Scrutinizing The Claim That The Ethiopian Air Force Just Bombed A Kindergarten In Mekelle
Even leaving aside the central government’s factually grounded designation of the TPLF as terrorists, that group’s proven disreputableness, and its prior pattern of manipulating the US-led Western Mainstream Media (MSM) into amplifying its false narrative against the state by dumping fake body bags and/or the bodies of those who died elsewhere at the scenes of where it claims the government committed war crimes, there are three other reasons not to believe its latest accusations.
The terrorist-designated TPLF claimed that the Ethiopian Air Force (ETAF) just bombed a kindergarten in the regional capital of Mekelle and killed several children as part of the latest round of fighting that this group provoked last week at the behest of its American and Egyptian patrons. Despite this scandalous accusation having only just been made by the same organization that’s infamous for spreading fake news about these sorts of attacks and thus not yet confirmed by any independent third-party observers, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell jumped on the bandwagon by extending credence to this narrative. The Government Communication Service defended the state’s reputation by revealing that “the terrorist TPLF has begun dumping fake body bags in civilian areas in order to claim that the Air Force attacked civilians”, which is consistent with what that group’s done since November 2020.
These conflicting allegations have understandably resulted in a lot of confusion about what just transpired, hence the need to closely scrutinize the original war crime claim being made by the ETAF. Even leaving aside the central government’s factually grounded designation of the TPLF as terrorists, that group’s proven disreputableness, and its prior pattern of manipulating the US-led Western Mainstream Media (MSM) into amplifying its false narrative against the state by dumping fake body bags and/or the bodies of those who died elsewhere at the scenes of where it claims the government committed war crimes, there are three other reasons not to believe its latest accusations. The first and most obvious of these is that the school season has yet to start in Ethiopia, meaning that it’s highly unlikely that children were at the site when it was allegedly hit.
Second, the reader should be reminded that the TPLF is functioning as their joint American and Egyptian patrons’ proxies in the Hybrid War of Terror on Ethiopia, which is the exact same role that NATO-backed Kiev plays vis a vis that bloc’s Hybrid War on Russia throughout the course of the latest US-provoked phase of the Ukrainian Conflict. It’s therefore reasonable to suspect that Kiev’s strategy of illegally militarizing residential areas in order to deter its opponent’s attacks, which was just proven by Amnesty International’s recent bombshell report, is also being replicated by the TPLF since both forces are Western Hybrid War proxies with the same American patron. With this in mind, it thus can’t be discounted that the terrorists militarized a school building without children inside of it at the time, but were then bombed as legitimate military targets and only afterwards brought bodies from elsewhere.
The final reason not to believe the TPLF’s latest accusations is that the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) have gone to great lengths to mitigate civilian casualties during their law-enforcement-turned-anti-terrorist operation exactly as the Russian Armed Forces (RFAF) have during their special military operation in Ukraine. Just like President Putin truly believes in the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians as proven by his treatise on this topic from summer 2021, to which end he’s declined to authorize the American-like carpet-bombing of enemy-controlled cities (especially those with human shields being held at illegally militarized residential areas) even though this has led to slow but steady progress for his side, so too does Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy truly believe in the historical unity of the diverse Ethiopian people and would thus never authorize the targeting of civilians either.
To summarize the skepticism towards the TPLF’s latest war crime claim against the central government: the group is already rightly designated as terrorists; is infamous for its disreputableness; and previously manipulated the MSM through the means that the Government Communication Service recently reminded everyone of. In the context of the current incident: school doesn’t even start in Ethiopia until Monday; there’s reason to suspect that the TPLF is replicating Kiev’s strategy of illegally militarizing residential areas in order to deter its opponent’s attacks seeing as how they’re Hybrid War proxies that share the same US patron; and Prime Minister Abiy sincerely believes in the historical unity of the diverse Ethiopian people so he’d never authorize the targeting of civilians. Taken together, these six points discredit the latest war crime claim against Ethiopia while suggesting that the TPLF and even UNICIF lied.