Ethiopia: Medemer Will Not Save Abiy Ahmed

[Deeq A.]

One year ago, Abiy Ahmed, the Ethiopian Prime Minister, tweeted that Ethiopian National Defences had started operations with limited objectives in Tigray. The fall of Mekelle deluded Abiy and his extremist supporters such as Fano, the Amhara wing promoting genocide against Tigrayans, into thinking that the ‘operation’ was over, and that TPLF had been routed.

What followed astonished the world opinion: thousands of Ethiopian POWs in Tigray being looked after by Tigray Defence Forces had changed the trajectory of the civil war. Abiy claimed that he had withdrawn his troops from Tigray for humanitarian reasons, but the hateful language and the persecution of Tigrayans have not stopped.

Through Prosperity and its foundational tract Medemer Abiy Ahmed engineered perdition in Ethiopia.

Shortly after winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, Abiy Ahmed peddled his theory of leadership, Medemer, (coming together), to take advantage of his short-lived fame and install himself as a powerful dictator of Ethiopia under Prosperity, a party he formed to replace EPRDF.

The irony is that Prosperity turned out to be Perdition given how his policies have caused massive dislocations in the collective national psyche of Ethiopians due to the civil war declared by him. Medemer is an Amhara agenda to revive the imperial past of Ethiopia, a dream derided by Lencho Letta, the former Oromo Liberation Front leader.

Abiy showing off an underserved prize.

Abiy ordered the detention of key Oromo political leaders known for their level-headed support for the Ethiopian federal system. Abiy was appointed to premiership on an Oromo ticket in 2018, but the Oromos have become the first victims of his unbearably oppressive regime. The alliance of Tigrayan and Oromo fighters shows commitment to defeating Abiy and his core Amhara fascist clique who cannot understand the significance of the 1991 regime change. The federal system of Ethiopia was devised to protect the rights of all ethnicities. Extremist groups such as Fano dream of Amhara supremacy that cannot be achieved without the disintegration of Ethiopia.

Abiy has no legitimacy to remain in power. He must resign so that a caretaker government made up of progressive forces can prepare Ethiopia for reconciliation, and then for transition to democracy. The Medemer drivel cannot replace the hard-worn experience gained through the federal system that prevents the Ethiopian state from becoming an enemy of its own people.

Mulugeta Adematu, Addis Ababa

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