By: Staff Editor
The Pretoria Peace Agreement between the federal government and the TPLF was primarily intended to end the war. Given the current situation and the human and material destruction and devastation that war itself brings, the decision to end the war has a lot of meaning for our entire people, especially the Amhara, Afar and Tigray people who have been the immediate and main victims of the problem.
The peace agreement not only prevented further destruction of life and property, but also saved the people from the sound of gunfire. It has been taken as a great national experience in resolving conflicts peacefully through dialogue and dialogue at the international level; and as a demonstration that Africans can be the solution to their problems.
Although the federal government has been pursuing peaceful options from the very beginning to prevent disputes from escalating into conflict, the situation has led to conflict and has cost the country and the people an undue price. It has caused the death of thousands of our citizens; it has caused a huge loss of national resources. The psychological trauma caused by the war has not yet been properly recovered.
Due to the destruction caused by the war, many schools, health centers, and public service institutions have not been able to return to work at the desired level and speed. As a result, many students have not been able to attend their classes. The fact that those with serious health problems have not been cured and are still suffering to this day is an open secret.
The failure of government offices to operate at full capacity has also led to service seekers being frustrated, and also become a challenge for government employees to come to work and perform their duties with all their heart. This has become a test for the overall socio-political and economic integration of the people of the region.
The Pretoria Agreement, which was hoped to bring lasting peace and stability to the region, has not been implemented to the expected level, and the division that has arisen within and within the TPLF has become a major challenge. As a result, the work of disarming the militants, who are an important part of the agreement, and returning to a peaceful life, as well as the return of citizens displaced by the conflict to their villages, has been hampered. In a recent statement to the media, the President of the Tigray Interim Administration, Getachew Reda, said that a faction of the TPLF that had defected from the TPLF has prevented the return of the militants to their villages and the return of the militants to normal life.
At a time when much is being done in relation to the Pretoria Agreement, the disagreement on the part of the TPLF, which has become a “listener” for the peace agreement, has become an additional incident that threatens not only the daily lives of the people but also the overall peace and stability of the region, and has also become a hindrance to the implementation of the peace agreement.
The problem has gone beyond the factional disagreement and has brought another difficult test for the country and the people, especially the people of Tigray, as many fear. It is also being said that foreign forces that are trying to jeopardize the peace and stability of the country are using the incident as a good opportunity to prepare themselves for undue interference.
Above all, the problem is believed to cost the people of Tigray an undue additional price. It is not difficult to imagine that they will make the youth of Tigray especially vulnerable to the worst dangers.
The youth of Tigray are not waiting to be told about the dangers of war right now. The youth from experiences have understood the horror of war more than he should, both from past and recent historical encounters. Instead, what the youths want is a path of peace and development that will free them from the heartbreak, the loss of life and the suffering that war has caused. What the youth right now wants is not to carry weapons and sacrifice them to unpatriotic and meaningless conflict that can create nothing for the Tigray people, and beyond.
They, then shouldn’t darken their own and the bright future of the Tigray people by being tracked by calls of groups whose hidden motive is unpatriotic and meaningless. Time to say- no more for further destruction and human costs.