I'm Eritrean and I remember all throughout middle school and high school my grandmother just crying everyday because of the war. It's sad that there's still a state of war I really pray for peace and prosperity.
They actually had influence for 8 yrs after the end of the war. But that was all it was, influence. They did not call the shots while the emperor was in charge. The emperor was keeping his eye on them and after 8 yrs he decided that their presence could have been detrimental to Ethiopias sovereignty and parted ways with them.
@Random Username Its like saying much of Europe and Germany was under American Colonial possession after the war. Does that make sense? People even go as far to say Ethiopia was colonized by Italy for the 4 year occupation. Does that mean France and other European countries were colonized by Germany? Colonization in general is the Indoctrination of the native mind. That just never happen as all the Italians did in Ethiopia was open a breakfast shop and nothing more.
Thats true, lwts not shy away from reality, Ethiopia was under colonization for 5 yrs by Italians and continued by the british after Italians were defeated during the seconde world war. It was occupation oerse.
I just wanted to say thank you for making this video. It's been hard for the past 1 1/2 years knowing that this horrific conflict is going on (including the people dying of starvation every day) and seeing not a peep about it on the news in most Western media.
One want unity system closer related to empire time and other want fedration which many suppprt some ethnic other river base fedrarion state. I chose river based in will make majority happy and end the dispute and conflict. But fortunately both PP and Tplf wont allow it.
@@sofoniasshishay9958 A centralized government is a good thing. Abraham Lincoln once said, "A nation divided will not stand." In history it showed that Ethiopia was once United compared to what it is now. Due to this, Ethiopia was able to accomplish many things like defeating a European power.
@@tomg7124 Ethiopia was not united country before 200 years. The semitic people ( Eritrea, Tigray and amhara) were together then king minilk expand to South and control ormia and other minority who lived there. So the modern state of Ethiopia has a history of 200 years. The people how lived in Ethiopia has there own deferent history. Tigray have axum Kingdom, amhara have goder, oromo have geda etc. So Ethiopia were not united.
@@A.D.540 it would be nice but we not ready for Federation States, we will sell each-other out for sugar and spice. When we have enough ppl that is like you polite and expressive then we can do that. Till then king/military/junta is on the menu brother
As part of their African Royals expansion! Featuring the establishment of the Sokoto Caliphate in 1804 and the Battle of Alcacer Quibir of 1578, the Battle of Three Kings.
Didn't get it by power talking about British they took it from Italy the region called Eritrea belongs to Ethiopian wollo it's belong to this ethnic group call Ethiopian amhara
@@yonatanhailu8772 wollo belongs to wollo people not a particular ethnic group. It’s like saying someone from minjar claiming wollo.. which makes no sense
Thank You Prof.Hilbert. I am an Ethiopian teenager who is sick of the war and will do something about it. I am looking for ways to stop the wars and let Ethiopia develop in the modern world. I'm open for any ideas from ANYBODY.🖤
16:20 is incorrect because Hailemariam Desalegn was the Prime Minister after Meles Zenawi died. He was ruling Ethiopia and he is a Welayta (ethnicity) and a party member of the (Southern Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement) SEPDM NOT a TPLF member. The EPDRF is a coalition government it's not just TPLF contributing to the problems we are dealing with in Ethiopia today.
@@ima8533 u clearly don’t know shit ab Ethiopia’s history. If you think the problems are that simple then u clearly don’t know how to look at history lol
this should be you're point of view not a........the history of ethiopia is much more wider than you ever think...my name is dr demissie and i have a p.h.d in ethiopian history..there are some terms thats false in you're videoin terms of our history.....any way's thank u for.....and about the t.p.l.f terrorist you are completely wrong...in fact you look like a tplf payed foregner..our military force was on reform to get ready for foreign conflicts in the gerd dam...we was completely unconscious about tplf atacking our endf...i mean who would think that?? because most of the soldiers are even from tigray people...we wouldnt imagine they will savagely murder there own race...any ways the tplf attack was completely accidental for us...our military was defensless at that night..they were sleeping when the r.p.g and launchers were fired to there beedrooms..they were sleeping when the panzers ( tanks) smahed the walls and fired on them...so thats why 1.3milion people from all around ethiopia joined the military and currently trainig....thats why we are kicking their ass....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN....the tplf are highly supported by terrorist supporting europe countries and terrorist supoorting american senators...what ever what...we have the turkeys, russia and china with us.....and above all we have THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH US....Ethiopian miitary declare a bilateral cease fire in the tplf...currently the amhara militais are taking care of the junta terrorist group....Ethiopia is NOT in the brink of civil war..that is you're dream...we are in the brink of civil LOVE and civil peace...our enemies will fall as always..we have never been colonized we have never been defeated we will never lose...because we have GOD and truth with us...may the lord judge you who wish blood rivers for ethiopia...may GOD judge you people that support terrorists in Ethiopia....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN.
Yes there is a war butwen all Ethiopia and one provens Strong Tigray and Abey pad never Ertrae to kell his own people and raped loting and so on that way we not any more Ethiopian we are Tigrayn
@@mulworkhogas8768 Tigray region governments are always causing problems if they aren’t the ones in charge! Why is it that all the other 9 regions joined the new party yet tplf refused and then attacked the government unprovoked
this should be you're point of view not a........the history of ethiopia is much more wider than you ever think...my name is dr demissie and i have a p.h.d in ethiopian history..there are some terms thats false in you're videoin terms of our history.....any way's thank u for.....and about the t.p.l.f terrorist you are completely wrong...in fact you look like a tplf payed foregner..our military force was on reform to get ready for foreign conflicts in the gerd dam...we was completely unconscious about tplf atacking our endf...i mean who would think that?? because most of the soldiers are even from tigray people...we wouldnt imagine they will savagely murder there own race...any ways the tplf attack was completely accidental for us...our military was defensless at that night..they were sleeping when the r.p.g and launchers were fired to there beedrooms..they were sleeping when the panzers ( tanks) smahed the walls and fired on them...so thats why 1.3milion people from all around ethiopia joined the military and currently trainig....thats why we are kicking their ass....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN....the tplf are highly supported by terrorist supporting europe countries and terrorist supoorting american senators...what ever what...we have the turkeys, russia and china with us.....and above all we have THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH US....Ethiopian miitary declare a bilateral cease fire in the tplf...currently the amhara militais are taking care of the junta terrorist group....Ethiopia is NOT in the brink of civil war..that is you're dream...we are in the brink of civil LOVE and civil peace...our enemies will fall as always..we have never been colonized we have never been defeated we will never lose...because we have GOD and truth with us...may the lord judge you who wish blood rivers for ethiopia...may GOD judge you people that support terrorists in Ethiopia....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN.
@@allpraisestothemosthigh4671 Get your history right before making sweeping conclusions. The word u r looking for is occupation, not colonialization. Italy had indeed occupied the major Ethiopian cities for 5 years but there were many areas that were under Ethiopian rule and the fight to overthrow them never stopped, the struggle finally succeeded n Italy was kicked out. As for emperor Tewodros he was betrayed by king yohannes 4th who allowed the British to walk in and guide them to strongholds, not that it matters to u much. And I dare u to call him a coward when he was an inspiration to the betrayer yohannes himself by showing him u do not give your country up to the last drop of your blood. As for emperor Menelik u have a point there but Eritrea was already a strong hold for Italy and that'd have led to more bloodshed. So maybe go at a credible history book at least once before u show urself to be a judgemental coward.
@@allpraisestothemosthigh4671 You said colonized go check your other comment lol 😆what a liar. Ethiopia was still able to get rid of Italian forces in the second Italo Ethiopian war with the help of British, so Ethiopia won at the end. Oh yeah you said Yohannes rebeled against Tewodros? 😆🤣😂😹😆🤣😂😹😆🤣. My man u are full of lies. Where do you get your history from? 😆🤣. Tewodros was not a coward, he was going to die anyways. He knew British would torture him, so instead he chose death by his own hands instead of the British.
this should be you're point of view not a........the history of ethiopia is much more wider than you ever think...my name is dr demissie and i have a p.h.d in ethiopian history..there are some terms thats false in you're videoin terms of our history.....any way's thank u for.....and about the t.p.l.f terrorist you are completely wrong...in fact you look like a tplf payed foregner..our military force was on reform to get ready for foreign conflicts in the gerd dam...we was completely unconscious about tplf atacking our endf...i mean who would think that?? because most of the soldiers are even from tigray people...we wouldnt imagine they will savagely murder there own race...any ways the tplf attack was completely accidental for us...our military was defensless at that night..they were sleeping when the r.p.g and launchers were fired to there beedrooms..they were sleeping when the panzers ( tanks) smahed the walls and fired on them...so thats why 1.3milion people from all around ethiopia joined the military and currently trainig....thats why we are kicking their ass....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN....the tplf are highly supported by terrorist supporting europe countries and terrorist supoorting american senators...what ever what...we have the turkeys, russia and china with us.....and above all we have THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH US....Ethiopian miitary declare a bilateral cease fire in the tplf...currently the amhara militais are taking care of the junta terrorist group....Ethiopia is NOT in the brink of civil war..that is you're dream...we are in the brink of civil LOVE and civil peace...our enemies will fall as always..we have never been colonized we have never been defeated we will never lose...because we have GOD and truth with us...may the lord judge you who wish blood rivers for ethiopia...may GOD judge you people that support terrorists in Ethiopia....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN.
Don't listen to any Ethiopians on your topic. Both sides are very biased, but the Ethiopian will definitely tell you with confidence that genocide is "Fake News used to destabilize Ethiopia", and will adamantly tell you the federal government is "saving the people of Tigray". Bullshit.
@@goodrose4734 so the people who are in the middle of the war and that are in the country have zero knowledge and cnn, Aljezera, BBC know best? 😶 we all saw what happened to syria, yemen, and now Afghanistan no one worries and cries for their own country than the ppl living in it , we Ethiopians don't need the wests support, or humanitarian assistance we know how you help by dividing a country so please don't talk about our own country like you know it better than us
One thing you failed to mention is that at the beginning of the war the TPLF had a more than comparable military to the rest of Ethiopia, since most of the high-ranking officers and weaponry the country had were with the TPLF due to their previously dominant role.
What about over 40 divisions of Eritrea, UAE drones, all regional militias. You lot literally had 3 Airforces while TDF has none and you being chased lmao
No. they want to colonize the others, and keep the region Border disputes, Droughts & famine, Civil war, Oppression (prolonged cruel or unjust, treatment or exercise of authority), Human rights violations, Economic repression, civilian casualties, unstable infrastructure development, displacement of the population, Ethnic conflict & Military regimes.
@@natnaelghirma2617 I assume he means the oromos , harari , somalis, etc granted all of these ethnic groups also invaded the highlands during the Adal wars , the oromo migration... so its a real clusterfuck ......
I live in Ethiopia, this video is much less biased and much more well informed than most, there are only a few things that were wrong. Ethiopia was never a colony of Italy or England, Abiy is not president, he is prime minister. He did not attack Tigray, the TPLF attacked ENDF members on November 3rd and the government responded. The TPLF were angry ever since he brought their dictatorship to an end. After Abiy declared a ceasefire, the TPLF began to invade the Afar and Amhara regions and have massacred many people, so the ceasefire was called off. And the situation has changed since this video was released. The Ethiopian government has most of the country on its side, a couple days ago, the TPLF tried to come to Addis, but they did not even make it out of Tigray.
It's all a question of defining colony, Italia's armed forces did occupy Ethiopia in 1936 ua-cam.com/video/Yk-_YFJwDH4/v-deo.html the British forces kicked them out in 1941 ua-cam.com/video/TvI7m_UbsI8/v-deo.html .
it was a formal italian colony indeed, called jointly with Eritrea and Somalia as Eastern Italian Africa. Buth it’s true Ethiopia was just colonised a little and not fully.
7:28 did i hear the word "Ethiopia became a British colonial possession" that is the most inaccurate, absurd, reckless and inappropriate history i have ever heard about Ethiopia it is good you covered so much of the history in such a short period but you need to tell the real facts and make sure you don't mislead peoples because we don't read these days we hear from guys like you to know about History
In a sense 1/3 of Ethiopia was actually colonised by the British, this is because The somali region in Ethiopia was colonised by the British before 1955 was handed to Ethiopia as a thanks given to When Ethiopia helped The british the somalis anti-colonial from 1900 to 1920. So yes, Ethiopia was colonised.
@@cushabdullahi9666 But the entirety wasn't colonised. Going by your logic, Since France colonised the Louisiana Territory (which was 1/3 of the US). That means that they colonised the entire US and that the US is a former French Colony.
@@laboskie349 i haven't say they were colonised all of it, but people tends to forget that Ethiopia is still colonising people and land that was also colonised by the British. Btw, in a sense Its kind of collonised and people must stop showing the who map of Ethiopia when it comes to the countries in Africa that aren't colonised.
as a person living in ethiopia. its a lie these liberation grps are just on paper the corresponding people doesn't support them at all. the only rebel group that is making trouble is the tplf
@@fitplanet6476 Believing in Propaganda is what you Ethiopians do. All media is controlled by the Central Government (including ETV). In reality, the Tigrayans (inclusive ones not suffering from war) are suffering since they are discriminated against for being ''Tigrayan'' without even supporting the TPLF.
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The main reason for Ethiopia's non-colonization is the Tigray State, a northern province of Ethiopia. This powerful state called Tigray single-handedly defeated the Ottoman invasion. It has defeated the Egyptian invasion three times. It defeated the first Italian invasion at the Battle of Dogali single-handedly. It defeated the second Italian invasion together with other Ethiopians. This region was called the Axum kingdom in ancient times. It was the fourth superpower of the world, with close ties to the Roman Empire and Greece. India, Persia, Rome, Axum had ancient worlds supper power. The people of Tigray are 99.9% Orthodox Christians. The first bishop of Tigray (Axum) was Saint Athanasius the Greek. The ancestors of the people of Tigray has biologically related to Jews and Greeks. Please search about Tigray history
“A region throughout Ethiopia’s history has had a disproportionately large amount of power for the surface area that it contains.” This is why we need the electrical cabbage!
