In May 2019 Ethiopia Observer published a commentary by Yared Hailemariam challenging Abiy Ahmed’s repeated call for the public to show patience while violence, displacement, and illegal guns spread.
The writer said the House of People’s Representatives had already blamed the executive for failing to keep rule of law, and argued that enforcing the law is not the same as becoming a dictatorship. Waiting without clear limits, the piece said, could let impunity grow.
The column treated Abiy Ahmed’s soft language as a political choice with body counts attached, not as a private virtue.
Kept as politics analysis archive, the patience essay dates early public frustration with Abiy Ahmed’s security posture before later crackdowns and wars.
Sources: Ethiopia Observer