*The Bread of Betrayal: How Abiy Ahmed Kneaded Tadesse Werede Into His Genocidal Dough*
There is a Tigrayan proverb that says, “ኩሉ ንምርኣይ ምቅናይ” — being alive proves everything. But what does it prove when a man, entrusted with the fragile hope of a traumatized region, chooses not to stand upright but to be kneaded, flattened, and baked into the bread of his people’s butcher? What does it prove when the president of the Tigray Interim Administration, a man who should be the voice of the voiceless, becomes the echo of the genocidaire who starved his own citizens? *Abiy Ahmed breaded Tadesse Werede like bread.* The phrase is bitter, but it is exact. Like dough that has no will of its own, Tadesse was mixed, shaped, and left to rise in the oven of Abiy’s propaganda machine. And now, golden and hollow, he is presented to the world as a fresh loaf of “legitimacy” — while the real Tigray crumbles into dust. *Let us rewind the tape of shame.* Not long ago, the state-controlled television channels of Abiy Ahmed — those same big mouths that once denied the rape of mothers, the bombi...