Depending who you ask (Ethiopians/Eritreans or the rest of the Ethiopian ethnic groups) the history of their perspective region is told a bit differently. The dates are also a bit different. In my opinion, no Ethiopian will ever agree with the narrative that we had the British help to defeat the Italians. The summery you provided in this documentary is not completely accurate but it is a good starter for conversation. For example, the people (over half million mentioned) who were killed during the Red Terror were predominantly from the Tigray and Eritrea region. This Terror (and truly was a terror) forced the TPLF to become rebels. Millions more were forced to flee their homes and become refugees. Worth mentioning, the Eritreans (TPLF) fought for 30 years to gain their independence from Ethiopia. The TPLP fought for 17 years to free Ethiopia. FYI, many people outside these 2 regions don’t even know, until today, what really took place in thees 2 regions. For this reason alone, the history in any documentary will need to be different. For the sake and future of the country, I do hope we find a common ground to solve our deeply rooted issues especially with ethic division and inequality. No government will be able to solve this problem by simply creating a new party. Any solution will need to be based on honest communication and continued dialogue. The choices and the voices of the people in any region will need to have the same weight. Looking forward for a peaceful new year, September 11. Thank you for your interest, research, and this documentary.
Correction, TPLF is the Tigray people liberation front and fought 17 years. The Eritreans freedom fighters were called EPLF Eritrean people liberation front and fought for 30 years until independence.
What happens in Ethiopia is gonna be very very influential to the rest of Africa, and shape the future of Africa as a whole. Ethiopia sits at the heart of East Africa. East Africa is home to half the entire continents population. Out which 17% live in Ethiopia. Not to mention Ethiopia is the capitol of the federal union of all African states. Ethiopia is literally the most strategic country in all of Africa because whatever happens there will affect all African citizens directly or indirectly whether the African people are aware of it or not.
A landlocked country has no geographical strategy. And having large population, but vast different ethnic, languages and religion is further ingredients for turmoil as we see happening now, with each group seeking independence.
Civil wars and humanitarian issues are always bad for neighboring countries. There will be millions of refugees flocking to them not to mention lawlessness that Will cause countries to spend more money on border security, and so on. It's really a sad situation for the continent as a whole. It seems like Africa can never catch a break. When one region stabilizes, conflict starts in another. So much human suffering 😥
This is a horrible analysis with many many factual inaccuracies. Ethiopia was never colonized by the British. Also, Tigray held a rouge elections against the government.
Tell him bro this person don't know about the history and how many wars that happened and the reasons, who was leading the wars, I can't believe it that this deaf person never mentioned so many wars that accured what about (ahmed gurey) what about the mad mular) frist warloard in Africa that they used war planes, I can't keep going on he gave me headache deal it he is full of shit I'm glad I know enough
1 . You forgot the part that thousands if ethiooians from diffrent ethnic groups are joining the army and fighting right now , and all this provinces are sending their special forces to join the federal army so im 100% sure that these rebels will not retake power if you really studies the relation ship between OLF and TPLF they were like cat and mice tplf killed and imprisoned thousands of OLF in the past this friendship wont las its even falling g apart now 2. TPLF launched a rocket into Eritrea before they even set foot in Ethiopia 3. TPLF is using child soldiers which is a big mistake, it was reported by the New your times 4. After abiy took power he freed thousands of political prisoners and made medias free to speak the report you started with was false 5. There was no protest against Abiy thousands gathered in his support rally all over Ethiopia and the rest of Ethiopia still supports him
@Jagd If we are talking about ancient times, Africa, or at least a part of it, was definitely not a backwater. Ethiopia was really powerful as said in the video. North Africa has been relevant since time immemorial. There were powerful kingdoms in West Africa too, it's just they fell behind on technology and were sort of stuck in the middle ages but with guns. It's only a modern thing that Africa has been weak. Even then, South Africa now has quite a strong military.
Those are some of the most important Sub-Saharan African historical societies: - Ghana Empire - Mali Empire - Shongai Empire - Axum Empire - Zulu Kingdom - Abyssinian Empire - the Boer Republics - The Central African Empire
@Jagd The Horn of Africa was a better place to live than essentially the entirety of Northern Europe not even 3000 years ago. While you guys were still rubbing sticks together, we were consolidating trade and relations with the most powerful states of the time. Just compare Axum/Punt/Kush with the contemporary states in Europe and you'll see what I'm saying ;)
this should be you're point of view not a........the history of ethiopia is much more wider than you ever think...my name is dr demissie and i have a p.h.d in ethiopian history..there are some terms thats false in you're videoin terms of our history.....any way's thank u for.....and about the t.p.l.f terrorist you are completely wrong...in fact you look like a tplf payed foregner..our military force was on reform to get ready for foreign conflicts in the gerd dam...we was completely unconscious about tplf atacking our endf...i mean who would think that?? because most of the soldiers are even from tigray people...we wouldnt imagine they will savagely murder there own race...any ways the tplf attack was completely accidental for us...our military was defensless at that night..they were sleeping when the r.p.g and launchers were fired to there beedrooms..they were sleeping when the panzers ( tanks) smahed the walls and fired on them...so thats why 1.3milion people from all around ethiopia joined the military and currently trainig....thats why we are kicking their ass....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN....the tplf are highly supported by terrorist supporting europe countries and terrorist supoorting american senators...what ever what...we have the turkeys, russia and china with us.....and above all we have THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH US....Ethiopian miitary declare a bilateral cease fire in the tplf...currently the amhara militais are taking care of the junta terrorist group....Ethiopia is NOT in the brink of civil war..that is you're dream...we are in the brink of civil LOVE and civil peace...our enemies will fall as always..we have never been colonized we have never been defeated we will never lose...because we have GOD and truth with us...may the lord judge you who wish blood rivers for ethiopia...may GOD judge you people that support terrorists in Ethiopia....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN.
@@demissiemehari3160 amen, exactly what I've been trying to say and it seems that every non-ethiopian take on the Tigray war right now are all in favor of Tigray and the tplf...
@@aleaiacetaest9132 how are you going to bring peace fo tigray if you dstroy the party they want and give them leaders they dont want. We african talk about peace yet we cant get the job done that is required. We african want to follow our own interest not interest of all of our citizen. Only god can fix not abiy not tplf.
Wow, so many facts have been omitted and misrepresented. Knowing the history and the current situation this shows me how the west look into other countries with simplified but dangerous assumption. You missed why king Theodore fought the British and basically why people decide to fight, from the current situation, you knowingly or purposely to omit outside forces and interests that is causing this war more dangerous than it is. To assume all these acronyms represent the tribe is over simplifing or being lazy. TPLF does not Equal to Tigre. If we ever going to simplify all this (which is not right BTW) the war is between TPLF who has been in power for 27 years and a new generation Government that has it's own challenges. The biggest problem of short news is over simplifying the truth to a point where it makes the listeners think these Aftican people are unreasonable, dumb people who just go to war for no reason. False news or oversimplification hurts more than bullets. Please state the facts let time do the prediction.
What outside force are you talking about? From what I learned, this power hungry TPLF wants to stay relevant and doesn't want to buy in to the new ways. This video does not make me feel that African people are dumb but those from Tigray supporting TPLF are pretty stupid & selfish...and there's a lot of Tigre who are supporting them even with money from abroad. So when lot of Tigre supporting TPLF and soldiers are from Tigray, to me, it doesn't seem TPLF = Tigre is a very oversimplification. Also, I didn't see him making a prediction, he just stated what happened before in Ethiopian history.
Ethiopia is a country of dictatorships and can only be ruled by one, the moment people are allowed to exercise their rights, Ethiopia will be no more, the only thing keeping it together is fear that the others will gang up on you and that your people will suffer even more. Give the people the right to self determination, Ethiopian government is in violation of its own constitution by denying it, these people have no history together and they were only put together by force and fear, sooner or later, peacefully or not, people will be free.
@@mashr4733 I certainly agree with your assessment TPLF being power-hungry, after 27 years of ruling, wow. I don't have animosity against the creator, yet the attempt to oversimplify thousands of year's of history in 28 min does more damage than good. Regarding outside force influence, the recent attempts to mediate by US and the news headlines are literally plagiarising of each other from one side. Each country is commenting and assisting has their own agenda, Egypt, China and etc, that is the invisible hand. Of course due to the nature if TPLF majority of its supporters are Tigre, but Tigryans existed before TPLF and will live after TPLF, when there is an assumption the war is against Tigrians it leads to a war far after TPLF lifecycle. When the dust settles the people who are hurting are the poor and marginalized people. Regarding the prediction please watch the @26 min. “ I don’t want to predict...but... “ and he continued to predict. A war may last few years but a grievance among people who fought alongside at Adwa and such may last longer than a generation. Tigians don't need TPLF, TPLF needs Tigrians, but unfortunately TPLF if selling itself for year's that it is their salvation making Tigrians a victim of it's demise and making the rest of Ethiopians think the true enemy is Tigre. Which is not true. There is more love and forgiveness among Ethiopians, people have been married and lived for centuries. With that in mind I thank you for the respectful dialogue, I guess that's the only positive thing about this video. Piece!
Slightly wrong at the 11:55 mark - you implied that the EPLF, along with the other rebel groups like TPLF, had all formed to become the EPRDF. The EPRDF was an Ethiopian political coalition, so the EPLF was not included. However, just before that, you correctly asserted that the EPLF had taken over the previous Eritrean liberation group, the ELF. I speak as the son of a former EPLF fighter. Other than that, great vid!
And if I may add at 22:47, it's not quite true that all enemy forces have been removed from Tigray - there are still a notable amount of Eritrean and Amharan troops stationed in various cities across Western Tigray, according to this interactive map: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Ethiopian_wars_and_insurgencies_detailed_map Isaias Afwerki, the Eritrean president also sent further reinforcements (I have provided a link below) in response to Abiy's cry for help, which in itself was borne out of the escalating conflict within TDF's southern front, particularly near Weldiya as it is a strategic location. I am not sure though why the TDF advanced south, rather than completely control the Tigray region first, but I suspect they could have either faced some heavy resistance, or that the terrain along the Tekeze river was very difficult, even for them who are experts at guerilla warfare. www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/25/us-eu-influx-eritrea-troops-ethiopia-tigray
@@miketv3845 I suspect the TDF want to draw the large Ethiopian troop concentration stationed in and around Humera to mountainous regions. It doesn't make sense to attack an enemy that has dug in over open plains head on. It looks like they also want to attack Western Tigray from the South through Gonder and Dansha as they have turned west after controlling Welidia.
Very well said. The militia are mainly filled with some.old egoistic Mf that think slaying a generation is fair in the name of freedom(which only exists if they are incharge).
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You skipped over the fact that the TPLF asked for cease fire when they got cornered then went on the offensive. Also, TPLF was put in power by the CIA due to Cold War politics & thus till this day has the support of the American government although they have previous been recognized as a terrorist organization.
I was in Ethiopia in 2019. Beautiful country. Beautiful people. Really lovely and welcoming. It's such a shame they had to endure such hardship for so many years. And sadly they still are. I hope one day they will find peace and prosperity.
@@M1ndfulJourney Abiy's father is oromo. His parent was separated and he grew up with his Amhara mother for majority of his life. He's genetically 50% oromo but culturally amhara. Majority of historian back somalis claims that gurey was somali. Yes there are horse's native in somalia. whether their truly natives or were brought via trade is about to debated. They wouldn't have survived the middle ages without horses.
Thanks for the groundnews link. You need to make a correction however: The OLA was not formed in 2021. That is an error. It is an outgrowth of the Oromo Liberation Front formed in 1974. You've also neglected to mention the way that Ethiopia's historic provinces were abolished and replaced with federal states based on ethnicity in 1994. The current conflict could never have existed had ethnic federalism not come into place. Please consider correcting your video to account for this omission.
Yeah, ethnic federalism was essentially divide-&-conquer ploy. TPLF has a manifesto which basically states Amhara folks are enemy #1 thus shall be eliminated.
Not many people remember that Ethiopia was an empire made up of many different states and in some cases, Harar for example, city states. Harar even had its own language, rare for a city state
Harar was never part of the Ethiopian abyssinian kingdom, harar was part of the Somali ruled multi ethnic Ifat sultanate and the Adal sultanate both ruled by the walashma Royal family of Dir clan Somalis in zeila, who were allied with the Muslim cushite harla (Harla koombe Darod, and Harari Sheekhaal people descended from Abadir Umar Rida)
Thanks for taking time to make this video. I’d like to clarify a few things about some information, specifically about the Oromo and their role in the history, provided in this video: The OLA was not founded in 2021. It was the armed wing of the OLF founded in the back in the 1970s. They officially separated from the OLF in 2018 so that the OLF can return from exile and participate in the democratic process Abiy had promised when he came to power. The OLA/OLF were one of the key armed groups that worked to topple the communist regime in the 80s and were involved in the negotiations in 1991 until they were essentially double crossed and attacked by the TPLF. The OLA/OLF have been waging a sustained resistance against the TPLF and later the Abiy regime since then. The Oromo group mentioned as being part of the EPRDF, the ODF, was actually referred to the OPDO until very recently. They were not a part of the original group that fought against the communist regime but rather Oromo Nationals recruited (many of whom had held some kind of regional/local power) by the TPLF to “represent” the Oromia region and its people but in reality were TPLF puppets who did the bidding of the TPLF often going against the interests of the people they’re supposed to represent. Also the national protests that led you the downfall of TPLF rule and the appointment of Abiy as PM in 2018 was started in 2015 by Oromo farmers in response to the Addis Ababa Master Plan which sought to expand the capital city which would result in the displacement of thousands of Oromo farmers in the surrounding areas. These protests spread throughout Oromia and eventually reached other regions as the grievances of protesters broadened to encompass the overall oppressive tactics of the TPLF led government. While I understand this is a video that focuses on the history that lead to the current war in Tigray, I think it’s important that we don’t spread misinformation about or minimize the role of the Oromo in the overall history. To that end, I’d also encourage you to look more into the brutality of Menelik II and his use of European supplied weapons to decimate the Oromo population in his efforts to expand his empire as well as Haile Selassie’s bombing of Tigray. Thanks! And stay curious 🙂
you are an oromo extremist,you know if you are from central or western Ethiopia you are an assimilated desendant of gurage or amhara, oromos came and invaded, assimilated mainly the gurage and also the amhara people living their, oromos killed the gurage king of souhtern Ethiopia which creted a destubance in the whole region which made it easy for the oromo to go up to shewa, welega and hararge.
