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Abiy's War is a war on Peoples' Democratic Aspirations!
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Abiy's war on Tigray--just like his wars on Oromia, Wolaita, Konso, Sidama, and others--is a war against peoples' right to self-rule.

It's a war on peoples' insistence on the right to democratic election. It is a war conducted in reckless defiance of the constitutional limit to the term of office of an elected government. (The interesting thing is that Abiy is orchestrating his war on democracy by hiding under the internationally ascribed badge of "a reformist" PM as a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Poor Nobel! Little did he know that the prestige of the award in his name is going to be deployed behind Abiy's war to destroy democracy, to defy rule of law, to threaten peace, and to perpetrate genocide in Ethiopia.

True to his character as a counter-revolutionary insurgent that slipped through the revolutionary moment's door (#Oromoprotests2015-2018), Abiy has long drifted away into becoming a reactionary that has hijacked the reform people have been seeking. Abiy has become the very enemy, in deed the nemesis, of democracy, human rights, and rule of law in Ethiopia.

As it stands now, especially after the expiry of his term of office on the 5th of October 2020, Abiy's war is an open war against democratic aspirations of 112 million Ethiopians. His war on Tigray is only an instantiation of his general and continued war on democracy. In Tigray, it is an anti-demicratic war to undo the election conducted in the region, a war to depose a democratically elected government and replace it with his own handpicked stooges who don't even live in Tigray.

Abiy's wars have been wars of the lawless regime against the lawful ones. It is the war of lawless bandits in Finfinnee against a legally constituted goverment in Mekelle. It is a war of the lawless against the thin semblance of the rule of law and constitutionalism in the country.

Invariably, in all the instances mentioned above--be it in Tigray, Oromia, Wolaita, Sidama, or Konso--Abiy's wars have shown themselves to be genocidal wars, always preceded by ethnic profiling, ethnic cleansing, total securitization of peoples' identities, and unspeakable brutalities inflicted upon groups before a full-blown military assault.

Unlike what some uninformed western journalists make it to look like, this is not a war of a few politicians locked in power struggle. No, it is not. In fact, it is anything but.

This is a war of a regime that has overstayed its term of office waging a war on peoples' right to democracy

This is a war to silence the popular demand for democracy.

Above all, Abiy's war has been a war against Ethiopia's oppressed nations who had pegged their hope on the constitutional promise of a multinational federal order within which they practice a measure of democratic self-rule and self-determination.

Thankfully, it is a war he has lost before he started it. A war without a cause is already a lost war. A war against democracy is an unwinnable war. A war against people is even worse: it is a crime. And it shall be prosecuted as such in due course.

#Abiys_war_is_a_war_against_democracy_justice_and_peace! #Abiy's_war_is_a_Crime!
#Abiy_is_a_criminal!
#OperationRestoreDignity
By: via Qerro Media Service - QMS