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the end of the decades the reduction compared to 1990 levels is seen as a big step up from the current goal. ethiopia's government says it's returning eritrean refugees to camps in the north and to grow the region they fled to the camps allowed to subvert your infighting in tikrit between local forces and federal government soldiers the u.n. says their returns to vary so soon is absolutely unacceptable but ethiopia says they'll be safe. and at least 4 aide workers have been killed in ethiopia seagrove region according to the international rescue committee and the danish refugee council the conflicts in te gross thoughts of killed thousands displaced well the 950000 people and that you're up to date to stay with us here on al-jazeera the stream is up next. and. from mother to daughter an ancient craft kept alive by a bustling matriarch. from start to finish. all traditions

intertwined with new designs making this family's place unique in tunisia has a rich tapestry. a thread on al-jazeera. by after me ok you're watching the screen the last time we had a discussion about ethiopia on the show it was very heated after the show i had an impromptu deep grief with the guests and those guest david commissioned to show this clip to have a look. thank you oh no i didn't i did so many things not going to help that. i didn't really think peace corps resignedly organizers any organ platform every time family brings if you're going to go there we spend how movement within. your

wasting opportunities but reality is changing your name heard what we said it's a shared. one of them as if what if they didn't change you here were related has it there was my dad this is part of i would tell you to go home but you already have. stressful being an ethiopian right now since this time around we're hoping that there will be a little less heat and a whole more nor a home or not night into the conversation so where are we right now we have government forces in tikrit that's the northern part of ethiopia saying that they are now in control the former ruling no cool party to tea p.l.f. has now been on the cover and they said they've launched a guerrilla war so right now is this the end of the war. or just the beginning i know unusual already jumped into the conversation every day ago on tweeting you

are sending us your thoughts your ideas your experiences your knowledge you know what's to you if you're watching right now on the cheap jump into the comment section of today show. after more than a month of fighting to grow with all the associated disruptions to our communication and supply lines the situation is very concerning we've witnessed a large amount of internal displacement large numbers of injured both civilian and military and we're very concerned about hospitals who dangerous a lot of medical supplies doctors are being forced into decisions about their country now they can treat them and have to leave out of that access for humanitarian agencies it's not going to sure. it's essential to get medical supplies through to these hospitals or soon as possible. well perspective from inside ethiopia and now 3 perspectives film ethiopian 2nd highest welcome back to the stream i see you're wearing your scream uniform appreciate that introduce yourself to our audience around the world. so my name is a cut as i know i'm

a freelance journalist with vice media and as a very recently al-jazeera. thank you for joining us as i as welcome to the stream introduce yourself to our global audience. thank you very much my name is. a i'm a recent graduate of the universe of california berkeley school of law i am a legal professional by trips by without one california thank you very much the news i welcome good to have you and your honest welcome to the skin tell everybody here on ready to. hi my name is eon a cigarette i'm a professor of political science going to college here in lawrenceville georgia in the atlanta. so this question that we are asked as we go into this discussion is has the come to ethiopia ended oh is it really just beginning as a reporter as

a crisis what are the clues that tell you that it's either over or it's still going on how the piece that together particularly it's hard to get access the northern part of ethiopia like now. well i mean as a further november 20 minutes earlier men declared that conventional military warfare had concluded with the european armies capture of the regional capital of any. despite this there is they're still. there still hasn't been an opening up of the region to independent analysts and journalists and there is still communications blackouts in the large part of the majority of the region of there was and a true end to the conflict. now that no one i would have in the time for journalists like myself and a lot of my colleagues on the ground to be able to go in and properly assess the extent of the damage. speak to those who bore the brunt of the casualties

and to get a good look at what the infrastructure damage looks like however at that exists that permission has not been granted as of yet and the government is still pretty chilling independent coverage of the conflict or as they were portrayed in the course to conflict. and as long as this continues we'll be able to accurately assess if as the government says the conflict is has well then truly winding down. so prime minister abby aren't any seems very confident that the war was over it was any going to be a couple weeks it is done now looking up at school reform how do you reach that confidence that he's succeeding with what may well be happening on the ground. the conflict is major in a federal government