Bro, it was a good historical summary but you’ve messed it up when it comes to when the rebel groups where formed. ELF in Eritrea was formed in 1961. Then EPLF formed as a splinter group from ELF in 1971. Then TPLF came in 1975 four years after EPLF. EPLF( Eritrean and the only party still ruling Eritrea) and TPLF from Tigray became tactical allies against the DERG regime. They EPLF and TPLF also together joined arms and defeated and got rid off the ELF( the first Eritrean front ) in 1981. EPLF( now PFDJ, the brutal dictatorship of Eritrea) formed the Eritrean government in 1991 after its independence, and TPLF created another 3 sister/puppet parties in Ethiopia to form EPRDF governmnet of Ethiopia in 1991. Now the three puppet parties have grown some balls after 27 years and stood up to form the PP party of Abiy Ahmed and fight against TPLF. Relations bwn EPLF and TPLF have sourned in the late 90’s and are now bitter enemies.
The Ethiopian defense force is practically destroyed as of last week. The TDF has smashed most ENDF divisions whilst taking all their hardware and capturing their troops.
@kal my friend. You’re only solution is to surrender. Abiy is in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, begging for someone to mediate this mess. His military is in shambles. The TDF have allied with half of the “former state of Ethiopia “. Get realistic. Seriously msn you’re in a dream world.
The mainstream media wouldn’t cover it. Smh The took over Tigray capital on June 28th and instead of feeding their people they went to Amhara and Afar region committing the same war crimes they claim was committed on them. But the media and human rights orgs only push the West’s agenda as they did in Libya, Syria, Iraq etc
TPLF will be buried in Amhara land and Tigray region will be huge graveyard. Tigray’s most males will be eliminated (killed). In this region finding male person will be very rare. At this point Tigrayans will hate being born as Tigrayan. Abiy Ahmed will be removed in very brutal condition. There will another leader who will stay for about 1 to 1 1/2 year. During this time millions of Ethiopians will suffer and millions will be killed. There will not be any peace during this time. Within this period 7 Arab countries backed by 2 powerful Western (more likely European) will send in their soldiers and start attacking the people of Ethiopia and destroying the country’s infrastructure. They will call this peacekeeping mission but, the actual purpose is to destabilize and separate Ethiopia into different small countries. This way it will give them access to control and own Ethiopia’s land which is very rich in natural resources. This is the Western plan. It will NOT work. The slaughtered ethnic group in Ethiopia will win and the New King of Ethiopia will unite all Ethiopians. There will be peace and love through out the country. In long run Ethiopia will even get bigger. Through peaceful process Eritrea and Djibouti possibly Somalia will be part of Ethiopia. Making Ethiopia much bigger country as well as powerful. Ethiopia is different from any other country and the western countries will not have it their way. They don’t even understand why Ethiopia is never colonized. They will pay heavy price because of Ethiopia. Ethiopia and it’s people protecter is much more powerful that they can even imagine.
You've made a lot of critical error in your video but to mention the few: 19:50 You are wrong TPLF did not attack a prepared command position. That would be futile to TPLF as they would be facing a ready army instead they captured multiple military camps throughout the northern region including the HQ in Mekele. 24:15 Wrong prediction the difference between then and now is this rebel coalitions are separatist groups that stand to divide Ethiopia. Kinda strange how you forgot to report the hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians that are joining the central government from all sides and tribes of the country fighting this terrorist groups that "coincidentally" have been killing actual farmers and civilians ever since TPLF was pushed back to its region. One of the reasons I'd trust the central govt over TPLF is as a citizen you can actually criticize it unlike TPLF which no one dares to not even its own people. Such a feared administration and It just baffles my mind how western media managed to paint such a saintly minority and "freedom fightery" type persona and you guys are eating it up.
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16:04 the info here is not correct not every single leader of EPRDF was from TPLF....the prime minister before abiy was from Southern Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement (SEPDM) which is one of the four parties which formed EPRDF.
also it is not every "leader" but Prime Minister. There were several leaders in EPRDF from all over Ethiopia serving as ministers of legislators per electoral session.
this should be you're point of view not a........the history of ethiopia is much more wider than you ever think...my name is dr demissie and i have a p.h.d in ethiopian history..there are some terms thats false in you're videoin terms of our history.....any way's thank u for.....and about the t.p.l.f terrorist you are completely wrong...in fact you look like a tplf payed foregner..our military force was on reform to get ready for foreign conflicts in the gerd dam...we was completely unconscious about tplf atacking our endf...i mean who would think that?? because most of the soldiers are even from tigray people...we wouldnt imagine they will savagely murder there own race...any ways the tplf attack was completely accidental for us...our military was defensless at that night..they were sleeping when the r.p.g and launchers were fired to there beedrooms..they were sleeping when the panzers ( tanks) smahed the walls and fired on them...so thats why 1.3milion people from all around ethiopia joined the military and currently trainig....thats why we are kicking their ass....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN....the tplf are highly supported by terrorist supporting europe countries and terrorist supoorting american senators...what ever what...we have the turkeys, russia and china with us.....and above all we have THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH US....Ethiopian miitary declare a bilateral cease fire in the tplf...currently the amhara militais are taking care of the junta terrorist group....Ethiopia is NOT in the brink of civil war..that is you're dream...we are in the brink of civil LOVE and civil peace...our enemies will fall as always..we have never been colonized we have never been defeated we will never lose...because we have GOD and truth with us...may the lord judge you who wish blood rivers for ethiopia...may GOD judge you people that support terrorists in Ethiopia....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN.
this should be you're point of view not a........the history of ethiopia is much more wider than you ever think...my name is dr demissie and i have a p.h.d in ethiopian history..there are some terms thats false in you're videoin terms of our history.....any way's thank u for.....and about the t.p.l.f terrorist you are completely wrong...in fact you look like a tplf payed foregner..our military force was on reform to get ready for foreign conflicts in the gerd dam...we was completely unconscious about tplf atacking our endf...i mean who would think that?? because most of the soldiers are even from tigray people...we wouldnt imagine they will savagely murder there own race...any ways the tplf attack was completely accidental for us...our military was defensless at that night..they were sleeping when the r.p.g and launchers were fired to there beedrooms..they were sleeping when the panzers ( tanks) smahed the walls and fired on them...so thats why 1.3milion people from all around ethiopia joined the military and currently trainig....thats why we are kicking their ass....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN....the tplf are highly supported by terrorist supporting europe countries and terrorist supoorting american senators...what ever what...we have the turkeys, russia and china with us.....and above all we have THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH US....Ethiopian miitary declare a bilateral cease fire in the tplf...currently the amhara militais are taking care of the junta terrorist group....Ethiopia is NOT in the brink of civil war..that is you're dream...we are in the brink of civil LOVE and civil peace...our enemies will fall as always..we have never been colonized we have never been defeated we will never lose...because we have GOD and truth with us...may the lord judge you who wish blood rivers for ethiopia...may GOD judge you people that support terrorists in Ethiopia....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN.
This was a great video. Just a tiny nitpick to add to some other things I've seen others mention - the OLA wasn't founded during this conflict. They've been a thing at least since the Ethiopian Civil War, and even arterwards continued fighting in an insurgency. Abiy Ahmad, himself an Oromo, tried to end that conflict peacefully, but he obviously failed.
No he didn't try to end it peacefully. He tried to get OLA to submit to him and put away their arms. Which they rightfully refused because they didn't trust him not to mention it's sus in general to ask someone to put away their only insurance policy.
That's a very informative video about a corner of the world you tend to forget about. Also thanks for the first useful ad on UA-cam I've seen in probably two years or more.
Poorly researched, was expecting better from you, especially with the maps, you could've used Ethiopia's federal map that's based on ethnic regions, from this everyone would be able to follow and see how small the Tigrayan region in comparison to the power they held. Just a note for anyone that doesn't know much about Ethiopia, there are over 80 different ethnic communities with distinct language and culture of their own. Ethiopia is a fake country forced together by the British with the help of other colonial powers of that time. If the Europeans managed to solve the Yugoslavia by letting each ethnic group formed their own country, then similarly Ethiopia will need to be split along ethnicities, it's the only way to avoid the ensuing bloodshed and the genocide that might follow.
@Min Alu Tube it will be split along the current federal regional lines. TPLF knows that and hence why they're asking for a referendum for their people, if they succeed, then this will have a domino effect and other regions will follow suit.
Was it forced by the British? Or did Haile Selassie change the name of the country to Ethiopia due the Bible and trying to say he was a descendant of King Solomon.
Thanks, Prof. Hilbert! It's a very dynamic region fraught with centuries old elements of family groups, religious & ethnic groups plus international powers joining the fray-- into something, the depths & convolutions of which they can neither fathom nor blumb! We all greatly respect & appreciate the depth of research you undertake to elucidate the issues in this subject such that we, your lowly students can glean the nut & bolts of the discord. People on opposite sides of a fence can join forces to "rebuild that fence". I heard it said once that *Better Fences Most Assuredly Make For Better Neighbours"* . I, with all my heart believe it! ✌🏼🙏🏼😘, 🐈
It is not easy to do a video of such a complex topic. Good try. I would point a few things: stationed Sorry, now I am curious about one thing. Who told journalists on the 2nd of November that they were preparing to launch an attack into Tigray?
this should be you're point of view not a........the history of ethiopia is much more wider than you ever think...my name is dr demissie and i have a p.h.d in ethiopian history..there are some terms thats false in you're videoin terms of our history.....any way's thank u for.....and about the t.p.l.f terrorist you are completely wrong...in fact you look like a tplf payed foregner..our military force was on reform to get ready for foreign conflicts in the gerd dam...we was completely unconscious about tplf atacking our endf...i mean who would think that?? because most of the soldiers are even from tigray people...we wouldnt imagine they will savagely murder there own race...any ways the tplf attack was completely accidental for us...our military was defensless at that night..they were sleeping when the r.p.g and launchers were fired to there beedrooms..they were sleeping when the panzers ( tanks) smahed the walls and fired on them...so thats why 1.3milion people from all around ethiopia joined the military and currently trainig....thats why we are kicking their ass....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN....the tplf are highly supported by terrorist supporting europe countries and terrorist supoorting american senators...what ever what...we have the turkeys, russia and china with us.....and above all we have THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH US....Ethiopian miitary declare a bilateral cease fire in the tplf...currently the amhara militais are taking care of the junta terrorist group....Ethiopia is NOT in the brink of civil war..that is you're dream...we are in the brink of civil LOVE and civil peace...our enemies will fall as always..we have never been colonized we have never been defeated we will never lose...because we have GOD and truth with us...may the lord judge you who wish blood rivers for ethiopia...may GOD judge you people that support terrorists in Ethiopia....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN.
you forgot to mention that the Ethiopian federal forces and Eritrean forces were not pushed by the rebel. Instead it is America insisted to do so and sanctioned the leaders of the two countries. You forgot to mention that America wants to put the rebels at any cost on power, so that it's influence on the horn of africa can be guarantied.
Eritrean defense forces entered Tigray for military cooperation with Ethiopian government. And they left only when US pressured them to leave Tigray now one pushed them out review past articles about this issue to confirm.
@abrehaleyal First of all not all of tigray relates to us but only it's northern parts Adwa,shire,Akhsum and zalambessa... Get back to your statement What did we do? -Free our lands from their occupation of 20 years? -Stopping them from launching 70 more missiles? -Put a leash for all their Expansionist ambitions and destructive policies towards us?
@abrehaleyal The facts are - it was us who freed Tigray from a 6 centuries almost 7 centuries of Amhara colonization. Since 10 or 11th century until 1991, Tigray was under direct Amhara colonization. Not only that, we even gave them the driving seat of Ethiopia. -Granted them free and unrestricted access to our ports. But what did they do? Go see 1998-2000 events And the period from 2000 until 2020. The words you've mentioned shouldn't be said to us but Tigrayans and their foolish policies in the past 3 decades they chose short term gains in shewa and US servitude over a life time gain by friendship with the single and most closest neighbors they ever have. Now look what Tigrayan foolishness has resulted
@abrehaleyal I hope you are a tigrayan and you really learned from your leaders and ancestors mistake and actually belief in what you just said then trying to correct back what the foolish elites did since 1997 and put back the strategic relationship which Shabiya always wanted with Tigray.
Incorrect, rockets were sent in response to Eritrea crossing the border weeks prior and using their bases as a launching pad for fighter jets and drones.
@@abesabereka7566 Of course they did, just as Isaias wanted regime change in Ethiopia when they were in charge, and he still wanted to remove them when they were just running Tigray.
@@fa2040 TPLF agenda from Menfisto 1968 states that TPLF want to take over Eritrea... Eritrea does not have any interest in Tigray or Ethiopia expect peace... So what do you expect Eritrea to do.. Eritrea has the right to defend it self.. TPLF or the people of Tigray has two choice choice peace or else....You do not bite the hand the feed you... As far as Eritrean are concerned peace would be the best option but the idea to take over over a independent nation...is doomed to fail... We all know Eritrean when it comes to their country.... My suggestion is for you to pick peace... no matter what happen with the Ethiopian nation ...whether TPLF is powere or not... Eritrea is not be massed with.. if history teaches any of you people a thing or two.
The TDF as of today basically has full military control of the northern half of the country. Their allies the OLF have the south. Addis and the Amhara regions are basically dying a slow death. You’ll see TPLF back in control of Ethiopia within the next 60 days.
Your story is completely wrong, get your information right! It’s not EPRDF or TPLF who destroyed Ethiopian communist, it’s only Eritrea (EPLF) who crushed and destroyed the Durg regime.
Ps. Emperor Haile Selassie was not the successor of Menilik II, it was Lij Iyasu. And we were never the colonial possessions of the British. Ethiopia is the only uncolonised country in Africa.
