The history of successive Ethiopian leaders is identified with acute lack of self-worth and not enough faith in their people and resources. Emperor Haile Selassie was a well known agent for the United States in the Horn region. Receiving massive military and political support from western nations in return for favors received, the emperor allowed the US to establish a military base in forcibly occupied Eritrean territory and gambled with the lives of Ethiopian youth in the wars in Korea and Congo. Similar to the preceding regime, the Derg was also unable to sustain itself and had to depend on Soviet Union charity However, the external powers that these regimes’ had put so much faith in could not guarantee them a stay in power at the expense of the Ethiopian people’s rights, for there is no power that can trample over a just cause.

Representing neither the Tigrayan people nor the Ethiopian people and driven by a chronic lack of self-confidence, the TPLF clique leaders have no political agenda other than to use power for executing vengeance and amassing wealth. Having no political program that aims for the people’s welfare, the TPLF regime set itself up for the service of an agent in a manner that demeans both Ethiopian and African pride. To this end, the clique offered its services to the US Administration and proved its readiness to serve the interest of external forces.

World powers that seek to gain from conflicts always look for fraudulent and corrupt regimes, such as the TPLF, that only think of their own individual interests rather than that of the entire people. Hence, finding no other force than the TPLF to serve their purpose in the Horn region, the world powers provided the regime with the customary support given to all oppressive regimes around the world.

In previous parts of this text we had seen how destructive the TPLF regime’s sub national and divisive politics have been so far. Yet, in trying to benefit from conflict among peoples, the so called ‘apostles of democracy’ sought to present the regime’s ‘federal administration’ as a modern and sophisticated political system that follows the example of modern nations. Providing it with the cloak of democracy, the world powers armed the regime with every kind of support so that it can disrupt the stability of neighboring countries and suppress the Ethiopian people’s questions at gun point. As a result of the TPLF clique’s sub national politics and the support it received from the West, in the past 17 years the Ethiopian people were not only immersed in grave political and economic turmoil but have also been exposed to the worst kind of poverty and backwardness.

The external powers had entrusted the TPLF regime not only with suppressing the right of the Ethiopian people but also with disrupting the peace and stability of the Horn region. To this end, gambling with Ethiopian lives and resources, the regime launched direct wars of aggression against Eritrea and Somalia and in the process jeopardized its chances of remaining in power. In an attempt to please its masters, the TPLF also sought to interfere in the affairs of the peoples of Kenya, Djibouti and Sudan, using political and economic agendas as a pretext.

The TPLF regime is thus not an Ethiopian power but an agent for external forces. Being aware of this fact, the Ethiopian people disclaimed the regime in the 2005 elections and no one was more surprised and shocked than those who claim to be ‘advocates’ of democracy and popular elections. In keeping with their customary double standards, these powers then embarked on a mission to save the life of their agent regime and provided it with the support it needed to brutally suppress the people’s voice.

Yet, even after receiving more than a billion dollars a year for services rendered, the TPLF regime has still been unable to stand firmly on its feet. Its very existence imperiled as the result of the conflicts it ignited within Ethiopia as well as with neighboring countries, the regime is now only counting its days as an agent. The time is not far when the degenerate regime’s history of servitude will come to an end and the Ethiopian people, as well as the people of this region, could experience peace and stability, for no unjust and oppressive regime has ever succeeded with the support of external powers!

The 17 years of TPLF rule has been a period when Ethiopia has been plunged into a political quagmire as a result of the regime’s sub national politics under the pretext of ‘federal administration’. It has also been a time when, in a bid to escape from domestic turmoil, the regime provoked aggression with all neighboring countries where thousands of Ethiopian youth lost their lives. Furthermore, in the 17 years under the TPLF rule, the Ethiopian people experienced extreme levels of backwardness and poverty while devoid of any sense of peace and stability.

Being leaders of one of the poorest nations in the world, that has more than 40 million people living below the poverty line and is the very image of human misery and degradation, TPLF members sought to make themselves a regional power solely depending on foreign aid. The main responsibility of this childish fantasy that has endangered the Ethiopian people’s future rests on the shoulders of external powers, in general, and the US Administration, in particular. Afflicted with expansionist philosophy of the Middle Ages, the TPLF regime is leading a country worn out by political turmoil and wars and cannot sustain itself even for a day. Hence, in dreaming of becoming a regional power of East Africa with the encouragement of external powers, the regime is further slipping towards an abyss.

World powers whose only aim is to secure their own interests, even if it caused the death of thousands of innocent people, selected the TPLF as their agent and chose Eritrea as their first target for their long-term plan of wreaking havoc in the Horn region. The reason behind the external powers’ choice of target is because the fact that, unlike other African nations that are completely dependent on aid, in pursing a policy of self-reliance, Eritrea was able to secure tangible economic progress, causing much anxiety to certain quarters.

Leading a torn apart nation and supported by external powers, the TPLF went on to instigate further chaos in the region by provoking hostilities with Sudan, Djibouti, Kenya and, in a bid to further please its masters, the regime even openly invaded Somalia. Consequently in the past year and a half, the regime was caught up in a quagmire of prolonged war in which thousands of Ethiopian soldiers are paying with their lives. Hence, the main victims of TPLF adventurism are none other than the Ethiopian people.

It had been clear from the beginning that the TPLF regime’s fantasy of becoming a regional power on the basis of external aid was futile indeed. Thus, it is not surprising to see the regime landing in a very precarious position as a result of the conflicts it’s instigated within Ethiopia as well as the aggressions it provoked within neighboring countries, for it is impossible to be a beggar and a regional power at the same time!