Ethiopian Airlines on Tuesday made
five flights in a single day transporting over 1,000 heavily armed soldiers to
Bahr Dar city, the capital of Amhara region which also in the forefront of an
anti government uprising that has engulfed the entire Gonder-Gojjam mainstream
Amhara region.
Chief of
Staff Samora Yunus has arrived in Gonder, signifying that the army is going to
be deployed to crush the public uprising against 25 years of brutal ethnic
minority rule in the country.
Thousands of
soldiers are also being rushed to the area along land routes. In many towns and
villages, government administrations have been dismantled and people’s
committees installed.
Prime
Minister Hailemariam Desalegn on his part has given orders to the country’s
security forces to secure law and order in the protest-hit areas. During a
press briefing, Hailemariam blamed what he called the traditional enemies of
the country as well as the ‘extremist diaspora’ for fomenting unrest.
Many
activists have interpreted Hailemariam’s order as a “declaration of war” on the
Amhara people. Others have expressed fear that the army may commit genocide to
violently put down the uprising.
Given the
determination of the people, still other Ethiopians fear the country may slide
into a civil war that may make Syria a child’s play. Ethiopia, they say, is
home to nearly 100 million people, five times Syria’s, whose population was 22
million in 2015, and any civil war in Ethiopia means an unprecedented
humanitarian catastrophe in Africa
Source : Ethiomedia
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