays o&
ower, the eole o& Ethioia had ne*er seen such anti,unity and anti eole grou as, TP!".
!i-e the re*ious ones, the go*ern$ent o& E$eror @aile :elassie % as well was co$osed o& all
able Ethioians irresecti*e o& their religion and ethnic bac-ground. %n light o& this, that go*ern$ent
had #abinet Ministers &ro$ the, 7 ro$o, Tig )ay, Eritrea, A$ hara, A&ar, Guragay, etc.
The go*ern$ents o& @aile :elassie and Kerg had no roo$ &or discri$ination one against the other in
ter$s o& e$ower$entG in the &irst lace, the heads o& state in those eras were the$sel*es $ulti,ethnic
by birth Mthe E$eror and the chair$an o& the Kerg, Mengistu, were $i+ed ethnics.N. There&ore, the
go*ern$ents used to &acilitate the resence o& an eIual oortunity to all the children o& the country
based on their $erit, not on their ethnic bac-ground. To this end, there were $any Tigrian higher state
o&&icials in both regi$es who, along with their colleagues, used to e+ercise their real olitical ower in
deciding the &ate o& their country. MNow? %t is absolutely unthin-able to see a non,Tigrian e+ercising
such a lu+urious right o& deciding e*en the dogs2 budget o& the alace a little bit $ore than being a
guard at the gate o& so$e idle o&&icesG lea*e aside the theatrics4N
7n the other hand, we can say that Tig )ay ro*ince has been one a$ong the bene&iciaries o&
the national ieG the reality was not li-e the TP!" tal-s to &ool citi=ens and get oorly calculated blind
suort. The health and education sectors were budgeted in not less a degree than the others in the
nation. There was no budget discreancy &ro$ region to region. Nothing secial has been seen in
Tig )ay other than the light or the delight that has been obser*ed in others. There was no national or
ethnic based discri$ination then li-e what we see now *i*idly. To sea- the truth, esecially the
go*ern$ent o& @aile :elassie .st, had a $otto -nown as 6The best o& things to Tig )ay49 Kue to this, the
eole o& Tig )ay used to lo*e @aile :elassie .st as he was also &ond o& Tig )ay and its eole.
When the eole o& Tig )ay -new that Kerg had -illed hi$ during the Mhi8ac-ed and &ailedN
re*olution, the new $ilitary 8unta was se*erely conde$ned in Tig )ay a$ong the youth and the elders.
A&ter the &all o& @aile :elassie .st, it was e$inent that Tigrians beca$e e+osed to harsh econo$ic li&e
and social roble$s. But that was the &ate o& not only Tig )ay but also that o& other regions as well.
Tig )ay didn3t &ace any articular roble$ di&&erent &ro$ other regionsG truth be told, Tig )ay had ne*er
been treated di&&erently in both ast regi$es. 7n the contrary, the Kerg regi$e was not that $uch
cruel and harsh to Tig )ay when co$ared to others. "or e+a$le, it did not i$le$ent the declaration
roclai$ed on arable land, considering that the arable land Tig )ay had was and still is co$arati*ely
*ery little. Kerg ne*er $istreated Tig )ay or Tigrians. E*en in the ti$e o& the red terror, it was not
Tig )ay which was $uch su&&eredG relati*ely, it was rather the A$ haras who lost $any li*es and
encountered $uch su&&ering. %t doesn3t $ean Tig )ay was sa&e with this seci&ic oint o& discussionG it
is to $ean that, co$arati*ely sea-ing, the A$ haras were *icti$i=ed in a degree $ore atrociously
than Tig )ay or $aybe so$e other ro*inces. There&ore, it is not the A$ haras who ha*e brought the
su&&ering $entioned in the olitical rogra$ o& TP!" uon Tig )ay and her eoleG it is rather TP!"
that has roduced untold su&&ering and historical wound uon the eole and the soil o& Tig )ay.
!et us see so$e oints as to how TP!" has i$le$ented its rogra$.
