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...Fighting broke out in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region in 2020 after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed accused fighters there of attacking the federal army....
...In Ethiopia, where all transitions of power since the fall of emperor Haile Selassie in 1974 have been violent, his words still resonate: “Peace is a day-to-day problem.”...
...They did so in the 1940s against Emperor Haile Selassie in the so-called Woyane rebellion....
...Any interim government would have, as a matter of urgency, to try to settle the issue that has eaten away at Ethiopia at least since the fall of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974....
...Haile Selassie, who oversaw a feudal system, was deposed and later executed after a student-inspired, Marxist-led uprising in 1974....
...“Many Oromo feel he has a nostalgia for the imperial days,” said Merera Gudina, chairman of an Oromo opposition party, citing Abiy’s praise of Menelik II and Emperor Haile Selassie....
...Mulatu accepted a medal from Abiy only a few months previously. Does that mean he supports the war? Mulatu parries....
...Tigrayans have a long history of fighting: first in a 1940s rebellion against Emperor Haile Selassie, then in a guerrilla war against the Derg regime that led to the Tigrayans ruling Ethiopia from 1991 after...
...Every transition in Ethiopia since the fall of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974 has been violent, say analysts. Hopes that Abiy could engineer a peaceful change of guard appear to have failed....
...the 20th century, or the Derg military junta of Mengistu Haile Mariam, overthrown in 1991....
...Demonstrations even found an echo in London where about 100 men carrying the Oromo flag smashed the statue of Haile Selassie, the former emperor, in a park in Wimbledon....
...In 2018, after years of unrest, Abiy Ahmed became prime minister, promising democracy, a more open economy and peace with Eritrea....
...It is the compound from which Emperor Menelik II conquered swaths of territory, where Haile Selassie passed judgment until he was toppled by a Marxist revolt in 1974, and from which Meles Zenawi, strongman...
...Asfa-Wossen Asserate, the great nephew of Haile Selassie, Ethiopia’s last emperor, put it more bluntly. “This is the last chance for Ethiopia,” he said....
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