Stop This Madness in Ethiopia and Withdraw the Nobel Peace Prize from Abiy Ahmed! Published on November 27, 2020
Status is online Ali Mansouri
Writer, Researcher, Consultant “The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea. The prize is also meant to recognise all the stakeholders working for peace and reconciliation in Ethiopia and in the East and Northeast African regions.” (Oslo, 11 October 2019) Now, instead of doing his best to achieve peace, Abiy Ahmed is destroying his own country by launching a brutal war against one of the most important minorities in Ethiopia, which may lead to a bitter and lengthy civil war not only in the Tigray region but also in the other regions of Ethiopia well-known for its too many ethnic minorities. And instead of engaging in “international cooperation” as the Nobel Prize requires, Abiy Ahmed is asking the international community to “mind their own business” and not interfere to stop the war because he has already won the Nobel Prize for the peace that he will achieve through a bloody war against his fellow citizens! The world is being shocked every day by the videos, scenes, and images of the brutal war in Ethiopia. This madness has no justification whatsoever and should be stopped immediately. The war has been raging for three weeks with hundreds of people being killed every day and thousands already displaced and thousands more fleeing the country to neighboring Sudan which has already declared itself as a “land of catastrophe and human emergency” due to the recent devastating floods bearing in Page 1 of 4