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Why has civil war returned to Ethiopia?

Post by Aba » 17 Jun 2021, 08:01

Why has civil war returned to Ethiopia?

The Economist explains. Jun 16th 2021. BY G.B.

Ethnic divisions have thrown Africa’s second-most-populous country into renewed conflict
BY SOME RECKONINGS Ethiopia is the oldest independent country in Africa. For a short while, under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, it looked as if it might become one of the most democratic. Not anymore. National elections, scheduled for June 21st, no longer herald progress. Abiy, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, now draws more international condemnation than praise. For more than six months, his federal government has been engaged in a bitter war against the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which until recently controlled the northern state of Tigray and previously dominated national politics. The conflict has fanned tensions among Ethiopia’s 80-plus ethnic groups and taken a frightful human toll. Why has civil war returned to Ethiopia?

The TPLF fired the first shots on November 4th, when its fighters attacked a base housing federal troops—to pre-empt an imminent attack from federal forces and their allies, it argued. In response, Abiy ordered air strikes and sent in ground forces. For the first few months of the conflict, a communications blackout made it difficult to know what was happening. Gradually the scale of the horror has emerged. Atrocities have been committed by all sides. Thousands of civilians are thought to have been killed, and millions more have been displaced, many over the border to Sudan. The raping of women has been widespread. And hunger has returned to Tigray, the site of a devastating famine in the 1980s. War and the alleged deliberate blocking of food deliveries have driven 350,000 people to the brink of starvation....
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Re: Why has civil war returned to Ethiopia?

Post by Abdisa » 17 Jun 2021, 08:12

Aba Awash, the terrorist agame,

It is not a civil war, it is a war on terror that has completely destroyed your TPLF terrorist organization, killed your terrorist leaders and smoked your 200,000 terrorists out of their holes. The only civil war that is going on today is , the one between you agame diaspora and your vehicles. Watching this video we can actually witness you agame are winning the civil war!
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Re: Why has civil war returned to Ethiopia?

Post by Bashu » 17 Jun 2021, 08:51

The TPLF fired the first shots on November 4th, when its fighters attacked a base housing federal troops
The hard truth the weyane goons and their hired 'media' often deny TPLFites themselves started the war.

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Re: Why has civil war returned to Ethiopia?

Post by Blueshift » 17 Jun 2021, 09:05

I think here is the reason for the war. It is simple.
Abbiy needed Isayas to remain in power. Abbiy flew to Asmara and accepted the international border ruling. The Weyanes had accepted the ruling conditionally and dragged it for twenty years. Isayas had put some pressure on Abbiy to withdraw the North Command. Abbiy and Isayas on one end, the TPLF on the other end, the tug of war began. Thanks, to the emirate drones, the weyanes were decimated beyond repair. The amhara militia went on stampede and committed attrocities. The Weyanes blamed that on Isayas and Co. The West became furious and pressured Abbiy to order the withdrawals of the Eritrean army. The problem with that is, Abbiy can not sustain the war by himself. Isayas knows the danger. Unless, the TPLF is annihilated now, it will come back as an effective guerilla fighting machine. He knows now, it is his war not Abbiy's war. I don't believe Abbiy understands the magnitude and the risk of the war. Eritrea withdraws Ethiopia falls. Ethiopia survives only with the blood of the Eritreans. The danger of that, After Abbiy, Eritrea may be engaged to war with Ethiopia. Tiny Eritrea would be defenseless in that scenario. It is catch 22 now.

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