Ethiopian Americans protest US pressure

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA - JUNE 01: Ethiopian Americans on Tuesday, June 1, staged a protest at the US Embassy in Addis Ababa, saying Joe Biden administration was putting pressure on Ethiopia unfairly. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Mesfin Hailu, a middle-aged resident of California in the US, said, “The Ethiopian government has the right to protect the sovereignty of the country, the right to defend the rule of law.” “We want the US government to support the Ethiopian democratic transition,” he said, making an allusion to the Martial Plan that the US government implemented in Europe following WWII. Ethiopia-US relations have been fast deteriorating after the Joe Biden administration imposed the restrictions that trailed a thrashed list of US demands over the situation in Ethiopia’s northernmost region of Tigray. On Nov. 4, the Ethiopian government launched a massive “law enforcement operation” in Tigray after the hitherto all-too-powerful Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), now designated a terrorist launched a gruesome attack on the Northern Command of the Ethiopian Defense Forces across the region, including in the regional capital Mekele, killing and maiming soldiers while asleep and completely unawares and looting sizable military hardware. (Footage by Mohammed Abdu Abdulbaqi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA - JUNE 01: Ethiopian Americans on Tuesday, June 1, staged a protest at the US Embassy in Addis Ababa, saying Joe Biden administration was putting pressure on Ethiopia unfairly. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Mesfin Hailu, a middle-aged resident of California in the US, said, “The Ethiopian government has the right to protect the sovereignty of the country, the right to defend the rule of law.” “We want the US government to support the Ethiopian democratic transition,” he said, making an allusion to the Martial Plan that the US government implemented in Europe following WWII. Ethiopia-US relations have been fast deteriorating after the Joe Biden administration imposed the restrictions that trailed a thrashed list of US demands over the situation in Ethiopia’s northernmost region of Tigray. On Nov. 4, the Ethiopian government launched a massive “law enforcement operation” in Tigray after the hitherto all-too-powerful Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), now designated a terrorist launched a gruesome attack on the Northern Command of the Ethiopian Defense Forces across the region, including in the regional capital Mekele, killing and maiming soldiers while asleep and completely unawares and looting sizable military hardware. (Footage by Mohammed Abdu Abdulbaqi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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