That’s why I believe this picture will haunt Abiy’s political legacy forever.
After the arrest of Bekele & Jawar the choking narrative propagated through the state & its affiliate media was that a Jawar & co jailed was the Ethiopia fixed. But things have actually gotten worse.
Sunday thoughts!
By Tsedale Lema
One of the cascade of shocks the #Oromo nation continue to endure in the wake of the yet unsolved assassination of Haacaaluu Hundeessaa is the following crackdown on multiple individuals who represent a significant political agency of the Oromo in the Ethiopia to come.
Among the consequential arrests is the likes of Bekele, Jawar & Hamza, seen here after 40 days of hunger strike for what they believed in. But it’s a mistake to think the crackdown was limited to them. Speak with any Oromo, you will learn that there is a pre & post Hacaaluu Ethiopia.
That’s so not only because Hacee was assassinated, but also everything that the Oromo lost after that either to death, jail or disappearance (be it individuals of political parties), share one thing in common: they’re known among the Oromo as icons of a struggle for a pan Oromo cause.
A conversation with any Qeerroo/Qaarree, the youth in Oromia, will also help you to learn that after the industrial scale crackdown following Hacee’s assassination the ruling party has moved on to dismantle the same grassroots network it used in the last one and half years of the five years #OromoProtests.
The ruling party of PM Abiy Ahmed is enjoying this as a problem solved. After all, by a spectacular coincidence critics are either killed, jailed or disappeared; & rival political parties like OLF are split & weakened & then systematically eliminated from running in the election.
After the arrest of Bekele & Jawar the choking narrative propagated through the state & its affiliate media was that a Jawar & co jailed was the Ethiopia fixed. But things have actually gotten worse.
That’s why I believe this picture will haunt Abiy’s political legacy forever.
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