Mereja Forum

[Aba]

May 16, 2021  
The war in Ethiopia’s Tigray Province is now more than six months old. Jeffrey Feltman, the Biden administration’s special envoy, has just completed his first trip to the region but, for Ethiopian unity, it may be too late. Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s prime minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has sent his country beyond the point of no return.

Abiy’s stated reason for his assault on Tigray was the rebuff of that province’s leaders to his efforts to delay elections. His supporters justify his move to repress Tigray and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) in two ways. Some argue that the TPLF deserves the central government’s offensive and even the atrocities it suffers because of the TPLF’s past poor human rights abuses as well as its participation in the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, a coalition from which Abiy’s two immediate predecessors emerged. Others argue that Ethiopia’s ethno-federalism is unfair to provincial minorities and Abiy is right to repress it. Both arguments are problematic: TPLF’s past does not justify massacres, looting, and rape against civilians targeted solely because of ethnicity or political opposition. If Abiy had legal justification against any particular TPLF leader, the courts would have been the proper recourse.

Critics of Ethiopian federalism have valid arguments about problems inherent in the system but the remedy for this is revision of the constitution through the legislative process, not the whims of one man acting through brute force.

Abiy promised a quick victory, but his gambit failed. While Ethiopian troops control the cities, videos show Tigray Defense Forces openly defiant and operating with impunity in the countryside. The problem, however, is not just the embrace of military force; rather, it was his choice of targets.

Tigrayans, like much of the rest of Ethiopia, are overwhelmingly young. Most Tigrayans under thirty care little about Ethiopia as a whole and imagine a better life for themselves as their own independent state. It was the senior TPLF leaders who had fought for, served Ethiopia, maintained links across regions, and remained open to unity. This was the caste whom Abiy has sought to kill. In the most famous episode, the Ethiopian Army killed Seyoum Mesfin who had served two decades as Ethiopia’s foreign minister. In effect, in a fit of pique, the mercurial Abiy has disproportionately targeted the only figures with whom he could negotiate to preserve Ethiopian unity.

Nor has Abiy done himself any favors with fellow African leaders. There is a way presidents and prime ministers speak to the public, and there is a way in which they talk among themselves. Abiy fails at the latter. He lacks candor and appears untethered from the reality that he has created. Many of his counterparts describe him as a naïf with a messiah complex. While African leaders will not publicly abandon one of their own, the shedding of African Union offices from Ethiopia to other capitals reflects Abiy’s declining diplomatic capital. Simply put, beyond Eritrean dictator Isaias Afwerki, who sees himself as Abiy’s superior, and Mohamed Farmaajo, Somalia’s president whose term expired three months ago, Abiy has no friends.

Regional states fear Ethiopia’s dissolution—it would be a nightmare scenario of dislocation and instability—but many diplomats, including those traditionally friendly to Ethiopia, quietly question whether it is already too late. Abiy’s supporters may have justified his action in antipathy to federalism but by choosing unilateralism over negotiation, Abiy may have cemented his legacy not as a Nobel Peace Laureate, but rather as the man who ended a country whose history dates back millennia. It is time for the United States, United Nations, and Ethiopia’s neighbors to plan for its end as a unified entity.

Michael Rubin is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, where he specializes in Iran, Turkey, and the broader Middle East. He also regularly teaches classes at sea about Middle East conflicts, culture, terrorism, and the Horn of Africa to deployed U.S. Navy and Marine units

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/ ... ion-185149

[Aba]

Mamo Qillo

The 3 Stooges aka Axis of Evil

[sesame]

He will be remembered as the leader who buried the TPLF thugs. That alone ensures his legacy. But Agames lost everything. If you had even a few brain cells you would have realized that Agames lost their self-respect. They were shown to be a bunch of useless braggarts who planned a war, surprised everyone with their pre-emptive attack, but lost the war in the first three days. That is incredible. Today, we are being told that over 90% of Agames are starving.

[Aba]

Listen to this idiot. What good is that if the rest of the country, if not the whole HoA subregion, is in shambles? Besides, it looks like your nemesis weyane is going to take their fellow Tigrayan master of yours down with them.
What a moron.

