To revelation

The 1st question is why a federal system – for peace and stability
2nd if federal, ethnic or regional? – this about how to organise the population and administer territories
Have you ever seen any map for a regional federation in Ethiopia? Any study? NONE what soever!! Why? – 1.there is lack of open and democratic discussion 2. there is no serious, comprehensive and detailed study of options except opposing woyane ethnic federalism for the sake of opposing it!!

In public, woyanes claim Ethnic Federalism has "saved" Ethiopia without giving out any details of what the danger was to the country, or by whom, when they came to power in 1991. In private, they call it an "insurance policy" in the event that the TPLF regime senses imminent danger of collapse or overthrow, at which time they can invoke article 39 of the constitution and legally secede from the Ethiopian union ahead of the avalanche.

Judging by recent woyane provoked events in the Afar region of Ethiopia, I like to think it's the latter. The reason I don't buy woyane's claim that "Ethnic Federalism has saved Ethiopia" is simply because I don't believe for a second that the country was in any danger of disintegration following the fall of the Derg regime, and there were also NO indications to suggest that Eritrea's secession posed the threat of Ethiopia's fragmentation.

To use a simple analogy, what would your reaction be if a car salesman from Adwa insists that you replace your garage by demolishing the entire $800,000 home in order to accommodate the bigger car, worth $30,000, he wants to sell you ?

The International Crisis Group (ICG) on its 2009 report on Ethiopia warned woyane's policy of Ethnic Federalism is potentially explosive. It wrote :

"... you know what destroyed the USSR and Yugoslavia? False federalism and false elections. The real danger in Ethiopia is false federalism and false elections..."
http://www.paltelegraph.com/world/afric ... n-ethiopia

To revolutions

TPLF could not follow its own manifesto. Tigray today is much different from what TPLF wanted it to be. Instead of establishing Great Tigray as in their manifesto, it accepted a different map which excluded the Afar people. Why? The most surprising part of the whole exercise is why they favoured for other peoples division by ethnicity. They believed Ethiopia’s major problem was ethnicity and because of this they could not see any other way of resolving ethnic problems except by bringing in ethnic federalism. But they did not go further than federalism. Why did they not allow ethnic group to secede and they themselves secede and create Greater Tigray? - Because they did not really know what to do and they did not want to listen to anyone except themselves.

In public, woyanes claim Ethnic Federalism has "saved" Ethiopia without giving out any details of what the danger was to the country, or by whom, when they came to power in 1991. In private, they call it an "insurance policy" in the event that the TPLF regime senses imminent danger of collapse or overthrow, at which time they can invoke article 39 of the constitution and legally secede from the Ethiopian union ahead of the avalanche.

This is gossip. They could have seceded in 1991 but changed their mind because they did not see the viability and practicality of Tigray Republic. So there will be no change tomorrow or after 20 years unless they have a change of heart and prefer to join Eritrea and that would be nothing near their manifesto.

To use a simple analogy, what would your reaction be if a car salesman from Adwa insists that you replace your garage by demolishing the entire $800,000 home in order to accommodate the bigger car, worth $30,000, he wants to sell you ?

Sorry, the example is not clear to me.

The International Crisis Group (ICG) on its 2009 report on Ethiopia warned woyane's policy of Ethnic Federalism is potentially explosive. It wrote :


"... you know what destroyed the USSR and Yugoslavia? False federalism and false elections. The real danger in Ethiopia is false federalism and false elections..."
http://www.paltelegraph.com/world/afric ... n-ethiopia

Dont see relevance of this quotation, ICG group is not against ethnic federalism but false federalism. Comparison with USSR and Yugoslavia is west propaganda against their former "enemies"