But be&ore that, it is better to see so$e other oints as an introduction to this articular section
o& this article. !et3s re$e$ber the &act that the go*ern$ent o& E$eror @aile :elassie % was all
inclusi*eG it ne*er belonged to this or that ethnic grou. "ran-ly sea-ing, no ethnic grou had a
secial ri*ilege. By the sa$e to-en, the A$ hara eole had nothing as secial ri*ilege &ro$ both the
re*ious go*ern$ents. They su&&ered or delighted the sa$e cruelty and eIual oortunity. %& we deny
this &act, history will ne*er &orget the ob8ecti*e reality that had haened in the ast and what is
haening now. @istory ne*er -nows bias and re8udice. We all will be 8udged uon based on our
$erits and de$erits. The &act being this, TP!" always conde$ns the A$ haras as its arch,ene$y and
wants the$ to be eradicated &or good. While the &act on the ground is dia$etrically di&&erent &ro$
what the TP!",ites say, erhas bad luc- has $ade it ine*itably clear that the $antra o& TP!"
haened to be 6Kown with the A$ haras49 % tell you the truth that the B< ages o& the TP!"3s olitical
rogra$, which is intended to incri$inate and attac- $ainly the A$ haras, is an absolute insanity and
e*en a genocidal cri$e. No one else designed such a B< ages o& docu$ent to attac- one seci&ic
ethnic grou e+cet TP!". Now, e*en a&ter it has assu$ed the leadershi o& the entire nation, its cra*e
&or eli$inating this ethnic grou is not IuenchedG rather, it has continued the ethnic cleansing and
genocide uon the A$ haras and other oosing citi=ens including Tigrians the$sel*es using all the
state $achineries it controlled by &orce. No world history has seen such grou o& $a&ias in a &or$ o&
go*ern$ent.
The &ollowing are $e$bers o& TP!" who dra&ted and i$le$ented the oisonous anti,A$hara
olitical rogra$.
.. Ara ga we, Ber hey.
?. :eb hat, Nega.
A. Meles, ;ena we.
B. Abbay :ay @iyea.
C. :eyou$ Mes &in.
D. Aw2alo$ Woldu.
0. Tay wolde Welde Maria$.
<. Gubru Ass rat.
/. Ar-ebe 7uIubai.
.F. sad-an Gub ray Tin say.
... ;erai As gado$.
.?. :e yeah Abraha.
%n addition to these, Atta -ilt, Ee sela, ' a TP!" rebel who was shot dead by :eb hat Nega
hi$sel&(, Ass &aha, @agos, 'who died o& natural causes(, and Gday, ;era sion 'who deserted TP!" in
./<C a&ter trying &or so long but &inally &ailing to correct the unde$ocratic nature o& TP!"( were
a$ong these ulcerous co$$ittee $e$bers. By the way, in this docu$ent o& the TP!", on age .D,
there it says that the Kerg regi$e is that o& the A$ haras. But in actual &act, Kerg was &ree o&
ethnicityG it was rather a $i+ed nature. The cause o& all the lies roagated by TP!" against the
A$ haras was to get ground &or attac-ing this nationality so that it can easily &ul&ill its target o&
dis$antling the country3s history and territorial integrity. That is why the $otto o& TP!" is MThe
oressi*e A$haraN 1:he shall ne*er get social stability and eace o& $ind42
%n TP!"3s 6Woy yin9 bulletin, it is indicated &ro$ the *ery beginning that the A$ haras should be
eli$inated &ro$ the sur&ace o& the earth or at least should not get any eace o& $ind and social stability
where*er they li*e. This has been the central $otto, the ri$ordial ob8ecti*e o& the core leadershi o&
the grou which was e+ected to be strictly obeyed by the ran- and &ile as well in a long and short
ter$ lan o& action. %n the lan it was>is clearly stated that TP!" would ta-e a radical action against
the A$ haras and their elite leaders. Then, due to such rerisal re*olutionary actions, the A$ haras
would ne*er get any chance to settle eace&ully anywhere and gradually they will &ace e+tinction Mli-e
dinosaurs?N. %n line with this basic &iery interest o& TP!", the rogra$ was in its &ull swing as o& ./D0
and as a result an all out genocidal $assacre on the A$ haras was declared in Tig )ay and Wol Iait
Tsegdy, o& the then Gonderite areaG un&ortunately, so $any innocent citi=ens lost their li*es and>or
'i$($igrated to other areas o& the lanet. There was a $ani&esto which states, a$ong others, the
&ollowing.
.. Any A$ hara in the liberated areas o& Tig )ay should i$$ediately lea*e that lace lea*ing
behind all what they ha*e.
The Public )elations 7&&ice o& TP!" carried out an a$a=ingly alar$ing ca$aign to loot and
eradicate A$ haras who used to li*e in Tig )ay as retired ensioners o& all -inds o& state 8obs such as
$ilitary, olice, and &inance, or those who were $erchants, or those dwelling in any &or$ based on a
*ariety o& social interactions inter$ingled by $arriage with Tigrians and who had seen two or three
generations out o& their interethnic $arital bonds. All those with the A$ hara blood were &erreted out
and sent to 1FD2, in&erno o& TP!", &ro$ where no one has a chance to co$e out ali*e and see the
sunlight again.
