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that's the bottom line with high on for me. okay, thanks for watching the stream. it has been 18 months since a conflict broke out in the northern part of ethiopia. now there is a truce in place and also a pause in the fleeting, between ethiopian government troops, federal troops, and fighters into gray. could this truce be the beginning of a real piece of process? that is what we're asking today. that is what we're trying to unpack. we have an incredible audience of ethiopians. any fi, okay, in the diaspora as well on twitter right here on youtube for your comments, your questions, your analysis. i would love to have it available to me to be part of today's show. ah,

welcome back to all 3 of i guess, helping us allies. what is happening in ethiopia right now, particularly with the truce. hello mazda, said ally, and also to dos. welcome back at mazda. will you remind our audience, who you are? what you do? i think me thank you for having me. my name is eliza. i am a human rights advocate and international relations center was on that to guy and advocacy group leading the fight against a gretchen site. all right, nice to have you to dally nice of see you again. please remind our audience who you are, what you do. thanks a lot. same you nice to see you too. my name is sadala and i am the founder of i dishonored magazine, but currently serving as a see all of them other company jack in publishing and see get to having to draw us . welcome back to the string might i wouldn't see you off. thank you for having me terry. my name is george was for free. i am the chairman of association of america and advocacy group base here in charlotte, north carolina,

that advocates and we have our own people. it easy. thank you all guess i, i, i just want to go back to march where the federal government said that there is now going to be a truce with fighters intake right to allow the humanitarian aid to get through. is this ground for optimism? maza? we start a conversation please sir, i didn't hear that say me. sorry. could hear. yeah, absolutely. oh, a much. we learned that the federal government said we're going to have a truce between the, the federal fighters and to fight izzy in tig roy is this grounds for optimism? what have you seen so far? are you optimistic that more will come that that will be a piece of process? oh, we heard there was a humanitarian truth declared to interest of course why since take unrestricted and a consistent flow of human nature, i need to the people in need. however,

everything have seen since then in place. otherwise it stated to cry is under siege . the people do not have i dictates accessed humanitarian aid. only in less than 14 percent of what is needed has been directed to and that's primary because they have been government and satellites continue to use starvation as a more tactic and are not willing to provide humanitarian quoted or take their national aid workers so that there isn't any optimism, and as a result of that, of course, the international committee and prematurely celebrated the declaration of monitoring truce. but that hasn't translated into any meaningful action. and as a result, people into grad dying of starvation and lack of medication, including my aunts who just died 3 months ago of starvation leaving flat, often children behind. so it as much as we want to be optimistic everything we have seen in place. otherwise, i'm just looking. yeah, i'm so sorry. condolences for your aunt. i'm just looking here. take my external

affairs of a statement on the release of prisoners of war to do us when you learn to face your 1st thoughts, go ahead. oh, thank you for my condolences to miles on the death of her, of her aunt any time there's a release of the open soldiers and to return to their families. that's all. that's good news. and that's something that i think your prince is celebrate. but i think it's really important to me. ready to for your audience, to understand what is happening right at this moment. if you're about 2 days ago, the administration admitted the for the rest of nearly 5000 a day. so, and i'm how are we doing this over a position political party members, 11th journalist, media staffers, university professors, students, ex officials including current government employees who are critical of the administration, had been rugged up and arrested the c p. j. in other western,

all of us have been reporting about this over 20 peaceful protesters, unfortunately were gone down by the admin security apparatus. this is actually very saddening for many i'm asked to deal with just a case in point. a young boy under the age of 4 and his mother were arrested to force his father to turn himself in just this week. this is an attempt by the administration to neutralize critical amara voices what he, what his horrible prosperity party negotiated with the t p on. if it is unfortunate where you know that if your president is, is in a place that is in right now because of the war, be to the abbey administration and the to grab people, the garage and fun. unfortunately, they're, you know, their little size for hope at the small it's for our us and we'll eat for most ethiopians. that's what's really critical for the international community to step in the pressure on the administration to elise. these 5000 civilians are there have been rotted up and this is, can,