Thank you for this, which, as usual, needs, and will easily bear, a second viewing, and opens up many rabbit holes to explore. Thank you also for introducing me to Ground News (actually from your last video). I always determine to be as unbiased as possible e.g. reading , both The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph, but Ground News helps that by also giving easier access to foreign media.
this should be you're point of view not a........the history of ethiopia is much more wider than you ever think...my name is dr demissie and i have a p.h.d in ethiopian history..there are some terms thats false in you're videoin terms of our history.....any way's thank u for.....and about the t.p.l.f terrorist you are completely wrong...in fact you look like a tplf payed foregner..our military force was on reform to get ready for foreign conflicts in the gerd dam...we was completely unconscious about tplf atacking our endf...i mean who would think that?? because most of the soldiers are even from tigray people...we wouldnt imagine they will savagely murder there own race...any ways the tplf attack was completely accidental for us...our military was defensless at that night..they were sleeping when the r.p.g and launchers were fired to there beedrooms..they were sleeping when the panzers ( tanks) smahed the walls and fired on them...so thats why 1.3milion people from all around ethiopia joined the military and currently trainig....thats why we are kicking their ass....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN....the tplf are highly supported by terrorist supporting europe countries and terrorist supoorting american senators...what ever what...we have the turkeys, russia and china with us.....and above all we have THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH US....Ethiopian miitary declare a bilateral cease fire in the tplf...currently the amhara militais are taking care of the junta terrorist group....Ethiopia is NOT in the brink of civil war..that is you're dream...we are in the brink of civil LOVE and civil peace...our enemies will fall as always..we have never been colonized we have never been defeated we will never lose...because we have GOD and truth with us...may the lord judge you who wish blood rivers for ethiopia...may GOD judge you people that support terrorists in Ethiopia....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN.
I dont want to push you to neither side of the conflict, but I can tell you that the media is only reporting one side of the story. A lot of people have been hurt in this conflict but the media has only been concerned with the tigray side.
The Oromo Liberation Army is supported by most of the people in Oromia and they will easily liberate most of the towns and cities with little resistance. Abiy has destroyed Oromia and killed many Oromos and jailed Oromos most influential leaders such as Jawar.
Your report is ridiculously biased and it is very clear that it is not because of lack of research. You are intentionally putting small but very serious remarks that are incorrect for e.g you tried to explain the unwillingness of the tplf to join the Prosperity party by making a joke of the name, they didn't join b/c the party they had created (tplf) was based on racial lines like every region had its own party the oromo, tigri, amhara, somali, Afar and some more but the main problem was some minorities like gambela people, benshangul people were not involved in the decision making and they were given the name subordinates in their own country so abiy thought that if a Democratic govt is going to be created it must include everyone and it must not be based on racial lines and created a new party but the tplf leaders refused to be part and left. The other very major mistake you made was when you talked of the Ethiopian government provoking a conflict by stationing troops on the border b/n tigri and amhara region and also inviting Eritrea on the other side but that is wrong, if you if you had seen the tigri tv before the war you could see the regional gov then showing military parades and as for the eretrian troops the went into Ethiopian territory after missiles were launched on their capital asmera bybyt the tplf. BECAREFUL of whta you say to your audience because media this days has a lot iiof influence on people
Thanks for taking your time to make this mistake in the video. 1. Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Wasn’t in British colonial 2. “Shelling the cities to capture them” and “killing of Tigray people especially Ethiopians, Eritreans and Amharas” you got that totally wrong. The Ethiopian government only shelled after the went to desert which they have 1000+ military in custody. Got released with no to little casualties. Ethnic cleansing was committed by TPLF on Amhara, Afar and even in Tigrayans who doesn’t support TPLF. You have even mention 1 which is MayCadra more that 1600+ Amhara got killed by TPLF raised group Samir youth group who flee to Sudan as a migrant. 3. Capture of MEKELLE by TPLF: because of outside pressure and it’s time to harvest and the Ethiopian government got their weapons back from the rebels group it’s time for peace and end of war. You’re great Hilbert, but you’re making silly mistake that is very important. Keep digging because all I see is highlight. It’s very complicated to be highlighted Hilbert. Thanks
How are u going to say all Ethiopian leaders were from the Tplf/Tigray when most leaders In Ethiopia’s long history are from Amhara lol. Get ur facts sorted my friend.
He was only talking about the time after the monarchy collapsed. I guess it would be nice if he mentioned that the Amhara was dominant in the past, thought not sure if that is relevant to the topic.
I'd be interested in more videos like this. I'd also be interested in a video on the Era of Princes in the 18th and 19th centuries if that's something you'd want to make.
@Johannes history is written well because we have our own developed writing systems .ethiopia one of the oldest countries in the world that preserved it's history through writing systems Oldest books and all found 😊 yeah ..
Correction please . Ethiopia started becoming after King Minilik. Which is after 1896 . If you have dispute with what you are free to come with prove evidence and convince everyone .
10:27 Somalia didn't invade Ethiopia. It was Somali land that Somalia plus the Ogaden region tried joining Somalia. Ogaden is Somali and they wanted to unite with their Somali brothers of Somalia
Excellent analysis, however, there are few corrections which need to be seen again. one is Ethiopia under Meles Zenawi was invaded by Eritrean forces back in the 1990s and second, there was a prime minister from the southern nation and nationality before the current prime minister, Abiy Ahmed from Oromo, his name is Hailemariam Desalen. Thank you for your balanced analysis. Please make a separate video based on the humanitarian crisis in the north (Tigray in particular) and the destructive role of Eritrean troops for the second time in Ethiopian history.
Neglected facts here during the early phase of the war TPLF launched rockets at an Amhara city of Bahir Dar( where thousands of civilians reside) and also at capital city of Eritrea, Asmara( which the Eritreans site as what prompted them to invade) also around 600 Amhara farmers were slaughtered in a town called mai-kadra surviving victims say it was committed by a TPLF affiliate youth group. I'm not discounting tigriyan suffering but trust me that statement of yours saying "more from the Ethiopian side" is so wrong and you don't understand how damaging it is to compare such things knowing what a monster TPLF is.
The thing is that Ethiopia by land is as big as France + Spain + Portugal, or if you prefer it this way nearly as big as Germany + Poland + Ukraine... In my opinion they should just split those regions into separate countries and live in peace...
Regions of most countries in the world rarely are split neatly along ethnic, cultural or religious lines. It's not necessarily something that would lead to peace.
@@Demothios no one said they need to draw borders in same way they are already drawn right now... they can also make border cities, it's not nothing new, we even have few those in Poland when half of the city is in Poland then there is a bridge and other half is for example in Germany, or in Czechia. After many years it become fun tourist attraction :)
@@PolecanePC no that’s not gonna create any peace at all. I mean look at Yugoslavia, and the USSR. To this day there are still tensions between the countries that used to be one.
One thing is for sure, eight groups joined the Tigray force and have advanced to within 100 km. of the Capital. The military is being overwhelmed since they are fighting on five fronts. Economically, this will set Ethiopia back who knows how many years. This could also cause the Tigray region and possibly other regions to go there own independent way possibly leaving a power vacuum in that region.
Was this wht yall really believed at the time, do yall think the gov was going to let tplf theives enter addis, the capital where the au is at. U have to be delusional to have believed tht at the time.
At that time, not delusional at all. The government forces were scattered while the rebels were advancing. What changed things around later on and which some did not expect was that Iran, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Turkey would get involved. Those Turkish drones really turned things around for the Ethiopian government just like it did for the Azeri government. In the end, the war drags on which does not help the people or economy of Ethiopia.
@@ab9840 either way they would’ve have never entered addis,this is not Amhara or afar we’re talking about. Drones or no drones, going into a capital where miltaries hq is at is not the way to go. If u believe tht i will not argue with u but if the drones did it thx for the drones and the military, because it’s delusional to think tht one region would be able to overcome the whole of Ethiopia. Tbf with the amount of weapons the military personnels stole from Ethiopia while in power and having majority of tigrays in the military while they only represented 5% of the population was an evidence of how they didn’t care about us. As soon as they lost tht power they tried raiding to Addis like the little rats they are. Im iust just glad Ethiopia can deal with this now and weaken them, not later, this was bound to happen sooner or later.
Thank you for always producing quality topical content - I love your videos and they have been so brilliant recently! Also, thank you for always making legitimate effort to pronounce non-English words
As An Eritrean, the dictator in adihalo(name of the place where the communist dictator of eritrea office is) has finished out the strength of our bone morrow but at least the Tigrayans have still have the strength and the leadership to fight for their independence which is good thing to see.
I am Ethiopian and I'm ashamed of this war history! We need peace! Peace for the world
Me too LOLLLL
I'm Eritrean and I remember all throughout middle school and high school my grandmother just crying everyday because of the war.
It's sad that there's still a state of war I really pray for peace and prosperity.
I am from Tigray and I agree. We need peace
I live in Ethiopia. Hope the situation gets better. We really do need peace
@@hug0stigz I am Tigray as well and this has been heartbreaking. Yes we need peace.
Ethiopia was never a British colonial possession, they back gave power to the emperor immediately.
@Redbo Black bruh lol
lol ikr I was like wat is he talking about
They actually had influence for 8 yrs after the end of the war. But that was all it was, influence. They did not call the shots while the emperor was in charge. The emperor was keeping his eye on them and after 8 yrs he decided that their presence could have been detrimental to Ethiopias sovereignty and parted ways with them.
Cope
@Random Username Its like saying much of Europe and Germany was under American Colonial possession after the war. Does that make sense? People even go as far to say Ethiopia was colonized by Italy for the 4 year occupation. Does that mean France and other European countries were colonized by Germany? Colonization in general is the Indoctrination of the native mind. That just never happen as all the Italians did in Ethiopia was open a breakfast shop and nothing more.
Did you say British colonised Ethiopia after the Italians defeated during WWII? Oh No, Correct it man!
It wasn’t a colony per se, but it was a defacto protectorate.
@@greatexpectations6577 Agree in a way, but only the Ogaden and Eritrea regions were a defacto protectorate.
Thats true, lwts not shy away from reality, Ethiopia was under colonization for 5 yrs by Italians and continued by the british after Italians were defeated during the seconde world war.
It was occupation oerse.
@@goiteomgezaei9066 wa, ante banda min nekahisa, kila bel!
@@goiteomgezaei9066 occupation not colonization my guy
You’re wrong on so much; Ethiopia never was a British colonial property and Abiy Ahmed is Prime Minister not President
To be completely fair America was a French protectorate for 30 years.
he talking about Eritrean
It was,read a bit first
He talked about Eritrea if you paid attention, which you clearly didn’t
@@amanrusom9498 You never read yet tell people to read ? ignorant !
I just wanted to say thank you for making this video. It's been hard for the past 1 1/2 years knowing that this horrific conflict is going on (including the people dying of starvation every day) and seeing not a peep about it on the news in most Western media.
The war is basically about those who want a united Ethiopia vs rebel groups who want a divided Ethiopia.
One want unity system closer related to empire time and other want fedration which many suppprt some ethnic other river base fedrarion state. I chose river based in will make majority happy and end the dispute and conflict. But fortunately both PP and Tplf wont allow it.
Not exactly, many ethnic groups want more autonomy over the land but the PP and its allies want more centralised system.
@@sofoniasshishay9958 A centralized government is a good thing. Abraham Lincoln once said, "A nation divided will not stand." In history it showed that Ethiopia was once United compared to what it is now. Due to this, Ethiopia was able to accomplish many things like defeating a European power.
@@tomg7124 Ethiopia was not united country before 200 years. The semitic people ( Eritrea, Tigray and amhara) were together then king minilk expand to South and control ormia and other minority who lived there. So the modern state of Ethiopia has a history of 200 years. The people how lived in Ethiopia has there own deferent history. Tigray have axum Kingdom, amhara have goder, oromo have geda etc. So Ethiopia were not united.
@@A.D.540 it would be nice but we not ready for Federation States, we will sell each-other out for sugar and spice. When we have enough ppl that is like you polite and expressive then we can do that. Till then king/military/junta is on the menu brother
Age of Empires III just released a historical scenario based on Tewodros II’s consolidation of power in 1855!
fr? that's awesome
As part of their African Royals expansion! Featuring the establishment of the Sokoto Caliphate in 1804 and the Battle of Alcacer Quibir of 1578, the Battle of Three Kings.
@@TheAndrewSchneider Wow, I'll definently check it out, Tewedros II's my favorite ethiopian king.
ua-cam.com/video/MF-pE_Ua1Cc/v-deo.html
That game isnt like 15 years old?
Ethiopia was never a British colonial possession post WWII, what are you chatting Hilbert?!
I assume he refers to the British possessions in Somaliland that stretched into Ethiopia.
Ethiopia (from 1890-1974) was run by imperialist autocrats that solely abide for British and French interest.
Didn't get it by power talking about British they took it from Italy the region called Eritrea belongs to Ethiopian wollo it's belong to this ethnic group call Ethiopian amhara
@@yonatanhailu8772 wollo belongs to wollo people not a particular ethnic group. It’s like saying someone from minjar claiming wollo.. which makes no sense
@@amanuelafework3271 when I'm trying to say was Eritrean Misawa base belong to wallow
Pray for peace in Ethiopia, lovely from Croatia, I want visit Ethiopia one day 🇭🇷♥️🇪🇹
Croatians are equivalent to the Oromos in regards to the Yugoslavian war by the way
TANKS
Naczvo1 Thank u and u are very welcome to visit Ethiopia at anytime
@@merci1093 thank you for invitation 😊
I love dabor sucker. you are well come in Tigray.
Thank You Prof.Hilbert. I am an Ethiopian teenager who is sick of the war and will do something about it. I am looking for ways to stop the wars and let Ethiopia develop in the modern world. I'm open for any ideas from ANYBODY.🖤
16:20 is incorrect because Hailemariam Desalegn was the Prime Minister after Meles Zenawi died. He was ruling Ethiopia and he is a Welayta (ethnicity) and a party member of the (Southern Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement) SEPDM NOT a TPLF member. The EPDRF is a coalition government it's not just TPLF contributing to the problems we are dealing with in Ethiopia today.
@Said Mohamed aren't they all ???
@Said Mohamed And I guess he was a puppet too when he supported Abiy? When will y'all start blaming y'all own regional governments?
