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	Ethiopian Commentator - illegitimate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		TPLF Hintsa establishes the authority of the congress, the central committee (CC), the Audit Commission, provides guarantee for fundamental rights of its members and sets forth the TPLF's operating procedures.
		The Audit Commission elected by the 4th Congress of the TPLF should be responsible for the modalities of organization of the 5th Congress of the TPLF after the Meles group reverses their unconstitutional actions.
		With increasing speed the TPLF and the people of Tigray are being stripped of their hard earned sovereign rights by Meles and his group, compelled to accept one man-rule, and submit to forms of governance that are, when all is said and done, of an essentially both despotic and colonialist character.
	www.ethiopiancommentator.com /illegitimate (1421 words)

	The TPLF Ethiopia: Where Next?
		The TPLF regime is one of the top ten violators in the world and the number one in Africa in suppressing the freedom of expression.
		And today it appears that the TPLF regime is oblivious about it although it is confirmed that 8% of the total population of the country is infected by HIV virus and that every third person of residents of the capital city carries the virus.
		As soon as the TPLF came to power, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) were mobilized to pump billions of dollars into the regime's coffer for "economic stabilization" and "structural adjustment".
	www.oromo.com /Articles/Liberating_Oromo_People_for_Peace_in_Horn_of_Africa.htm (7265 words)

	Tigrayan People's Liberation Front - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the last legislative elections, 15 May 2005, the party was the main part of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, that won 327 out of 527 seats.
		TPLF was also the armed force that together with Eritrean People's Liberation Front fought against the authoritarian Marxist regime of Mengistu Haile Mariam.
		Members of the TPLF include: Meles Zenawi (the President),Seeye Abraha (its leader during the civil war) Sara Abraham(behind-the-scenes member), Tadesse Gebregzabier, Haftom Abraha, Gebrezgi Alemayahu(passed), and Weyen(passed).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tigrayan_People's_Liberation_Front (141 words)

	Important political writings on TPLF
		The Birth of an Eritrean Clique from The Womb of TPLF
		The aim of the TPLF according to the manifesto was to establish a democratic republic of Tigray.
		Once the non-CC members of the TPLF were deprived of their rights to express their opinion, Meles concentrated himself on the internal struggle for power within the leadership of the TPLF.
	ethiomedia.com /what_is_tplf.html (8668 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It was made clear that TPLF was fighting because it believes “the people of Ethiopia have not been given any chance of defending their interest in a peaceful and democratic manner”.
		TPLF describes how a transitional government would be put in place to ease into a “fully democratic state”.
		TPLF believes that government should control all foreign trade and the “commanding heights of the economy”, however every peasant “must have the right to the free use of his produce”.
	www.eco.utexas.edu /faculty/Cleaver/357Lsum_s4_Ethiopia_ARB121589.html (497 words)

	The dilemma of the Tigrians By Siraj Kahsay
		While the TPLF leadership pretended to have declared freedom for the nation, it crafted a separate standard for Tigrians: a standard that secures complete submission of Tigrians by wrapping them with another net of bondage; this time, instituted by their sons and daughters who they saw an emblem of justice and democracy in.
		TPLF has instituted this bondage in such a way that it appears to be a matter of pure economic progress while it essentially is a twisted kind of political repression.
		TPLF is well aware that such broadcast obviously arouses suspicion in the minds of the ordinary Tigrians who think that given the opportunity the Non-Tigrians particularly the Amharas could resort to violence, even ethnic cleansing.
	www.tigrai.org /News/Articles/Tdelemma.html (2241 words)

	Camouflage and Makeup cannot cover up the TPLF’s Real Character (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		One of the typical characteristics of the TPLF regime is its pretentious, nature posturing and claiming excellence in its political dealings and outlooks as well as in the regime’s propaganda philosophy.
		Regardless of the background and dimensions of this ungrateful conduct, the TPLF leaders amply deserve the certificate of imitating and stealing other people’s ideas and thoughts and then allege the originality of their imitated conduct and stolen ideas, thus claiming being civilized and progressive.
		Surely, the TPLF is living in a state of psychological conflict because of the contradiction between what it is raising in the form of slogans to appear with a civilized mask, and what it is practicing on the ground - tribalism and narrow ethnic and racist policies.
	www.dehai.org /demarcation-watch/articles/Shabait_camouflage_and_makeup.html (488 words)

	The TPLF Ethiopia: Where Next?
		The TPLF then easily won elections through the instrumentalities of satellite political parties all of which were commanded by the TPLF leaders or cadres.
		As if these 30 or so communist central and politi bureau figures of the TPLF, many of whom were zealous nationalists, were not one and the same in their actions only a year ago, today one group desires the demise of the other.
		The removal of the TPLF cadre leaders who were real power brokers behind the shadowy regional “states” will leave the satellite parties (PDOs) with time and reason to think twice about their actions.
	www.sidamaconcern.com /articles/tplf_ethiopia_where_next.htm (1593 words)

	SHOULD ASSAB AUTONOMOUS REGION BE PART OF ERITREA? By Dagmawi; September 5, 2000
		Clearly, the TPLF is itself partly responsible for furthering the war and destruction.
		Furthermore, the TPLF intervened in the Eritrean conflict at a time when significant Eritrean forces were still fighting on the government side (example - the Eritrean anti-guerrilla forces, and the Kunama militia).
		The TPLF may have set Eritrea's borders in official documents specifying them as those of the federation era, but there are no detailed laws pertaining specifically to the Assab Region.
	www.geocities.com /Eureka/Park/5875/NewsSep2000/Assab_Afar.html (1762 words)

	TPLF: Struggling to Stay in Power (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The TPLF regime, which at first seemed like a party that abandoned the Tigray minority agenda and adopted a national one, was unable to hide its fear and contempt for the Amhara and Oromo ethnic groups, and soon started talking about the dangers of Amhara Chauvinism and Oromo Narrow Nationalism.
		According to the TPLF, those who were from Northern Shoa in particular, and the people of Amhara in general, but who didn’t take part in the invasion nor gained anything from it were all labeled as the chauvinist group.
		Similarly, the TPLF regime can’t be said to be working only in the best interests of the people of Tigray, but just like its predecessors, it is an agent of the ruling groups in its surrounding and those that stand for it.
	www.shaebia.org /artman/publish/article_4339.html (679 words)

	tecolahagos.com - ethiopian related issues and commentary
		The TPLF leadership is culpable for this act of being an accomplice to and should be held responsible for the bloodshed among Ethiopians (the derg’s army and TPLF’s soldiers) in order to liberate Eritrea.
		Be that as it may, the TPLF broke the ice again and held a meeting with the EPLF in 1988 in Khartoum to draw a common strategic military operation against the Mengistu regime.
		The subversive acts of the TPLF leadership that pervade Ethiopia threatens the very existence of Ethiopia by turning it into a landlocked nation, which is permanently vulnerable to the whims, flmails and pressures by all its enemies.
	www.tecolahagos.com /perspectives_VI.htm (5851 words)

	news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It is based on the accountability of TPLF leaders who induced a new political culture that was constantly met by a backlash from the society, at grassroots level, who didn't approve their dogmatic principles.
		Using the conflict with TPLF as a stepping-stone, the Eritrean elite declared war on the Ethiopian people in pursuit of a dream to block their progress in all social aspects.
		History tells that TPLF was caught in a dilemma, after it controlled Tigray, in 1990, to embark on a decision whether it should mobilize its army to the rest of Ethiopia.
	www.ethiopiafirst.com /news2001/jun/The_Grassroots.html (4171 words)

	Visitor Feedback - "A 100,000 people sacrificed to prove TPLF's "Ethiopianness"
		The TPLF regime has indeed taught Eritrea a lesson, a lesson all Eritreans were fully aware of right from the start: To destroy Eritrea & starve its population to death.
		I understand, albeit with enormous disbelief, the TPLF (Ethiopian) ambassador to the USA when he says "only a few lives of Ethiopian soldiers have been lost" Surely he was not trying to deny a fact that is broadcast all over the world.
		But who is to say the desperate TPLF government won’t drag hundreds of thousands more Ethiopians in to more deadly war in a desperate attempt to capture the "Promised Land." Despite all my prayers and hopes to the contrary, I have no doubt in my mind that the TPLF regime will do so.
	www.oromia.org /VisitorFeedback_002.htm (1827 words)

