January 8 and 15, 2021

With the end of the political, economic and military dominance of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) in Ethiopia, there are incalculable challenges and opportunities to advance sustainable democracy, rule of law and equitable economic development in the country. The TPLF, which was at the front and center of many of the problems faced by the Ethiopian people over the last three decades, has predictably faded into the dustbin of history. While the causes of its demise are multifactorial, ranging from tyrannical rule and rampant corruption, to the recently perpetrated treasonous attacks against the Northern Command of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF), the most prominent of them all is the one rooted in the pathological constitution it imposed on the people of Ethiopia when it assumed power. Indeed, the fact that this aberrant organization was born with the seed of its own destruction was evident in its obsession with ethnic hatred that could be traced back to its founding manifesto. It may serve as a lesson for similar groups to heed that the catastrophic collapse of the TPLF is but an affirmation of the time-honored historical truism that the ultimate fate of a party that pivots its power on ethnic-based philosophy is assured self-annihilation.

10th Vision Ethiopia Conference