By Dagnachew B. Wakene
Addis Abeba, January 29/2021 – A number of Ethiopian news outlets have covered the outrageous incident which occurred last month within the premises of the Addis Abeba University (AAU) involving a graduating class law student with visual impairment, Abraham Duressa, who died by suicide. The purpose of this piece is not to provide thorough details of what transpired on that fateful day of 24
th December 2020. Eyewitness accounts and the relevant authorities have already established some essential facts of the tragic incident. The news also caught the attention of the nation’s House of People’s Representatives (HoPR) that ordered all implicated parties, notably the Ethiopian National Educational Assessment and Examination Agency (NEAEA) and, to an extent, the AAU itself, to investigate and hold those responsible to account. The question as to who is/are directly, indirectly, jointly or severally responsible for the appalling, unlawful denial of the decea