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Mr. Ahmed deceptively glommed on to Ethiopiawinet—the essence that we are one people above our differences—as he leveraged the political slogan “medemer” to offer unity to a country that was being torn apart by political and social strife. The focus on oneness and his insistence that we are greater together than we are when we are latching on to ethnocentrism is the reason why legions of Ethiopians flocked to his side. We were in desperate need of a leader who would put an end to division and instead lead a national conversation based on truth and reconciliation.

Ethiopians were so hungry for change that we accepted his check without confirming if there was money in his bank account. The same way Barack Obama electrified Americans who were ready for a radical departure from eight years of Bush’s incompetence and criminality, Mr. Ahmed seized the hearts and minds of countless millions of Ethiopians by promising to turn the page of the EPRDF’s playbook of divide and murder. Almost overnight, Mr. Ahmed was canonized and elevated to the position of saint before he did anything worthy of note. Just like Obama, Mr. Ahmed was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and showered with praise from the international community.…continued…

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This is not to exculpate TPLF; as I noted in countless interviews, leaders like Debretsion Gebremichael and Getachew Reda deserve to be tried for war crimes instead of being lauded as heroes by Western governments and mainstream media. If America, the UK and the international community truly cared about peace and stability in Ethiopia, they would stop funding and arming ethnic factions. The bogus indignation and counterfeit outrage from the likes of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and his ilk are nothing more than theatrics; they have zero interest in the wellbeing of Tigarus, their only aim is to keep Ethiopia destabilized and lock my birth land in a perpetual state of strife.

If Ethiopia has any hope at all, it will not come by way of foreign intervention or UN Security Council votes; neo-colonial powers only care about siphoning off the wealth of Africa and inciting our people to hack each other to death.

By turning off the internet for the whole of Tigray, depriving Tigarus of electricity and bombing civilian centers, he radicalized Tigarus and drove them into the arms of the TPLF.

Where did you get that wrong information ? Tigrayans have always been radicalized and abusing your own family, the family of Atse Theodoros, for a very long time. Don't listen to the media of the white man. You are more intelligent and accomplished writer than all of them put together.