Interesting perspective from the eloquent @HabtamuAyalew21. Those losing sleep over the fact that #Amhara won back their rightful land forget ethnic minorities are constitutionally recognized in the Amhara region but the reverse is untrue in Tigray, Oromia, BSG, SSNP & others. https://twitter.com/addisabawit/status/1335259373111668737
What's more perplexing is that the annexed territories were taken preconstitution followed by a systematic genocide of ethnic Amhara & resettlement of #TPLF fighters & other affiliates. This was part of an expansionist scheme from #Tigray Nationalists which wanted to establish...
...what they refer to as "Greater Tigray" at the expense of others, especially the Amhara in #Gonder & surrounding regions. This motivated their decades of inciting local minorities such as the Qimant against the Amhara including arming & funding their insurrections citing...
...historic oppression by Amhara. All the while minorities in Tigray such as the Kunama, Irob & the Amhara in the annexed territories (e.g. Welkait, Tegede, Telemt, Raya, etc) were subjugated under apartheid rule & banned from expressing their identity & speaking their language.
The annexation of Metekel from Gojjam to BSG where the GERD was built was also eventually meant to go towards Greater Tigray. This would effectively block the Amhara region's border with Sudan, & monopolize their natural resources. In Metekel the #AmharaGenocide was also...
...sponsored by the TPLF, including arming the Gumuz militias to ethnically cleanse ethnic Amhara & Agew. In addition, the BSG regional constitution was designed to recognize all regional ethnic groups except Amhara to effectively marginalize them & ensure their rights were...
...taken away (e.g. representing themselves politically). This even including a systematic disarmament program to ensure they would be defenseless when state-sponsored militiamen invaded to ethnically cleanse them. The point of all this is to say TPLF & their supporters always...
...had deliberate intent to prosper at the expense of Amhara & stealing their land was a way of doing this. Lastly, the return of the annexed territories would effectively liberate people from oppressive, apartheid style rule without infringing on the rights of local minorities.
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