this campaign is continuing on right now as we speak. now, i'm just wondering what kind of truth is this? why some people are being arrested jealous amid a people being scammed top. but at the same time, some aid, some is getting through to reaching that desperately needs it. how would you characterize what we understand about this trace? thank you for it. so i'll be hard pressed to correlate a truce to begin with. my son, please accept my condolences on the loss of your family member. i have you say that, as i say it is very difficult to call it a truce to begin with the government framing. the truth is that unilateral humanitarian truce, this in itself is very problematic because humanitarian aid cannot be subjected to any negotiation of truce. it has to be under international minus i didn't know you might have thought in supplies must be free from any negotiation between warning

parties. so when the government said that this is a unique latter humanitarian truce, a lot of things are vague. secondly, even after the truth is, is, is declared, unilateral or nothing, the latter, the aid is not reaching as per requested by the way we need currently up to a $115.00 trucks to roll it into to gripe per day. if we wanted to avoid a catastrophe of time in number of days, people are still dying. but if we are really trying to avoid millions from perishing out from me. so there is no truce under the circumstances. certainly. there is another war, a war by other means again is to grow as we speak, which is that the seat is not only trickling of humanitarian aid, but also to grice disconnected from telecommunication banking and a tricity and all other services that the to grab, people need to receive and this is as much devastating as the heat as

a lack of you minus are in supplies. there. people who are salaried, who could otherwise have accessed their money from the bank so they can buy whatever is available in the market, are dying on the streets today as we speak. so there is a war by other means into gray. so what truth are we talking about under the circumstances? if we talk about a unit lantern, humanitarian truce, the government could have simply started by connecting to gray, opening up the banking sector. so people can access their money as us can, can, can, can access their own money and save lives there. so it's very difficult to call it truce and that's, that's where the problem lies in my understanding. yes, it did. awesome. did you pick up and i'm just going to, i'm going to slide in a little coming from and met because i'm nick talked about this trace in a waiver. he didn't really feel that it was very helpful till she got 1st august, 2nd mazda you guys fed. okay, we got okay,

thank you for me. i think it's also important for the international community to be aware that, you know, for the most part there has not been any fighting right between the various religions. and this is something that we have been calling for the session of hostilities because when there is fighting, it is innocent ethiopians to suffer innocent ethiopia. so di, the concern for us right now as a, as a morris, is just that you feel if it's still occupied large swath of amal, of areas within my region, in the northern wonder about dark iron to lunch, as well as in what our area were and we will, unaware if there is unity, we see these areas as an organization we have always demanded and asked for unfettered humanitarian access into to ride into areas in our region and afford our hipaa occupation of the t. p of, i think what our biggest concern for me to raise the heat through simulation front because you probably had an acronym a few times. if you watch anything, you're not

a floating kiddos finished up cuz i'm going to bring in and go ahead shortly. the concern that we have is with these to go back to negotiations that are undergoing between the abilene prosperity party and to grab people's liberation. but it is it because i'm our us in our class are excluded from these negotiations. and this is our concern. but we want long term negotiations and peace to you know, to county yoga. it is important that all stakeholders are at that table in communicating and talking. so all the issues to be addressed. what started the war, the cost of the war and all the austin, the issues that are out there. all right, so you feel excluded? i am, it has been and net here and net was just picking up on what the dolly was saying about this siege of people in kc ry ordinary citizen take like has to be more than age getting through it has to be opening up the brocade, his any of the so called the monitor and truce, one has to think of the pupils clean and not the political narratives that is to

continue to escalate and patients are being discharged for lack of food and medical supply as was pick public infrastructure such as banking and telephone remain unthinkable. let the people get what they deserve under the international humanitarian law and including accountability and compensation. otherwise, war seems to be inevitable in the coming weeks and months. maza, what would you like to add? go ahead. i want to highlight that the problematic actor, you don't know if this is not only due to been government id so, so it's local and regional unless that includes vigilante groups formed. i'm had a region as well as a return forces that are see a lady. i occupy in parts of to greg, particularly on the western and northern course of to guy and according to reports from the human rights which is a mist international people in the western part of to guy including tunnel m t and, and, and one i to promote as well as i didn't quite continue to face

a state sponsor brutality, including attorney cleansing, massacring and writing. so if the international community truly wants to see a peaceful ethiopia, they have to put enough pressure not on known this state actors, but also and then state doctors in order to go back to the study and type which include this leaving parcels to grade that conditionally and nearly as well as historically, do we lumped it to grow and this includes forcing areas, tried to withdraw its forces as well as i'm had a malicious and this is yolanda group called fun to withdraw from parts of the gray including attempting will guide because this are part of your parts of the gray that belong to the people, often, rac mazda. and often if the or that you've done and tutor olson and sedately over the, what did you all that you know about this? so chord, let me do a close international community. why are you saying we need to do this? we need to do that, because what have they done so far? mazda, what, why would you give them that responsibility? because i do not see that. maybe i'm not behind the scenes,

maybe i'm not in negotiation, but i'm not seeing a huge impact by this international community that everybody in his conversation is talking about said dolly will you pick up for me here because i'm not seeing that happening. but it's even a horn of africa envoy, a foreman, nigerian president who's helping with negotiations. but what's been done so far, 18 month into a conflict and a kind of truce to dolly. thoughts. that's absolutely a bruland christian semi. there is really we have seen for 18 menz's, the inability of data, not the so called international community to even issue a meaningful statement calling for succession of facilities. we have watched the un security council fe, 13 times to even issue one single statement calling for succession of facilities and says fire, which you would imagine is not really a hard thing to do. so there is that after failure of the international community

diplomacy and also some of the, you know, enforcing measures that you would otherwise think could prevent that descent into this kind of tragedy. that if you're fine, sit said, so that brings us to what can we do? i think the solution is in our own hamp's. we need to start talking. but for that to happen, i think the bigger part should be played by the government. and unfortunately, this is not a government who has peace and its interest. i think we do have a government that thrives in chaos engineered tragedy. what's happening in i'm had originated state today, for example, as a say, he said it's just an imaginary level of crackdown that prevents any possibility of a peaceful resolution to this conflict because we're not looking at the long term impact of this kind of state cracked,

found that will have on that piece negotiation between to cry and i'm her average united states. so there's no really enough initiative to, to natalie to, to, to, to oversee the end of this conflict. the other failure that we're facing is our own failure, which is that we don't even have a meaningful civil society. religious institutions, their own have been made to become a part of this conflict in one way or another. and this is the other tragedy that we are looking at. so at the end of the day, we really need to confront this reality that it is as for us, or as again this one isn't drive from, this is the main belligerent of this war. yeah. to just go ahead, i hate, but if you just have some space here, go ahead. ok, thank you. and i do a dollar here. the international community really has film done. doesn't mean we cannot, we have to allow them to do so because there is

a row for the international community here. however, what is what, what is it, what is that role? another yes, now another thing, so understand that this is a war. this is a civil war and the civil war is very, very, in order to in the civil war, there has to be sincere interest by the belligerents and then the pressure to come from the outside forces. the, the thing is, the end of the day, the peace rest and the house of the ethiopian people. and we care is going to be very, very difficult. but if you're in the country, there hasn't existed put all of years and we have these mechanisms in place that we can bring it to bear our to put pressure on the, on the, you know, the leaders are just, you know, i'm with the teacher left and the other belligerent and hopefully to refuse to do my surgery in terms of russian army, wasn't the ultimate living, the same thing, expecting the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result. let me show, i'm think that it was not, not the i'm,

i'm question your sanity, but it's just like you have been here before. let me share something because i want to go back to the reason why the federal government said that there was a truce. have a look here, my laptop, if your peer declares unilateral truce to allow aid into tea cry, and we did reach out to the federal government spokesperson, the prime minister spokesperson and, and got nothing back. but i do want to share this, this, this quote here. this is the statement from the federal government. the comment of ethiopia hopes that this truce was substantially improve the humanitarian situation on the ground and paved the way for the resolution of the conflict in northern ethiopia. without further bloodshed, let me bring a leona in here because that humanitarian corridor. how is it doing his aliana? we spoke to her earlier. this is firing. it's your p a is a hugely important development for us because it enabled us to bring vital

important humanitarian assistance to people. we have center for human terran convoy so far comparing the pizza, one of bringing bringing medicine seats because we're entering planting season. now. we're also send regular human chairman flights, but of course some very serious challenges remain. one of them is the sheer scale of the needs because so many people have been affected on so many different levels . and then there's some very important logistical challenges, like some important items like met eliza that are not easily available at the markets. i'm going to go to our own international community that we have on youtube. and it's a question here which is really interesting month, i'm going to put it to you, but, or of, i guess i want you to answer these questions fairly quickly. so we can talk to as many of our youtube community as possible. i feel says, why is the international community not concerned about the 10th grade genocide?

