Note: This article is by Michael Rubin, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a contributing editor of 1945. The article promotes TPLF’s, not Ethiopia’s or even on a smaller scale Tigrians’, interest. It is a prelude to the US’s intervention in the Ethiopian affair.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s war against the Tigray region is now approaching its second anniversary. Abiy’s animosity toward the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front does not justify collective punishment against an entire ethnic group: starving Tigray and detaining ethnic Tigrayans in Addis Ababa.