SELECTIVE AMNESIA, SELECTIVE SILENCE, SELECTIVE OUTRAGE: THE CURSE OF ETHIOPIA’S POLITICAL CLASS
Hassan Keynan Hailemariam Desalegn, Former PM of Etiopia The piece published in Foreign Policy today - Ethiopia’s Government and the TPLF Leadership Are Not Morally Equivalent – is obviously well timed to preempt or deflect any criticism or inconvenient truths the planned UN Security Council meeting this afternoon on the civil war in Ethiopia may throw up. The piece may or may not have been authored by Ato Haile Mariam Desalegn. It bears his name but there is mention of a US-based lobby firm being involved in crafting the piece. Whatever the truth, Haile Mariam Desalegn seems to suffer from a perennial affliction which is the curse of the Ethiopian political class: Selective amnesia, selective silence, selective outrage. Haile Mariam Desalegn is the man who said he was unaware of the existence of Jail Ogaden and the two-decade long Crimson Terror that EPRDF/TPLF unleashed across the vast plains of the Ogaden on his watch both as Deputy Prime Minister to Meles Zenawi and Prime