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His government has been under pressure for at least the past two years for failing to uphold the rule of law in Ethiopia.
borkena
December 28, 2020
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been widely criticized for the ethnic mass massacres in the Benishangul Gumuz region, the Oromo region and southern Ethiopia.
In fact, one of the latest massacres in the Benishangul Gumuz region that claimed the lives of at least 207 innocent civilians from the majority of the Amhara and Agarw ethnic groups occurred hours after he returned from a meeting with the region’s authorities and Metekel, the area where most of the massacres took place.
A considerable number of its critics even tend to think that the massacre is deliberately orchestrated with the aim of an ethnic cleansing against the Amhara ethnic group.
Abiy Ahmed appears to take note of the growing opposition to his administration.
On Monday, he said that peace and security are central objectives in what his administration calls a “10-year National Outlook Plan,” something that is a critical point in itself. His critics think that his government is unelected and has no mandate to prepare a ten-year plan. But there is a claim that it is the Planning and Development Commission that is said to have prepared the ten-year plan. And the House of People’s Representatives is discussing it.
For him, “development” is the tool to achieve lasting peace. He wrote on his Facebook page “Development makes lasting peace possible. Our 10-year National Outlook Plan is unique in recognizing this and places peace and the rule of law as critical objectives within the plan. Various measures are being taken, even in difficult times, that require close collaboration between citizens and institutions to achieve lasting peace. ”
For the innocent citizens who are butchered almost every week now simply for who they are, the words are likely not comforting.
For most of the last two years, massacres in different parts of the country were linked to the Tigray Popular Liberation Front (TPLF). However, the TPLF no longer appears to be in a position to coordinate mass killings in different parts of the country, as its ability is believed to be significantly weakened after the operation to enforce the rule of law in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. .
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