Sunday 28 October 2018

The impending tribal wars in Ethiopia

Since Abiy Ahmed took power through a soft coup in April 2018, there has been mass displacement and killings based on tribal groupings. It is astounding Abiy Ahmed and his government are not taking any measures. How is it impossible for Ethiopia's strong army to stop such heinous crimes against humanity? Probably the UN should send a peace keeping force to protect the population from killing and displacement.

It is clear Abiy Ahmed has no power over the country's  local powers or underground armed groups. It is time the government acts. There should be no displacement or killings on civiilians. The military should also take over as Mr. Abiy is not able to enforce the law. Preaching about peace might help only if there is justice. Tolerating the displacement of  people from their homes and preaching peace is promoting  war.

The Lemma- Abiy Team is a failure. Neither would TPLF-EPRDF be an alternativee. It is time for the Defence Forces to take state power to prevent the country from further suffering and collapse. We all are supportive of Dr. Abiy's new ideas of peace and unity. But this is not going to solve any problem as some political groups are planning to take state power by using force. Dr. Abiy should have dealt with Eritrea's President Issayas Afeworki, who is a mortal enemy of Ethiopia. Whether we like it or not, the people of Eritrea are not ready for peaceful co-operation with Ethiopia. Ethiopia has lost it's ports to Eritrea, even though international documents show that both Massawa and Assab belong to Ethiopia. Further on, Badme has been part of Ethiopia and is given to Eritrea by a court, which Ethiopia was not represented by it's own citizens.

The Eritrea-Ethiopia Peace Deal is only of symbolic importance to Ethiopia. Eritreans are taking advantage of the peace deal by importing agricultural products and petroleum from Ethiopia. The government of Abiy Ahmed has left the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea open without any regulatory measures such as import and export taxes. There should be some regulation of import and export between the two countries.  Eritrea is getting what they want from Ethiopia as in the 1990 period, when Eritrea was taking Ethiopian agricultural products like coffee and selling them to other countries. We hope history is not repeating itself again. Unfortunately there are some evidences that Eritrea is blackmailing Ethiopia again with the same method it used in 1990 period.

The fact that Abiy Ahmed came through a soft coup by using Qerro ( Oromo Youth) and Fano (Amhara Youth) , who used force to bring down the EPRDF regime to make way for Team Lemma or The Oromara group.The Oromra group is an Amhara group using  the Oromos to dominate Ethiopia. Some Oromo political groups in EPRDF have lent their support to the Amhara group and change took place. However, there is no political programme in place. The group has no vision. It's main aim seems to challenge the domination of TPLF.

In our opinion, the Ethiopian Defence Forces should intervene by replacing Abiy Ahmed and his supporters with a more nationalist military leader that stands for justice and equality. For instance, The METEC group is patriotic and nationalist. They could provide leadership until the country stabilises and the rule of law is the norm. We appeal to the nationalist and patriotic groups in the military to save Ethiopia from destruction. We believe  a Tigrayan millitary group could save Ethiopia from further deterioration. But also Amhara or Oromo military together withTigrayan group could be the only way out of the quagmire Ethiopia has placed itself in. We post the following article and pictures about displaced persons in Ethiopia. Our people are living in tents facing cold winters and rain. We should stop this madness by replacing Abiy Ahmed and his supporters with a more responisble and patriotic group.

_____________________________

ወደ ቀያቸው ተመለሱ የተባሉ ዜጎች እንደ አዲስ እየተፈናቀሉ ነው!  

Image may contain: 5 people

በቡኖ በደሌ ደዴሳ ወረዳ ያሉ ዜጎች ከጥቅምት 10/2011 ዓም ጀምሮ ቤታቸው ሲቃጠል ሰንብቷል። ከትናንት ማታ ጀምሮ ጥቃቱ ስለተጠናከረና ቤታቸውም ስለተቃጠለ ሶስት ቀበሌ ውስጥ የሚኖሩ በርካታ ዜጎች ተፈናቅለዋል።
በአሁኑ ወቅት በቡርቃ ጃለላ ቀበሌ ሜዳላይ ዳስ ሰርተው ይገኛሉ። ከተለያዩ የኦሮሚያ አካባቢዎች ተፈናቅለው ባህርዳር የነበሩ ዜጎች ወደ ቦታቸው እንዲመለሱ መደረጉን የአማራ ብዙሃን መገናኛ ኤጀንሲ በቅርቡ መዘገቡ ይታወሳል። ተፈናቅለው የነበሩት ወደ ቀያቸው ተመለሱ እየተባለ እንደአዲስ ዜጎች እየተፈናቀሉ ነው።
Image may contain: 4 people
Image may contain: 5 people, people smiling, outdoor
Image may contain: 6 people, outdoor


No comments: