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the 1st of a 2 part epic tale of a remarkable family. the father, the son and the jihad. part one on al jazeera. good. hi on for me. ok, 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 meeting 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 sadala, at all, say, to dos, welcome back at mazda. will you remind our audience, who you are? what you do? hi, thing me, thank you for having me. my name is eliza. i am the human rights advocate and international relations center. i was on that to guy and advocacy group leading the fight against a great genocide. nice to have to dial a nice of see you again. please remind our audience who you are, what you do. thanks a lot. you nice to see you later. my name is sadala and i am the founder of i d standard magazine, but currently serving as a see all of them other company jack in publishing fancy get to having to draw. welcome back to the string. might i wouldn't see you off. thank you for having me.

sorry, my name is to address her free. i am the chairman of association of america and advocacy group this year in charlotte, north carolina, and we have our own people. it is you. thank you. oh guess 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 5th ground for optimism. maza, we start a conversation please. oh, we heard there was a humanitarian truth declared, which was of course, to 5 syndicate, unrestricted and consistent flow of human nature. i need to the people in need. however, everything you have seen since then a in place. otherwise it stated to cry is under siege. the people who do not have, i dictates assist you my hearing aid, only in less than 14 percent of what is needed has been done to victor to guy. and thus, primarily because they have been government and they satellites continue to use

starvation as a war tactic and are not willing to provide humanitarian quoted or take their national aid workers. so there isn't any optimism. and as a result of that, of course, the international committee prematurely celebrated the declaration of monitoring truce, but that hasn't translated into any meaningful action. and as a result, people integrate, i'm 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 say so i can tell this is for your aunt. i'm just looking here to go my external affairs of a statement on the nice of prisoners of war to do us when you learn to face your 1st thoughts, go ahead and you can me my 1st, my condolences to morrow and the death of her, of her aunt and any time to release

a ethiopian soldiers and they can return to the, to their families. that's just good news and, and that's something that i think you're going to celebrate. i think it's really important to me to, for your ideas, to understand what is happening right at this moment in ethiopia. about 2 days ago, the abbey administration admitted the for the director nearly $5000.00 amara across at this hour. and i'm, how are we doing this over a position political party members, over 11 journalist and media staffers, university professors, student ex officials including current government employees who are critical of the administration, had been rounded up and arrested. the c p. j in other western honors have been reporting about this over 20 peaceful protesters, unfortunately were gunned 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 maggie abbey administration to neutralize critical amara voices. what he, what his horrible posterity potty negotiate with the t p on. if it is unfortunate where you're not that if your president is in a place that is in right now because of the war, be to the abbey administration and the to grab people's the garage and fun. unfortunately, they're, you know, their little size for hope at a small, it's for our us in really, for most ethiopians. that's why it's really critical for the international community to step in and put pressure the administration to release the $5.00 to williams. i have been rounded up and this is, this campaign is continuing right now as we speak. now. now i'm just wondering what kind of truth is this, why some people are being arrested jolissa media, people being scan top, but at the same time, some 8. some is getting through to reaching the desperately need the how would you

characterize what we understand about this trace? thank you for me. i, i'll be hard pressed to call it 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 monitor and supplies must be free from any negotiation between warning parties. so when the government said that this is a unique, latin humanitarian truth, a lot of things are vague. secondly, even after the truth is, is, is declared, unilateral or not to 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 meetings from perishing on from me, so there is no truth under the circumstances. certainly. there is another war, a war by other means again, is to grow as we speak, which is that the siege 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 lab, turn humanitarian to us. the government could have simply started by connecting to cry, 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 a truce and that's, that's where the problem lies in my understanding. yes, i did. awesome. can you pick up? and i'm just gonna, i'm gonna slide in a little comic from am net because i'm nick talked about this truth in a way that it didn't really feel that it was very helpful till she got 1st august. second mother, you guys said, okay, we get 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 belligerents. and this is something that we have been calling for the secession of hostilities because when there is fighting it is innocent,

ethiopia suffer innocent ethiopia. so the concern for us right now as a, as a morris does, that you feel if it's still occupied large swath of a areas within my region in northern wonder about dark iron to lunch, as well as in what our area will. and we will, i know we're, if there's unit here in a, we see these areas as an organization we have always demanded an unfettered humanitarian axis into, to ride into areas of our region and order occupation of the t p l f. i think what our biggest concern for me is to raise the heat through simulation front because you probably had an acronym a few times if you watch anything or not. if you could just finish up because i'm going to bring an answer shortly to the concern that we have is with these to go back to negotiations that are undergoing between the avalon prosperity party and the people's liberation. got it because i'm our us in our class are excluded from

