Thread by @GinaAwet

With all due respect, you are only hearing the POV of the genocidal Ethiopian government. The #NoMore movement isn’t really about combatting imperialism. It’s about restoring the imperialism that frames Amhara culture as the dominant culture and all others as inferior.

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https://twitter.com/tamanishajohn/status/1465815779094548483

The #NoMore supporters wish to bring back kind of imperialism that Africans have been taught to praise, led by violent monarchs such as Emperor Haile Selassie & Emperor Menelik

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Multinational federalism allowed Ethiopians to be educated & served in their own languages for the first time. Ethiopia is a country with 80+ ethnic groups and when the EPRDF came to power in 1991, most Ethiopians (who lived in rural areas far from the centre) ...

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... did not speak the national language, Amharic. Despite this, government services, banking, health care & education was all conducted in a language unaccessible to the majority.

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Before multinational federalism, one effectively had to renounce their ethnicity & adopt an Amhara identity (language, culture, religion) to be accepted as “Ethiopian.” Multinational federalism changed that and enabled people to embrace their cultural heritage ...

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... alongside their Ethiopian identity. For this reason, I feel that the people who criticize the multinational federalist framework should provide an alternative solution to the disenfranchisement of all non-Amhara peoples.

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But they never do so because embracing Ethiopia’s diversity is inherently against their agenda.

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On the Ethiopian side, this war is about the tension between those who want a centralized, unitary Ethiopia with one language/culture (the current Government of Ethiopia & Amhara elites) & those who wish for a decentralized, multinational Ethiopia (everyone else).

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USA’s interests are to push a liberal economic agenda & to keep Ethiopia united as a country. The TPLF since its inception was highly influenced by socialist theory and as a result, they never opened up the Ethiopian economy to the USA’s satisfaction.

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That is why the current administration was so favoured by the West, especially before the genocide. The praise & the premature Nobel Peace Prize were all rewards for finally breaking open the Ethiopian market of 110million + to greedy multinational corporations.

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The Prime Ministers efforts to re-centralize power are also favourable to the USA, as exploitation of resources is easier to achieve if people have no autonomy over their lands.

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If the USA were on the TPLF’s side, why are they allowing millions of Tigrayans (the TPLF’s base) to starve at the hands of their chosen neocolonial Nobel Peace Prize winning Prime Minister?

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The truth is, the USA still sees the TPLF as an economic inconvenience.

On the other hand, the USA constantly makes excuses for the Prime Minister’s egregious genocidal behaviour.

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Please visit @OmnaTigray & look up the #TigrayGenocide to learn about the violence the people of Tigray are being subjected to.

Then ask yourself how the USA would have responded had they truly been allies to the TPLF.

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omnatigray.org/situation-repo…