The merchants of the wars and the plight of Horn of Africa A. Alexander, Professor of Easter and African Studies Part 3 This is the third and final part of my reflection on Ethiopia. In this section, I will discuss the future of Ethiopia by highlighting its Achilles heel and by providing some recommendations. Before that, I would like to answer a question that some of my good friends have asked me: Why do I write about Ethiopia? My answer is that even though I have lived my adult life away from Ethiopia, my affection for the country from my early childhood has remained with me. I love its beautiful scenery, welcoming people, and the lack of generation gap where young and old talk to you, families welcome you to their home, church, private spaces or share with you whatever small they have. That impression has remained with me. Furthermore, as a person interested in spirituality, Ethiopia is a mysterious and intriguing country for me. Ethiopia appears fragile, weak
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How the struggle to defend the people targeted for genocide I am grateful to those Ethiopians who followed my blog and twitter messages. I received long writeup and relevant evidences for the last three days. I summarized the messages I received from Ethiopian defending themselves against the PM Abiy led genocide as follows:- How the struggle can continue, The public is feeling anxious and frustrated, but we can reassure them that victory is assured. Fano represents the people, and the People is Fano. There is no distinction between the people and Fano, Abiy cannot kill all the Amharas, even with his ambition to disarm, subjugate and exterminate them. What happening in Wellega is a good example. We are stronger than we were a few weeks ago, with many thousands of Amhara Special Forces joining the struggle bringing the number of Amhara Fano's, militia, and Special Forces has gone more than 100,000. Preamble: As long as humans exist, the struggle for human rights, demo