Debebe Seifu wrote this poem about the famine during the Emperor's era. "A letter to myself" /"ለራስ የተጻፈ ደብዳቤ" is a very sad yet very interesting work that describes how the plight of Ethiopian peasants is usually ignored by urban elites.1/ #Ethiopia
@shegerfm If true, this is not just absurd. This would be against both the FDRE Constitution and treaties ratified by Ethiopia. Can you share the relevant parts of the this law?
In this article, @tadessesimie , @w_tiruneh and myself argued that there is a need for a comprehensive cessation of hostilities for the effective implementation of the newely adopted transitional justice policy in Ethiopia.
ISS Today > Without peace in Ethiopia, transitional justice will be difficult
A comprehensive cessation of hostilities is necessary for the country to reap the benefits of effective transitional justice. https://t.co/jqJJbBA6S0
@TirusewAsefa Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I wonder what makes you assume Ethiopian authorities won't be willing to sign a disguised water sharing agreement in the name of rules of filling and operations.
2/ That is what Egypt has always wanted and Ethiopia has always rejected. What has changed now for
@AbiyAhmedAli@DemekeHasen@TayeAtske
etc. to feel that a fair deal is possible? And that in 4 months? //
1/ Depending on the nature of the agreement and its detailed rules, this so-called "Agreement...on the Filling of GERD and the Rules of Its Operations" has a potential to become a disguised water sharing scheme that accepts the unfair Colonial era arrangement.
5/ Now, if you want to talk about the real problem, talk about the Constitution. Don't lecture Gurages or any other group separately about the perils of ethnic politics. Reform the system or let it reach its logical conclusion by forming a region for each ethnic group. //
1/ The Constitution says every nation, nationality or people can form its own country let alone its own region. That is the elephant in the room. Instead of reforming the system @AbiyAhmedAli 's PP got in the bussiness of giving some groups a region while denying others.
4/ But PP has already started playing with the time bomb. If things continue like this, PP's ethnic federalism would be one of the worst ethnic federalisms to have ever existed. We will one day start saying EPRDF's ethnic federalism was actually a unitary system.