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SudanTribune article : What is new in the empire state of Ethiopia?

SudanTribune article : What is new in the empire state of Ethiopia?: "November 29, 2008 — Just as Haile Selassie’s regime used modernization as a code word for consolidation of Menelik’s empire, and the Dergue regime tried to use Marxism-Leninism to maintain Abyssinian domination, the TPLF regime found democratization to have a useful currency as a code word for its agenda of domination. The TPLF regime, by signing the July 1991 Charter, recognized the fact that 'nations, nationalities, and peoples' in Ethiopia have the right to self-determination including independence (July Charter, Art. 2). The preamble of the charter mentioned 'the end of an era of subjugation and oppression'. But, time proved that it was actually the beginning of subjugation and oppression under ethnic Tigrean hegemony. The TPLF, operating under the cover of surrogate parties, quickly consolidated its exclusive control over the transitional government at all levels.

International assistance obtained during that period to undertake legal and institutional reform was in fact nothing less than assistance to the TPLF to consolidate its power by dismantling Amhara-centric state apparatus and replacing it by Tigrean controlled institutions. Today, there is no public institution — the military, judiciary, civil service and regulatory agencies — outside the control of the TPLF and its surrogates. Military assistance is among major programs sponsored by the US for the TPLF regime. The program helped to transform TPLF militia into a "professional" army and beyod."

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