July 16, 2013
The Tigrayan People’s
Liberation Front (TPLF) victims such as Eskinder Nega and Andulem Argae are not
forgotten, although they are not remembered to a desired level. Since these
TPLF’s victims are among the few Ethiopians who are scarifying themselves and their
families for the sake of freedom and justice they should be remembered forever.
Unfortunately, however, majority of the nameless- torture victims
of TPLF are forgotten. It appears Tesfaye Tekalign was one of these
nameless torture victims. Tesfaye Tekalign is an indicator for numerous
innocent citizens suffering from torture after being hijacked from streets,
work places, homes and other places. As Tesfaye described it in broken
heart, the TPLF victims are taken away by spy agents without any court orders.
Then, these victims are subjected to physical, mental and psychological
torture. The TPLF cadres and spies put citizens whom they do not like in
isolated dark rooms for months and years. They burn these victims with electric
current; immerse them in to very hot and cold water alternatively. Furthermore,
they fiercely beat them until they end up with urinary incontinence, sexual
dysfunction, mental incapacity, psychological disturbance and so on.
The TPLF Agents and loyalists deny the victims’ families
privileges to know the whereabouts of their loved ones. The unfortunate
Tesfaye’s mother did not know whether her son was alive or dead while he was
experiencing earthly hell in TPLF prison for almost two years. Such is the case
in the barbaric rule of TPLF. TPLF tortures not only its prime victims but also
anyone related to its victims. The family frame work of Ethiopians is so tight
that the suffering of one family member is the aguish of the rest. As a result,
many say lots of torture victims’ parents have died from psychological and
mental trauma.
Every reader please put yourself in Tesfaye’s place for a moment.
What would you do when paid spies come to your home and take you away to
unidentified place in your own country? As a citizen, what would you do when
merciless cadres punch you until your bones broke apart or your eyes fell off?
What would you do when a TPLF cadre immerse you in barrel of boiled water and
then in to ice water? What would you do when insane spy agents connect you with
electricity and shock you until your body shrinks like roast beef? What
would you do when a barbaric cadre severely beat you and you end up with no
bladder/bowel control, blindness, deafness, mental incapacity and so on? What
would you if you were Tesfaye’s father, mother; brother or sister when he tells
you that he cannot control his urine because government agents who luxuriously
live robbing citizens’ taxes tortured him?
Mind you! It is not a Fairy Tale, but a realty- scary underground
TPLF show which has been running for more than two decades. Under these kinds
of wicked crimes many have died, too many are unaccounted for and enormous have
been suffering. Well, it is fair and just to cry for the release of known
figures such as Eskinder Nega. However, forgetting the nameless victims of
torture is not human. In fact, the known figures could be kept in a
relatively better condition, not because the TPLF members have human traits or
respect for their own citizens but in fear of the westerners who throw baloney
to TPLF bosses during their relentless begging. As we speak, the naked bodies
of the nameless- TPLF victims are being thrown in to boiled water and shocked
with electricity in scary- dark rooms just like that of Tesfaye’s naked body.
It is big time to search for these nameless victims. It is
important we name them! It is imperative that we and the world know them.
It is human to help them. Torture is color blind. It affects any
ethnicity, gender, religion, and so on. Any language speaker’s flesh could
shrink and give “chess” sound when shocked with electricity. Any religion
follower’s skin sloughs off when immerses in barrel of boiled water. Any
gender’s bladder could bust out when merciless-well fed spy agent steps up on
it. It is past due to raise voices in Unison. It is overdue to say injustice
enough in Ethiopia.
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