He will be remembered as the leader who buried the TPLF thugs. That alone ensures his legacy. But Agames lost everything. If you had even a few brain cells you would have realized that Agames lost their self-respect. They were shown to be a bunch of useless braggarts who planned a war, surprised everyone with their pre-emptive attack, but lost the war in the first three days. That is incredible. Today, we are being told that over 90% of Agames are starving.

[euroland]

He will be remembered as the leader who buried the TPLF thugs. That alone ensures his legacy. But Agames lost everything. If you had even a few brain cells you would have realized that Agames lost their self-respect. They were shown to be a bunch of useless braggarts who planned a war, surprised everyone with their pre-emptive attack, but lost the war in the first three days. That is incredible. Today, we are being told that over 90% of Agames are starving.

Exactly!!

Agames will never forget the lesson he taught them for centuries to com.

[BAGAMIDOASS]

FOOLISH AGAMES, get exited when ever the white trash write something about Tigray. The Agames still thinks the white trash love them unconditionally. The white trash using the Agames trash for their own cause to advance their agenda. The White trash keep pumping the Agame trash every day by writing fake solidarity while the Agame trash keep dying without knowing. The question is why the Agame trash dying for tho cause of white trash colonizers? Isn’t it better for the Agame trash to make peace with the rest of Ethiopians to save their life and coexist? Did the Agame trash realized the white trash is using them a pawn???

[Horus]

Yes, the colonial tribal divide and rule is precisely what US/UK are trying to use in 2021 on Ethiopia, a nation has actually stopped colonialism and white take over of Africa. Yes, Ethiopia is going to dissolve the entire US/UK fabricated unjust, tribal ethnocratic imperial design. Yes, Ethiopians of all hues and colors are behind Abiy Ahmed when it comes to the dismantling of tribal federalism and unification of our glorious nation. No power on earth can stop us from defining our destiny.

ETHIOPIA INVICTUS !!!

[Aba]

Morons,
The Horn of Africa will be dominated by not just 2, but by 3 failed states. The Simalianization of Ethiopia is coming soon thanks to Mamo qillo and Issu, the butcher from Tembien.
(I, Aba, just coined a phrase "Somalianization". I'll be remembered for that for years to come)

[Zmeselo]

He will be remembered as the leader who buried the TPLF thugs. That alone ensures his legacy. But Agames lost everything. If you had even a few brain cells you would have realized that Agames lost their self-respect. They were shown to be a bunch of useless braggarts who planned a war, surprised everyone with their pre-emptive attack, but lost the war in the first three days. That is incredible. Today, we are being told that over 90% of Agames are starving.

[sun]

May 16, 2021  
The war in Ethiopia’s Tigray Province is now more than six months old. Jeffrey Feltman, the Biden administration’s special envoy, has just completed his first trip to the region but, for Ethiopian unity, it may be too late. Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s prime minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has sent his country beyond the point of no return.

Abiy’s stated reason for his assault on Tigray was the rebuff of that province’s leaders to his efforts to delay elections. His supporters justify his move to repress Tigray and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) in two ways. Some argue that the TPLF deserves the central government’s offensive and even the atrocities it suffers because of the TPLF’s past poor human rights abuses as well as its participation in the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, a coalition from which Abiy’s two immediate predecessors emerged. Others argue that Ethiopia’s ethno-federalism is unfair to provincial minorities and Abiy is right to repress it. Both arguments are problematic: TPLF’s past does not justify massacres, looting, and rape against civilians targeted solely because of ethnicity or political opposition. If Abiy had legal justification against any particular TPLF leader, the courts would have been the proper recourse.

Critics of Ethiopian federalism have valid arguments about problems inherent in the system but the remedy for this is revision of the constitution through the legislative process, not the whims of one man acting through brute force.

Abiy promised a quick victory, but his gambit failed. While Ethiopian troops control the cities, videos show Tigray Defense Forces openly defiant and operating with impunity in the countryside. The problem, however, is not just the embrace of military force; rather, it was his choice of targets.

