Page 17 of today’s Daily Terriblegraph had the following headline: “Briton told soldiers ‘to commit genocide’.”
We are then told in the report that this guy Tsege, who is the subject of the report, is “an Ethiopian-born UK citizen”.
I don’t know about you, but as a genuine born-and-bred Briton I get really ticked off with being lumped in with every other criminal who happens to have got hold of a UK passport.
This guy is not a “Briton” and it ill behoves the Terriblegraph to portray him as one.
Perhaps it’s because I was born in Africa, but what’s happening in Ethiopia and the fact that they’ve put this on page 17, and buried it deeply in the website, matters rather more to me. As the report states, Ethiopia does not allow dual nationality and he was granted asylum back in 1979 after his brother was murdered.
It surely behoves us all to question why our media and politicians have taken so little interest in civil war in a country that once inspired a song that raised millions for famine relief (and which we’ll still endure this Christmas), and the professor at the European Institute quoted by the Telegraph is right. It is baffling that the UK is silent on a genocidal incitement and war by one of its nationals, especially when an Iranian-British woman jailed in Iran gets lots of attention.
Although it may be difficult to get hold of the best-forgotten Philip Hammond, who lobbied for this lowlife to be released from jail, Liz Truss and Secretary Blinken are about to meet at a NATO conference in Latvia. Perhaps someone will ask Ms Truss what she thinks about a British citizen urging people in Ethiopia to resort to “”the most barbaric of cruelties””.
Hi Jill, I do hope you post regularly here as getting a different perspective is fantastic. I overpost, and am amazed I have not been banned as I always am by political sites, but try to give the perspective from my own weird angle, and like writing outlandish opinions….
Except Andy Tsege never said such a thing! He told the soldiers to defend the nascent, still-fragile democracy against the attack from the dictatorial old guard.
It was a mistranslation by the same newspaper that also turned the Ethiopian PM’s declared aim of food self-sufficiency into a threat to ban food aid.
Galeti Tavas
2 years ago
I did not read this as slaughter I know nothing about is not really what I feel to read now – the only thing was it brought to mind:
Evelyn Waugh’s ‘Scooped’ ‘about the civil war in fictional African country of Ishmaelia’, which was based on Ethiopia – and the general indifference the public in Britain felt on it all, although war correspondents were dutifully dispatched, including the hapless Mr Boot, a nature writer of the most dripping sentimentally kind, is sent to cover it.
“In 1935, Waugh was sent by the Daily Mail newspaper to cover Italy’s second invasion of Abyssinia, this time by Benito Mussolini against Emperor Haile Selassie. The Italians annexed parts of the country and requisitioned the Taitu, using it for administrative and housing purposes. It was renamed the Imperial Hotel and Ethiopians were barred.”
Waugh placed a couple stories in Ishmaelia, he was an amazing man, becoming one of the dreaded British Commandos in WWII, and a world traveler. The most interesting coverage of Ethiopia by a British man is from Wilfred Thesiger who was born in Abbas Abba, and with the Mad Colonel Wingate and a handful of soldiers took all the Italian Army in Ethiopia prisoner of the Crown – as they very much wanted to surrender to any British solider rather than be taken by the Ethiopians…
Martin Brumby
2 years ago
The reason why we have heard very little about this conflict, is that they are still trying to work out a reason why the natural born British People should be made to feel guilty about it. (A clue for them – The British Army having defeated the Italians at the battle of Keren (1941) occupied Eritrea until 1950. So obviously it MUST all be our fault and I hear no-one complaining about the Italians.)
Once they sort that little problem out, we’ll hear about nothing else.
Although, in fairness, we still get blamed for the war in Yemen, with heartstring plucking “charity” appeals broadcast nightly. We marched out of Aden (at the farest southern tip of Yemen) back in 1967. Still all our fault. The wars in Northern Yemen go back to the 1930s and especially after 1962. Still, obviously our fault.
Demolish Nelson’s Column and replace with George Floyd Column, to assuage our obvious guilt.
The mainstream media have never made much of the brutal killing of Alexander Monson(English, innocent) in a Kenyan police station. The MSM shriek if the Israeli police, or the Minneapolis police, abuse somebody.
It is almost as though the MSM are racist, expecting lower standards in Eritrea and Kenya than in in Israel or the US.