Ase Ase´ Amen All of Alkelubun 🇬🇭
The vast majority of Ethiopia’s problems is directly because of the TPLF or indirectly because of their past policies
@@ima8533 u clearly don’t know shit ab Ethiopia’s history. If you think the problems are that simple then u clearly don’t know how to look at history lol
Would you consider doing a video on the history of conflict in Chad? Especially regarding the recent killing of president Idris Deby?
this should be you're point of view not a........the history of ethiopia is much more wider than you ever think...my name is dr demissie and i have a p.h.d in ethiopian history..there are some terms thats false in you're videoin terms of our history.....any way's thank u for.....and about the t.p.l.f terrorist you are completely wrong...in fact you look like a tplf payed foregner..our military force was on reform to get ready for foreign conflicts in the gerd dam...we was completely unconscious about tplf atacking our endf...i mean who would think that?? because most of the soldiers are even from tigray people...we wouldnt imagine they will savagely murder there own race...any ways the tplf attack was completely accidental for us...our military was defensless at that night..they were sleeping when the r.p.g and launchers were fired to there beedrooms..they were sleeping when the panzers ( tanks) smahed the walls and fired on them...so thats why 1.3milion people from all around ethiopia joined the military and currently trainig....thats why we are kicking their ass....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN....the tplf are highly supported by terrorist supporting europe countries and terrorist supoorting american senators...what ever what...we have the turkeys, russia and china with us.....and above all we have THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH US....Ethiopian miitary declare a bilateral cease fire in the tplf...currently the amhara militais are taking care of the junta terrorist group....Ethiopia is NOT in the brink of civil war..that is you're dream...we are in the brink of civil LOVE and civil peace...our enemies will fall as always..we have never been colonized we have never been defeated we will never lose...because we have GOD and truth with us...may the lord judge you who wish blood rivers for ethiopia...may GOD judge you people that support terrorists in Ethiopia....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN.
what? Why dont we hear about this on the news?
@@demissiemehari3160 God is a fictional character, bro. He's not boosting anyone.
He wasn't assassinated thought, he was a badass. He died fighting on the front.
They turned their face to Ethiopia now. Ethiopia will never be defeated!!! God is with Ethiopia.
"and after many years of war, they finally, were still at war" what a development lol
@@dawitdejene9531 yes blame the west and not the people fighting the war, very epic
@@Bread-nx9fo this is really biased. U know the world powers control everything. Don't be stupid kiddo
Yes there is a war butwen all Ethiopia and one provens Strong Tigray and Abey pad never Ertrae to kell his own people and raped loting and so on that way we not any more Ethiopian we are Tigrayn
@@mulworkhogas8768 Tigray region governments are always causing problems if they aren’t the ones in charge! Why is it that all the other 9 regions joined the new party yet tplf refused and then attacked the government unprovoked
@@mulworkhogas8768 🤡
Thank you for making a video on Ethiopian history, much neglected subject on the platform. Learned something new today 🙂
this should be you're point of view not a........the history of ethiopia is much more wider than you ever think...my name is dr demissie and i have a p.h.d in ethiopian history..there are some terms thats false in you're videoin terms of our history.....any way's thank u for.....and about the t.p.l.f terrorist you are completely wrong...in fact you look like a tplf payed foregner..our military force was on reform to get ready for foreign conflicts in the gerd dam...we was completely unconscious about tplf atacking our endf...i mean who would think that?? because most of the soldiers are even from tigray people...we wouldnt imagine they will savagely murder there own race...any ways the tplf attack was completely accidental for us...our military was defensless at that night..they were sleeping when the r.p.g and launchers were fired to there beedrooms..they were sleeping when the panzers ( tanks) smahed the walls and fired on them...so thats why 1.3milion people from all around ethiopia joined the military and currently trainig....thats why we are kicking their ass....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN....the tplf are highly supported by terrorist supporting europe countries and terrorist supoorting american senators...what ever what...we have the turkeys, russia and china with us.....and above all we have THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH US....Ethiopian miitary declare a bilateral cease fire in the tplf...currently the amhara militais are taking care of the junta terrorist group....Ethiopia is NOT in the brink of civil war..that is you're dream...we are in the brink of civil LOVE and civil peace...our enemies will fall as always..we have never been colonized we have never been defeated we will never lose...because we have GOD and truth with us...may the lord judge you who wish blood rivers for ethiopia...may GOD judge you people that support terrorists in Ethiopia....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN.
@@allpraisestothemosthigh4671 who is your "Most High"?
@@demissiemehari3160 Thank you Dr. 👌🙏🙏🙏
@@allpraisestothemosthigh4671 Get your history right before making sweeping conclusions. The word u r looking for is occupation, not colonialization. Italy had indeed occupied the major Ethiopian cities for 5 years but there were many areas that were under Ethiopian rule and the fight to overthrow them never stopped, the struggle finally succeeded n Italy was kicked out. As for emperor Tewodros he was betrayed by king yohannes 4th who allowed the British to walk in and guide them to strongholds, not that it matters to u much. And I dare u to call him a coward when he was an inspiration to the betrayer yohannes himself by showing him u do not give your country up to the last drop of your blood. As for emperor Menelik u have a point there but Eritrea was already a strong hold for Italy and that'd have led to more bloodshed. So maybe go at a credible history book at least once before u show urself to be a judgemental coward.
@@allpraisestothemosthigh4671 You said colonized go check your other comment lol 😆what a liar. Ethiopia was still able to get rid of Italian forces in the second Italo Ethiopian war with the help of British, so Ethiopia won at the end. Oh yeah you said Yohannes rebeled against Tewodros? 😆🤣😂😹😆🤣😂😹😆🤣. My man u are full of lies. Where do you get your history from? 😆🤣. Tewodros was not a coward, he was going to die anyways. He knew British would torture him, so instead he chose death by his own hands instead of the British.
What have done to deserve such long and rich content? Thank you 😊
You presumably didnt do shit, thank the Patreons for sponsoring his ass, what they have done? Well they paid for this lmao
@@aw2584 Some people watch ads instead of giving money but Patreon supporters are important for sure
Cambridge
this should be you're point of view not a........the history of ethiopia is much more wider than you ever think...my name is dr demissie and i have a p.h.d in ethiopian history..there are some terms thats false in you're videoin terms of our history.....any way's thank u for.....and about the t.p.l.f terrorist you are completely wrong...in fact you look like a tplf payed foregner..our military force was on reform to get ready for foreign conflicts in the gerd dam...we was completely unconscious about tplf atacking our endf...i mean who would think that?? because most of the soldiers are even from tigray people...we wouldnt imagine they will savagely murder there own race...any ways the tplf attack was completely accidental for us...our military was defensless at that night..they were sleeping when the r.p.g and launchers were fired to there beedrooms..they were sleeping when the panzers ( tanks) smahed the walls and fired on them...so thats why 1.3milion people from all around ethiopia joined the military and currently trainig....thats why we are kicking their ass....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN....the tplf are highly supported by terrorist supporting europe countries and terrorist supoorting american senators...what ever what...we have the turkeys, russia and china with us.....and above all we have THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH US....Ethiopian miitary declare a bilateral cease fire in the tplf...currently the amhara militais are taking care of the junta terrorist group....Ethiopia is NOT in the brink of civil war..that is you're dream...we are in the brink of civil LOVE and civil peace...our enemies will fall as always..we have never been colonized we have never been defeated we will never lose...because we have GOD and truth with us...may the lord judge you who wish blood rivers for ethiopia...may GOD judge you people that support terrorists in Ethiopia....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN.
The timing of this video is so perfect for me it's almost prophetic. I have to write an essay on the Ethiopian-Tigray conflict ;-;
watch Crisis in Ethiopia,what the media isn't telling you
@@proudethiopian1984 I will keep that in mind, thanks
Write on your essay that the central gov will capture the capital of tigray in 2 weeks(before the new year)
IT IS A PROPHECY😉
Don't listen to any Ethiopians on your topic. Both sides are very biased, but the Ethiopian will definitely tell you with confidence that genocide is "Fake News used to destabilize Ethiopia", and will adamantly tell you the federal government is "saving the people of Tigray". Bullshit.
@@goodrose4734 so the people who are in the middle of the war and that are in the country have zero knowledge and cnn, Aljezera, BBC know best? 😶 we all saw what happened to syria, yemen, and now Afghanistan no one worries and cries for their own country than the ppl living in it , we Ethiopians don't need the wests support, or humanitarian assistance we know how you help by dividing a country so please don't talk about our own country like you know it better than us
One thing you failed to mention is that at the beginning of the war the TPLF had a more than comparable military to the rest of Ethiopia, since most of the high-ranking officers and weaponry the country had were with the TPLF due to their previously dominant role.
What about over 40 divisions of Eritrea, UAE drones, all regional militias. You lot literally had 3 Airforces while TDF has none and you being chased lmao
@@ሓሽከርኣባበዝብዝ Your delusions, your lies are what's costing the lives of so many Tegarus and the rest of the Ethiopian people.
@@nathanezra1 stay mad ENDF is destroyed. It's now useless 🤣 ua-cam.com/video/aawBAW_JGe4/v-deo.html
A big kie
@@ሓሽከርኣባበዝብዝ And your destroying your economy over petty tribalism. Maybe you deserve poverty and a failed state. When will this continent learn.
I have officially fallen in love with this channel.
You forgot to mention TPLF fired rockets to Asmara and some Amhara cities? Why do you want to hide the truth?
Why did they fire rockets into Asmera? Tell the truth
@@haftomteferi669 could you tell us
He skips so it fits his bias towards the Tigray!
It's cool that they maintained their dignity for as long as they did.
I like your use of the word dignity
@@anonymous-gi4tq haha
No. they want to colonize the others, and keep the region Border disputes, Droughts & famine, Civil war, Oppression (prolonged cruel or unjust, treatment or exercise of authority), Human rights violations, Economic repression, civilian casualties, unstable infrastructure development, displacement of the population, Ethnic conflict & Military regimes.
@@abdinasirhassan7529 colonize who?
@@natnaelghirma2617 I assume he means the oromos , harari , somalis, etc granted all of these ethnic groups also invaded the highlands during the Adal wars , the oromo migration... so its a real clusterfuck ......
I live in Ethiopia, this video is much less biased and much more well informed than most, there are only a few things that were wrong. Ethiopia was never a colony of Italy or England, Abiy is not president, he is prime minister. He did not attack Tigray, the TPLF attacked ENDF members on November 3rd and the government responded. The TPLF were angry ever since he brought their dictatorship to an end. After Abiy declared a ceasefire, the TPLF began to invade the Afar and Amhara regions and have massacred many people, so the ceasefire was called off. And the situation has changed since this video was released. The Ethiopian government has most of the country on its side, a couple days ago, the TPLF tried to come to Addis, but they did not even make it out of Tigray.
It's all a question of defining colony, Italia's armed forces did occupy Ethiopia in 1936 ua-cam.com/video/Yk-_YFJwDH4/v-deo.html the British forces kicked them out in 1941 ua-cam.com/video/TvI7m_UbsI8/v-deo.html .
it was a formal italian colony indeed, called jointly with Eritrea and Somalia as Eastern Italian Africa. Buth it’s true Ethiopia was just colonised a little and not fully.
7:28 did i hear the word "Ethiopia became a British colonial possession" that is the most inaccurate, absurd, reckless and inappropriate history i have ever heard about Ethiopia it is good you covered so much of the history in such a short period but you need to tell the real facts and make sure you don't mislead peoples because we don't read these days we hear from guys like you to know about History
In a sense 1/3 of Ethiopia was actually colonised by the British, this is because The somali region in Ethiopia was colonised by the British before 1955 was handed to Ethiopia as a thanks given to When Ethiopia helped The british the somalis anti-colonial from 1900 to 1920. So yes, Ethiopia was colonised.
@@cushabdullahi9666 But the entirety wasn't colonised. Going by your logic, Since France colonised the Louisiana Territory (which was 1/3 of the US). That means that they colonised the entire US and that the US is a former French Colony.
@@laboskie349 i haven't say they were colonised all of it, but people tends to forget that Ethiopia is still colonising people and land that was also colonised by the British. Btw, in a sense Its kind of collonised and people must stop showing the who map of Ethiopia when it comes to the countries in Africa that aren't colonised.
Thank You
@@cushabdullahi9666 "Colony" have a different definition dude, Open a dictionary.
I am from Serbia (former Yugoslavia), we've been through some shit, but this is too fucked up!!
Don't worry mate we will still be United
@@lionsofafrica3786 but will there be peace?
@@radovanprstojevic1060 Nope, as long as the Ethiopian State exists, it won't.
as a person living in ethiopia. its a lie these liberation grps are just on paper the corresponding people doesn't support them at all. the only rebel group that is making trouble is the tplf
@@fitplanet6476 Believing in Propaganda is what you Ethiopians do.
All media is controlled by the Central Government (including ETV). In reality, the Tigrayans (inclusive ones not suffering from war) are suffering since they are discriminated against for being ''Tigrayan'' without even supporting the TPLF.
Praying for Ethiopia! Love from Ghana🇬🇭🇬🇭
No more Ethiopia 🐕🇪🇹🐕🇪🇹🐕 no more amharic music 🐕🇪🇹👎🏿no more amharic movie film 🐕🇪🇹👎🏿 no more amharic mezmur 🤮🇪🇹🤮🇪🇹🤮 no more amharic language official 🐕 no more ነፍጠኛ ለሐጫብ ቡዳ ደብተራ ጠንቅይ መጤ ስፋሪ ኣህያ ኣድጊ no more ኢትዮጲያ ደሞ ዘለአለም ትውደም ትቅጠል አማራ ደሞ ወድ ጉድጉዱ ይሂድ
No more ነፍጠኛ ። 🦓
No more ለሐጫም።🦓
No more ደብተራ።🦓
No more ቡዳ። 🦓
No more ጠንቅይ።🦓
No more መጤ።🦓
No more ኣህያ።🦓
No more ኣድጊ።🦓
RIP Ethiopia ⚰🇪🇹🪦
The main reason for Ethiopia's non-colonization is the Tigray State, a northern province of Ethiopia. This powerful state called Tigray single-handedly defeated the Ottoman invasion. It has defeated the Egyptian invasion three times. It defeated the first Italian invasion at the Battle of Dogali single-handedly. It defeated the second Italian invasion together with other Ethiopians. This region was called the Axum kingdom in ancient times. It was the fourth superpower of the world, with close ties to the Roman Empire and Greece. India, Persia, Rome, Axum had ancient worlds supper power. The people of Tigray are 99.9% Orthodox Christians. The first bishop of Tigray (Axum) was Saint Athanasius the Greek. The ancestors of the people of Tigray has biologically related to Jews and Greeks. Please search about Tigray history
how many acronyms do you want
Ethiopia:" yes"
Ethiopia also: make sure to have the word "Liberation" in it
“A region throughout Ethiopia’s history has had a disproportionately large amount of power for the surface area that it contains.”
This is why we need the electrical cabbage!
Like in cabbages grown by electricity?
I bet those would be quite shockingly good
@@freddekl1102 Eating electrical cabbages in an eccentric cottage with an epileptic collage is 😋.
