Why did Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed with a Noble Peace Prize, fight a War?
The very popular and the most talked-about person these days in the Tigray War of 2020–2021 has to be the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Mr. Abiy Ahmed. His conversion from being the idol of Peace to entering into a war took only one year. What happened? What is the Root cause and who is the person Abiy Ahmed? In this article, we will look deeper into the Prime Minister of Ethiopia and much more.
Learn more about PM Abiy Ahmed
Abiy Ahmed Ali, born on 15th August 1975 is the 4th Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia from 2nd April 2018. Abiy is the elected member of the Ethiopian Parliament and was a member of the Oromo Democratic Party (ODP). In the year 2019, he became the first Ethiopian to bag the Noble Peace Prize for his exemplary work on ending the 20-year post-war stalemate between Ethiopia and Eritrea. Being a child of a Farmer he is well known for accepting peace over anything whatsoever. But things worsen in the last year, as there became political unrest in Ethiopia, leading to huge breakouts and mobbing all over the country. Due to the predominant COVID situation, Abiy thought of pushing the election to a year back and this caused all the trouble. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front started not accepting the fact he wanted to push back the election. They wanted the election to be held immediately, as they wanted a new member of the Parliament to rule over Ethiopia. But Ahmed refused to do so and this led to the Tigray War of 2020–2021.
The war started by The Tigray People’s Liberation Front who looted the Central Defense of Ethiopia and made quite the action against the law. This gave the Central government a mighty chance to lush out on these revolters. Instead, things got bigger and a war started between the country fighting with its people. There are billions of people in Tigray and Ethiopia who are collapsed and need help, the current situation has led the whole world to think about the condition and the fate of the land of Ethiopia.
What is the Cause of Abiy’s involvement in the War?
Being the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, he is given the able task of controlling the people and the places under him. Now, what happened, that a country went to war with its motherland? Abiy Ahmed Ali passed the first electoral test in June but that was not a very smooth test to be precise. Outbreaks and boycotts were going around the whole country by The Tigray People’s Liberation Front. As Abiy won the Electoral there were thousands of people who gathered around the day of his oath-taking ceremony and many African Political leaders made it a point to pay a visit to the future Prime Minister of Ethiopia. But at that time there was already a smell of division that started between the people of Ethiopia. Ahmed’s governing Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front had been accused in many places across the country of repression of human rights and also included locking up of opposition party members and even locking down the Media in many cases. The EPRDF had successfully seen many of the economies rise but when the common people were told about it, they even didn’t know about the same and felt no change in their activities that was related to the economic rise of the country. There was a feeling of marginalization that was felt in many parts and groups of the country and was felt the most by the Oromo who are a well-known ethnic group in Ethiopia lead to quite the trouble in disguise. But being an Oromo himself, many people came up to the forefront and made Abiy realize that he should be doing something for them. He understood the mishap EPRDF was causing and immediately brought all the Political Members who were exiled in jail back to their homes, withdrew bans from the Media propaganda, and even invited the long-lost exiled Opposition Political party to come and give their views on his work. He took the advice so seriously that to promote gender equality he even made a woman the president of Ethiopia.
After the Peace Prize, Mr. Ali became extremely happy about his position in Ethiopia and he made a deal with Eritrea and called up to open the borders between the two countries. He toured the whole country and was amazed to see that he was able to help and influence so many people around his country, he talked about brotherhood, peace, and bringing national feelings between the citizen. Things were going as well as they could. But to maintain the power and position, one fine day the Army’s Chief of Staff and the leader of the country’s second-largest region was murdered in a single night. Not only this many officials of lower and middle-level posts met with the same nightmare. To support and understand who was the person or the people associated with the trouble, Mr.Ahmed locked the Internet and media facilities of Ethiopia to make sure that this news doesn’t spread the world. The suspects were later caught and were again released after serving for only weeks or months. The condition of Ethiopia saw another moment when the famous Oromo Musician Hachalu Hundessa was murdered in the capital city of Addis Ababa.
There is an ample number of more incidents that happened in Ethiopia and at the same time that was shut down or stopped from sharing. Mr.Abiy Ahmed Ali who is the Prime Minister of Ethiopia claims to bring peace but in many cases, it is not something he brought. It is not easy to decide and rule over an unrested piece of land like Ethiopia but at the same time, it is not legitimate to get innocent people murdered. The Tigray war which is going on as we speak is not just a nightmare but is more than that. We pray to god that the destruction of people in the name of power and position stops immediately and that the people of Ethiopia get back the lives they’ve always wanted and hoped for. Mr.Abiy Ahmed Ali is a notable name in the History of Ethiopia no doubt! He will be remembered as the only Prime Minister who received the First Noble Prize from Ethiopia and went into a war with his own country. Now, that is good or bad, for whose fault and who is to be blamed, that I leave on you to decide!
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