Ethiopia held a memorial on Tuesday for the army chief of staff slain with four ...
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia held a memorial on Tuesday for the army chief of staff slain with four other senior officials in weekend attacks that posed the biggest threat yet to the prime minister’s reforms.
His government is also struggling to contain discontent from Ethiopia’s myriad ethnic groups fighting the federal government and each other for greater influence and resources. The attacks were led by Amhara’s head of state security General Asamnew Tsige, who had been openly recruiting fighters for ethnic militias in a state that has become a flashpoint for violence.
Roads in the capital were blocked for the ceremony and security was tight. Access to the internet appeared to be blocked across Ethiopia for the third straight day, users reported. At the memorial, the army’s deputy chief of staff General Birhanu Jula spoke of the chief of staff’s bravery in the guerrilla war against the Communist Derg regime that was toppled in 1991 and his leadership role in Ethiopia’s war against neighboring Eritrea in the late 1990s.The weekend killings came as Ethiopia prepares to hold parliamentary elections next year, although the electoral board warned this month that they were behind schedule and that instability could delay polling.
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