mazda swiftly. yet, it's a great, the international community doesn't seem to worry about scheduling the site because they don't, they lack the necessary quality, can we? but we continue to call up on them to take meaningful actions, because we have seen the kind of power they can mobilize effectively. save lives. when it comes to us, i kill us here. why can't you just send peacekeepers in why they know un peacekeepers that said dolly is that practical? well that, that is practical, but as it politically beneficent, that is not. after all, we really have to ask, what does ethiopia for the rest of the world? what kind of place do we do we do, we occupy to influence this kind of decision? and this is the hard question that we really need to, what are we to the rest of the world? and how much influence do we willing to force the international community to send peacekeepers or even force that belligerents there to sit on pan negotiation table

and bring them to it? there is no mechanism to do that so far. is it that the lock off the wheel or is it like what is already important to them? we have to question this, this have to bring this to a question for me to process a specific question for you. if i, if i make them, i'm gonna show like what you said, we can do as many about one as possible as i wanted to also, in particular about age being built for the amara region. first is that the case? and then 2nd, why an organization we have put out 2 statements previously, demanding that this should be unfettered, humanitarian access to all agencies. and to all parts of yoga. when would there be another possibility? when the we know what it means when agencies are not getting into the people who needed, people die that people suffer. and so we haven't always ask for that. when the

teacher was assigned the i'm how we do to help you. i think i did for nearly 6 months, they prohibited agencies, you know, for providing free food and medical services and you know, thousands of people perish and wheat and this should be offered humanitarian access into to grands. well none and also are so it is very important that this villages before too long, i'm fairly mature and access. there's one thing very quickly, i really would like to respond to this is something of a personal nature for me. i am myself from i was myself, wouldn't who more of the area that recall with that mother referred to as western to greg. this is an area that was forcefully annexed by the chief in the early 990 s. and this did my family in many america, were subjected to ethnic lucy dear disappearances and also repression even to the point of not allowed being allowed to speak their language. so even in the context of this war, the t p massacred nearly 1500 miles in my cover,

the joint united nations ethiopian human rights commission, confirm this massacre. gov. up by the teapot against a morris. no, this massacres have been happening not only in the context of this war, even outside of this context, is this. we're in other parts of ethiopia. and doesn't, we can ask the international committee put pressure on them to conduct independent investigation across all of the european not just in the context of this. ready or so that you feel miss who have been the subject of to these to see justice. and all perpetrators can be held accountable. the international mechanisms in place to hold it perpetrators of work to be held accountable. who do i hear you mother? i'm going to push on only because there have been so many atrocities committee by so many different parties and we aren't even even talking about what is happening in a row mainland as well. so that is so much to talk about when we talk about conflict in ethiopia, i hear that switch music, even more importantly,

that there needs to be a peace process so that everybody can talk about what happened. and where accountability is. if we go back to this idea of a truce earlier, we spoke to tech clay, and this is what he shared with us. no, the to us would not lead to peace. why do i say that? let me sot by stating a fact. according to the latest report, only fortune to son of the aid that the you said was needed integral has entered to gray. not because a shortage of aid or logistical problems. but because the regime didn't want to let in more 8 van that. and that is because it's polish onto why remains to solve the people into submission. so the promise during the declaration of the truth that there would be unfettered. abysses was a perfidious ploy to deceive. now what must happen is firm members in the international committee to acknowledge that that is

a policy and use whatever leverage the hell on the regime to put paid to the start visual, integrate and opened the possibility for negotiation. i just want to share with you a recent report from archer on november, ethiopia, humanitarian update. whenever we took buy, if european politics always staff front and center, but it was after me. and how many people are suffering at 319 trots of humanitarian cargo. managed to enter, take ry between the 1st of april, 16th of may, 1500 metric tons of food was born in to take my more is needed and then seed and fertilize as to farmers in take. i are also urgently needed. must have forget the people down on the ground to have a or say, suffering genius. conflict. thank you for your comments. thank you. guess i will see you next time to take ah,

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