Page 17 of today’s Daily Terriblegraph had the following headline: “Briton told soldiers ‘to commit genocide’.”
We are then told in the report that this guy Tsege, who is the subject of the report, is “an Ethiopian-born UK citizen”.
I don’t know about you, but as a genuine born-and-bred Briton I get really ticked off with being lumped in with every other criminal who happens to have got hold of a UK passport.
This guy is not a “Briton” and it ill behoves the Terriblegraph to portray him as one.
Perhaps it’s because I was born in Africa, but what’s happening in Ethiopia and the fact that they’ve put this on page 17, and buried it deeply in the website, matters rather more to me. As the report states, Ethiopia does not allow dual nationality and he was granted asylum back in 1979 after his brother was murdered.
It surely behoves us all to question why our media and politicians have taken so little interest in civil war in a country that once inspired a song that raised millions for famine relief (and which we’ll still endure this Christmas), and the professor at the European Institute quoted by the Telegraph is right. It is baffling that the UK is silent on a genocidal incitement and war by one of its nationals, especially when an Iranian-British woman jailed in Iran gets lots of attention.
Although it may be difficult to get hold of the best-forgotten Philip Hammond, who lobbied for this lowlife to be released from jail, Liz Truss and Secretary Blinken are about to meet at a NATO conference in Latvia. Perhaps someone will ask Ms Truss what she thinks about a British citizen urging people in Ethiopia to resort to “”the most barbaric of cruelties””.
Hi Jill, I do hope you post regularly here as getting a different perspective is fantastic. I overpost, and am amazed I have not been banned as I always am by political sites, but try to give the perspective from my own weird angle, and like writing outlandish opinions….
Except Andy Tsege never said such a thing! He told the soldiers to defend the nascent, still-fragile democracy against the attack from the dictatorial old guard.
It was a mistranslation by the same newspaper that also turned the Ethiopian PM’s declared aim of food self-sufficiency into a threat to ban food aid.
I did not read this as slaughter I know nothing about is not really what I feel to read now – the only thing was it brought to mind:
Evelyn Waugh’s ‘Scooped’ ‘about the civil war in fictional African country of Ishmaelia’, which was based on Ethiopia – and the general indifference the public in Britain felt on it all, although war correspondents were dutifully dispatched, including the hapless Mr Boot, a nature writer of the most dripping sentimentally kind, is sent to cover it.
“In 1935, Waugh was sent by the Daily Mail newspaper to cover Italy’s second invasion of Abyssinia, this time by Benito Mussolini against Emperor Haile Selassie. The Italians annexed parts of the country and requisitioned the Taitu, using it for administrative and housing purposes. It was renamed the Imperial Hotel and Ethiopians were barred.”
Waugh placed a couple stories in Ishmaelia, he was an amazing man, becoming one of the dreaded British Commandos in WWII, and a world traveler. The most interesting coverage of Ethiopia by a British man is from Wilfred Thesiger who was born in Abbas Abba, and with the Mad Colonel Wingate and a handful of soldiers took all the Italian Army in Ethiopia prisoner of the Crown – as they very much wanted to surrender to any British solider rather than be taken by the Ethiopians…
The reason why we have heard very little about this conflict, is that they are still trying to work out a reason why the natural born British People should be made to feel guilty about it. (A clue for them – The British Army having defeated the Italians at the battle of Keren (1941) occupied Eritrea until 1950. So obviously it MUST all be our fault and I hear no-one complaining about the Italians.)
Once they sort that little problem out, we’ll hear about nothing else.
Although, in fairness, we still get blamed for the war in Yemen, with heartstring plucking “charity” appeals broadcast nightly. We marched out of Aden (at the farest southern tip of Yemen) back in 1967. Still all our fault. The wars in Northern Yemen go back to the 1930s and especially after 1962. Still, obviously our fault.
Demolish Nelson’s Column and replace with George Floyd Column, to assuage our obvious guilt.
The mainstream media have never made much of the brutal killing of Alexander Monson(English, innocent) in a Kenyan police station. The MSM shriek if the Israeli police, or the Minneapolis police, abuse somebody.
It is almost as though the MSM are racist, expecting lower standards in Eritrea and Kenya than in in Israel or the US.