Ethiopia: Is Genocide in Ethiopia Imminent?

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was recently accused of instigating genocide against the Tigrayan people after making a statement on the ongoing conflict with Tigrayan rebels. Abiy Ahmed, 44, used words like "weeds," "cancer," and "disease" to describe the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which formerly ruled Ethiopia as an authoritarian regime for almost three decades before being designated a terrorist organization by the house of people representatives in May. Human rights organizations and journalists, on the other hand, have expressed concerns regarding his use of the word which they think can spark awidespread fear of genocide!

Preventing genocide labeledit as "speech that promotes the elimination of a group is an alarming warning sign of mass atrocities or even genocide." While Michael Rubin, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute called the Prime Minister's statement as "the type of ethnic incitement that would make Rwanda's Hutu genocidaires blush... ".

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