Ethiopia today is a stateless state, a failed state, a make-believe state. A wounded beast of the wilderness or the politically wounded beast will react in irrational ways if it sees no way out. 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 30, 2018 01:42 UTC