a very large and subsidy to the country and against the local government of its own and these local government which has been laid by to be l.a. has been training tain is in tens of thousands of special forces and militia forces that eventually attack at the northern command of the armed forces so bringing that up is because even if for the end if. you know it was possible to reorganize itself start somehow from scratch and defeat disease in the south raised arms against the government the parisian in a jewess says may not be over because criminals have to be friended law and order has to be restored in a way that is confidence for the government to actually invite journalists and aid workers to be able to visit visit their agent so you know without

completing that i think it will be very difficult or premature to say that it is complete also commission or warfare as the chorus just say it has been successfully in that in that the government is in a 100 percent in control of the region. i'm looking here on this it's an arms to them says what is eritrea military doing in t. cry i'm going to fry that teeny sayas you have knowledge of that is that true. thank you very much our 1st i just want to correct. some narratives 1st they are the 2 great regional government is an elected government it has it was a sad list based on a popular election there's a limit on that so it's about government and has a strong support among the 2 grands enjoy still and conditional support of the gray you know according to the to grant original government spokesperson more than

250000 army men and women men and men women in uniform are defending to grey so we have to know that it is a legit government has a very strong popular best come into question eritrea is involved in this war and there is a credible evidence to prove that for example europe and. there are a panda bear gendered to europe and company that research and security of each year bear confirmed that era trance are actually participating in this war and also there are tons of their return soldiers who were captured during this war so there's no question there is no doubt about their trance involvement in this war and that makes the conflict and international conflicts in just about e.g. the guy now yes says that all all signs indicate conventional war is a loser they're poor so the t.p. l.f. lead is kewl captured for several days so this is going to need it the problem is

when an area is closed down how do you get that real information and then this is how al jazeera is reporting right now if he appears average denies insurgency emerging into guy 2nd he suffered it's. ok so that if that's me. get it up in government has stated that. as i mentioned earlier operations are winding down and it is concluding. operations integrate however currently phone and internet access has only been restored to parts of to grab. which are under ethiopian army control and these parts these cities and towns are actually very limited all of the grazier to be governments going. ok well the areas that we are able to access by telephone by telephone and internet are limited to several towns. to establish the town

with residence in the town of my cut up as a very recently. but until this day relatives family members have been unable to contact their loved ones in the regional capital of mechanics for instance home to half a 1000000 people so without this without this ability to establish contact with those on the ground i would not be able to independently assess the claims and counterclaims whether it's the government being 100 percent of in control of the region or what he said the alleged alleged reports of eritrean troops in iraq and this is a difficult. conversation going in and out let me explain that 1st 1st after that i would assert to declare that he completed the mission the 3rd and final mission of this operation or for i call i call it where are the euro through the or i mean the air to ground forces were able to shut down. mic 23 jet so that shows you that

were brought the prime minister telling telling us this conclusion accurate and also defaming that as that is not in reality what that into it what i mean if you actually look at france 24 seaboard they exported this fake news it was a video clip that was taken from a video game that is does the 11 for our conversation here well as i think is just yet the any let me general general anyone else. you want as i want to move on up i'm going to come straight here is that as i move on and this is because as me deep late oh whether the conflict in ethiopia is over or just beginning one sign one clue that it is not over will be refugees people flee now home and guarantee syntax . that is a clip if everything was fine if there are no war they would still be sitting let me bring in the force and then you can come in right off the back of this this is chris metzler he's a senior external relations officer at new and 8 c.

this is what he told us and you have a listen. we are united nations high commissioner for refugees are very concerned about the refugees in sudan. almost $50000.00 of them across now the or are. you a nation rushed immediately to this region to help but the people have lost everything . in more uncertain stream of concerned about the original refugees who were before his you're talking about 96000 people all saw out of the. different camps in region. without supplies and we were looking to help them get. this is a situation where that if huge is very heart breaking one person displaced is for me one to money but the government has also stated that.

