Mereja Forum

[Ethiopians4cm]

It always happens this way in Africa, a new day that arrives with the toppling of a brutal regime quickly turns back into the darkness of nepotism. Though the faces in power change, the injustices of exclusion and ethnic persecution continue without skipping a beat. Such is the case in Ethiopia; last year the EPRDF government which was controlled with an iron grip of TPLF loyalists for 27 years all the sudden collapsed under the weight of a growing popular discontent and gave rise to the age of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.

Abiy came in promising hope and change under the banner of “medemer”, a word that means “to add” in Amharic. His rhetoric of Ethiopia initially captured the imagination of millions of Ethiopians at home and throughout the “diaspora”. After being Balkanized for close to three decades under a system that is a carbon copy of South Africa’s apartheid system called “ethnic federalism”, Ethiopians were overjoyed at the possibility of a government that represents all instead of one that pushed ethnicity over humanity.

A year later and it has become evident that medemer is nothing more than a marketing slogan. Beyond the rhetoric, what is taking place in Ethiopia is truly appalling. Instead of taking steps to dismantle “ethnic federalism” for the sake of fostering a sense of national unity among Ethiopians, Abiy chose to...continued...

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[Sadacha Macca]

I love how some of you extremist unionists pretend to speak on behalf of all Ethiopians yet you are not even able to say you represent your village. Smh.

[Halafi Mengedi]

Tigray never went to any ethnic kilil and killed over 400 kids within hours without cause in 27 years but Amhara went to Beneshangule and killed 446 women and kids in hours span without any cause to do you primitive savage???