	... The Rise of an Eritrean clique from the Womb of TPLF: By Abiy Araia
		It looks at last the TPLF members are realizing that the man who thought was their leader was their worst enemy who did everything to destroy not only Tigray or TPLF, but also our country Ethiopia, who is now tied at the stake to be a pariah nation surrounded by tiny, and yet hostile nations.
		It was a design that most TPLF fighters helped change their attitude and trust Meles as their "Ethiopian" leader because Eritrea's Shaebia has depicted him as Eritrea's enemy in through a statement the Eritrean rebel group issued in "support" of the avowedly anti-Eritrean TPLF leaders Aregawi Berhe and Giday Zerazion.
		Thereafter, TPLF fighters and the people who live in TPLF-controlled areas of northern Ethiopia lived chanting one slogan like a national anthem: "MLLT trenches are unassailable!" The MLLT "anthem" was echoed down the years until Meles ascended to power in May 1991, and all of a sudden, MLLT disappeared like a rush.
	ethiomedia.com /abiy_araia_on_tplf_crisis.html (3792 words)

	ethiopundit: On the Origins Of The TPLF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		His insights may be particularly valuable because as a founding member of the TPLF leadership and a past military leader he can penetrate the culture of secrecy that remains a defining element of the Ethiopian government and governance.
		Later, in the early days of the struggle, self-determination was interpreted by an ultra-nationalist group within the emerging TPLF to mean secession from the Ethiopian nation-state, with the aim of establishing an independent republic of Tigray, as declared in the TPLF manifesto of 1976.
		The TPLF is certainly an improvement over the Dergue but that is very far from enough to justify their rule at this late date.
	ethiopundit.blogspot.com /2004/10/on-origins-of-tplf.html (4511 words)

	Asmarino :: View topic - The TPLF will not lose political power (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Thus, the TPLF has complete control of the peasants, and the peasants are the majority in Ethiopia; it is unlikely it will lose support of the peasant.
		Even if the TPLF were to lose in a fair election, somehow it will abrogate the elections in many localities by stating that they were irregular, that way it will make sure it does not lose power.
		This means as last resort the TPLF will use the Army as a weapon to suppress any legitimate or illegitimate power that tries to overthrow it (legally or illegally).
	news9.asmarino.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=59 (731 words)

	Ethnic Politics and the Cracks in the Dry Ground of the TPLF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The current split in the TPLF and the suspension of its twelve distinguished members have come as a surprise to many observers of Ethiopian politics.
		In effect, secrecy was so pervasive in the TPLF that the dissenters admit in the official statement that they have released that “the aim of [their] declaration is to expose the truth to the public.
		And so long as the goal of dominance is maintained, TPLF leaders cannot escape corruption for the simple reason that the premise of ethnic politics prevents them from becoming accountable to the Ethiopian peoples.
	www.ethiopians.com /Views/mesaykebede_on_ethnicpolitics.htm (6332 words)

	GUMII: Statment on Finfinnee as an attachment
		In this regard, the mission of the TPLF order is quite obvious to the Oromos, and undoubtedly it is so to members of the international community who have been closely following the political moves of the TPLF over the last 12 years.
		And, of course, the ultimate goal of the TPLF regime is to legitimize the alteration of the territorial integrity of Oromiyaa: that is, to delineate Finfinne to another jurisdiction outside Oromiyaa.
		The grand objective of this TPLF move was to limit or at best curtail the Oromo people from the role of administering the city within the Oromiyaa State.
	www.gumii.org /aNews/Resolutions/Dec30-03-Gumii_Statement.html (641 words)

	Prime Minister Says TPLF's Strength (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The TPLF's culture of continual self-evaluation as well as its alliance with the farmers were its marks of identity, he said.
		According to Ato Mohammed, the TPLF contributed most practically towards enabling the country's nations and nationalities to exercise the right to self determination up to secession as well as in enabling minority nationalities to participate in the affairs of the government, he siad.
		According to Dr. Bruk, the TPLF is also yet to properly scrutinize and evaluate those of its members whom it involved in the bureaucracy.
	www.addistribune.com /Archives/2000/02/25-02-00/Prime.htm (363 words)

	TPLF ARMY SHOOTS AT PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATORS
		The peaceful protest by elders and the youth started on Monday 20 May when the latter demanded the withdrawal of the recent decision by TPLF leaders to uproot Sidama from their city and replace its administration under the government's central bureaucracy.
		City residents report that there is continuous gunfire and armoured personnel is visible in the streets.
		In the meantime, concerned Sidama nationals around the world called for international community to urge the TPLF to stop the carnage of Sidamas.
	www.sidamaconcern.com /looqe/breaking_news_sidama.htm (243 words)

