The Amhara president concluded his speech “I am sure that you, our security forces, using this expression of gratitude and recognition as an encouragement, will wipe out the rest of the force that is a cancer to our county’s security and peace”.
On 10 May 2022, a big event was organized in Bahir Dar, Amhara. The event was attended by federal authorities, regional states’ leaders, ENDF military leaders, opposition political parties, Amhara security authorities, religious leaders and other invited guests. The event was bellicose and the talks looked like Ethiopia fought a foreign great power and won. The event, said to be a culmination of the first chapter of the war, presented the genocidal war on Tigray as something from which Ethiopia reaped unity and produced “great” heroes. The overall spirit was to prepare the security forces and the public for yet another war.
Opening the event, the Amhara president Yilkal Kefale said “the event of gratitude and recognition is organized to commemorate the unparalleled sacrifice and heroism that our security forces paid during the existential war and to encourage and prepare them for the next campaign.”
The Amhara president concluded his speech “I am sure that you, our security forces, using this expression of gratitude and recognition as an encouragement, will wipe out the rest of the force that is a cancer to our county’s security and peace”.
Demeke Mekonen, Ethiopia’s deputy prime minister, on his part, said that there is war coming and that “the time now is when we should combine forces and not scatter it by engaging in different agendas”.
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