Ethiopian diaspora torn by ethnic tensions in Tigray war
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has been torn apart,” said Tewodros Tirfe, chairman of the Amhara Association of America, based in North Carolina.The war started a little over a year ago, when a political dispute between Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the Tigray leaders erupted into violence after a dispute over elections. Many Ethiopians feel that Tigray leaders are angry because Abiy leads with more than Tigray’s interests in mind as he seeks to centralize power.“I had been there since they were established and I had seen their plans when I was very young, and that never changed,” said Teferi Zemene, a Toronto-based union organizer who grew up watching the TPLF rise to power three decades ago.Zemene returned to Canada recently after 2½ months in Ethiopia. There’s no place to even rest,” he said.Zemene said he lost relatives in the war and that he felt “the need to fight.” He and other Ethiopians who oppose the Tigray forces have expressed concern that the international community and even foreign media are bent on promoting intervention by the U.S.“We should be able to solve our problems ourselves,” he said.
As said here by HELINA SELEMON