	"I would rather die than continue being TPLF puppet" says Shiferaw Jarso
		Negasso Gidada complained of a lack of freedom of speech and objected the labeling of OPDO leaders as "narrow nationalists" by their counterparts in the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) as soon as the former denounced the repression of Oromos, the newsletter said.
		The purpose of the meeting was said to be to debate on Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's document castigating TPLF dissidents.
		During the meeting, Negasso Gidada reiterated his criticisms towards the TPLF, adding that most of the decrees with his signature had not even been shown to him before their promulgation, the newsletter reported.
	www.oromiaonline.com /News/News_063001.htm (447 words)

	GUMII: Harassment and Intimidation of the TPLF Regime Cannot Reverse Our Determination for Freedom and Justice
		Recently the TPLF regime has become frustrated and desperate when its policy could not be fully implemented as it wanted due to stiff resistance of the Oromo people.
		The TPLF regime is a regime that does not have support and sympathy of peoples in Ethiopia and is on the verge of collapse.
		The TPLF is trying to do everything possible to pacify the struggle and quell the resistance of the Oromo people by taking certain measures that it thinks will sow fear and desperation among Oromo people.
	www.gumii.org /aNews/Resolutions/March18-04-UlFO_Statement_English.html (869 words)

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		However, for a reason that was to be revealed later in 1980-1981, between 1977 and 1978, the TPLF scored against the EPRP and thus with the blessing, or by the request of the EPLF, in 1978, the TPLF attacked the EPRP militarily and drove it out of Tigray.
		Needless to say again, at that moment, the TPLF was under the Svengali-like control of the EPLF, therefore it perpetrated all its actions against Eritreans before the eyes, or under the coaching of the members of EPLF.
		But after receding for some years, the TPLF made a comeback in the mid-eighties, but at this time, it seemed to find a reason to wander around Tigray, also in what appeared to be a new sense of undertaking to placate Eritreans, it appeared to champion the Eritrean cause for total independence.
	news.asmarino.com /YonasAraya/YonasAraya2.asp (2766 words)

	news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		But, with a public strife and unrest against Derg's injustice, a ripe environment for organized struggle against the Derg, and nested in and among the rural community, TPLF had never to face a challenge to its existence, at least not to the degree and magnitude of the current fall-out.
		Now TPLF seems to be threatened by patterns of illegal and undemocratic activities and trends that smack dictatorship.
		To the contrary TPLF need to be saved from the manipulative and monster Meles who is out and out to destroy what ever makes Ethiopia and Ethiopians thick.
	www.ethiopiafirst.com /news2001/Apr/Saving_TPLF_From_Who.html (1076 words)

	AllRefer.com - Ethiopia - The Tigray \| Ethiopian Information Resource
		The EPLF supported the TPLF because the latter formed a buffer between the Ethiopian army and Eritrea.
		Within two years, however, the TPLF had increased its strength to the point where the group controlled large parts of the countryside and threatened the Ethiopian army's supply lines.
		In March 1987, for example, the TPLF refused to be represented at the EPLF's Unity Congress.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/ethiopia/ethiopia184.html (1189 words)

	The TPLF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The TPLF is preparing its convention in early September to replace committee members ousted in
		As reported by La Lettre de l’Océan Indien, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi had at the time obtained a slight majority to oust the dissenting TPLF members, notably former Defense Minister Siye Abraha, the TPLF’s number two man, Tewolde Wolde Mariam, the president of the Regional State of Tigray, Gebru Asrat, and his deputy, Mrs.
		Moreover, Almaz Mako, chairman of the Federation House (the upper house of the Ethiopian parliament) and member of the OPDO central committee, has just resigned and announced that she is joining the secessionist movement Oromo Liberation Front, and is requesting political asylum in the United States.
	www.ogaden.com /tplf.htm (232 words)

	MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
		The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) was formed in early 1975 by members of a previous organization, the Tigray Liberation Organization that came under the influence of the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF).
		The TPLF’s goals included the overthrow of the Dergue regime of Mengistu Haile Mariam and the establishment of a more democratic, inclusive government for Ethiopia.
		A split developed within the TPLF in the early 1990’s, based on debates between “moderate” and “hard-line” members of the group.
	www.tkb.org /Group.jsp?groupID=4287 (561 words)

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