Solomon Gebreselassie and Neamin Zeleke discuss the prospect of popular uprising in Ethiopia in view of worsening repression and layers of crisis in the country
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Toronto – Many Ethiopian political activists have been pointing out a multilayered politically designed crises in a way to serve the ruling party to consolidate power dwarfs factors that triggered successful uprisings that overthrew dictators in other countries.
They cite the experiences of Sri Lanka, and the more recent ones in Nepal, Madagascar and a popular movement in Kenya, The brute and injustice the Ethiopian people shouldered in the past seven years are far more worse than what caused protest in these countries.
Ethiopian Solidarity Movement – which is operating in the United States – seems to share the view. Solomon Gebreselassie and Neamin Zeleke appeared on Anchor Media to discuss popular uprising in Ethiopia.
“It is horrifying to imagine if the Abiy Ahmed administration continues… the country is on the verge of a cliff,” says Solomon. He cites the absence of peace and security in the country, unbearable (and rising) cost of living and threats of war – among other reasons.
Neamin shared the feeling. He added that the social crisis, rise in crime rate including organized kidnapping , worsening human rights violations , attack on press freedom and lack of rule of law reached a disaster level for many years now. In many measures, he says, the government is worse than the dictators before it.
Yet, there are views that worsening ethnic nationalism might stand in the way of a successful popular revolution. Solomon does not seem to buy it given Ethiopia’s experience over the past three decades.
What is your view? Watch it and share your views in the comment section.
Video : embedded from Anchor Media YouTube channel
Cover photo : Screenshot from the video
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