Amasosha ombuso ase-Ethiopia ezinhlelweni zokuphinda ahlasele iMekell
Amasosha ase-Ethiopia ahlela ukungena enhlokodolobha yesifunda saseTigray iMekelle futhi “aqede” amasosha avukelayo, kusho isikhulu esiphezulu sezempi ngoLwesihlanu phakathi nemizamo yokuqeda izingxabano enyakatho yezwe. Izwe laseHorn of Africa libhekene nempi isikhathi esingaphezu konyaka, lapho amasosha ombuso namadlelandawonye alwa namasosha athembeke kuTigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), iqembu lezepolitiki elilawula iTigray.
Kuleli sonto osomaqhinga ababili abaphezulu baseMelika bandize e-Addis Ababa ukuyophoqa ukuthi kuqedwe ukulwa, bezama ukwakha phezu kwezimpawu zokuncibilika kobudlelwano phakathi kwamaqembu alwayo, okuhlanganisa nokukhululwa kweziboshwa zezombusazwe.
Engxoxweni nenhlangano yabezindaba esebenzisana noHulumeni, iFana, esakazwe ngasekupheleni ngoLwesihlanu, isekela lesikhulu samasosha e-Ethiopian Defence Forces (EDF) uGeneral Abebaw Tadesse uthe izwe ngeke libe nokuthula kuze kube kuqedwa iTPLF. “UTigray uyingxenye ye-Ethiopia futhi awekho amandla azosivimba ukuthi singene. Sizongena futhi sizoqeda isitha. Akumele kube khona ukudideka ngalokhu,”. Abantu base-Ethiopia akufanele bacabange ukuthi sekuphelile, akukapheli. Okubalulekile lapha ukuthi sesimile ngoba kufanele sizilungiselele. Lesi sitha sisekhona, futhi kufanele siqedwe ngokuphelele. Ngeke sixoxisane nabo.”
Okhulumela iTPLF, uGetachew Reda, akatholakalanga ukuze aphawule ngale nkulumo yalesi sikhulu. KuTweet ngoLwesine, ngesikhathi ingxenye yenhlolokhono ka-Abebaw isakazwa kuFana, uGetachew uthe: “Asilahlekelwa ubuthongo ngohlelo luka-Abebaw!” Umkhulumeli kaHulumeni wase-Ethiopia uLegesse Tulu (osesithombeni) kanye nomkhulumeli kaNdunankulu u-Abiy Ahmed, uBillene Seyoum, abaphendulanga ngokushesha ezicelweni zokuthi baphawule ngamazwi ka-Abebaw.
Ngokuhlukana, umkhuzi webutho lezindiza uYilma Merdasa ukuphikile ukuthi wayeqondise izakhamuzi kule mpi, wathi amabutho akhe anobuchwepheshe bokugwema ukwenza lokho. “Izimangalo zeTPLF zokuthi umbutho wethu wezindiza uqondise izakhamuzi zingamanga,” esho kumabonakude we-Ethiopian Broadcast Corporation.
Okhulumela iTPLF uGetachew akatholakalanga ukuthi aphawule ngalokhu. UMengameli waseMelika uJoe Biden, uNobhala Jikelele weNhlangano Yezizwe, u-António Guterres kanye nehhovisi le-UN lamalungelo abantu (OHCHR) bazwakalise ukukhathazeka ngeziteleka zezindiza.
I-TPLF ithi u-Abiy ufuna ukuqeda uhlelo lukahulumeni wobumbano olusekelwe ngokobuhlanga bezwe kuyilapho u-Abiy ethi iTPLF ikulambele ukuthatha amandla kazwelonke eyayinawo. Sekuphele izinyanga kukhona umdonsiswano phakathi kwezinhlangothi zombili, okubangelwa ukulwa okungavamile. Amasosha eTPLF alawula iningi leTigray kodwa azungezwe amabutho anobutha avela ezifundeni ezingomakhelwane i-Afar ne-Amhara ezihlangene nebutho lezempi. Ingxabano, eyaqubuka ngoNovemba 2020, isuse izigidi futhi yabangela indlala esabalele. Ezinyangeni ezisanda kwedlula kube nemizamo eminingi yezokuxhumana nepolitiki yokukuqeda, okuhlanganisa nengcindezi evela e-United States.