Facing fast-approaching demise as a result of its adventurism, the TPLF regime is a terrorist clique that has plunged Ethiopia into an economic crisis and grave political turmoil by pursuing sub-national politics. Coming to power illegally in the first place, in May 2005 the TPLF staged a failed charade to achieve legality and please its masters by manipulating the people’s vote. However, the Ethiopian people could no longer be deceived; the results of the elections exposed the regime’s duplicity and ensued in violent popular opposition. The fact that the TPLF regime is a criminal political force that has illegally assumed power is a universally acknowledged truth.

The Ethiopian people’s opposition to the TPLF manipulation of election results was indeed a legitimate measure. However, being an immoral and brutal group by nature, the TPLF could not relinquish power peacefully and thus massacred many unarmed civilians and randomly imprisoned many more without due process of law.

Putting complete faith on the support of external powers, the TPLF has been intensifying its atrocities against the people. The regime’s crime of genocide against the Ogaden people is one of the world’s worst crimes against humanity. In the past two years in particular, the regime not only wiped out tens of relatively large and populous villages but is also systematically exterminating millions of people by obstructing aid to the region. The TPLF’s crimes of genocide, mass arrests and raping of women in the Ogaden region have recently been exposed before the world through international media. Moreover, the regime not only instigated ethnic conflicts in different parts of Ethiopia but also vengefully terrorized and killed many innocent civilians in retaliation of attacks by opposition forces. As such, the TPLF’s crimes against humanity are comparable only to very few similar acts in the history of the world.

The crimes of this fascist clique are not limited to the Ethiopian people only. As a messenger of neocolonialism, the regime launched a war of aggression against Eritrea upon the encouragement of its masters. The killing of innocent civilians and wanton destruction—including cemeteries—by soldiers of the clique in occupied Eritrean territories during the war, as well as the deportation and ransacking of properties of Eritreans residing in Ethiopia, are clear indications of the regime’s gross crimes against humanity. Furthermore, in invading the sovereign nation of Somalia, the TPLF killed thousands of civilians and caused the displacement of millions more. A year and a half after the TPLF invasion, the situation in Somalia has now escalated into the worse humanitarian crisis in the world.

It is difficult to measure the extent of the atrocities of the terrorist TPLF regime against the Ethiopian people as well as those of neighboring countries. However, world powers such as the US and others continue to seek to present the despotic regime as a democratic one and also try to cover up its crimes by dubbing them as contributors to the global ‘war on terror.’ It is to be recalled that a few years ago the TPLF regime brutally suppressed and massacred many Ethiopian students. A certain western nation sought to justify the incident saying that it was ‘a small problem due to the lack of a well-trained police force’ and even went to the extent of rewarding the regime’s brutality by initiating a project to ‘strengthen the Ethiopian police force.’

Yet, other than expose their double standards, the excessive indulgence and advocating of these so-called apostles of democracy cannot save the TPLF regime from its ultimate demise. The most important fact revealed by the world powers’ support of the brutal regime is that the issues of democracy and human rights are merely dubious political tools employed to secure the interests of the dominant powers as well as attack and suppress those who refuse to conform. Nonetheless, through this experience, the Ethiopian people, who are the main victims of TPLF adventurism, have been able to distinguish their allies from their enemies. Moreover, the people of the region and that of the African continent as a whole have also learned a valuable lesson from the silence of the international community as regards the TPLF regime’s crimes. Shunned by its own people and committing crime after crime in desperation, the TPLF cannot escape its inevitable demise regardless of the extent of support from world powers. The regime has already been perched over a cliff and would soon share the same fate as all anti-people and tyrannical regimes of the past.