you know you know for citing sources from the united nations supermajority of the city if you reduce houghton to be teenagers and young i mean who tend to be participating in the war 'd itself in the conflict there were former militia and special force members but now that the fact that calm is a salute slowly returning to sit right and given the fact that it be has been experiencing this situation with i.d.p.'s internally in south korean central parts of the country i don't think 405-0000 even though 'd it is significant in the highest would it be difficult for the to have been a government to manage injury settled at a set of the reintegrate them and helps them. you know return to the end of my life so i don't think it will be hugely challenging but what is very critical is

a branding some criminals 'd may be hiding amongst their refute is most the most important of these also means how participated in the massacre that took place in my car again is that the people in that region are mad correct so 1st i think mr. miss concerning the facts there is no factual proof that this referee just are former members of the 2 grand a force this is in assuming facts and 1st and foremost this is not a glass or small question out of our small person does not kill people it doesn't. risky people does not grant cities destroyed infrastructure invite a foreign country to invent runs on country calls nearly $50000.00 people to seek refuge in a foreign country invade and terrorize people rockumentary but on the mediterranean it's no example of that to the arabs that are a nice guy as that is how israel right or right proud rover inmate primarily know

not imagine the ghetto and how america has not how you guys are going to ensure that your issues in general any premier agents and i don't i don't hear you hired i don't hear you i don't hear you when you when you speak over each other so i'm going to ask you your hands in one sentence what is your kush macas i need to question. ok when it to be a spokesperson actually accuses if you're going to piss off a stealing doris you know something that they are making up because this is how design this out is they just had to say something that's just that's just very childish and really not true what we should be concerned about is that the us is if the oxy valiums and what we see is us to feel it started to as grown as they started to retreat what they were doing was massacring it all based on their identities but if you're going to government actually has been given the stall of 72 hour. time period just to actually lay the ground militias

and special police force members to consider surrendering and returning back to their low life that is a very good at intimate enemies going out or something and then we know something as well it is significant gently nonissue you had your sentence thank you very much let me bring up something that you would think would be one of those rumors that goes around it couldn't possibly be true have a look here at my laptop this is the headline ethiopian forces fly at the un team its aid groups seek to access is that true it was absolutely. california by a government spokesperson and this is what the death government spokesperson said about the instant that happened and listen. you know some off there you're in stops well actually in some way sure that might might not happen. in some of these

companies not no man's land it was a government it only has if you can denounce something i went on and some of you know as the most up must move. in that isms and. the kind of intimacy expedition science when you hear that. it only sounds as if the government spokesperson was saying that the u.n. team were going hiking in there to glen nineteenth's where as they're trying to help people who who need assistance right now what can you tell me one of the instances we know where people are maybe family maybe friends that you have in the northern part of ethiopia ethiopia tells us how bad the humanitarian crisis is right now. take you very much so 1st the the that's 1st person of the federal government is admitting that the federal government to get there has shut that shop the ed workers so that

a stock that itself tells you that that the government you know how much criminals there the program government is even shooting out the aid workers and weak up when it comes to the air to humanise around effect as this very enormous amounts of people are starving there is not access to any health services including one of the major hospitals in the capital is closed people don't have access to any kind of house facility starving artist and thousands of people migrating to sudan i can go on and on that the humanitarian crisis is it's very significant a mere counter here to me. of course of course going on sure sure there is a security framework in the country that prevented this you know free movement of people in organization as you know we don't do the analysis aid workers because of the fact that a state of emergency has been declared in that area for about 6 months we just

finished the 1st woman so we have actually 5 months so they respect international law in abiding by international institutions in their values in tradition is that we are formed of this international institutions does not mean that they can actually roam around right disrespecting the law that's actually in place right now and $100.00 says what you want lohan is they said that but you had but you had us though i mean i haven't either no no it isn't national oh you know you're a rather. for america raise your running. mate all right everybody how to everybody the phrase run around that feels particularly insensitive and that we let me show you why not this is this is this this is a refugee who now is in sudan he was separated from his family i want you to hear his voice how this added difficulty about we have lost everything and it's been

