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#ETHIOPIA: Civil war dominates: Amhara vs Abiy and the Tigrayans. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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#ETHIOPIA: Civil war dominates: Amhara vs Abiy and the Tigrayans. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ethiopias-amhara-militia-says-resettlement-plan-beats-war-drum/ar-AA1o4zWk

1862 Ethiopia

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0:00.0

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0:04.0

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0:09.1

tropics.

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But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

0:13.4

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

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the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder.

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Wish you were here.

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Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever you listen to podcasts. I'm John Bachelors with my good colleague Gregor Coppley of Defense and Foreign Affairs,

0:39.2

Reuters in these last days.

0:41.4

Ethiopia's Amhara militia says resettlement plan beats war drum, that's in

0:46.3

quotes. Leaders of a militia in Ethiopia's Amharah region accused the

0:50.4

administration, that's out of Sababa, that's the prime minister, in neighboring

0:55.4

Tia, and accused the administration in neighboring Tikra as well as in Addis Abba, of beating a war drum over plans to return hundreds of thousands of Tigrayans

1:06.3

to territories on horror fighters captured during a civil war.

1:09.9

What I understand Gregory is the central government wants to under return the POWs if I understand

1:16.1

this correctly to Tigray and the Amhara who are in competition with the Tigray say that that is inviting more civil war is that what they're saying beat the war drums?

1:27.8

Well yes in fact what what the Amhara militia the Fano militia groups are saying is that the central government of

1:36.3

Prime Minister Abbey in concert with the old Tigray Popular Liberation Front

1:41.5

which which used to control Tigray Popular Liberation Front, which used to control Tigray Province.

1:45.0

And it's talking about putting these quote refugees and former PAW's back in Amhara territory. Now this was Amhara territory which had been

1:56.2

occupied by the TPLF during the earlier Civil War which ended in November

2:02.3

2022 but basically the Civil War, which ended in November 2022.

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