Taye Danda, former Minister of Peace, reveals that Abiy Ahmed deliberately ignited the Tigray war to fuel conflict between Tigrayans and Amharas—triggering mass civilian suffering and national collapse
By Makonnen G
Writer and observer of Ethiopian current affairs
This government in Ethiopia has become something beyond anything we’ve known in modern history. It defies classification, defies logic, and certainly defies decency. What we are witnessing under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is not simply authoritarianism—it is a calculated brutality, a cold and relentless campaign to silence, displace, and annihilate a people.
He will stop at nothing to cling to power. No law, no moral boundary, no human value restrains him. And that is why we struggle to define this regime—because history offers no perfect parallel. Even the darkest dictatorships of the past had motives, twisted as they were, that aimed to elevate their own. Hitler, for all his atrocities, believed he was advancing Germany. Mussolini sought to restore Roman glory. Their evil had a perverse rationale—nationalism, supremacy, conquest.
But what of Abiy Ahmed?
He massacres his own citizens. He unleashes drones, militias, and bullets not on a foreign enemy, but on fellow Ethiopians—on the Amhara people. Entire villages are wiped out. Men are dragged from their homes. Women and children are caught in the crossfire or starved under blockades. The very people he vowed to lead and protect are those he is systematically erasing.
And now, we know even more.
Lately, Taye Danda, a close colleague of Abiy Ahmed and, in fact, his own Minister of Peace, has come forward with a devastating revelation. He exposed what many suspected but few dared say aloud: that Abiy Ahmed himself started the war in Tigray—intentionally. According to Taye, the Prime Minister admitted to initiating the conflict with the aim of pitting the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) against the Amhara people. It was not a war of defense or sovereignty—it was a war of manipulation and blood politics.
And Abiy’s plan worked—horrifically so.
After defeating Abiy’s federal army, TPLF forces pushed southward, through Amhara lands, leaving destruction in their wake. Civilians were massacred. Hospitals, schools, and infrastructure were decimated. The violence reached within 100 kilometers of Addis Ababa. Only then did Abiy push them back into Tigray—but by then, his deeper goal had been fulfilled. The seeds of tribal hatred had been sown. Amharas and Tigrayans were plunged into a conflict neither wanted, but one engineered by a man obsessed with power.
Is this not monstrous?
This is not governance. This is not leadership. This is state-led terror—manipulated, ignited, and fueled by the very man who stands at Ethiopia’s helm.
Let us be clear: Abiy Ahmed is not a reformer. He is not a peace prize laureate. He is a man consumed by the thirst for control, who now presides over mass murder. And history will remember him not as a unifier or visionary, but as a destroyer—of lives, of trust, of Ethiopia’s soul.
We speak today not out of hatred, but out of a moral obligation to truth. To remain silent would be to betray the dead. To stay neutral is to aid the killer. We owe it to the victims, to the mothers crying over graves, to the children whose futures are stolen, to say: This must stop.
And the world must no longer look away.
Let this be a record. Let no one say they did not know.
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