Mekelle፡Telaviv, Nairobi, Pretoria, London,March 17፡2025 (Tigray Herald)
ShaEbiyawinet out of Tigray!
Written by Yemane
Nothing is constant; everything changes. Change itself is the only constant. And those who resist its course will pay a heavy price. As conditions evolve, so do the demands of the people. It is this ever-shifting reality that shapes the justification of actions and inactions. Yet, true justification is not merely a function of circumstance—it must be anchored in legal, humanitarian, and ethical principles. This reality applies no less to Tigray.
Time is the ultimate arbiter, rendering all things right or wrong—yet even these judgments are not fixed, for time itself is in perpetual motion, reshaping what is justified and what is condemned. Those who fail to recognize this truth will find themselves not only on the wrong side of history but also at the mercy of the forces they refused to acknowledge.
“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.” – Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
The current season in Tigray has ushered in immense challenges; challenges that demand not just acknowledgment, but a rightful and resolute response.
Yet, even as extrajudicial killings stain the land of Tigray—crimes committed not only to silence the innocent but to obscure guilt, evade justice, entrench a network of patronage and totalitarian control—one must ask: What is an unexamined life if not an existence surrendered to falsehood? As Socrates aptly declared, “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Particularly for those who are fortunate enough to live in free societies—free to reflect, to question, to bear witness, and exercise freedom in foreign lands, yet averting their gaze as Tigrayans are slain in their own land, there can be no refuge in complicity, no justification for enabling impunity. The moral imperative demands that we seek the truth, not only when it is convenient, but especially when it is painful.
For the season of freedom and emancipation of Tigray is nearer than ever, and soon, those who stand on the wrong side of history today will be crushed by history itself beneath the weight of irreparable sorrow—left with nothing but the sound of grinding teeth in regret.
Make no mistake; this season is unlike those that came it. It has arrived to settle the generations-old question of Tigrayan true liberation. The season for change is here, and responding with the right ingredients of transformation is not a choice but an imperative. Otherwise, those who seek to obstruct change must be prepared to bear the weight of its consequences.
Those who betray the people—who turn their weapons against the innocent to sustain embezzlement, evade accountability, and cling to power amassed through deceit and exploitation—along with those who lack the moral clarity to stand against such crimes, will be swept away by the inexorable tide of change. The wrath of flood and avalanche of change do not offer lessons to the unrepentant; they erase them from history and they won’t live to learn from it.
ShaEbiyawinet out of Tigray!
