The Horses Speak Again: A Response to Getachew Reda and Redwan Hussein
Let me begin with a confession. I read your Al Jazeera opinion piece — the one where you wrap yourselves in the language of peace while sitting in the camp of a genocidaire. And then I read this rebuttal, this "Misreading of Pretoria," which is not a misreading at all. It is an anatomy. A dissection. A mirror held up to your faces. And what it shows is ugly. You, Getachew Reda and Redwan Hussein, are not peacemakers. You are mouthpieces. You are the horses that Abiy Ahmed rides into the battlefield of public opinion, and you have been ridden so long you have forgotten you were ever men. Let me walk through your own words — not the ones you wrote for Al Jazeera, but the ones written about you in this document. And let me show you why the people of Tigray are no longer buying what you are selling. "Cloaked in the language of peace preservation..." You love this cloak, don't you, Getachew? You wear it like a second skin. You write about "stability," ab...