@@liamthomas8029 praying for you. I put on my episcopal collar.
electrical cabbage 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Dude, I barely speak English but even I know how to write "electoral college"
@@starman1144 Ssshhhhhh!!!
We do not speak those words 😤
Depending who you ask (Ethiopians/Eritreans or the rest of the Ethiopian ethnic groups) the history of their perspective region is told a bit differently. The dates are also a bit different.
In my opinion, no Ethiopian will ever agree with the narrative that we had the British help to defeat the Italians.
The summery you provided in this documentary is not completely accurate but it is a good starter for conversation.
For example, the people (over half million mentioned) who were killed during the Red Terror were predominantly from the Tigray and Eritrea region. This Terror (and truly was a terror) forced the TPLF to become rebels. Millions more were forced to flee their homes and become refugees. Worth mentioning, the Eritreans (TPLF) fought for 30 years to gain their independence from Ethiopia. The TPLP fought for 17 years to free Ethiopia.
FYI, many people outside these 2 regions don’t even know, until today, what really took place in thees 2 regions. For this reason alone, the history in any documentary will need to be different.
For the sake and future of the country, I do hope we find a common ground to solve our deeply rooted issues especially with ethic division and inequality. No government will be able to solve this problem by simply creating a new party. Any solution will need to be based on honest communication and continued dialogue. The choices and the voices of the people in any region will need to have the same weight.
Looking forward for a peaceful new year, September 11.
Thank you for your interest, research, and this documentary.
We had British help in the second invasion
They refused to help for 4 years but came in last at the 5th year
Correction, TPLF is the Tigray people liberation front and fought 17 years.
The Eritreans freedom fighters were called EPLF Eritrean people liberation front and fought for 30 years until independence.
Lol Ethiopia really must be sh*t at fighting, lost to 2 ethinc rebel groups. I guess Marxist generals can't "war" effectively like the Monarchy
What happens in Ethiopia is gonna be very very influential to the rest of Africa, and shape the future of Africa as a whole. Ethiopia sits at the heart of East Africa. East Africa is home to half the entire continents population. Out which 17% live in Ethiopia. Not to mention Ethiopia is the capitol of the federal union of all African states. Ethiopia is literally the most strategic country in all of Africa because whatever happens there will affect all African citizens directly or indirectly whether the African people are aware of it or not.
A landlocked country has no geographical strategy. And having large population, but vast different ethnic, languages and religion is further ingredients for turmoil as we see happening now, with each group seeking independence.
Wow i didn't know East was half the population
Civil wars and humanitarian issues are always bad for neighboring countries. There will be millions of refugees flocking to them not to mention lawlessness that Will cause countries to spend more money on border security, and so on. It's really a sad situation for the continent as a whole. It seems like Africa can never catch a break. When one region stabilizes, conflict starts in another. So much human suffering 😥
@@shastealyomeal yes we have large population in the east
@@younge252 I always though west with Nigeria and Ghana was the most
This is a horrible analysis with many many factual inaccuracies. Ethiopia was never colonized by the British. Also, Tigray held a rouge elections against the government.
Tell him bro this person don't know about the history and how many wars that happened and the reasons, who was leading the wars, I can't believe it that this deaf person never mentioned so many wars that accured what about (ahmed gurey) what about the mad mular) frist warloard in Africa that they used war planes, I can't keep going on he gave me headache deal it he is full of shit I'm glad I know enough
1 . You forgot the part that thousands if ethiooians from diffrent ethnic groups are joining the army and fighting right now , and all this provinces are sending their special forces to join the federal army so im 100% sure that these rebels will not retake power if you really studies the relation ship between OLF and TPLF they were like cat and mice tplf killed and imprisoned thousands of OLF in the past this friendship wont las its even falling g apart now
2. TPLF launched a rocket into Eritrea before they even set foot in Ethiopia
3. TPLF is using child soldiers which is a big mistake, it was reported by the New your times
4. After abiy took power he freed thousands of political prisoners and made medias free to speak the report you started with was false
5. There was no protest against Abiy thousands gathered in his support rally all over Ethiopia and the rest of Ethiopia still supports him
I love hearing about the powerful empires in Africa in ancient times because people never talk about them and I find them very interesting
Yeah right? People always seem to think that Africa has always been a backwater shithole
@Jagd I mean,you are right in a way,what I meant is the thinking that they have achieved literally nothing,which is not true
@Jagd If we are talking about ancient times, Africa, or at least a part of it, was definitely not a backwater. Ethiopia was really powerful as said in the video. North Africa has been relevant since time immemorial. There were powerful kingdoms in West Africa too, it's just they fell behind on technology and were sort of stuck in the middle ages but with guns. It's only a modern thing that Africa has been weak. Even then, South Africa now has quite a strong military.
Those are some of the most important Sub-Saharan African historical societies:
- Ghana Empire
- Mali Empire
- Shongai Empire
- Axum Empire
- Zulu Kingdom
- Abyssinian Empire
- the Boer Republics
- The Central African Empire
@Jagd The Horn of Africa was a better place to live than essentially the entirety of Northern Europe not even 3000 years ago. While you guys were still rubbing sticks together, we were consolidating trade and relations with the most powerful states of the time. Just compare Axum/Punt/Kush with the contemporary states in Europe and you'll see what I'm saying ;)
Wow, what a great summary!
Though, didn't the Second Italo-Ethiopian War occur in 1935-6
It was
this should be you're point of view not a........the history of ethiopia is much more wider than you ever think...my name is dr demissie and i have a p.h.d in ethiopian history..there are some terms thats false in you're videoin terms of our history.....any way's thank u for.....and about the t.p.l.f terrorist you are completely wrong...in fact you look like a tplf payed foregner..our military force was on reform to get ready for foreign conflicts in the gerd dam...we was completely unconscious about tplf atacking our endf...i mean who would think that?? because most of the soldiers are even from tigray people...we wouldnt imagine they will savagely murder there own race...any ways the tplf attack was completely accidental for us...our military was defensless at that night..they were sleeping when the r.p.g and launchers were fired to there beedrooms..they were sleeping when the panzers ( tanks) smahed the walls and fired on them...so thats why 1.3milion people from all around ethiopia joined the military and currently trainig....thats why we are kicking their ass....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN....the tplf are highly supported by terrorist supporting europe countries and terrorist supoorting american senators...what ever what...we have the turkeys, russia and china with us.....and above all we have THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH US....Ethiopian miitary declare a bilateral cease fire in the tplf...currently the amhara militais are taking care of the junta terrorist group....Ethiopia is NOT in the brink of civil war..that is you're dream...we are in the brink of civil LOVE and civil peace...our enemies will fall as always..we have never been colonized we have never been defeated we will never lose...because we have GOD and truth with us...may the lord judge you who wish blood rivers for ethiopia...may GOD judge you people that support terrorists in Ethiopia....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN.
@@demissiemehari3160 amen, exactly what I've been trying to say and it seems that every non-ethiopian take on the Tigray war right now are all in favor of Tigray and the tplf...
Huge amount of factual errors in this video. Take it with a grain of salt.
Thank you for this. Please keep more videos on Ethiopia coming
I hope there is peace in Ethiopia Tigray Province. The video was informative.
Soon after we destroyed the TPLF
@Zeno the Filipino you really don’t seem to have a good understanding of what’s going on in the country do you?
@@aleaiacetaest9132 how are you going to bring peace fo tigray if you dstroy the party they want and give them leaders they dont want. We african talk about peace yet we cant get the job done that is required. We african want to follow our own interest not interest of all of our citizen. Only god can fix not abiy not tplf.
@@A.D.540 we African? 😂
@@aleaiacetaest9132 focus on taking back lalibela lol
Wow, so many facts have been omitted and misrepresented. Knowing the history and the current situation this shows me how the west look into other countries with simplified but dangerous assumption.
You missed why king Theodore fought the British and basically why people decide to fight, from the current situation, you knowingly or purposely to omit outside forces and interests that is causing this war more dangerous than it is. To assume all these acronyms represent the tribe is over simplifing or being lazy. TPLF does not Equal to Tigre. If we ever going to simplify all this (which is not right BTW) the war is between TPLF who has been in power for 27 years and a new generation Government that has it's own challenges.
The biggest problem of short news is over simplifying the truth to a point where it makes the listeners think these Aftican people are unreasonable, dumb people who just go to war for no reason. False news or oversimplification hurts more than bullets. Please state the facts let time do the prediction.
What outside force are you talking about? From what I learned, this power hungry TPLF wants to stay relevant and doesn't want to buy in to the new ways. This video does not make me feel that African people are dumb but those from Tigray supporting TPLF are pretty stupid & selfish...and there's a lot of Tigre who are supporting them even with money from abroad. So when lot of Tigre supporting TPLF and soldiers are from Tigray, to me, it doesn't seem TPLF = Tigre is a very oversimplification. Also, I didn't see him making a prediction, he just stated what happened before in Ethiopian history.
Ethiopia is a country of dictatorships and can only be ruled by one, the moment people are allowed to exercise their rights, Ethiopia will be no more, the only thing keeping it together is fear that the others will gang up on you and that your people will suffer even more.
Give the people the right to self determination, Ethiopian government is in violation of its own constitution by denying it, these people have no history together and they were only put together by force and fear, sooner or later, peacefully or not, people will be free.
@@mashr4733 I certainly agree with your assessment TPLF being power-hungry, after 27 years of ruling, wow. I don't have animosity against the creator, yet the attempt to oversimplify thousands of year's of history in 28 min does more damage than good. Regarding outside force influence, the recent attempts to mediate by US and the news headlines are literally plagiarising of each other from one side. Each country is commenting and assisting has their own agenda, Egypt, China and etc, that is the invisible hand. Of course due to the nature if TPLF majority of its supporters are Tigre, but Tigryans existed before TPLF and will live after TPLF, when there is an assumption the war is against Tigrians it leads to a war far after TPLF lifecycle. When the dust settles the people who are hurting are the poor and marginalized people.
Regarding the prediction please watch the @26 min. “ I don’t want to predict...but... “ and he continued to predict.
A war may last few years but a grievance among people who fought alongside at Adwa and such may last longer than a generation.
Tigians don't need TPLF, TPLF needs Tigrians, but unfortunately TPLF if selling itself for year's that it is their salvation making Tigrians a victim of it's demise and making the rest of Ethiopians think the true enemy is Tigre. Which is not true. There is more love and forgiveness among Ethiopians, people have been married and lived for centuries. With that in mind I thank you for the respectful dialogue, I guess that's the only positive thing about this video. Piece!
So true
True
Slightly wrong at the 11:55 mark - you implied that the EPLF, along with the other rebel groups like TPLF, had all formed to become the EPRDF. The EPRDF was an Ethiopian political coalition, so the EPLF was not included. However, just before that, you correctly asserted that the EPLF had taken over the previous Eritrean liberation group, the ELF. I speak as the son of a former EPLF fighter. Other than that, great vid!
And if I may add at 22:47, it's not quite true that all enemy forces have been removed from Tigray - there are still a notable amount of Eritrean and Amharan troops stationed in various cities across Western Tigray, according to this interactive map:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Ethiopian_wars_and_insurgencies_detailed_map
Isaias Afwerki, the Eritrean president also sent further reinforcements (I have provided a link below) in response to Abiy's cry for help, which in itself was borne out of the escalating conflict within TDF's southern front, particularly near Weldiya as it is a strategic location. I am not sure though why the TDF advanced south, rather than completely control the Tigray region first, but I suspect they could have either faced some heavy resistance, or that the terrain along the Tekeze river was very difficult, even for them who are experts at guerilla warfare.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/25/us-eu-influx-eritrea-troops-ethiopia-tigray
@@miketv3845 I suspect the TDF want to draw the large Ethiopian troop concentration stationed in and around Humera to mountainous regions. It doesn't make sense to attack an enemy that has dug in over open plains head on. It looks like they also want to attack Western Tigray from the South through Gonder and Dansha as they have turned west after controlling Welidia.
@@shidadokongo617 they are getting ducked as we speak
Also EPLF came before tplf
@@barinegashyo204 Dreams where? Looool. Tell that to hayk.
I had friends from Ethiopia when growing up and they were great guys, I hope they can have peace in 2022.
African Militias give some heroic names to themselves and usually end up doing nothing that they are named after!
Lol so true
Very well said. The militia are mainly filled with some.old egoistic Mf that think slaying a generation is fair in the name of freedom(which only exists if they are incharge).
Exactly
Great work! Loved every second, thanks for building up the topic with some decent history
This is quickly becoming one of my favorite channels. So well done!
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You skipped over the fact that the TPLF asked for cease fire when they got cornered then went on the offensive. Also, TPLF was put in power by the CIA due to Cold War politics & thus till this day has the support of the American government although they have previous been recognized as a terrorist organization.
lol and he some way left that out smh
@GBL I dunno man. I think freedom fighters are well in the capicity to be terrorists
I was in Ethiopia in 2019. Beautiful country. Beautiful people. Really lovely and welcoming.
It's such a shame they had to endure such hardship for so many years. And sadly they still are.
I hope one day they will find peace and prosperity.
we wont
Ethiopia is just big dictatorship where only the Tigray and Amhara rule so called Ethiopia and others 78 tribes marginalised and massacres
@@abzlibaax7412 Abiy claim to be oromo, and Gurey is not Somali his harar there is no a trace of horse in somalia.
@@M1ndfulJourney
Abiy's father is oromo. His parent was separated and he grew up with his Amhara mother for majority of his life. He's genetically 50% oromo but culturally amhara.
Majority of historian back somalis claims that gurey was somali.
Yes there are horse's native in somalia. whether their truly natives or were brought via trade is about to debated. They wouldn't have survived the middle ages without horses.
Thanks for the groundnews link. You need to make a correction however: The OLA was not formed in 2021. That is an error. It is an outgrowth of the Oromo Liberation Front formed in 1974. You've also neglected to mention the way that Ethiopia's historic provinces were abolished and replaced with federal states based on ethnicity in 1994. The current conflict could never have existed had ethnic federalism not come into place. Please consider correcting your video to account for this omission.
Yeah, ethnic federalism was essentially divide-&-conquer ploy. TPLF has a manifesto which basically states Amhara folks are enemy #1 thus shall be eliminated.
Not many people remember that Ethiopia was an empire made up of many different states and in some cases, Harar for example, city states. Harar even had its own language, rare for a city state
Harar semitic languages speakers ...
