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ABIY AHMED’S WAR FOLLIES: CAN ETHIOPIA SURVIVE AS ONE?

MILTON G. ALLIMADIAUGUST 23,2021


Abiy Ahmed, the 2019 Noble Prize winner has pushed Ethiopia to the brink. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. 

[Speaking Truth To Power]

Sadly, what I said in my African History Club podcast of December 15, 2020 about the war on Tigray by the Ethiopian federal army and its ally the military of Eritrea now seems to have been borne out.

This is what I said, beginning at the 25 minutes and 10 seconds mark:

“So even though Abiy Ahmed and the military, the national army has managed to conquer the physical Tigray region, nobody expects that that will be the end of the conflict.Because Tigray has a history of military insurgency, 

of effectively fighting insurgency. So unless there is a political solution, it seems to me that this is something that could escalate into a long-time conflict, and if that were the case,most definitely, it might encourage the other regions that comprise Ethiopia to also take the same approach that Tigray has taken. So really at the end of the day there’s no military solution to this conflict. So I think Abiy Ahmed, the prime minister should find a way to step back and come to the conclusion that rather than destroying the TPLF he still has to reach an accommodation  with them because the other regions are watching carefully as well. The other regions that comprise Ethiopia.

So depending on how Abiy Ahmed resolves the situation with Tigray, that is also going to affect his ability, and his country’s ability to hold together the entire federal republic of Ethiopia together.”

Six months after I made those comments, in June 2021, the tide changed dramatically and the Tigray Defense Force (TDF) handed Abiy Ahmed several battle ground defeats in Tigray, capturing thousands of federal soldiers and pushed them out of Tigray.

The TDF’s counterattack has led its forces into Amhara region as well as Afar. Forces in Oromo have now declared an alliance with TDF to fight against Abiy’s government and federal forces.

The chickens have come home to roost for Abiy Ahmed and his follies. Can Ethiopia survive as one federal state? What’s next for Ethiopia? It’s hard to see Ethiopia surviving as one so long as Abiy Ahmed remains prime minister. 

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[Aba]

[Hawdian]

Ethiopia has never been as United. You are telling yourself lies perhaps just so you can sleep or be at peace with yourself.

Today an Amhara, Somali, Afar, Gambella, Debub, Omo, Oromo are in the same truck, trench or carrying same weapon to the front line.

It has never happened in the history of Ethiopia.

Don't forget Eritreans are in there with them too.



God bless

[Aba]

Yeah, they are all getting kicked in the asz together, alright. What does that do to the Tigreans? Make them the Israelis of Africa?

[Wedi]

Crused Lander Tigrayans who are DEAD during their invasion for looting in Amhara and Afar people properties and resources!!

This is only tip of the Iceberg. Only God know how many Tigray kids killed in this month!!

[sarcasm]

ABIY AHMED’S WAR FOLLIES: CAN ETHIOPIA SURVIVE AS ONE?

The chickens have come home to roost for Abiy Ahmed and his follies. Can Ethiopia survive as one federal state? What’s next for Ethiopia? It’s hard to see Ethiopia surviving as one so long as Abiy Ahmed remains prime minister. [/size]

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" Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed inherited a state. He sacrificed it to the dream of an empire. On his current trajectory, Abiy’s political obituary will be that he left Ethiopians with neither state nor empire.
Many autocrats kill people. It takes a particular kind of leader to kill a country. This is what the Ethiopian Prime Minister is doing.
There was a moment when Abiy was seen indispensable to solving Ethiopia’s problems. Today he is the problem.”

July 2021 Employee of the Month: Abiy Ahmed

The ‘Employee of the Month award’ is bestowed on the person who has done the most to harm the cause of world peace in the last month. Image: “A Conversation with Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of Ethiopia” by World Economic Forum is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed inherited a state. He sacrificed it to the dream of an empire. On his current trajectory, Abiy’s political obituary will be that he left Ethiopians with neither state nor empire.

Many autocrats kill people. It takes a particular kind of leader to kill a country. This is what the Ethiopian Prime Minister is doing.

There was a moment when Abiy was seen indispensable to solving Ethiopia’s problems. Today he is the problem.

At the United Nations Security Council meeting on July 2, western nations put their emphasis on human rights and humanitarian calamity, while Kenya (representing the African nations) and China focused their concern on preserving the Ethiopian state. None of them subscribed to the Ethiopian government’s official narrative.

As if to confirm their fears, three days later Abiy made a speech in parliament and announced that he was closing thirty of Ethiopia’s sixty embassies. He said he didn’t think that his country’s diplomats were value for money, and suggested that the diaspora were doing a better job. Africa’s oldest and most esteemed diplomatic corps, which was built up by Emperor Haile Selassie after World War II and nurtured by successive regimes, is being willfully destroyed.

In the same speech, Abiy denied that his army had suffered a defeat in Tigray, and said that he could raise and train 100,000 special forces in a month, and a million soldiers if need be. The rout of the Ethiopian National Defense Force in Tigray was due in part to Abiy’s dismantling of the army as an institution, which he began almost as soon as he took office. Huge numbers of foot soldiers along with new tanks and drones cannot compensate for lack of generalship, doctrine and strategy. Abiy is simply arming Ethiopians to kill and die.



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