Addis Ababa, October 11, 2021(Walta) – The West should not be concerned with the internal affairs of the newly elected government of Ethiopia rather reflect and do to end the prolonged conflict that costs pain, killings, and displacing of civilians in a home in the northern part, said Prof. Ann Fitz-Gerald and Hugh Segal.
In their latest article, both Director of Balsillie School of International Affairs and Wilfrid Laurier University’s Political Science Department International Security Prof. Ann Fitz-Gerald and Queen’s University’s Mathews Fellow in Global Public Policy Hugh Segal said: “The West should not be concerned with the Ethiopian people’s readiness to hold the new government to account.”
According to them, Ethiopia has experienced in defense of its sovereignty and integrity in history, leave Ethiopians more than ready to do this. Instead, the West must stand to halt bloody conflict and prolonged humanitarian crises in northern Ethiopia.
“Failure to do so leads encouraging new global fractures that will be unhelpful to both the developed and developing world’s alike” they written in red pen recently in Ethiopia’s regard,” they added.
The TPLF posed a complex conventional and cyber threat, on a scale that any developing and democratic sovereign state required international support to deter and manage, they urged. Both, however, said that the Abiy government suffered from a lack of international support and the absence of focused investigative evidence-based analysis on the ground they reaffirmed.
“The international community must confront TPLF’s use of child soldiers, their deliberate attacks and targeting of internally displaced persons, their misuse of humanitarian aid supplies, and the disappearance of 428 UN aid trucks that remain unaddressed issues. Treating equally legitimate government and TPLF is key problems now”.
The UN Secretary-General has claimed that Ethiopia’s expulsion of UN staff members was an illegal move, but internal sources have turned to others to communicate their concern over the corruption of UN operations in Tigray. Only an in-depth and independent investigation and supporting evidence were provided to make clear the situation.
They stated that what has been learned from the experience, however, is that positions taken by some towards Ethiopia over the past 10 months, informed by this disconnect, often blame both sides equally. This is unconstructive.
According to EPA, both noted that: “We should not underestimate the potential and lasting damage generated by the selective and illiberal application of so-called “Western values” in Africa.”