Tigrayan officials, individuals, and their associates and henchmen have amassed enormous amount of riches, while throwing the people of the empire into abject poverty. The grabbing of lands and thievery of the resources of Oromiyaa and others have encouraged the TPLF regime to fabricate the story of the miracle of economic development, while at the same time millions of families with their children have been perished from hunger and starvation and more millions are still at risk. With the TPLF created hunger, tens of thousands of mothers have been died while holding their hungry children in their arms. Children have been dying in the arms of their mothers. Usually, infants are found alive in the arms of their dead mothers. Oftentimes, hungry mothers and children die in each other’s arms. Not only these, mothers have become beggars in the streets holding their babies in their arms. These are the consequence of the eviction of millions of farmers from their farmlands and the grab of their lands. The scheme of eviction and land grab are an integral part of the TPLF’s policy of annihilation of the Oromo, Sidama, Ogadeni, Anuak and others peoples of the South

It means a few Tigrayan individuals have the right to control and use the national economy against the will of the peoples of the empire. A few oligopolies like Midroc Corporation, Sunshine Corporation, EFFORT, Guna Corporation, African Insurance, and etc. dominate, and a few individuals control enormous fortunes. These individuals have unlimited means for taking away from the people their daily bread and robbing their lands and natural resources.

For instance, the Endowment Fund for rehabilitation of Tigray (EFFORT) has a net worth of US$40 billion. Individuals like Mohammed Al Amoudi has net worth of US$10 billion; the late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi had a net worth of US $3 billion; his wife Aseb Mesfin has a net worth of US$4 billion; Sebhat Nega – US$2 billion; Berhane Gebrekristos – US$2 billion; Abay Tsehay – US$2 billion; Seyoum Mesfin – US$1.8 billion; Samuel Tafesse – US$1.6 billion; Omer Ali Shifaw – US$500 million; Eyob Mamo – US$500 million; Suhura Ismail Khan – US$200 million (sourceEthiopian Review, 2013). These are the individuals who have been and still are shamelessly looting the country.

Furthermore, Dr. Wondimu Mekonnen, an academic and opposition figure to the Meles Zenawi regime, addressing the House of Commons-UK has to say this: “I have got a copy of a cheque signed by Semhal Meles Zenawi, the daughter of Meles Zenawi himself, depositing in one of the New York banks $5 billion. I have got and I will give you the copy. Don’t ask me how it came into our possession but that is a fact” (debirhan, July 26, 2013). Here is the deposited check produced.

This makes it clear that through committing genocide against the Oromo, Ogadeni, Anuak, Sidama, Benishangul-Gumuz, and Afar and other peoples, the TPLF fascist regime laid its hands on Oromiyaa, Ogaden, Gembela, Sidama, Benishangul-Gumuz, Afar and their resources. This has been followed with the robbery, stealing, vandalizing and embezzling of the resources and the treasuries. This is what the TPLF has been doing since it came to power. Its members, its associates, and their children have been and still are showering themselves with the wealth of colonized peoples while the colonized people are thrown into abject poverty, starvation and death. Today, more than ever before, the Oromo people and other peoples in the empire are living in miserable conditions under the fascist Tigrayan regime of the TPLF. It is time to stop the TPLF’s robbery of resources, its eviction of farmers from their farmlands and its land-grab; its sale and lease of land; and its slaughter, torture, cruelty, persecution and annihilation of men, women, and children. Now, the TPLF fascism has reached the ultimate stage of its murderous insanity. It is a threat to all. For this, it is time for the peoples of the empire to make a common cause against this genocidal fascist regime of TPLF in order to liquidate it.