these negotiations, and this is our concern. but if we want long term negotiations and pieces you know, to come to you, it is important that all stakeholders are of that table in communicating and talking. so all the issues can 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 said alley 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 book 8 his any of the so called 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 until couple 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 know, this is not only data been government id so so it's local and regional unless that includes july 20 groups from i'm had a region as well as a return forces that are c illegally. i occupy in parts of to greg, particularly on the western and northern parts 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 we'll try to promote as well as i said, parts continue to face a state sponsor brutality, including it in the cleansing my suckering and writing. so if the international community truly wants to see a peaceful ethiopia, they have to put enough pressure not on, on the state actors, but also and then state doctors in order to go back to the study and take which

include this, leaving ourselves to grade that conditionally and nicholas will, as historically, do we lumped it together? and this includes forcing eric tried to withdraw its forces as well as i'm had a malicious and the visual, and a group called fun to withdrawal from parts of the guy including attempting work. i, because this are part of the guy that belong to the people, often react mazda and off to the, or that you've done. and tutor olson and saddam, they own the what the, all that you know about this so called let me to add close international community . why are you saying we need to do this? and 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 this 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 thought 18 months into a conflict and a kind of truce to dolly thoughts. that's absolutely clear. bruland christian semi . there is really we have seen for 18 men's is 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 the descent into this kind of tragedy that if you're finds itself. so that brings us to what can we

do? i think the solution is in our own hands, 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 hydrogenated 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 crackdown that we'll have on that piece negotiation between 2, right and our average united states. so there's no really enough initiative to, to, locally, to, to, to, to oversee the end of this conflict. the other failure that we are facing is our

own failure, which is that we don't even have a meaningful civil society, religious institutions there or 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 have but it does have some space here. go ahead. a international community really has film. that doesn't mean that we cannot, that we have to allow them to move because there is a row for the international community here. however, it's what, what is it, what is that ro? another yes, yeah. 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 hands of the ethiopian people. and we care is going to be very, very difficult. but if you're in the country that hasn't existed, put all of yours. 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 re do my daughter in terms of the russian army wasn't going to undermine living the same thing, expecting the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result. let me show. i don't think that to not, not, not the i'm, i'm question your sanity, but it's just like you have been here before. let me share something cuz 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 he appeared he cares,

unilateral truce to allow aid in to take wry and we did reach out to the federal government spokesperson, the prime minister spokesperson and, and got nothing back up. but i do want to share this, this, this quote here. this is the statement from the federal government. the common of ethiopia hopes that this trees were 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 earlier the cease fire in the c o. p a is a huge, important development for us because it enabled us to bring vitally important humanitarian assistance to people. we have center for humanitarian convoy so far comparing the pizza one, bringing bringing medicine seats because we're entering a 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 math. 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 tea, gray genocide, mazda swiftly yet, it's a group that 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 and they can mobilize to 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 beneficial, that is not answer or 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 these 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 belligerent stair to sit on hand negotiation table and bring them to it? there is no mechanism to do that so far. is it the luck of the wheel? or is it like what is already important to them? we have to question this, this graph to bring this to a question for me to draw say, a specific question for you. if i, if i might say,

i've chosen very quickly so we can do as many about one is as possible as i wanted to ask you, 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 there should be unfettered humanitarian access to all agencies. and to all parts of yoga. when will there be another possibility? when the we know what it means when agencies are not getting into the people who need it, people die that people suffer. and so we haven't always ask for that. when the teacher was assigned them. how we do know how to actually find it for nearly 6 months, they prohibited it agencies, you know, from providing free food and medical services and you know, thousands of people perish and wheat and this should be offered humanitarian access

into to raz well none. and also our so it's very important to us before to affinity military 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 are the area that we call with the area that mother referred to as western to greg? this is an area that was forcefully and act by the chief in the early 990 s and still dead on my family. and many amara 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 mastercard, nearly 1500 a mars in my camera, the joint united nation is ethiopian human rights commission. confirm this massacre got by the t. feel it against a mattress. no mattress had 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 that's where we can ask the international committee put pressure on them to conduct independent investigation across all of your not just in the context for. ready so that you feel miss who have been the subject of to this to see justice an arbitrary this can be held accountable on the international mechanisms in place to hold on for traitorous 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 moorland as well. so there is so much to talk about when we talk about conflict in ethiopia. i hear that. so which means that 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 sought by stating a fact. according to the latest report, only 14 to son of the aid that the you are 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 access was a perfidious ploy to deceive. now what must happen is her members in the international committee to acknowledge that that is a policy and use whatever leverage the hell on the regime. to pet 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 by, if european politics always staff front and center. but it was after member 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 lie 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 are or say, suffering to in this conflict. thank you for your comments. thank you. guess i will see you next time to take, ah, to young women in morocco staying with local families. morocco really woke me up and it definitely changed my life in a good way. american students learning to live in north africa and getting better

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