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," about "implementing Pretoria," about "the people of Tigray." But a cloak is not armor. And

underneath your elegant sentences, there is a man who sat in Abiy's camp while drones fell on his homeland.

There is a man who defended a puppet president who admitted on live television that he has no letter. There

is a man who calls the TPLF "rump" and "terminally stupid" while his own credibility crumbles like old

bread.

The document says, and I quote: "To claim that the current crisis stems from an alleged unilateral

abrogation of the Pretoria Agreement by a group of TPLF members is deeply misleading and intellectually

dishonest."

Let me translate that for you: You are lying, Getachew. And you know you are lying.

The crisis did not begin with the TPLF. It began when Abiy Ahmed refused to implement the agreement he

signed. It continued when he blocked fuel, cash, and salaries. It deepened when he armed proxy groups in

Afar to make Tigrayans kill each other. And it reached its peak when he extended a puppet president without

a letter, without a vote, without a shred of legitimacy.

You know this. But you cannot say it. Because saying it would cost you your chair.

"The real crisis lies in the systematic obstruction and failure to implement the agreement by PM Abiy

Ahmed's government..."

There it is. The truth. Sitting right there in the rebuttal you are trying to refute. The document names the

problem clearly: the federal government has been the principal obstacle to its implementation.

And what is your response, Getachew? Silence? Deflection? More words about "rump

TPLF" and "hardliners"?

Page | 1You cannot answer this accusation because it is true. The Pretoria Agreement promised the withdrawal of

non-ENDF forces from Tigray. Where are they? Still there. It promised the restoration of Tigray's territorial

integrity. Large parts remain under occupation. It promised the return of millions of IDPs. Three million still

sit in camps. It promised accountability for atrocities. No one has been held accountable. It promised

reinstatement of the TPLF into a credible political settlement. Instead, Abiy has done everything to decimate

it.

These are not opinions. These are facts. And you, Getachew and Redwan, have no answer for them except to

point fingers at the very people who were massacred.

"Peace agreements do not collapse in a vacuum."

No, they do not. They collapse when one side treats them as a ceasefire document and the other side treats

them as a business shop.

The document says: "The Pretoria Agreement was never meant to be merely a ceasefire document. It was

intended to serve as a framework for sustainable peace, normalization, restoration of governance, and

postwar recovery."

You nodded when this was written, Getachew. You were there. You signed on. And then you watched as Abiy

ignored every single page except the one that said "silence the guns." Because silencing the guns was all

Abiy ever wanted. He never wanted peace. He wanted time. Time to regroup. Time to rearm. Time to starve.

Time to turn the world's attention elsewhere while he finished the job.

And you helped him. You sat in his camp. You wrote your Facebook posts. You called your former

comrades "terminally stupid." You became the very thing you once fought against.

The document asks: "What meaningful peace has the Pretoria Agreement delivered to ordinary people in

Tigray?"

Answer the question, Getachew. I am waiting.

"For millions in Tigray, suffering did not end with the end of open warfare."

You know this. You see it. The mothers on the curbs. The children with hollow eyes. The farmers who cannot

farm because their land is still occupied. The civil servants who have not been paid in years. The banks with

no cash. The hospitals with no medicine. The schools with no roofs.

And what have you done, Getachew? What have you said? You have written articles blaming the TPLF. You

have defended an illegal president. You have called for "international pressure" — on whom? On the

victims? On the people who are still bleeding?

The document says: "The consequences of the genocidal war have continued in quieter but equally

devastating forms — through starvation, displacement, fear, deprivation, and the denial of basic rights and

security."

Page | 2This is not the language of an enemy. This is the language of reality. And you cannot refute it because it is

true. So you ignore it. You change the subject. You beat the drum of "rump TPLF" and hope no one notices

that your hands are empty.

"The political fractures within Tigray did not arise spontaneously. They were deliberately cultivated,

exploited, and deepened by PM Abiy Ahmed's government."

