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Toronto – Ethiopia’s 2018 academic year kicked off on Monday across the country but over four million have not returned to school in the Amhara region of Ethiopia.
It is the region’s Education bureau that reported about it.
Mulunesh Dessie, head of the region’s Education bureau, has reportedly disclosed that the number of students registered across the region is less than three million.
Her statement indicates that there are over four million students in the region who are not yet back to school.
Sources from the region indicated that there are schools even in Bahir Dar – seat of the regional government – that are not offering classes. There are also students in the city who have not registered for the academic year.
The situation is related to the security crisis in the region. Over 90 percent of it has been a war zone over the last two years because of what turned out to be a large-scale war between the Fano forces and the Federal government.
Despite the Defense Chief of Staff claiming that over 90 percent of Fano forces have been eliminated, Fano forces have been reporting significant military victories in many parts of the region. Also, they claim that much of the region – particularly in the rural areas – is under their control.
Over the past two years, humanitarian organizations have been reporting that more than five million students have been out of school due to the conflict.
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The same goes in the western, central and several southern areas of Oromia region too. I guess this is called ‘liberation’. You keep the young generation out of school and that will give you a reliable and constant supply of unskilled human resources. What a tragedy!!!
The armed groups in both Amhara and Oromia regions use policies right out of the textbook of the similar armed groups of the 1970’s in Eritrea. I had the opportunity to meet one former teacher in those days in one of the rural and small town in Eritrea. He told me on more than one occasion the small town where he taught was raided by both the ELF and EPLF units at different times. According to him both did not show any hostility towards him personally. ELF left town with no damage to the schools but the EPLF used to ransack every class and store rooms and use that to open alternative schools in the wilderness. They escalated that to bigger towns leaving the youth with no alternatives but only to join them. Mengistu’s ‘nights of the piano wire’ played right in the hands of the EPLF swelling the size of its fighting force. Their fighting force skyrocketed from just about 200 to thousands overnight. Once you are in, you can’t get out. TPLF used that same tactics word for word in the 1970’s and 80’s. The same today. What would the alternatives that 14 or 16 year old young man have when his education is irreparably disrupted by violence? He does not have the enough money to pay illegal human traffickers to leave the country. He is now mad as hell and confused. That’s when the connivers and bigots hiding out in some rabbit holes in the wilderness come in. He is well baked, glazed and ready to slice. So the story continues.
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