U.S. trying to portray TPLF as innocent party
Addis Ababa, December 15, 2021 (FBC) – In an exclusive interview with FBC, Morgan Artyukhina, a U.S based writer for Sputnik and Global Times, said the US based media including The New York Times and CNN have been some of the biggest perpetrators are portraying TPLF as an oppressed underdog, when it is not.”
“And that’s a pattern that the US media has used time and again, to build support for a US military intervention or sanctions regime of some kind against countries all over the world, from Iraq, to Libya, to Venezuela to many others, and what they’re reporting on Ethiopia is following a very similar pattern,”
And that suggests that the military or the political establishment in Washington is looking to build popular support for some kind of intervention in Ethiopia.
“Well, I think that the recent counter offensive and the recapture of dozens of towns and cities that had been taken by the TPLF for several weeks, or even months has revealed many of the brutalities that TPLF committed from looting humanitarian warehouses to executing people to looting and destroying hospitals and things like that.” She said.
The US is trying to portray TPLF as innocent party. That is why its media outlets have not reported on those facts. But, it is impossible because the atrocities committed by the rebel group are being exposed through various outlets, Morgan Artyukhina noted.
“The western media didn’t report about the leaked video in which American diplomats and European diplomats met with senior TPLF officials in a zoom call and spoke openly of trying to form a transition government of some kind. But our Sputnik Radio has covered that,” she said.
The western media don’t report on facts that are inconvenient to them. They don’t care about the facts that show the atrocities the TPLF Group has committed against innocent civilians in Amhara and Afar Regions.
It is really mandatory upon us to make sure that the real facts are getting out there to counter the fake news, the narratives that the western media are building.
It is really important to spread the stories of the people who have been affected by the TPLF aggression to make its crimes known to the world, she said, adding that interviews conducted with victims and documentations on the atrocities committed by the terrorist group have crucial importance in shedding light on the realities in Ethiopia.
“Interview with victims must be distributed through social media including Twitter, Facebook and other corporations. The only thing what we can do is to spread those stories and tell the other side of the story that they aren’t telling.” Morgan Artyukhina said.
“I think that the Mo More movement led protests are beginning to have their effect because they have been numerous and massive. The demonstrations have been well coordinated. And it’s becoming less and less easy for the media and for political figures to pretend that they do didn’t exist.”
“In Washington, D.C., the city which has the largest concentration of Ethiopians outside of Africa, hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians have come out in great force and made their voices heard and their attitudes known,” she noted.
Moreover, the No More movement is clearly having an effect across African countries like Burkina Faso, you see protests using the hashtag Pas Plus which is just No More in French.
No More is really awakening the kind of consciousness of saying no to colonialism, no to US intervention, she said.
“Ethiopians, people of Ethiopian descent and friends of Ethiopia like me have to keep doing what we are doing, this means, telling the side of the story that isn’t being told. Such activities are effective to putting pressure especially on American politicians and on American lawmakers who are really good to have the power to stand up and block anything that might happen.”
“And I think it’s, it’s very plainly obvious that the military offensive against the terrorist TPLF is a defensive one because they have waged a reign of terror wherever they go.” Morgan Artyukhina said.
“New Your times and CNN were reporting as TPLF has highly motivated recruits and stuff which is contrary to the fact that captured TPLF soldiers told local media that they didn’t know even where they were going to.” ,she added.