There is a brutal civil war being waged in Ethiopia where political power grows from the barrel of a gun. On one side is the Western-backed corrupt, brutal regime of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, he who was bestowed the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize by the imperialists on the Nobel Committee in Norway.
On the other side are three armed groups with the ethnic Amhara FANO/Patriots army at the forefront. Included is the former ruling class, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and what is left of its once powerful army, today pretty much holding coats in this conflict. The other armed group opposing Ahmed is the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), not nearly as powerful or well-led as FANO but a threat nevertheless.
The Abiy regime is backed by the West, to be counted on when it comes to supporting their puppets in Africa. Abiy is little more than the mayor of the capital of Addis Ababa, having lost control of some 80% of the country. With the FANO fighters on one side and the OLA on the other side, Abiy has only about a 30-mile radius between him and the loss of his capital city and, if he is lucky, an exile in his supporters’ capital Abu Dhabi (or perhaps Dubai) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The bankster criminal class in the West is continuing to back Abiy with a recent emergency grant of $260 million alongside a “loan” for $1.5 billion as well as a “debt reduction” of $3.5 billion (Ethiopia has historically been the largest recipient of “debt reduction” in Africa). It seems even the banksters in the IMF have begun to realize they are backing a losing hand in Abiy Ahmed, admitting their Western bankster-investors are increasingly skeptical about putting up more money to support another gangster regime in Africa on the verge of collapse.
And now we hear about another U.S./UN World Food Program “aid” scheme that will see the diversion of more millions of dollars of food from those millions of starving people in Ethiopia to the Ethiopian military of Abiy Ahmed. The same thing happened a few years ago until this scandal could no longer be covered up and this “aid” diversion scheme was “suspended.” Now the same scam has been restarted with the pious reassurances that those in charge have “learned their lesson” and “it won’t happen again.”
FANO is on a roll militarily, steadily capturing territory around Addis Ababa as the defeat of the Ethiopian Army under Abiy accelerates. In the last few weeks, maybe a couple of months, more than 7,000 Ethiopian army troops, mainly from the Amhara ethnic group/nation, have surrendered to FANO with hundreds more surrendering almost daily. Some dozen generals from the Ethiopian Army, all Amhara, have either been “retired” or defected to FANO as PM Abiy grows increasingly paranoid of a coup d’état by those left in his inner circle of the army generals corps.
With the noose tightening around him, Abiy’s days are numbered and it is not if but when he will make a desperate dash for exile in the UAE. Hopefully, he will be captured and face justice for the genocidal crimes he has committed against the Ethiopian people.
Either way its seems that the once mighty Abyssinian Empire—what Ethiopia was known as until the middle of the 20th century—is about to come apart at the seams. A prison house of nations, Abyssinia/Ethiopia has been Africa’s only indigenous empire, built on the conquest of its neighbors, using Western firearms provided mainly by the Italians.
Machine guns versus cavalry has an inevitable ending with the result being a particularly brutal colonial empire. The Oromo nation, the largest in Africa today numbering more than 50 million with the second-most frequently spoken language in Africa, was the main goal of the Abyssinian conquest, something they had failed to do for centuries until acquiring Italian machine guns and artillery.
The subsequent brutality of the Abyssinian subjugation of the Oromos should be recognized for what it was, a genocide, with an estimated five million Oromos dying as a result. The scale and sheer inhumanity of the Abyssinian subjugation of the Oromos remains equal to, if not surpassing, the worst crimes of the Western imperialists when they invaded and colonized Africa. When you hear names like Menelik and Haile Selassie, heroes amongst many of those who have been deluded by historical fiction in the West, remember the Oromo genocide.
The Ethiopian empire is about to come apart at its seams with the birth of new nations, with names like Oromia, Amhara, Tigray, Afar, Ogaden amongst others in the soon-to-be-defunct Ethiopian prison house of nations.
Hopefully, these soon-to-be-independent nations will find enough common ground to establish a cooperative organization similar to the Sahel Alliance of Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Chad and Niger.
A saying in the Horn of Africa is “all roads to peace run through Asmara, Eritrea”; thus, the long, principled leadership role of the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front, today’s People’s Front for Democracy and Justice under the Lion of Africa, President Isaias Afwerki, will help guide the newly independent nations that once composed the Ethiopian empire through the perilous times to come.
Behind the scenes President Isaias has been preparing for this transition from colonialism to independence with “unofficial official” spokespersons like Eritrean media star Awel Seid already providing guidance for what Horn of Africans should expect in the not-too-distant future.
Of course, the Western bankster regimes are not going to sit idly and watch their “policemen on the beat” in Ethiopia become a footnote in history, for the Horn of Africa is too strategically critical to ignore, no matter the moronic programs the West will continue to promote.
Western hegemony is being battered on all sides but they will not go down without a fight, so expect twists and turns in the coming months and years, including all sorts of lies and slanders spewed against Eritrea as it begins to lead the transformation taking place from the Ethiopian empire to the birth of multiple new nations once imprisoned in Africa’s only indigenous empire, today’s Ethiopia.
For a more in-depth analysis of this, see https://www.youtube.com/live/Ht_7mEWs2ZI
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Thomas C. Mountain is an educator and historian with over 40 years background in Africa.
He lived and reported from Eritrea from 2006-2021 and at one time was the most widely distributed independent journalist in Africa.
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