For the past 26 years, Ethiopia has been ruled by an authoritarian government. The party in government is the Tigrayan People鈥檚 Liberation Front (TPLF) 鈥 a very criminal group.
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Government-sanctioned mass killings in Gambella in Ethiopia by South Sudanese forces, which decimated the Anuak Tribe in January last year, is a clear example of the second wave of atrocities of the maleficient rulers towards the forgotten people of the African Horn.
The struggles of Ethiopians protesting repression and government-sponsored development programs have gone virtually unreported over the past year 鈥 and so has the murder of hundreds of people by the state for taking part in the resistance.
The struggles are centred among the Oromo people 鈥 the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia, but who have suffered marginalisation and oppression.
United States President Barack Obama has carried out classically colonial, imperialistic policies towards Africa during his time in office.
John Feffer, from the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies, said in a Common Dreams article: 鈥淪trip away all the modern PR and prettified palaver and it鈥檚 an ugly scramble for oil, minerals, and markets for U.S. goods.鈥
Members of the Oromo community in Melbourne protest against the Ethiopian regime, January 3. Photos: Ali Bakhtiarvandi.
鈥淭his government is at least better than previous ones,鈥 remarked a 74-year-old Eritrean man to me last month in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, his longtime residence.
鈥淣ations cannot realise the full promise of independence until they fully protect the rights of their people,鈥 Barrack Obama, president of the United States, said on tour to Kenya and Ethiopia last year. This is ironic, because on that trip he failed to criticise human rights abuses by the Ethiopian government, which he hailed as 鈥渄emocratically elected鈥.
Ethiopians are very familiar with the government鈥檚 attempts to oppress any opposition. The Tigrayan People鈥檚 Liberation Front (TPLF) government took power in 1991. All opponents are persecuted as terrorist collaborators.