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Understanding the War in Ethiopia
(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Habtom Mehari Ghebrezghiabher - War broke out in November 2020 between the Federal Government of Ethiopia and the Tigray Regional Government in northern Ethiopia. After three weeks of fighting, the Federal forces ousted the Marxist Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) from Mekele, the capital of Tigray, arresting some, including Sebhat Nega, 83, the founder and ideologue of TPLF, and killed others. The Tigryans have an ancient civilization, Orthodox Christian religion, a written language and alphabet, and more than 400 years of written laws. The writer, a Tigrayan of Eritrea, is a Ph.D. student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.