A wounded beast of the wilderness or the politically wounded beast will react in irrational ways if it sees no way out. But the TPLF today is facing a force more powerful than guns and helicopter gunships called nonviolent resistance. It is preferable to maintain the status quo than to initiate a haphazard reconciliation process that is doomed to fail. The only legitimate reconciliation process could only evolve organically from people-centered, grassroots (not elite-centered) engagement process. To produce a genuine reconciliation process, there must be freedom of speech, of press and of assembly.

Source: Ethiopian News January 29, 2018 05:03 UTC