Tigrayans, like much of the rest of Ethiopia, are overwhelmingly young. Most Tigrayans under thirty care little about Ethiopia as a whole and imagine a better life for themselves as their own independent state. It was the senior TPLF leaders who had fought for, served Ethiopia, maintained links across regions, and remained open to unity. This was the caste whom Abiy has sought to kill. In the most famous episode, the Ethiopian Army killed Seyoum Mesfin who had served two decades as Ethiopia’s foreign minister. In effect, in a fit of pique, the mercurial Abiy has disproportionately targeted the only figures with whom he could negotiate to preserve Ethiopian unity.

Nor has Abiy done himself any favors with fellow African leaders. There is a way presidents and prime ministers speak to the public, and there is a way in which they talk among themselves. Abiy fails at the latter. He lacks candor and appears untethered from the reality that he has created. Many of his counterparts describe him as a naïf with a messiah complex. While African leaders will not publicly abandon one of their own, the shedding of African Union offices from Ethiopia to other capitals reflects Abiy’s declining diplomatic capital. Simply put, beyond Eritrean dictator Isaias Afwerki, who sees himself as Abiy’s superior, and Mohamed Farmaajo, Somalia’s president whose term expired three months ago, Abiy has no friends.

Regional states fear Ethiopia’s dissolution—it would be a nightmare scenario of dislocation and instability—but many diplomats, including those traditionally friendly to Ethiopia, quietly question whether it is already too late. Abiy’s supporters may have justified his action in antipathy to federalism but by choosing unilateralism over negotiation, Abiy may have cemented his legacy not as a Nobel Peace Laureate, but rather as the man who ended a country whose history dates back millennia. It is time for the United States, United Nations, and Ethiopia’s neighbors to plan for its end as a unified entity.

Michael Rubin is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, where he specializes in Iran, Turkey, and the broader Middle East. He also regularly teaches classes at sea about Middle East conflicts, culture, terrorism, and the Horn of Africa to deployed U.S. Navy and Marine units

PM Abiy is the first Ethiopian leader who lifted the country out of complete hopelessness and sure disintegration, made Mamma Ethiopia shine like the Stars and Sun in the sky, brought blanket freedoms and liberty both to those who deserved it and to those who did not deserve it and couldn't appreciate it. The PM even brought the Great Gold Medal For Peace and made Ethiopia shine on the world stage multiple times for the first time in 3000 years of Ethiopian history. Ethiopia will be what the Ethiopian government and the majority of the Ethiopians wanted it to be using their unified efforts and visionary joint activities. All else is just cheap political propaganda playing in to the hands of Misir and co.

[sun]

Morons,
The Horn of Africa will be dominated by not just 2, but by 3 failed states. The Simalianization of Ethiopia is coming soon thanks to Mamo qillo and Issu, the butcher from Tembien.
(I, Aba, just coined a phrase "Somalianization". I'll be remembered for that for years to come)

These are the leaders who saw the bright future and started marching ahead with unity in diversity, saying, YES WE CAN!

They are the rising STARS. And because Aba couldn't make it in the past, is not able to make it at present and can not make it in the future means that Aba is down right pessimist about himself and about the world. "NO I CAN'T" needs to be your slogan just to reflect your own state of mind.

[Zmeselo]

Morons,
The Horn of Africa will be dominated by not just 2, but by 3 failed states. The Simalianization of Ethiopia is coming soon thanks to Mamo qillo and Issu, the butcher from Tembien.
(I, Aba, just coined a phrase "Somalianization". I'll be remembered for that for years to come)

These are the leaders who saw the bright future and started marching ahead with unity in diversity, saying, YES WE CAN!

They are the rising STARS. And because Aba couldn't make it in the past, is not able to make it at present and can not make it in the future means that Aba is down right pessimist about himself and about the world. "NO I CAN'T" needs to be your slogan just to reflect your own state of mind.

And mind you he isn't predicting, but hoping/wishing/praying to satan for that disaster to happen. May he be, mugged & stabbed to death!!!

