My former tutor professor Jan Abbink is not waiting for the international community to just continue the anti Ethiopia campaign. Expect a world class Ethiopian expert response in extraordinary fashion. https://theglobalobservatory.org/2021/01/tigray-conflict-ethiopia-ramifications-international-response/

1 The low level of development in the Tigray region damaged the TPLF’s reputation and is part of the reason for the humanitarian fallout from the conflict.

4 The attack on federal army bases by TPLF forces on November 4, 2020 that sparked the wider conflict was stealthy and unprovoked. Ethiopian federal soldiers of the Northern Command were humiliated on the orders of the TPLF’s leadership.

2For instance, well before the war, some 950,000 people were in dire humanitarian need (28 years after the TPLF came to power). They had, however, heavily invested in their military with the aim of maintaining autonomy from the federal government.

3 While Tigray’s autonomy as a region was fully supported by the new federal government, the end result of the TPLF’s policy has been the party’s demise, with their leaders fleeing and most being killed or captured.

5 Abiy does not see unconditional response to the concerns of the international community—especially if expressed in moralistic terms without historical and contextual knowledge—to be in the interest of his country or its people.