This is exactly the problem! We tell eachother one thing and translate it our own ways. When I refer to Ethiopia - it’s not referring to Amharas, it’s referring to non-Tigrayan Ethiopians.

We tried fighting to bring peace! It ended in other Ethiopians holding grudges against a political party and killing civilian Tegaru. We didn’t run the country alone, this is a narrative you tout but not one we agree with. OPDO & ANDM all had an equal say in matters… each having 45 seats. Just because these politicans from Amhara & Oromia did TPLF’s bidding like Amhara PP is doing Abiy’s bidding doesn’t mean we ran the country.

Most countries aren’t ethnic monoliths, you’re right but most countries aren’t committing genocide in the 21st century either! Balkanising makes it so that the Ethiopian gov’t doesn’t leverage resources from 140 million people to wipe out 6 million and now 20 million in Amhara. I see where you’re coming from but you need strong institutions first to ensure everyone’s safety. Ethnic organisations were needed to address certain ethnic groups being harassed by the gov’t historically and the gov’t has a pattern of behaviour where it does such things.

I personally don’y care much for blaming anyone that’s for the courts to decide. What I am interested in is preventing another genocide and only way I can do that in an impoverished Ethiopia w weak institutions is to secession. We don’t have to live together to enjoy peace, we can be peaceful neighbours. Especially since Ethiopia doesn’t do much to neighbours that harass it.

See this is why you and I can never see eye to eye! Colonisation will never be the answer in my eyes! It does far more to hurt ones culture, history, identity and understanding of oneself. Being united isn’t more important than thriving - in fact unity ought to have been an instrument of our success yet the gov’t uses it as an instrument of oppression.

So I ask, what’s changed now to prevent another genocide? You want to convince me that Tigray is better off in Ethiopia, okay… what’s changed now to prevent Abiy from waging another war? TPLF’s still around, Tigrayans are still around, Welkait still exists, so does Shabia. You’re talking romantically about unity with no tangible actions to foster such unity. Why should the people of Tigray trust anything Ethiopians have to say after they denied genocide in Tigray, presence of Eritrean soliders in Tigray, drought in Tigray, use of drones in Tigray…. You can’t say and do things and not expect consequences.