Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) Crossed Many Red Lights (1991 to 2021)-History will remember your judgment and decision-Principally, TPLF mounted ethnic, religious, clan tensions which increased the economic
inequalities, marginalization of the majority of the more than 110 million people in thecountry and primarily affecting neighboring Eritrea, Somalia, regional peace and stability,
since the political group came to power in Ethiopia, after the end of the Cold War in 1991.
TPLF made social injustices become rampant in Ethiopia during its rule from 1991 to 2018by utilizing political legitimacy for ethnic, religious and clan objectives. It used ethnic,
religious and clan identities against legitimate nationals and neighboring nations.
TPLF increased actors from afar and near with irreconcilable interest and differences in
1991-2021. To further their illegitimate political and economic interest, in 1997, TPLF
unilaterally published a new political map of Tigray State that clearly crossed over territorial
borders of Eritrea.
On 13 May 1998, TPLF declared "all-out war" on Eritrea and carried 3 round of big militaryoffensives to invade Eritrea - through a bloody war it waged from 1998 to 2000 - displacing
more than 1 million people from the border areas of both countries. More than 96,000
Eritrean's and Ethiopians of Eritrean origin were forced to depart from their homes in
Ethiopia too. More than 19,000 on the Eritrea side and more than 100,000 were killed on
the Ethiopia side during battles carried out through the multi-pronged simultaneous
offensives made, on the borders and inside the borders of Eritrea, by TPLF.
Ethiopia and Eritrea signed a Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Algiers on December
2000 witnessed by UN, US, EU, OAU and Algeria. Eritrea Ethiopia Border Commission(EEBC) awarded Badme and its environs to Eritrea in April 2002. TPLF openly rejected thelegal, final and binding decision made and kept regional peace and stability hostage eversince. No-peace-no-war situation prevailed and TPLF, unabated, made several military
incursions into Eritrea.
TPLF stifled opposition which won election in Ethiopia on May 15, 2005. TPLF invaded
Somalia in 2006 and 2010. It intensified its anti-Eritrea campaigns and its vibrators before
2016 election in Ethiopia. TPLF's violent clampdown on Ethiopian farmers protesting land
grab continued where thousands died in 2016.
June 12, 2016 (Sunday) TPLF made another unprovoked military attack against Eritrea.
2016 also witnessed mass uprising against TPLF rule in Ethiopia asking for politicaldemocracy and justice.
In 2017 the genie of a revolution went out of the bottle in Ethiopia and TPLF tried
desperately to put it back. The same year - among Ethiopia’s increased outside main actors
since 1991 - the billionaire AL Amoudi went into custody for corruption. It was nocoincidence but the same year TPLF's congress also accused itself of corruption,sectarianism and jingoism (own words).

In 2018 Ethiopia accepts EEBC decision without any precondition and Eritrea embraced theinitiative. Eritrea and Ethiopia signed peace and cooperation agreement.
In 2019 Sibhat Nega the long-time main architect of power and policy of TPLF and the Sudan
intensified campaigns against the Peace Treaty of Eritrea and Ethiopia. President Omer Al
Beshir was also overthrown from power by popular uprising in Sudan. The same year PM
Abiy of Ethiopia won the Nobel Peace Prize. TPLF cry foul and Qatar intensifies anti Eritrea
campaigns.
On November 3, 2020, TPLF announces unilateral election short of Unilateral Declaration ofIndependence (UDI) of Tigray, and launched war on more than 32,000 troops of Ethiopia
stationed on the long borders of Eritrea and in many of their headquarters. It also launchedmissiles in the capital city and locations of Eritrea to internationalize its aggression.
Ethiopia is not Yugoslavia nor USSR. UDI of Tigray has no history or legal legitimacy. A big
red line in Africa too. Eritrea Ethiopia Peace Agreement was not signed by guess or by ruleof thumb but by dialogue, negotiations which included and not excluded OAU, UN, US, EU,EEBC, and EECC.
The rule of law must be supported not the rule of the jungle. Enough with proxy wars in theHorn of Africa. Peace and stability in Pretoria and Addis Abeba is the cardinal litmus paperof regional peace and Africa since the end of World War II.
History will remember your judgment and decision.

Embassy of the State of Eritrea
TOKYO
November 26, 2021

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