?. EP)P should go out o& Tig )ay, lest, they shall be wied out by &orce.
The stronghold o& EP)P, Asi$ba, is -nown to be located in Tig )ay. They went to that lace to start
the ar$ed resistance with the Kurg a&ter they &ailed the battle in the townshis. But when TP!" got
strength and began controlling so$e art o& Tig )ay, it sent a $essage to the$ and warned the$ to
lea*e Tig )ay i$$ediately. But they re&used to heed the autocratic instruction &ro$ the TP!" saying
that Tig )ay is also Ethioia and they ha*e no reason to go out o& Ethioia to 5Ethioia5 or so$ewhere
else. Ne*ertheless, EP)P was &allen rey o& TP!" &ollowing their re&usal to lea*e Tig )ay. They &aced
that o& the &ate o& the A$ hara due to their stand in the Ethioian unity.
TP!"3s 6Woy yin9 bulletin, as o& its &irst edition tries to re&lect the central ob8ecti*e o& the rebel
grou TP!". %t stresses that both the A$ haras and their language A$haric will gradually but
de&initely &ace their ine*itable death and the resultant historical burial.
As clearly stated in the olitical rogra$ o& TP!" and incessantly roagated by 6Woy yin9,
TP!" belie*es that the sole ene$y o& the eole o& Tig )ay is the A$ hara ruling class and hence the
$a8or ob8ecti*e o& this organi=ation re$ains to be eli$inating A$ haras along with their obsolete
social syste$ that oresses Tigrians and &a*ors A$ haras to get richer and roserous. 5Woy yin5
elaborates that destroying the A$ hara is the &irst *ital ste &or the reali=ation o& eli$inating Ethioia
&ro$ the $a o& the world. Based on its rogra$, on the re&ace section, Nu$ber C., TP!" has
i$le$ented its lan o& anne+ing &ertile arable lands &ro$ Gonder and Wolo ro*inces and thereby
increasing the si=e o& Tig )ay. TP!" has a lan to establish 6The Ke$ocratic )eublic o& Tig )ay9 a&ter
it destroys the A$ hara and its in&luence in Ethioia. This lan o& TP!" will be i$le$ented when
Tig )ay is relenished with all the necessary ro*isions and &ertile lands a&ter the &ul&ill$ent o& which
no body will challenge it to undo things and bring &orth the old Ethioia with all her ancient grace.
%n the &irst lace, TP!" has ne*er had an a$bition or drea$ to rule Ethioia. This interest o&
TP!" was une+ected heno$enon, a bonan=a created by the wea-ening o& the Kerg regi$e at the
ti$e o& its down&all in late <Fs due to a nu$ber o& national and global $ysterious coincidences eruted
here and there a&ter the &all o& the L::), a&ter the end o& the so called cold war. 7bser*ing that there
arose a ower *acuu$ in Ethioia due to the &all o& the ET@%7P%AN Kerg, TP!" instantaneously
dra&ted an e$ergency olicy and $ade it ractical then through the blessing o& the west, esecially the
L:. But it ne*er &orgot its $a8or ob8ecti*e o& destroying the A$ hara which until then was one o& the
bac-bones o& the country3s olitics. %n line with its ethnic olitics, TP!" as go*ern$ent o& 6"ederal9
Ethioia continued urooting &ro$ their settle$ents, $assacring, destabili=ing and lundering the
A$ haras, where*er they haen to li*e. TP!"3s new na$es coined &or the A$ haras, 1ne&tegna,
e+ansionistQ2, were unasha$edly used on state controlled $edias. )ebu-ing and insulting this
ethnic grou beca$e the &ashion o& the day and TP!" see$ed to reward those who -ee on degrading
and -illing the A$ haras e*erywhere as i& they are e+traterrestrial beings. Through state sonsored
$assacres, thousands o& A$ haras all o*er the country , babies, -ids, the youth, adults, elders were
and still are being -illed by the TP!" $ercenariesG the genocidal -illings at Benchi Ma8i =one, Gura&erda,
Bedeno, etc. are 8ust &ew e+a$les. When -illing see$s unro&itable, TP!" resorts to other destructi*e
otions and instigates chaos so that its stooges destabili=e A$ haras, eace&ul settle$ent and wie out
the$ &ro$ the areas they li*ed &or decades. TP!" does all this urosely only to acco$lish its
ri$ordial ob8ecti*e s o& anti,A$hara and anti,Ethioia senti$ents.