very difficult to sleep or we are still suffering and thinking about our family who have. been at home and they're always asking me about their mother and sister and i keep giving them hope that they may have found a car to travel to central to great and that they're probably safe but i give them how. i actually have a c.e.o. criticizing the u.n. for being in what you would say probably the wrong place at the wrong time has some new cheap source for you say do you respond to them that says i'm doing foresman is not an excuse for killing innocent people and displacing 50000 civilians what would you say back to beth yanis. that's a very excellent question and thank you for showing that clip this the displaced if you can brother as well my heart breaks for him he's my brother is mightier than brother and i care about each and every european or it respective of it's in a city or it's and it got into the whatever you call it but what i want what i was trying to say was that it's so much in sensitivity anymore since that we have

invested in that situation all right and what happened in the 1st 2 days after they did that to ground you know especially for spectacular northern command was they were actually using raid across trucks and cars right to negotiate with the state or strangled soldiers of the n.d.s. now if you're going national defense forces how been betrayed by is it accommodated in our midst that have been you know eating and leaving and defending that outrage and torn ears and i'm getting nobody is saying thank you i didn't lead i doubt i'd already met him this happens you had his i don't know if you got his claim to having but it but him let me set it right there it got there were a lot of a lot of comments like mice are going to come straight to you because i'm trying to represent the you cheap audience a user over 1000 people that sharing their thoughts with you this story here at this is concerning ethiopia and aren't accused of ethnic profiling over

a civil war with and another headline here just changing a few pimply seeking lists of ethnic decry and this is a you and reports you are seeing you have reporting. situations where it appears that there's ethnic profiling and not enough to try region where that may or may not be a conflict still going on but in other parts of ethiopia so to my skin you explain what you see. yes so like i mentioned before reporting out of today might be difficult reporting elsewhere in the country has been relatively easy thus far and i was able to a certain that the ethnic profiling of. employees at if you're an airline's was not an isolated incident there has been an institutional effort to exclude grains. ethiopian workforce across a variety of different sectors including the construction and humanitarian sectors

is definitely a disturbing new developments that we started noticing and maybe perhaps a week into the war and although we might not be able to establish a direct link say between what's going on and maybe the upper echelons of power such as the prime minister's office. there's definitely we can definitely notice there's been no attempt at curbing the trend no attempt at protecting the rights of innocent to grant civilians who are in the country who have no link whatsoever to the conflict no link whatsoever to the g.p.l. left but who are being unjustly excluded and just suspended and dismissed from their posts across the g.o.p. workforce and when it comes to the sensitivity issue i'd like to respectfully disagree with the characterization that the yarns made of refugees in sudan as being largely. young men u.n.h.c.r.

officials i spoke to within the initial days of the mass exodus confirmed to me that they meant that. the large majority of those fleeing were unaccompanied minors who had little to no possessions which meant they had to flee spontaneously for their own well being this does definitely point to their being an immediate threat to the well being of civilians in the area something that the german government has denied and i think that's the conversation we should be having. about knowing something being it's an experience an area it's a conversation that we have been we having amongst so many issues so many issues 2nd rice esiason unionism appreciate you bringing your perspective your experiences your takes i want to leave us with these faces of into porn day which really reminds us about who is suffering on the ground beyond the politics who is suffering these safina. these in evidence austin commission of prevention more crimes and crimes against humanity. this includes the massacre of hundreds of

civilians in and around my country that has elizabeth strong there she is of other massacre is in her manner so it is important to note here that these are easily people who are being targeted because of their ethnicity in addition to this is a problem getting off to green civilians in the government's effort to the b.l.s. particularly concerning tensions which if. this story this conversation is not over yet that it is today on the steps into the street is a scene external incentives. from fossil fuels to modern day renewable as societies develop the energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such demands as a global power developed into the basement company nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver against these developments we provide business growth promote

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