The Agaezi National Union (ANU), acting within its political mandate and grounded in principles of historical truth, civilizational preservation, and justice, issues the following formal political–legal accusation concerning the conduct of the TPLF leadership elite, particularly those operating in coordination between Mekelle, Asmara, and Addis Ababa over the past five decades.
1. Responsibility of TPLF Leadership for Political Engineering and War Escalation.
ANU asserts that the TPLF political–military command structure bears primary responsibility for planning, enabling, and sustaining a triangular power struggle between: the EPLF/PFDJ leadership in Asmara, the TPLF Central Committee and military command in Mekelle, political factions and federal authorities in Addis Ababa. This deliberate rivalry constituted a calculated power competition, executed at the expense of civilian safety, regional stability, and national unity.
2. Leadership-Level Accountability for Mass Harm ANU affirms that: The strategic decisions, clandestine alliances, provocations, constitutional manipulations, and militarized political operations of the TPLF decision-making elite directly contributed to: mass displacement, widespread human suffering, collapse of inter-regional relations, and deaths of countless innocent civilians in Tigray and Amhara. This constitutes a breach of leadership responsibility under internationally recognized principles of: Command Responsibility, Duty of Civilian Protection, Non-Engagement in Provocative Hostilities, Political Duty of Care, and Prohibition of Collective Punishment.
3. Systematic Political Misconduct by TPLF Leadership ANU identifies the following actions as constituting serious political misconduct: The engineering of an ethnic-based federal system that institutionalized division and destabilized the Agaezi regions. The instrumentalization of identity politics to secure political dominance at the federal and regional levels. The creation and empowerment of armed structures that functioned outside transparent civilian oversight. The manipulation of inter-regional animosities to maintain political leverage.
The use of propaganda, victimhood narratives, and strategic misinformation to mobilize populations into catastrophic conflict. These acts meet the criteria for political malpractice and warrant future examination by transitional justice mechanisms.
4. Distinguishing Leadership from Civilian Populations ANU clarifies emphatically: This accusation applies exclusively to the political, ideological, and military leadership circles of the TPLF. The civilian population of Tigray is: itself a victim of elite manipulation, deprived of accurate information, coerced into participation, and subjected to suffering, famine, and social collapse. ANU rejects any narrative that conflates the people with the actions of their political commanders.
5. Call for International and National Accountability ANU calls for: independent investigation by appropriate bodies into the role of TPLF leadership in escalating regional war, political accountability mechanisms addressing elite-level decisions, truth and reconciliation processes to document civilian harm, transparent public disclosure of communications and alliances between Asmara–Mekelle–Addis political networks, and restorative justice for affected Agaezi communities.
6. ANU’s Position Moving Forward ANU is committed to building: a unified Agaezi political space, free from elite-driven manipulation, rooted in the values of the Ge’ez civilization, with a political culture that prioritizes human life, dignity, and mutual respect.
ANU affirms that history will not erase the responsibility of those leaders who weaponized identity and geopolitics at the cost of millions of Agaezi lives.
The Agaezi National Union (ANU) maintains a clear and consistent position regarding the leadership of the TPLF and its historical role in shaping Ethiopia’s political crises.
ANU affirms that the decisions and actions of the TPLF leadership structure—particularly its political elite circles operating between Asmara, Mekelle, and Addis Ababa—played a central role in creating and escalating the triangular power struggle that ultimately devastated the Agaezi Habesha communities of northern Ethiopia, especially in Tigray and Amhara regions.
ANU’s assessment focuses on: the political strategies, elite power calculations, secretive alliances, and destructive competition between ruling factions, which collectively contributed to one of the most tragic periods in the modern history of the Agaezi peoples.
This critique targets the political leadership and decision-making networks, not ordinary civilians, who themselves suffered immensely from war, displacement, manipulation, and trauma.
ANU recognizes that:
Millions of innocent people—including children, women, elders, and farmers—were forced into a conflict they did not choose, did not control, and did not benefit from.
The triangular political rivalry between Asmara, Mekelle, and Addis Ababa became a machinery of destruction that erased entire communities, uprooted families, and shattered the social fabric that binds the Agaezi Habesha world.
The people of Tigray and Amhara were not enemies of each other; they were victims of elite-driven political agendas.
ANU emphasizes that:
Political accountability must focus on the architects of war, not the populations who suffered from it.
And moving forward:
ANU’s mission is to rebuild Agaezi unity, dignity, and sovereign political consciousness—free from manipulation by any elite networks or external actors that have historically used the region for proxy conflicts and geopolitical competition.