Ethiopia Uses Fresh Human Waves with Poor and Hungry Soldiers
No More UN Resolutions! Sanctions Now Please!
by
Hidaat G. Ephrem

For the last two years the UN Security Council passed one lukewarm resolution after another to tell the Ethiopian and Eritrean Governments to end their border war and settle the dispute peacefully. Time and again,
the TPLF led Government of Ethiopia gave a deaf ear to all UN sponsored resolutions so far, broke US brokered moraterium on air strikes to pound civilians in Eritrean cities and towns; refused to sign the OAU peace plan to which it claims to have accepted; misquandered all its human and economic resources to conduct a war with an unwilling partner, Eritrea.

The direct consequence of TPLF's policy of war have come to bear fruits. Tens of thousands young Ethiopians have been fed to the fires of war in the form of human wave that shocked the world for the massive carnage it resulted. To turn around such disastrous and shameful battlefield result, the TPLF amassed better and more war toys at the expense of its people and their development. A beggar nation on a shoping spree for high-tech war machinery and the mercineries that will lead the way and teach the novice TPLF how to win the war, it is a circus
of madness and insanity, no UN resolution could address effectively.

The drought, though it may have been as a result of failed rains, have turned into famine that have starved Ethiopian children to death, and still threathens over 8 million. The TPLF leadership waited until the famine became unbearably ugly to address the issue, and then it was an acusation to the rich Western countries for failing to supply Ethiopia with enough food aid while the TPLF leaders themselves gave a priority to the war front. The delivery of food aid to Ethiopia has been hampered by TPLF's refusal to use the closest sea port of Assab in Eritrea, resulting in building and upgrading port facilities and roads, at the cost of additional millions in US dollars to the donor nations.

Still, Ethiopia finds itself immersed in catastrophic tragedy of biblical proportion from rampant AIDS claiming hundreds of lives per day; lack of adequate medical resources that have become the cause of death by many
easily treatable diseases; over flowing jails and the merciless conscription of the poor and young who will be used as the future human wave minesweepers; an economy that have fallen flat on its back, and nature's
wrath unleashed in the form of forest fires and drowning rains. Ethiopia is a mess.

In the face of such horrific existence of the Ethiopian people, the TPLF leadership, gave on Wednesday their final slap on the face to the international community by frustrating the shuttle diplomacy efforts by the UN Security Council. They wanted no part of peace, but they showed their eagerness to go to war.

The UN Security Council whose first hand experience of this week with the Prime Minster of Ethiopia's will to launch another offensive and the disregard to the grave consequences should have stood as a strong reason as to why another UN resolution can not work to avert Ethiopia's aggression of war and distruction.

The UN Security Council's witness of Eritrea's willingness to address the conflict peacefully, its flexibility for the sake of peace, should also have stood as a strong testament that a UN resolution at this point would be a mere lip-service that would not avert Ethiopia's aggression of war on a peaceful people.

True to their words of bravado, the TPLF leaders have now started an attempt of yet anouther attack on Eritrea. In this offensive the same as the previous two battlefields, the TPLF have chosen the strategy of "human
wave" to overwhelm the Eritrean defensive positions. Thousands of ill-equipped and poorly trained Ethiopian soldiers will soon fall, baking in the heat of the sun, with Ethiopia refusing to claim them as hers. Yet, the
Ethiopian people will never be any closer to peace, nor the TPLF leaders would be as victorius as they now imagine.

No more UN resolutions! Sanctions please. No more US covertly support for Ethiopia. The TPLF's conduct is not a legitmate war conducted by a legitmate government, it is a criminal act being committed by aggressively manipulative and ethnically divisive minority group under the cover of the Ethiopian Government to sell the Ethiopian people short of peace, development and progress.

The OAU, UN, EU, US and the international community have the moral obligation to speak the truth now for the sake of peace, the Ethiopian and Eritrean people, and to prevent the Horn of Africa from a disastrous distability. No more UN resolutions! Sanctions please! A response that falls short of internationally supported economical sanctions against the TPLF lead government of Ethiopia would amount to having Eritrea, a member nation of the international community, abandoned at the hands of a beast.