Mainstream Media Getting Ethiopian Conflict All Wrong

A listener calls in to voice his frustration with the US mainstream media's coverage of the conflict in Ethiopia.

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Caller: Hi I'm surprised I got it my name is Eo but I'm actually from silver street Maryland. I'm actually a long-time listener. I started watching you guys in college. I love the show.

Sam: you're doing great.

Caller: Yeah I just wanted to kind of criticize some of the reporting that's going on in Ethiopia yesterday they were not yesterday but last I think last week several rallies were happening all over the world are basically around the no more movement sorry and I thought it was kind of I mean I think a lot of people from the silver spring area a lot of Ethiopians I talked to a lot of them I have a lot of cousins family they've been kind of really pissed at the reporting that's going on in kind of the mainstream media of kind of what's going on in Ethiopia.

Sam: Okay so just to fill people in. Okay, Ethiopia is at war with Tigray, and stop me when I'm wrong about any of this. because I know just the basic outlines. The Tigray is a region of Ethiopia up until very recently the country was essentially ethnic Tigrayans I guess. I don't know how to run the country. And that changed in I'm not sure but not too long ago when the majority of people voted for folks from a different area of Ethiopia to run the country. And what ultimately happened was that Ethiopia and Eritrea, which have their own long history of the ongoing war, decided that they were going to deal with Tigre. and I mean that basically the correct, you know broad strokes.

Caller: Yeah I think you've kind of given a good summary of what's happened the last probably you know 40 years or so of equipment history and politics. but yeah basically the kind of anger that I've seen in a lot of Ethiopians at least within the DMV area at least comes from just some of the reporting that's going on basically stating that kind of you know I think yeah I'll just continue from there but basically, the reporting saying that the current government is the one who kind of wanted this war and kind of started this war. when in fact it was kind of the opposite. Given the fact that you know the first fires like the first shots fired were from the TPLS. And I mean definitely, I think that you know I'm on my end and I think most people that I know and they don't, they kind of want for peace talks and negotiations to start. but I think it's just mainly kind of the some of the headlines that come out that just misreport things and I think there's a kind of an agenda at least what most people think that there's an agenda because of you know the long reign of the previous government has kind of funneled you know crazy amounts of money into think tanks and things of that nature. and it's kind of just kind of opened the eyes of a lot of people. like even you know me. seeing that you know I never thought this would happen to you know we've seen this in countless countries.

Sam: I'm curious as to what you take but let me just also characterize my understanding of how this conflict became hotter. the federal government wanted to suspend elections or I guess regional elections because of covid. and in Tigre, they ended up going ahead with their elections. I think it was just sort of like for the state or the region. and then the federal government cut funding for Tigre and then and then Nigerian forces attacked a federal outpost there I think like a military base which was you know part of the federal government. and that's where basically things started up in that situation.