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with . hi, anthony. 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 fall 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 opiate 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, dolly, at all, say to dos, welcome back at mazda. will you remind our audience, who you are? what you do? hi, see me. thank you for having me. my name is eliza. i am a human rights advocate and international relations researcher was on that to guy and advocacy group leading the fight against to gretchen site. i nice to have you to dally nice of see you again, please remind our audience who you are, what you do. thanks. so let sammy nice to see you tomorrow. my name is savannah and i am the founder of i d standard magazine. but currently serving as a see all of them, other companies, jack in publishing fancy get to having to dos. welcome back to the string. might i wouldn't see you off a i am the chairman of association of america and advocacy group this year in charlotte, north carolina,

and we have our own people. it easy. thank you. oh 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 fight his intake roy to allow for humanitarian aid to get through. is fish growled for optimism. maza, we start a conversation, please. oh, we heard there was a humanitarian truth declared to interest, of course to 5 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 assist you monitor and aid. only in less than 14 percent of what is needed has been diverted to guy. and that's primarily 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 there isn't any optimism. and as a result of that,

of course, the international committee prematurely celebrated the declaring sion 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 chip don't 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 if 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, have 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 party 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 between 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 on the administration to elise. these 5000 civilians are there have been rotted up and this is can, this campaign is continuing right now as we speak. now i'm just wondering what kind of truth is this? why some people are being arrested journey submitted, people being scan top, but at the same time, some 8, some is getting through to reaching the desperate need that 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 of the truth is that unilaterally humanitarian truce. this in itself is very problematic because humanitarian aid cannot be subjected to any negotiation of truth. 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 laughter, humanitarian truce, a lot of things are vague. secondly, even after the truth is, is, is declared, unilateral or not the latter, the aid is not reaching as per requested by the way. we need currently up to $150.00 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 or 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 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 to day 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 it truce and that's, that's where the problem lies in my understanding. yes, it did. awesome. if you pick up and i'm just going to, i'm going to slide in a little comment from am net because then nick talked about this truce in a wave. it didn't really feel that it was very helpful. tiddle, she go fast, i'll go 2nd maza, you guys said ok 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 religions. and this is something that we have been calling for the session of hostilities because when there is fighting it is innocent, ethiopia suffer innocent ethiopia. so the concern for us right now as, as a morris, is done that you feel if it's still occupied, large swath of a,

of areas within my region. in northern wonder about dark iron to lunch, as well as in what our area were and we will on a where if there's unit here in a, we see these areas as an organization, we are always demanded and unfettered humanitarian axis into to grind into areas of our region and order occupation of the t p of i think what our biggest concern for me has to raise the nation front. because you'll probably hear the acronym a few times. if you'll watch anything, you're not ethiopian kiddos finish up cuz i'm gonna bring an answer shortly to the concern that we have is with you. so go back to negotiations that are undergoing between the avalon prosperity party and the people's liberation. got it because i'm our austin, arthur, included with these negotiations. and this is our concern. if we want long term negotiations and peace 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 suddenly 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 blockade 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 the 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 known this state actors, but also and then state actors in order to go back to the study and take which include this, leaving ourselves to guide that conditionally and nicholas will as historically, do belong to to guy 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 off to grad mazda and off to the or that you've done, and tutor olson and sadala of 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? maza? 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 month into a conflict and a kind of truce to dolly. thought that's absolutely clear. bruland christian semi.

there is really we have seen for 18 men's is the inability of the to 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 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 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 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 as a 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 dollar here have international community really has failed. that doesn't mean that we cannot, that we have to allow them to remove them. so because there is a row for the international community here, however, it's what, what is it, what is that role? 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 this 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 read to my daughter in terms of the 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 don't think that it's 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 into tea cry, 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 hugely important development for us because it enabled us to bring vitally important humanitarian assistance to people. we have center for human terran convoy so far comparing the pizza one 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 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 great 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. 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 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 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 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 read well, none. and also are so it's very important to us before to affinity, military 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 are the area that we call with the area that mother referred to as western to greg? this is an area that was forcefully attacked by the chief in the early 990 s and still dead on my family. in many amara, were subjected to ethnic loosing gear 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 if massacred nearly 1500 a miles 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 that 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 traders, workers 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 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 start by stating a fact. according to the latest report,

only 14 percent of the aid that the you said was needed integral has entered to grade. not because a shortage of aid or logistical problems. but because the regime didn't want to let in more aid than that. and that is because it's polish on to why remains to solve the people into submission. so the promise during the declaration of the truth that there would be unfettered axes 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 val on the regime to pet paid to the start version. integrate and open the possibility for negotiation. i just want to share with you a recent report from archer on nova, ethiopia humanitarian update. whenever we took by, if ya, politics always that front and center, but it was after him and how many people are suffering at 319 trots to humanitarian

cargo. managed to enter, take ry between the 1st of april 16th of may. 1500 metric tons of food was boiling to take why more is needed, and then seed and fertilize as to farmers intake. i are also urgently needed. must have forget the people down on the ground to have a or say suffering. dennis conflict. thank you for your comments. thank you. guess i will see you next time to take ah o intelligent social and playful dis, vulnerable species of being caught in the wild, sold online and smuggled illegally by criminal syndicates from southeast asia. one of the main markets is japan. in recent years, a new phenomenon has been sweeping through this concrete jungle animal cafe by

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