@@rediettadesse2828 so are the rest of the ethiopians
No you dummy. Harar was never apart of Ethiopia originally and those states before were generally of the same people
@@cplusplussizeddick1430 Micropenis? Must be difficult, you have my condolences
Harar was never part of the Ethiopian abyssinian kingdom, harar was part of the Somali ruled multi ethnic Ifat sultanate and the Adal sultanate both ruled by the walashma Royal family of Dir clan Somalis in zeila, who were allied with the Muslim cushite harla (Harla koombe Darod, and Harari Sheekhaal people descended from Abadir Umar Rida)
Thanks for taking time to make this video. I’d like to clarify a few things about some information, specifically about the Oromo and their role in the history, provided in this video:
The OLA was not founded in 2021. It was the armed wing of the OLF founded in the back in the 1970s. They officially separated from the OLF in 2018 so that the OLF can return from exile and participate in the democratic process Abiy had promised when he came to power. The OLA/OLF were one of the key armed groups that worked to topple the communist regime in the 80s and were involved in the negotiations in 1991 until they were essentially double crossed and attacked by the TPLF. The OLA/OLF have been waging a sustained resistance against the TPLF and later the Abiy regime since then. The Oromo group mentioned as being part of the EPRDF, the ODF, was actually referred to the OPDO until very recently. They were not a part of the original group that fought against the communist regime but rather Oromo Nationals recruited (many of whom had held some kind of regional/local power) by the TPLF to “represent” the Oromia region and its people but in reality were TPLF puppets who did the bidding of the TPLF often going against the interests of the people they’re supposed to represent.
Also the national protests that led you the downfall of TPLF rule and the appointment of Abiy as PM in 2018 was started in 2015 by Oromo farmers in response to the Addis Ababa Master Plan which sought to expand the capital city which would result in the displacement of thousands of Oromo farmers in the surrounding areas. These protests spread throughout Oromia and eventually reached other regions as the grievances of protesters broadened to encompass the overall oppressive tactics of the TPLF led government.
While I understand this is a video that focuses on the history that lead to the current war in Tigray, I think it’s important that we don’t spread misinformation about or minimize the role of the Oromo in the overall history. To that end, I’d also encourage you to look more into the brutality of Menelik II and his use of European supplied weapons to decimate the Oromo population in his efforts to expand his empire as well as Haile Selassie’s bombing of Tigray.
Thanks! And stay curious 🙂
you are an oromo extremist,you know if you are from central or western Ethiopia you are an assimilated desendant of gurage or amhara, oromos came and invaded, assimilated mainly the gurage and also the amhara people living their, oromos killed the gurage king of souhtern Ethiopia which creted a destubance in the whole region which made it easy for the oromo to go up to shewa, welega and hararge.
@@baetraki7268 got sources?
@@daviddwodo3748 no sources but can give you logical explanations on how what i said would be true.
@@daviddwodo3748 look up oromo migrations
we want you to do a video of The Oromo Expansion into the central area in 1520.
Bro, it was a good historical summary but you’ve messed it up when it comes to when the rebel groups where formed. ELF in Eritrea was formed in 1961. Then EPLF formed as a splinter group from ELF in 1971. Then TPLF came in 1975 four years after EPLF. EPLF( Eritrean and the only party still ruling Eritrea) and TPLF from Tigray became tactical allies against the DERG regime. They EPLF and TPLF also together joined arms and defeated and got rid off the ELF( the first Eritrean front ) in 1981. EPLF( now PFDJ, the brutal dictatorship of Eritrea) formed the Eritrean government in 1991 after its independence, and TPLF created another 3 sister/puppet parties in Ethiopia to form EPRDF governmnet of Ethiopia in 1991. Now the three puppet parties have grown some balls after 27 years and stood up to form the PP party of Abiy Ahmed and fight against TPLF. Relations bwn EPLF and TPLF have sourned in the late 90’s and are now bitter enemies.
Wow I never knew that the war expanded out of Tigray. What a mess
The Ethiopian defense force is practically destroyed as of last week. The TDF has smashed most ENDF divisions whilst taking all their hardware and capturing their troops.
@kal whatever bro. I’m in Kenya and we are hearing from the refugees flooding across the border.
@kal dude you’re living in a dream state. The TDF have every man, woman, boy, girl, strapped with a rifle and fighting. They are not the refugees.
@kal my friend. You’re only solution is to surrender. Abiy is in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, begging for someone to mediate this mess. His military is in shambles. The TDF have allied with half of the “former state of Ethiopia “. Get realistic. Seriously msn you’re in a dream world.
The mainstream media wouldn’t cover it. Smh
The took over Tigray capital on June 28th and instead of feeding their people they went to Amhara and Afar region committing the same war crimes they claim was committed on them. But the media and human rights orgs only push the West’s agenda as they did in Libya, Syria, Iraq etc
TPLF will be buried in Amhara land and Tigray region will be huge graveyard. Tigray’s most males will be eliminated (killed). In this region finding male person will be very rare. At this point Tigrayans will hate being born as Tigrayan. Abiy Ahmed will be removed in very brutal condition. There will another leader who will stay for about 1 to 1 1/2 year. During this time millions of Ethiopians will suffer and millions will be killed. There will not be any peace during this time. Within this period 7 Arab countries backed by 2 powerful Western (more likely European) will send in their soldiers and start attacking the people of Ethiopia and destroying the country’s infrastructure. They will call this peacekeeping mission but, the actual purpose is to destabilize and separate Ethiopia into different small countries. This way it will give them access to control and own Ethiopia’s land which is very rich in natural resources. This is the Western plan. It will NOT work. The slaughtered ethnic group in Ethiopia will win and the New King of Ethiopia will unite all Ethiopians. There will be peace and love through out the country. In long run Ethiopia will even get bigger. Through peaceful process Eritrea and Djibouti possibly Somalia will be part of Ethiopia. Making Ethiopia much bigger country as well as powerful. Ethiopia is different from any other country and the western countries will not have it their way. They don’t even understand why Ethiopia is never colonized. They will pay heavy price because of Ethiopia. Ethiopia and it’s people protecter is much more powerful that they can even imagine.
I really admire you. Very well summarized.
You've made a lot of critical error in your video but to mention the few:
19:50 You are wrong TPLF did not attack a prepared command position. That would be futile to TPLF as they would be facing a ready army instead they captured multiple military camps throughout the northern region including the HQ in Mekele.
24:15 Wrong prediction the difference between then and now is this rebel coalitions are separatist groups that stand to divide Ethiopia. Kinda strange how you forgot to report the hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians that are joining the central government from all sides and tribes of the country fighting this terrorist groups that "coincidentally" have been killing actual farmers and civilians ever since TPLF was pushed back to its region.
One of the reasons I'd trust the central govt over TPLF is as a citizen you can actually criticize it unlike TPLF which no one dares to not even its own people. Such a feared administration and It just baffles my mind how western media managed to paint such a saintly minority and "freedom fightery" type persona and you guys are eating it up.
Well said!
The west is defending TPLF because of their "loot and let loot" mentality towards Ethiopia ... modern colonization!
7:29 did you just say Ethiopia became British coclony?? we have never been British colonies dude do ur research
May God please send clarity peace and grace to these beautiful countries in the mighty name of Jesus .! ♥️♥️♥️
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Amen🙏
@@Sunya87 ROMANS 2:11KJV, JOHN 8:32KJV!
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Please do part two with more information on the southern nations and nationalities, including the Oromo.
what a great video. Really answered all my questions. Thank you.
16:04 the info here is not correct not every single leader of EPRDF was from TPLF....the prime minister before abiy was from Southern Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement (SEPDM) which is one of the four parties which formed EPRDF.
thank you
also it is not every "leader" but Prime Minister. There were several leaders in EPRDF from all over Ethiopia serving as ministers of legislators per electoral session.
this should be you're point of view not a........the history of ethiopia is much more wider than you ever think...my name is dr demissie and i have a p.h.d in ethiopian history..there are some terms thats false in you're videoin terms of our history.....any way's thank u for.....and about the t.p.l.f terrorist you are completely wrong...in fact you look like a tplf payed foregner..our military force was on reform to get ready for foreign conflicts in the gerd dam...we was completely unconscious about tplf atacking our endf...i mean who would think that?? because most of the soldiers are even from tigray people...we wouldnt imagine they will savagely murder there own race...any ways the tplf attack was completely accidental for us...our military was defensless at that night..they were sleeping when the r.p.g and launchers were fired to there beedrooms..they were sleeping when the panzers ( tanks) smahed the walls and fired on them...so thats why 1.3milion people from all around ethiopia joined the military and currently trainig....thats why we are kicking their ass....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN....the tplf are highly supported by terrorist supporting europe countries and terrorist supoorting american senators...what ever what...we have the turkeys, russia and china with us.....and above all we have THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH US....Ethiopian miitary declare a bilateral cease fire in the tplf...currently the amhara militais are taking care of the junta terrorist group....Ethiopia is NOT in the brink of civil war..that is you're dream...we are in the brink of civil LOVE and civil peace...our enemies will fall as always..we have never been colonized we have never been defeated we will never lose...because we have GOD and truth with us...may the lord judge you who wish blood rivers for ethiopia...may GOD judge you people that support terrorists in Ethiopia....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN.
Thanks. I'm always wanting to know more about this fascinating region
this should be you're point of view not a........the history of ethiopia is much more wider than you ever think...my name is dr demissie and i have a p.h.d in ethiopian history..there are some terms thats false in you're videoin terms of our history.....any way's thank u for.....and about the t.p.l.f terrorist you are completely wrong...in fact you look like a tplf payed foregner..our military force was on reform to get ready for foreign conflicts in the gerd dam...we was completely unconscious about tplf atacking our endf...i mean who would think that?? because most of the soldiers are even from tigray people...we wouldnt imagine they will savagely murder there own race...any ways the tplf attack was completely accidental for us...our military was defensless at that night..they were sleeping when the r.p.g and launchers were fired to there beedrooms..they were sleeping when the panzers ( tanks) smahed the walls and fired on them...so thats why 1.3milion people from all around ethiopia joined the military and currently trainig....thats why we are kicking their ass....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN....the tplf are highly supported by terrorist supporting europe countries and terrorist supoorting american senators...what ever what...we have the turkeys, russia and china with us.....and above all we have THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH US....Ethiopian miitary declare a bilateral cease fire in the tplf...currently the amhara militais are taking care of the junta terrorist group....Ethiopia is NOT in the brink of civil war..that is you're dream...we are in the brink of civil LOVE and civil peace...our enemies will fall as always..we have never been colonized we have never been defeated we will never lose...because we have GOD and truth with us...may the lord judge you who wish blood rivers for ethiopia...may GOD judge you people that support terrorists in Ethiopia....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN.
This was a great video. Just a tiny nitpick to add to some other things I've seen others mention - the OLA wasn't founded during this conflict. They've been a thing at least since the Ethiopian Civil War, and even arterwards continued fighting in an insurgency. Abiy Ahmad, himself an Oromo, tried to end that conflict peacefully, but he obviously failed.
No he didn't try to end it peacefully. He tried to get OLA to submit to him and put away their arms. Which they rightfully refused because they didn't trust him not to mention it's sus in general to ask someone to put away their only insurance policy.
@@cplusplussizeddick1430 yes
@@cplusplussizeddick1430 Oh. Thanks.
That's a very informative video about a corner of the world you tend to forget about. Also thanks for the first useful ad on UA-cam I've seen in probably two years or more.
A very nice summary
Definitely an interesting, if unfortunate topic. I would like to hear more about this as it develops.
follow up
Poorly researched, was expecting better from you, especially with the maps, you could've used Ethiopia's federal map that's based on ethnic regions, from this everyone would be able to follow and see how small the Tigrayan region in comparison to the power they held.
Just a note for anyone that doesn't know much about Ethiopia, there are over 80 different ethnic communities with distinct language and culture of their own. Ethiopia is a fake country forced together by the British with the help of other colonial powers of that time. If the Europeans managed to solve the Yugoslavia by letting each ethnic group formed their own country, then similarly Ethiopia will need to be split along ethnicities, it's the only way to avoid the ensuing bloodshed and the genocide that might follow.
@Min Alu Tube it will be split along the current federal regional lines. TPLF knows that and hence why they're asking for a referendum for their people, if they succeed, then this will have a domino effect and other regions will follow suit.
Yugoslavia is not solved it’s just on hold until the next opportunity arrives for them to fight each other again
Was it forced by the British? Or did Haile Selassie change the name of the country to Ethiopia due the Bible and trying to say he was a descendant of King Solomon.
Thanks, Prof. Hilbert! It's a very dynamic region fraught with centuries old elements of family groups, religious & ethnic groups plus international powers joining the fray-- into something, the depths & convolutions of which they can neither fathom nor blumb!
We all greatly respect & appreciate the depth of research you undertake to elucidate the issues in this subject such that we, your lowly students can glean the nut & bolts of the discord.
People on opposite sides of a fence can join forces to "rebuild that fence".
I heard it said once that *Better Fences Most Assuredly Make For Better Neighbours"* . I, with all my heart believe it!
✌🏼🙏🏼😘,
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yousaid thanks because totalylie histry
So that it is impossible to lead Ethiopia with the system of Ethnic federalism
Time to take lessons
Thank you very much for sharing my hope is the end of this bloody war
It is not easy to do a video of such a complex topic. Good try. I would point a few things:
stationed
Sorry, now I am curious about one thing. Who told journalists on the 2nd of November that they were preparing to launch an attack into Tigray?
this should be you're point of view not a........the history of ethiopia is much more wider than you ever think...my name is dr demissie and i have a p.h.d in ethiopian history..there are some terms thats false in you're videoin terms of our history.....any way's thank u for.....and about the t.p.l.f terrorist you are completely wrong...in fact you look like a tplf payed foregner..our military force was on reform to get ready for foreign conflicts in the gerd dam...we was completely unconscious about tplf atacking our endf...i mean who would think that?? because most of the soldiers are even from tigray people...we wouldnt imagine they will savagely murder there own race...any ways the tplf attack was completely accidental for us...our military was defensless at that night..they were sleeping when the r.p.g and launchers were fired to there beedrooms..they were sleeping when the panzers ( tanks) smahed the walls and fired on them...so thats why 1.3milion people from all around ethiopia joined the military and currently trainig....thats why we are kicking their ass....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN....the tplf are highly supported by terrorist supporting europe countries and terrorist supoorting american senators...what ever what...we have the turkeys, russia and china with us.....and above all we have THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH US....Ethiopian miitary declare a bilateral cease fire in the tplf...currently the amhara militais are taking care of the junta terrorist group....Ethiopia is NOT in the brink of civil war..that is you're dream...we are in the brink of civil LOVE and civil peace...our enemies will fall as always..we have never been colonized we have never been defeated we will never lose...because we have GOD and truth with us...may the lord judge you who wish blood rivers for ethiopia...may GOD judge you people that support terrorists in Ethiopia....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN.
you forgot to mention that the Ethiopian federal forces and Eritrean forces were not pushed by the rebel. Instead it is America insisted to do so and sanctioned the leaders of the two countries. You forgot to mention that America wants to put the rebels at any cost on power, so that it's influence on the horn of africa can be guarantied.