TP!" has been doing whate*er it could to sychologically belittle the A$ haras and di$inish
their regional land. %ts e&&orts to ha$$er the A$ haras are in&inite. Aart &ro$ detaching the$ &ro$
Iualitati*e and standardi=ed education and healthcare &acilities, the TP!"3s e*il deeds uon the
A$hara include anne+ing and selling their &ertile arable lands to &oreign countries such as the :udan
and con&ining the$ in narrow areas o& li$ited localities in Go8a$ and Gonder. We cannot enu$erate
now and here all the e*il acti*ities TP!" has been doing &or the reali=ation o& the 6:yste$atic
eli$ination and genocide9 it declared uon the A$ hara nationality. !et us see why TP!" has
cornered the A$ haras as its arch ene$y.
.. %t is ob*ious that the A$ haras, li-e others, are roud o& their country Ethioia. TP!",ites
thin- that eli$inating the A$ haras is the $ain recondition to eli$inate Ethioia and
Ethioian,ness, &or the A$ haras are belie*ed by the TP!" to ha*e unreser*ed lo*e &or
Ethioia. There&ore, it is the con*iction o& TP!" that brea-ing the bac-bone o& the A$hara
is crucially i$ortant to destroy Ethioia.
?. TP!"3s nature is charged with di*ide and rule $ethod. There&ore, the leadershi belie*es that
the di*isi*e wedges it e$loys, i.e., ethnicity and language, are *itally i$ortant to create
ha*oc and distrust a$ong co$$unities in the country that would hel TP!" to stay in ower at
least until the ti$e they belie*e is conduci*e to go to Tig )ay and establish their own drea$y
state on the &airy land they ha*e in $ind, as er the night$are o& the 5&ounding &athers5.
A. Thousands o& languages are so-en in this world. :o$e countries $ay not ha*e one de&inite
o&&icial language. But in Ethioia, a$ongst nearly <C languages, we ha*e A$haric, as an
o&&icial language that ser*es as a bridge to bring together all the eole in the nation. This
should be ta-en as ositi*e and A$haric should be raised &or such a recious ser*ice. To
whiche*er direction we go in Ethioia, al$ost all nationals o& the country co$$unicate in
A$haric with one another. This linguistic ser*ice o& A$haric has been in lace &or the last
good nu$ber o& centuries. And that heno$enon has not been i$osed uon the eole by any
&orce in the olitical hierarchy in a &or$ o& rocla$ation or declarationG it was through the
course o& linguistic history that A$haric haened to be the national language o& the country.
%t was neither the goodwill o& the go*ern$ents nor the interest o& the A$ hara that $ade
A$haric to ser*e as a bridge in Ethioia. But being ignorant o& this globally agreed,uon
linguistic consensual con*ention, TP!" tries hard to eli$inate the role o& A$haric, due to their
hatred towards the sea-ers o& the language, the A$ haras.
%n light o& the abo*e, TP!" belie*es that A$haric is a language o& the ene$y and should go
away with the sea-ers. And this notion has been ut in ractice since the ti$e TP!" was e$erged
as a rebel grou. As soon as TP!" sei=ed the central olitical seat in Addis Ababa, the ensuing
acti*ities clearly assured that the grou was not only anti,A$ haras but also anti,A$haric
language. %t began doing all what it could to ut A$haric out o& ser*ice. As a result o& this, by now
there are $illions o& children and young eole &ro$ all corners o& the country who cannot sea-
A$haric and as a conseIuence who are situated in a big Msychological and econo$icN roble$
when they co$e to Addis or bigger cities and towns out o& their s$all localitiesG the roble$ is not
the inability to sea- the language er se. But whate*er the language $ight be, they should sea- a
language, any language &or that $atter, to get along with the rest o& the society they haen to $i+
anew. This is the cri$e o& TP!". Ki&&erent eole o& a country need to ha*e one co$$on
languageG TP!" has been trying to deri*e us o& such a natural and hu$an right in the ast ??
years. Peole $ay as- what bene&it's( $ay TP!" get in doing so. !et $e e+lain so$e $ore oints
with this resect.
.. When eole lose their co$$on identity, they gradually lose their national senti$ent and in the
long run the country re$ains to be lac-ing owners that bother about her e+istence.
