By Aschalew Kebede Abebe
Ever since the so-called “Nobel Peace Prize Winner” PM Abiy Ahmed came to power, Ethiopia has been going through its darkest night. The ever increasing starvations of people in millions, endless killing, abduction, ethnic cleansing (Amhara people…), economical embezzlement, diplomatic chaos…are marks that gauge the political spectrum of his regime.
Despite what is very visible in the country, the PM tries to portray himself differently. From time to time his depictions come in different forms; as a green revolutionist, a theocratic leader, a pacifier of all Abrahamic religions, a transcendental leader that carries Ethiopia over the lurking malevolent political spirits of the past, present and future.
Next December it will be five years since the PM grabbed the Nobel Peace Prize. He stepped up to power giving oaths to democratize the country, turning prisons into museums, ending the ‘no war no, peace’ situation between Ethiopia and Eritrea…
According to the will of Alfred Nobel, the one who brought peace prize into existence, the peace prize is supposed to be given to the person who had done most for” fraternity between nations for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congress”
As it is stated during the ceremony of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, PM Abiy Ahmed received both the certificate and the prize because he made an agreement with Eritrea that ended the tense situation between the two countries. The question raised here is that why didn’t they share this prize with the president of Eritrea? This is an appropriate question when we think of those opposition leaders who were in Eretria were the one who were responsible to bridge the two leaders
Prior to the ascent of PM Abiy, Eritrea was under sanction for years from the west and President Isaias was leveled as a dictator; and at the same time Abiy was working as intelligence chief that tortured journalists, opposition politicians, religious groups and the citizens at large. So, asking a question, under what pardon Dr. Abiy was excused and nominated, and why Pr. Isaias didn’t become natural.
After the Nobel Prize, It didn’t take him time for the so-called Nobel peace Prize Winner to display his dark self. Speaking about the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam he passed a message to the Egyptian that he himself doesn’t hesitate to detonate the Aswan dam? One question that should be raised here is how can a sane mind project such a tragedy ending the life of millions who live by the bank of the Nile river?
Now after he has been in the palace for the past five years, what the world is witnessing is devastation. Millions of people are displaced from Tigray, Amhara and Afara because of the war between the Tigray forces and the Federal Government. Especially pulling the war to Wello, the hub of Amhara region, was a deliberate action to destroy Amhara’s essence of beingness and to pave the way for his next move, the continued war in the Amhara region.
It is heartbreaking to see millions of Amhara people under the yoke of his tyranny. Women, children, elders, hospitals, schools… are bombarded by airplanes and drones in the Amhara region on an everyday basis and still now going on. And the Prime Minister loves to do it from his situation room. He and his leadership are chaotic. It is now heard in his recent assembly that he gathered; he warned the Eritrean regime that if they try to antagonize him, he will turn Eritrea into Gaza. He further noted that if Fano, Tigrian forces and Eritrea try to make an alliance then he will turn them into Iraq. What is happening with the sanity of this man?
From his talks, walks and looks he exhibited mental insanity. Bipolar and multiple personality disorders surfaced on him so many times. If one reads his book by the title “Erkabna Menber” which was published before he came to power, it is easy to spot narcissistic elements like manipulation and control. He is also in a grandeur delusion. Despite the fact that he has just wrongly ascended to power in that poor country, there is one guy in him who speaks about himself as if he is a mighty smatter: the right hand of God.
What a mistake to hand over the Nobel Peace Prize to such a diabolist! It is true that Alfred Nobel invented explosives including dynamite. His inventions serve both purposes; good and bad. Later on his deathbed Alfred Nobel gave away his wealth for the good of humanity. Maybe he understood the potential danger he introduced to the world, or he did it out of remorse after his brother and many others died in an explosion in his company. But PM Abiy stayed behind and resorted to the material itself; the explosive, the bomb…that detonates and splashes blood all over the country. What a pity to see the detonator man holding the Nobel Peace Prize in his hand!
Aschalew Kebede Abebe
Metro Vancouver, Canada
very timely article. Thank you.
It is very sad an ancient country it`s name mentioned more than 50 times in the holy Bible and the People are God fearing, falling in the hand of small minded and evil person, maybe it is the curse of God, to punish the people for the time being.