By Semhal Meles
Addis Abeba – In a piece published on Al Jazeera on February 17, 2025, Mulatu Teshome, a former president of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE), made misleading assertions riddled with both mischaracterizations as well as factual errors. Among his many erroneous assertions, perhaps the most absurd was his claim that the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) had ruled the Tigray region since 1975. That was the year of TPLF’s inception. Seventeen years lapsed before the TPLF liberated Ethiopia, in 1991, from the brutality of Mengistu Hailemariam’s regime.
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Mulatu Teshome’s piece was immediately followed by the Prime Minister’s issuance of high praise through a letter commending and congratulating the people of Tigray on the 50th anniversary of the TPLF’s founding. This would suggest that he, unlike the former president, is aware of TPLF’s singular contribution to the end of bloody tyranny.
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