Eritrean defense forces entered Tigray for military cooperation with Ethiopian government.
And they left only when US pressured them to leave Tigray now one pushed them out review past articles about this issue to confirm.
Shame on you! Yo did a historical mistake because Tigrayan are biologically your brothers.
@abrehaleyal
First of all not all of tigray relates to us but only it's northern parts Adwa,shire,Akhsum and zalambessa...
Get back to your statement
What did we do?
-Free our lands from their occupation of 20 years?
-Stopping them from launching 70 more missiles?
-Put a leash for all their Expansionist ambitions and destructive policies towards us?
@abrehaleyal
The facts are
- it was us who freed Tigray from a 6 centuries almost 7 centuries of Amhara colonization.
Since 10 or 11th century until 1991, Tigray was under direct Amhara colonization.
Not only that, we even gave them the driving seat of Ethiopia.
-Granted them free and unrestricted access to our ports.
But what did they do?
Go see 1998-2000 events
And the period from 2000 until 2020.
The words you've mentioned shouldn't be said to us but Tigrayans and their foolish policies in the past 3 decades they chose short term gains in shewa and US servitude over a life time gain by friendship with the single and most closest neighbors they ever have.
Now look what Tigrayan foolishness has resulted
@abrehaleyal
I hope you are a tigrayan and you really learned from your leaders and ancestors mistake and actually belief in what you just said then trying to correct back what the foolish elites did since 1997 and put back the strategic relationship which Shabiya always wanted with Tigray.
The statements are too long and continous. A little pause would help put the message clearer.
Very helpful it would be great to watch a video updating us on the conflict
Are you gonna make warplanes used in the Spanish civil war?
that would be interesting…
Buddy you forgot when TPLF Rocket attacked cities Eritrean,,, thats when Eritrea gotten involved.
Incorrect, rockets were sent in response to Eritrea crossing the border weeks prior and using their bases as a launching pad for fighter jets and drones.
@SGhost prove it
@@fa2040 Question did TPLF wanted a regime change in Eritrea? yes
@@abesabereka7566 Of course they did, just as Isaias wanted regime change in Ethiopia when they were in charge, and he still wanted to remove them when they were just running Tigray.
@@fa2040 TPLF agenda from Menfisto 1968 states that TPLF want to take over Eritrea... Eritrea does not have any interest in Tigray or Ethiopia expect peace... So what do you expect Eritrea to do.. Eritrea has the right to defend it self.. TPLF or the people of Tigray has two choice choice peace or else....You do not bite the hand the feed you... As far as Eritrean are concerned peace would be the best option but the idea to take over over a independent nation...is doomed to fail... We all know Eritrean when it comes to their country.... My suggestion is for you to pick peace... no matter what happen with the Ethiopian nation ...whether TPLF is powere or not... Eritrea is not be massed with.. if history teaches any of you people a thing or two.
The TDF as of today basically has full military control of the northern half of the country. Their allies the OLF have the south. Addis and the Amhara regions are basically dying a slow death. You’ll see TPLF back in control of Ethiopia within the next 60 days.
You funny 😄
@@TheTruth-cf3so you’ll see!
😂😂😂 Yes and I will be signed by Manchester United to a 500 million dollar deal in the next 30 days!! Lmao
@@jaywhoisit4863 how when they leaders are dead 😂😂 but Ethiopia is gonna make sure Kenyatta American puppet is gone trust me
@@beyou2425 lmaoo your ego is what's gonna make you lose this war, as he said, you will see. Maybe not 60 days but it's very much possible
Thanks buddy keep it up 👍
Your story is completely wrong, get your information right! It’s not EPRDF or TPLF who destroyed Ethiopian communist, it’s only Eritrea (EPLF) who crushed and destroyed the Durg regime.
Ps. Emperor Haile Selassie was not the successor of Menilik II, it was Lij Iyasu. And we were never the colonial possessions of the British. Ethiopia is the only uncolonised country in Africa.
Wrong, Italy colonized it
Thank you for this, which, as usual, needs, and will easily bear, a second viewing, and opens up many rabbit holes to explore.
Thank you also for introducing me to Ground News (actually from your last video). I always determine to be as unbiased as possible e.g. reading , both The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph, but Ground News helps that by also giving easier access to foreign media.
this should be you're point of view not a........the history of ethiopia is much more wider than you ever think...my name is dr demissie and i have a p.h.d in ethiopian history..there are some terms thats false in you're videoin terms of our history.....any way's thank u for.....and about the t.p.l.f terrorist you are completely wrong...in fact you look like a tplf payed foregner..our military force was on reform to get ready for foreign conflicts in the gerd dam...we was completely unconscious about tplf atacking our endf...i mean who would think that?? because most of the soldiers are even from tigray people...we wouldnt imagine they will savagely murder there own race...any ways the tplf attack was completely accidental for us...our military was defensless at that night..they were sleeping when the r.p.g and launchers were fired to there beedrooms..they were sleeping when the panzers ( tanks) smahed the walls and fired on them...so thats why 1.3milion people from all around ethiopia joined the military and currently trainig....thats why we are kicking their ass....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN....the tplf are highly supported by terrorist supporting europe countries and terrorist supoorting american senators...what ever what...we have the turkeys, russia and china with us.....and above all we have THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH US....Ethiopian miitary declare a bilateral cease fire in the tplf...currently the amhara militais are taking care of the junta terrorist group....Ethiopia is NOT in the brink of civil war..that is you're dream...we are in the brink of civil LOVE and civil peace...our enemies will fall as always..we have never been colonized we have never been defeated we will never lose...because we have GOD and truth with us...may the lord judge you who wish blood rivers for ethiopia...may GOD judge you people that support terrorists in Ethiopia....ETHIOPIA WILL BE GREAT AGAIN.
I dont want to push you to neither side of the conflict, but I can tell you that the media is only reporting one side of the story. A lot of people have been hurt in this conflict but the media has only been concerned with the tigray side.
The Oromo Liberation Army is supported by most of the people in Oromia and they will easily liberate most of the towns and cities with little resistance. Abiy has destroyed Oromia and killed many Oromos and jailed Oromos most influential leaders such as Jawar.
Hurray for Jabzy! Hip Hip
Really appreciate this video, super helpful
Your report is ridiculously biased and it is very clear that it is not because of lack of research. You are intentionally putting small but very serious remarks that are incorrect for e.g you tried to explain the unwillingness of the tplf to join the Prosperity party by making a joke of the name, they didn't join b/c the party they had created (tplf) was based on racial lines like every region had its own party the oromo, tigri, amhara, somali, Afar and some more but the main problem was some minorities like gambela people, benshangul people were not involved in the decision making and they were given the name subordinates in their own country so abiy thought that if a Democratic govt is going to be created it must include everyone and it must not be based on racial lines and created a new party but the tplf leaders refused to be part and left. The other very major mistake you made was when you talked of the Ethiopian government provoking a conflict by stationing troops on the border b/n tigri and amhara region and also inviting Eritrea on the other side but that is wrong, if you if you had seen the tigri tv before the war you could see the regional gov then showing military parades and as for the eretrian troops the went into Ethiopian territory after missiles were launched on their capital asmera bybyt the tplf.
BECAREFUL of whta you say to your audience because media this days has a lot iiof influence on people
Thanks for taking your time to make this mistake in the video.
1. Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Wasn’t in British colonial
2. “Shelling the cities to capture them” and “killing of Tigray people especially Ethiopians, Eritreans and Amharas” you got that totally wrong. The Ethiopian government only shelled after the went to desert which they have 1000+ military in custody. Got released with no to little casualties. Ethnic cleansing was committed by TPLF on Amhara, Afar and even in Tigrayans who doesn’t support TPLF. You have even mention 1 which is MayCadra more that 1600+ Amhara got killed by TPLF raised group Samir youth group who flee to Sudan as a migrant.
3. Capture of MEKELLE by TPLF: because of outside pressure and it’s time to harvest and the Ethiopian government got their weapons back from the rebels group it’s time for peace and end of war.
You’re great Hilbert, but you’re making silly mistake that is very important. Keep digging because all I see is highlight. It’s very complicated to be highlighted Hilbert.
Thanks
So passive aggressive aren't you. Also 3 mistakes isn't a massive deal calm down
How are u going to say all Ethiopian leaders were from the Tplf/Tigray when most leaders In Ethiopia’s long history are from Amhara lol. Get ur facts sorted my friend.
He was only talking about the time after the monarchy collapsed. I guess it would be nice if he mentioned that the Amhara was dominant in the past, thought not sure if that is relevant to the topic.
I'd be interested in more videos like this. I'd also be interested in a video on the Era of Princes in the 18th and 19th centuries if that's something you'd want to make.
Yes i hope he can make videos on king tewodros 2 how he tried to blackmail England but failed 😊😊 back in the 18th
@Johannes history is written well because we have our own developed writing systems
.ethiopia one of the oldest countries in the world that preserved it's history through writing systems
Oldest books and all found 😊 yeah ..
Correction please . Ethiopia started becoming after King Minilik. Which is after 1896 . If you have dispute with what you are free to come with prove evidence and convince everyone .
Abby Ahmed is actually the prime minister - not the president
10:27 Somalia didn't invade Ethiopia. It was Somali land that Somalia plus the Ogaden region tried joining Somalia. Ogaden is Somali and they wanted to unite with their Somali brothers of Somalia
Excellent analysis, however, there are few corrections which need to be seen again. one is Ethiopia under Meles Zenawi was invaded by Eritrean forces back in the 1990s and second, there was a prime minister from the southern nation and nationality before the current prime minister, Abiy Ahmed from Oromo, his name is Hailemariam Desalen. Thank you for your balanced analysis. Please make a separate video based on the humanitarian crisis in the north (Tigray in particular) and the destructive role of Eritrean troops for the second time in Ethiopian history.
Ethiopia is poorly governed with tens of different tribes that don’t get much representation in the government so a conflict is unavoidable
thats a hell lot of info....great work
Neglected facts here during the early phase of the war TPLF launched rockets at an Amhara city of Bahir Dar( where thousands of civilians reside) and also at capital city of Eritrea, Asmara( which the Eritreans site as what prompted them to invade) also around 600 Amhara farmers were slaughtered in a town called mai-kadra surviving victims say it was committed by a TPLF affiliate youth group.
I'm not discounting tigriyan suffering but trust me that statement of yours saying "more from the Ethiopian side" is so wrong and you don't understand how damaging it is to compare such things knowing what a monster TPLF is.
The thing is that Ethiopia by land is as big as France + Spain + Portugal, or if you prefer it this way nearly as big as Germany + Poland + Ukraine...
In my opinion they should just split those regions into separate countries and live in peace...
Almost every African country is like that haha
Funny ain’t it, yet on the maps due to distortion it looks about the same size as France
Regions of most countries in the world rarely are split neatly along ethnic, cultural or religious lines. It's not necessarily something that would lead to peace.
@@Demothios no one said they need to draw borders in same way they are already drawn right now...
they can also make border cities, it's not nothing new, we even have few those in Poland when half of the city is in Poland then there is a bridge and other half is for example in Germany, or in Czechia.
After many years it become fun tourist attraction :)
@@PolecanePC no that’s not gonna create any peace at all. I mean look at Yugoslavia, and the USSR. To this day there are still tensions between the countries that used to be one.
Eplf was established in 1971-72, Before Tplf was established. Actually Tplf got training & weapons from Eplf.
Awesome channel
One thing is for sure, eight groups joined the Tigray force and have advanced to within 100 km. of the Capital. The military is being overwhelmed since they are fighting on five fronts. Economically, this will set Ethiopia back who knows how many years. This could also cause the Tigray region and possibly other regions to go there own independent way possibly leaving a power vacuum in that region.
Was this wht yall really believed at the time, do yall think the gov was going to let tplf theives enter addis, the capital where the au is at. U have to be delusional to have believed tht at the time.
At that time, not delusional at all. The government forces were scattered while the rebels were advancing. What changed things around later on and which some did not expect was that Iran, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Turkey would get involved. Those Turkish drones really turned things around for the Ethiopian government just like it did for the Azeri government. In the end, the war drags on which does not help the people or economy of Ethiopia.
@@ab9840 either way they would’ve have never entered addis,this is not Amhara or afar we’re talking about. Drones or no drones, going into a capital where miltaries hq is at is not the way to go. If u believe tht i will not argue with u but if the drones did it thx for the drones and the military, because it’s delusional to think tht one region would be able to overcome the whole of Ethiopia. Tbf with the amount of weapons the military personnels stole from Ethiopia while in power and having majority of tigrays in the military while they only represented 5% of the population was an evidence of how they didn’t care about us. As soon as they lost tht power they tried raiding to Addis like the little rats they are. Im iust just glad Ethiopia can deal with this now and weaken them, not later, this was bound to happen sooner or later.
Thank you for always producing quality topical content - I love your videos and they have been so brilliant recently!
Also, thank you for always making legitimate effort to pronounce non-English words
If Tigray doesn’t get independence from Ethiopia it’s going into my personal ugly cry folder 📂 😖
We will get our independence
23:40 OLA wasn't founded then goofy. OLA/OLF is older than TPLF is.
As An Eritrean, the dictator in adihalo(name of the place where the communist dictator of eritrea office is) has finished out the strength of our bone morrow but at least the Tigrayans have still have the strength and the leadership to fight for their independence which is good thing to see.
Too many inaccuracies, to list here, but the major error was not to mention what percentage do the conflicting parties represent in the country.