?. %& eole do not ha*e national language's(, they are con&ined to only their local languages and in
satial ter$s to a narrower identity that $ay not enable the$ to higher ri*ileges. Accordingly, the
new generation o& TP!" in Ethioia is e+osed to an acute roble$ the cause o& which is TP!"3s
di*ide and rule ethnic olitics. Peole cannot get 8ob oortunities i& they are obligated not to learn
a co$$on language. And they $ay be e$barrassed when they go out o& their s$all localities due
to regional and linguistic restrictions i$osed by the di*ide and rule syste$ o& 5their country5.
A. When eole are &orced to be con&ined to certain areas and culture, they &orget their co$$on
identity and beco$e risoners o& $an,$ade new identities.
B. %& there is no national language, it is not ossible to thin- growth and de*elo$ent that bene&its all.
%ndi&&erence and carelessness would re*ail and the de*elo$ent o& the country would at last be
stunted.
The ai$ o& the action o& TP!" that di*ided the country into language based regions is to
eli$inate the role o& A$haric and destroy Ethioian,ness. When eole are di*ided into *arious
oc-ets o& linguistic and cultural entities, it is li-ely that they get into discord and con&licts. TP!" is
a renowned architect in creating co$$otions and chaos a$ong co$$unities. But % would
ersonally li-e to say that the eole o& Ethioia ha*e &ought TP!" by not being blind obedient o&
its destructi*e rules and directi*es.
!et $e list down those resonsible indi*iduals who e+erted their $a+i$u$ e&&ort to destroy Ethioia along with their
edigree. traitor is $eant to $ean, banda, -hehadi, also -nown as 5as-ari,5one who ser*es the
ene$y, historically the %talian colonialis$.
Note, These indi*iduals who are listed here are traitors, second generation descendents. Their &athers, $others and grand
arents were sellout traitors. %n .</D The Ethioians won the battle o& adwa and ?FFF Eritrean as-ari soldiers who were in
%talian ser*ice were -illed and <FF were catured. As unish$ent &or what the Ethioians regarded as treason, the right hand
and le&t &oot o& the catured were cut o&&.
.. Meles ;ena we H hi$sel& traitor, his Eritrean arents as well traitors.
?. :eb hat Nega H his $other Eritrean traitor, his &ather Tigrian.
A. Abbay :ay @iyeah H son o& a traitor, A+u$.
B. :eyou$ Mes&in H son o& a traitor, Eritrean.
C. Ar-ebe 7uIubai H son o& traitor, Adwa.
D. Kr. :olo$on EnIuay H son o& traitor, his &ather Eritrean.
0. :ay @i Berr hay H son o& traitor, Eritrean.
<. TsadIan Gub ray Tinsay H son o& traitor, Eritrean.
/. Theodros @agos H son o& traitor, Eritrean.
.F. Abbay Woldu H son o& traitor, his &ather Eritrean.
... Tewodros Ad hano$ 'now Kr. and Minister o& &inance( H son o& traitor, Eritrean.
.?. Kebre :ion Gub ray Michael H son o& traitor, was $e$ber o& Eritrean suicidal $ission.
.A. A= =eb Mes&in H brought u in :aygaday, :udan and Eritrea, granddaughter o& an A$ hara traitor.
%t is the irony o& history that that all o& the a&ore$entioned a$bassadors o& the satanic $ission to
destroy Ethioia are the children o& traitors who ser*ed the %talian in*aders bac- in the history o& the
country. Their arents heled those &oreign in*aders and caused the death o& innocent citi=ens.
"ollowing the &urrow o& their arents2 bad history, these children o& theirs are also causing the country
to once again ass through a dirty tunnel o& historical cala$ities as we all -now today. The so called
A.N.K.M., or 7.P.K.7, or other si$ilar satellite arties are creatures o& TP!" which do not ha*e their own
e+istenceG they are the results o& the cra&ts$anshi o& TP!" designed in a bid to &ool the &ool when
they crossed the territories o& roer Tig )ay at around the closure o& the resistance $o*e$ent,
so$eti$e be&ore they controlled Addis Ababa. These uets are also cri$inals and will be
resonsible &or what they are doing in collaborating TP!" to gallo the country.
"inally, % would li-e to suggest that TP!"3s destructi*e $o*es cannot be stoed by
conde$nation or si$le rotest such as de$onstrations and the li-e and hence we all ha*e to be
united lea*ing aside our $inor di&&erences. %t is when we $obili=e our eole and all our e&&orts in
unison that we can re$o*e these historical tic-s and bugs that are changing our $other Ethioia, into
hell where in her children are not able to sur*i*e as hu$ans.
!et2s all unite to sa*e Ethioia and her eole4
Ethioia shall re*ail &ore*er4