🇪🇹 Is Ethiopia hurtling towards all-out ethnic conflict? | Al Jazeera §

(F) Day of the week: Friday Created Time: June 11, 2021 10:59 PM Database: Evergreen Database Date: June 11, 2021 Days Till Date: Passed Last Edited Time: September 19, 2021 11:08 AM Tags:#Civil-Conflict,#Humanitarian-Issue,#PROCESSED,#Video Type: Literature Notes URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jq2yBHy3Qk

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• Cause: Because the crackdown on the OLA by the government, who betrayed them, the OLA retaliated demanding autonomy and interdependence from a federal state (Ethiopia )
• Response: The government turns a blind eye to and normalize the killings without finding justice. They put on ineffective state of emergencies and essentially made Ethiopia a failed state
• Solutions:
  • Ethiopian people should be the one deciding Ethiopia’s future, not a prime minister or political party and all ethnic groups should be represented equally not just one ethnic group.
  • To fix this, the system of Tigray People’s Liberation Front , where Amharas are second class citizens if they are not in their ethnic region, should be thrown out. [1]
  • National dialogue between OLA and government and between ethnic groups must happen to stop ethnic discrimination and genocide.

Highlights and Notes §

• Humanitarian crisis in Western Ethiopia: targeted attacks against Amaha ethnics by Oromo Libertion Army (OLA?)
  • 250 killed, many displaced
  • Genocide going on
  • government had to step in to help Amhara army
• Why are they killing Amharas indiscriminately?
  • Source: Because of launch of military crackdown on the OLA caused retaliation
  • Argument: there has been no evidence that they are attacked simply because they were Amharas
    • Different groups like the government and Amharas have different vision on what Ethiopia should be
      • Federal multinational state
      • centralized system of government
  • The TPLF and OLF are creating ethnic conflicts between Amharas and Oromos to destabilize the country to capture power
• Oromos believe they are their own nation and want autonomy and independence (as said by a commander of OLA-West)
  • Argues that Ethiopia is getting worse
    • Governmental actions like state of emergencies doesn’t do anything
    • “Ethiopia is a failed state”
• It’s clear the government isn’t finding justice for people responsible for the killings
  • leaders not issuing statements or mention killings
  • Normalizing events of mass killings
• Is the conflicts/instability because of the bad transition of power?
  • Yes, the last election or leader betrayed their winning party (Oromo) and tried to make his own vision of Ethiopia
• How to solve this?
  • the TPLF’s system should go along with the party
  • Amharas shouldn’t be second class citizens if they’re not living in their ethnic region
  • The future of Ethiopia should be dicided by the people, not by a political party or Prime minister
    • All Ethnic groups should be represented equally. If only amharas are represented in future Ethiopia it will create more conflicts than now
  • Need a national dialogue
• The Tigray People’s Liberation Front is not in power any more

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jq2yBHy3Qk

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