{"id":276749,"date":"2019-05-22T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiUGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmV0aGlvcGlhb2JzZXJ2ZXIuY29tLzIwMTkvMDUvMjIvd2hhdC1oYXMtcGF0aWVuY2UtZ290LXRvLWRvLXdpdGgtaXQv0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-21T11:47:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:47:22","slug":"ethiopia-observer-asked-what-patience-meant-while-law-and-order-frayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276749","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia Observer asked what \u201cpatience\u201d meant while law and order frayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Ethiopia Observer published a commentary by Yared Hailemariam challenging Abiy Ahmed\u2019s repeated call for the public to show patience while violence, displacement, and illegal guns spread.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-271272\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Ethiopian-opposition-parties-announce-plan-to-merge.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopia Observer asked what \u201cpatience\u201d meant while law and order frayed\" \/>\n<p>The writer said the House of People\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>The column treated Abiy Ahmed\u2019s soft language as a political choice with body counts attached, not as a private virtue.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as politics analysis archive, the patience essay dates early public frustration with Abiy Ahmed\u2019s security posture before later crackdowns and wars.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ethiopiaobserver.com\/2019\/05\/22\/what-has-patience-got-to-do-with-it\/\">Ethiopia Observer<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What has patience got to do with it?&nbsp;&nbsp;ethiopiaobserver.comGovernment need to demonstrate that it doesn&#8217;t tolerate wrong doing. The response the Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed gives to the question of why his &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":271272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Ethiopian-opposition-parties-announce-plan-to-merge.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19ZH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754862,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276749\/revisions\/754862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}