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Toronto – The 129th anniversary of Adwa Victory is reportedly celebrated in Mount Soloda, Adwa, Tigray region of Ethiopia.
Art works that commemorated the unity and valour of the Ethiopians who fought at the battle of Adwa were presented.
VOA Amharic reported that Ethiopia’s State Minister for Tourism, Endegena Abebe, and Tigray Region Culture and Tourism head Atsbeha Gebregziabher attended the event.
Ednegena Abebe reportedly said “The Victory of Adwa had opened a new chapter for Ethiopia and oppressed people.”
Dr, Atsbeha seems to have conveyed a mixture of messages. While he called for working on the need to make the site a tourist attraction and attract researchers, he was also talking about restoration of “Tigray’s territorial boundary” – a reference to areas that Tigray people’s Liberation Front (TPLF) incorporated to Tigray region from two provincial administrations after taking power in 1991 (the administrative structure was not ethnic based at the time) and lost after it lost domination of Federal government power in 2018.
The report also indicated that TPLF leaders under Debretsion Gebremichael have attended the event. Getachew Reda, President of Tigray Interim Administration, did not attend it. The source unspecified whether his absence is related to the security situation in connection with the tension between the two TPLF factions.
Meanwhile, the Abiy Ahmed led Federal government continued to make restrictions on the Adwa Victory celebration in Addis Ababa. Adwa victory has been celebrated for seven years after the battle. And it used to be an open air event near the statue of Emperor Menelik, in front of St. George Cathedral.
Since last year, the celebration was shifted to Adwa museum and the Defense force runs a town hall event in the museum. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Administration has lost, it is noticeable, credibility from the majority of Ethiopians. His government’s policy change on Adwa celebration in Addis Ababa has become another point that triggered questions as to the motives of his government. There are views that tend to see the changes as an appeasement to radical ethnic Oromo nationalists within his government structure and outside of it who have been hostile to the history of Emperor Menelik. There are even those who push for the removal of the Emperor Statue from where it is standing now.
At the Adwa Museum meeting hall event, Defense Chief of Staff Berhanu Jula made a speech. “What we learn from Adwa victory is standing in guard of Ethiopia’s National interest,” the state media cited him as saying.
“What we are preparing for is,” he added “to adequately defend foreign attacks targeting Ethiopia’s National Interest.” As is the case with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopian Defense Force leaders have lost credibility in many parts of Ethiopia. They are increasingly seen as defenders of Abiy Ahmed’s administration. Defense Force leaders deny that “they are not serving Abiy Ahmed’s government. They are serving an elected government and it is constitutional.”
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dirty marauders who have eliminated > 20 ethnicities (like thrie white anglosaxons who eliminated the indigenous Indians), now the two stand shoulder to shoulder with their unending hatred to Menelik the Grerat who defeated white supremacists and equally agnostic wild killers – no wonder, PP is bending to killers!
I didn’t celebrate Victory Day for a long time. Without peace in our country, the Battle Of Adwa seems like a lie.