Read that again, Getachew. Slowly.

You want the world to believe that a small group of TPLF "hardliners" are tearing apart the peace. But the

document tells a different story — a true story. The fractures in Tigray were not born from within. They were

planted. Watered. Fertilized. By Abiy Ahmed's government. Working with aligned factions. To weaken

Tigray's political cohesion.

And you, Getachew, are one of those aligned factions. You are not a neutral observer. You are not a

peacemaker. You are a tool. A very well-written tool, but a tool nonetheless.

The document names the struggle clearly: "This has become a struggle between those who remain committed

to the interests, dignity, and survival of their people and those who have chosen to align themselves with Abiy

Ahmed's political agenda — setting aside principle and moral responsibility in pursuit of personal gain,

political relevance, or the satisfaction of power and ego."

Where do you stand, Getachew? Which side are you on? The document has already answered. And so have

you — with every Facebook post, every interview, every defense of a president without a letter.

"In practice, the agreement was treated less as a binding framework for peace and more as a political

instrument to advance narrow interests..."

This is the heart of the matter. And you cannot escape it.

Pretoria was not implemented. It was used. Used by Abiy to buy time. Used by you to buy relevance. Used

by scavengers like Tadesse Werede to buy a Safa. And the people of Tigray? They were not the beneficiaries.

They were the inventory. The product. The currency.

The document says: "The failure to implement key provisions of the agreement was not a matter of

incompetence or oversight. It reflected a profound absence of political will and a calculated disregard for the

commitments made to the people of Tigray."

This is not a misreading. This is the reading. And you, Getachew and Redwan, are the ones who misread it

— deliberately, strategically, for profit.

"Your call for intervention and pressure from international actors should be directed at the

government you represent, not at the TPLF."

Page | 3This is the closing punch of the document. And it lands.

You want the world to pressure the TPLF. You want sanctions, condemnations, isolation. But the TPLF is not

the one blocking fuel. The TPLF is not the one withholding salaries. The TPLF is not the one occupying

Tigrayan land. The TPLF is not the one arming proxy groups in Afar. The TPLF is not the one that signed an

agreement and then ignored it.

That is your government, Getachew. That is Abiy Ahmed. That is the man whose camp you sit in, whose

bread you eat, whose horses you ride.

The document asks: "If engagement with neighboring actors was politically acceptable when it served Abiy

Ahmed's military objectives, why is it suddenly portrayed as dangerous or illegitimate when framed as an

attempt to secure stability?"

Answer that. You cannot. Because the answer is hypocrisy. Your hypocrisy.

A Final Word to Getachew Reda and Redwan Hussein

You have written your Al Jazeera piece. You have called for "firm international pressure." You have blamed

the TPLF, called them "rump," "hardliners," "extremists." You have done everything except look in the

mirror.

But the mirror is here now. It is this document. And it shows you exactly who you are:

You are not peacemakers. You are apologists for a genocide. You are not statesmen. You are scavengers at a

business shop. You are not leaders. You are horses — ridden by a man who does not care if you live or die, as

long as you carry his message.

The people of Tigray see you. The mothers on the curbs do not bless you. The fighters in the mountains do

not salute you. The seven zones do not recognize you.

You can write a hundred more articles. You can give a hundred more interviews. You can call the TPLF every

name in the book. But you cannot change the simple, unshakable truth: you sold your people for a chair, and

the chair is now empty even when you sit in it.

ግዜ ፈራዲ — Time is the judge.

ኩሉ ንምርኣይ ምቅናይ — Being alive proves everything.

We are alive. We have seen. And we are not buying what you are selling.

Close your laptops. Go home. And if you have any honor left, spend your remaining days not writing lies,

but weeping for what you have become.

June 12, 2026

From the seven zones of Tigray — to the horses of Abiy Ahmed

The hunt is over. The prey is free. And the scavengers are exposed.

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