[Aba]

May 16, 2021  
The war in Ethiopia’s Tigray Province is now more than six months old. Jeffrey Feltman, the Biden administration’s special envoy, has just completed his first trip to the region but, for Ethiopian unity, it may be too late. Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s prime minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has sent his country beyond the point of no return.

Abiy’s stated reason for his assault on Tigray was the rebuff of that province’s leaders to his efforts to delay elections. His supporters justify his move to repress Tigray and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) in two ways. Some argue that the TPLF deserves the central government’s offensive and even the atrocities it suffers because of the TPLF’s past poor human rights abuses as well as its participation in the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, a coalition from which Abiy’s two immediate predecessors emerged. Others argue that Ethiopia’s ethno-federalism is unfair to provincial minorities and Abiy is right to repress it. Both arguments are problematic: TPLF’s past does not justify massacres, looting, and rape against civilians targeted solely because of ethnicity or political opposition. If Abiy had legal justification against any particular TPLF leader, the courts would have been the proper recourse.

Critics of Ethiopian federalism have valid arguments about problems inherent in the system but the remedy for this is revision of the constitution through the legislative process, not the whims of one man acting through brute force.

Abiy promised a quick victory, but his gambit failed. While Ethiopian troops control the cities, videos show Tigray Defense Forces openly defiant and operating with impunity in the countryside. The problem, however, is not just the embrace of military force; rather, it was his choice of targets.

Tigrayans, like much of the rest of Ethiopia, are overwhelmingly young. Most Tigrayans under thirty care little about Ethiopia as a whole and imagine a better life for themselves as their own independent state. It was the senior TPLF leaders who had fought for, served Ethiopia, maintained links across regions, and remained open to unity. This was the caste whom Abiy has sought to kill. In the most famous episode, the Ethiopian Army killed Seyoum Mesfin who had served two decades as Ethiopia’s foreign minister. In effect, in a fit of pique, the mercurial Abiy has disproportionately targeted the only figures with whom he could negotiate to preserve Ethiopian unity.

Nor has Abiy done himself any favors with fellow African leaders. There is a way presidents and prime ministers speak to the public, and there is a way in which they talk among themselves. Abiy fails at the latter. He lacks candor and appears untethered from the reality that he has created. Many of his counterparts describe him as a naïf with a messiah complex. While African leaders will not publicly abandon one of their own, the shedding of African Union offices from Ethiopia to other capitals reflects Abiy’s declining diplomatic capital. Simply put, beyond Eritrean dictator Isaias Afwerki, who sees himself as Abiy’s superior, and Mohamed Farmaajo, Somalia’s president whose term expired three months ago, Abiy has no friends.

Regional states fear Ethiopia’s dissolution—it would be a nightmare scenario of dislocation and instability—but many diplomats, including those traditionally friendly to Ethiopia, quietly question whether it is already too late. Abiy’s supporters may have justified his action in antipathy to federalism but by choosing unilateralism over negotiation, Abiy may have cemented his legacy not as a Nobel Peace Laureate, but rather as the man who ended a country whose history dates back millennia. It is time for the United States, United Nations, and Ethiopia’s neighbors to plan for its end as a unified entity.

Michael Rubin is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, where he specializes in Iran, Turkey, and the broader Middle East. He also regularly teaches classes at sea about Middle East conflicts, culture, terrorism, and the Horn of Africa to deployed U.S. Navy and Marine units

PM Abiy is the first Ethiopian leader who lifted the country out of complete hopelessness and sure disintegration, made Mamma Ethiopia shine like the Stars and Sun in the sky, brought blanket freedoms and liberty both to those who deserved it and to those who did not deserve it and couldn't appreciate it. The PM even brought the Great Gold Medal For Peace and made Ethiopia shine on the world stage multiple times for the first time in 3000 years of Ethiopian history. Ethiopia will be what the Ethiopian government and the majority of the Ethiopians wanted it to be using their unified efforts and visionary joint activities. All else is just cheap political propaganda playing in to the hands of Misir and co.

Moron,
He is the first ever to be a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and an ICC indicated leader. Yeah, Mamo qillo is going down history as the idiot fake Pente who was conned by the devil and fell for a bloodthirsty demon.