Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Ethiopia.


This is coolbert:

From several sources everything you always needed to know about the ongoing Ethiopian civil war but were afraid to ask?

1. "Ethiopia's Nobel Peace Prize-winning leader says he'll lead troops on front lines against rebels"

Tip from Gravitas the original story from CNN by Bethlehem Feleke, 

"Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) Ethiopian Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner Abiy Ahmed has announced he will lead his country's soldiers on the front lines of the war against advancing rebel fighters, in the latest escalation of the year-long conflict between his government and rebel groups from the northern Tigray region. alone" 

Let us be 100 % perfectly clear. The Nobel Peace Prize winner now functioning as a warlord in the manner of a generalissimo. My definition of generalissimo not totally in agreement with the normal understanding of the word but close enough.

Also from the articles as seen at the Internet web site South Front written by Piero Messina.

2. "ETHIOPIA: TIGRAY REBEL FORCES CONQUER THE HOLY CITY OF LALIBELA"

"The rebel forces of Tigray have recaptured the city of Lalibela in northern Ethiopia. The news was spread by the local media. It is yet another development of the civil war in Ethiopia, with government forces engaged for over a year in fierce fighting against the TPLF militias, the liberation front of the people of Tigray. Lalibela is becoming the symbolic city of the conflict. The city center had previously been captured by Tigrinya fighters"

Lalibela the religious significance of which can not be underestimated. A symbol of great importance to the people of Ethiopia. 

3. "CIVIL WAR IN ETHIOPIA, AN ETERNAL STALEMATE WHILE PEOPLE DIE"

"The future of Ethiopia hangs in a precarious balance. It seems to never end the endless tug-of-war between the armed forces of the central government, led by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali, against the Tigray fighting formations, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front. The Tigrinya movement, while representing a minority in the country, until 2018 . . . was a fundamental element for the political balance of the country . . . Tigrinya have been the politically dominant ethnic group in the country, despite being only 6% of the total population of Ethiopia."

Pity the plight of the Ethiopian people. Stability, progress and harmony never seems to return to the country. Recurring calamity brought about by warfare a constant for many decades now.

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