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World leaders are calling for urgent mediation. So what will it take to resolve the conflict . This is inside story. Hello welcome to the program on iran come on. Its been 3 weeks since he had his, government sent soldiers into t. , great promise to abbey ahmed. And the northern regions government that he great Peoples Liberation front or t. P. L f. Each say the other is illegitimate. Nobel peace prize winner ill be has ordered his troops to carry out a final assault. Now the t. P. M. Left leader says autonomy shelves have struck the regional capital mckayla a phone and Internet Connections are down, making it impossible to confirm reports of the killings and atrocities. On friday, abbi already told the African Union mediators, hell only speak to representatives, he says, operating illegally in tikrit. The government insists this doesnt mean the Prime Minister is rejecting talks to end the conflict. Now the fighting is forced 43000 people to seek refuge in neighboring sue dunn. The uns high commissioner for refugees is calling for 100 and 50000000. 00 in donations. And the morgan has more from a camp in sudan. Oh morocco refugee camp here in sudan. Got a lot of state has expanded since it was 1st opened just over 2 weeks ago. Now when it was 1st opened it hosted about a few 100 if european refugees fleeing from the conflict in the sacred region. Now the camp hosts more than 7000 is c. A. P. N. Refugees, and this place is becoming sort of a permanent shelter for them until things ease back home and they say its safe for them to return. Now this is the only formal refugee camp here and about of state despite Saddam Hussein more than 43000 if you can refugees over the past 3 weeks escaping from the conflict in the tigra region. The other centers have Reception Center in neighboring customers state and look to hear about of state are all just Reception Centers including village 8, which is about 30 kilometers from the sudan is the opium border that hosts more than 15000 if european refugees. Now most of them here stand under the scorching sun waiting for food aid and waiting for food distribution. But they say that this is much better than being back home, not knowing what they could have faced. Many families speak of leaving their loved ones behind of witnessing people being slaughtered of atrocities. They say that forced them to flee and come here to sudan seeking refuge, but a to open. Additional say that they need help in terms of responding to the influx of refugees. They say that in the coming 6 months, they expect up to 200000 escaping refugees to come here to sudan seeking refuge from the to great region. Because of the conflict. Should the fighting continue. They say that they need Financial Assistance or funding for the program to be able to respond to this refugee crisis that is unfolding. Because sudan as a government, despite hosting them already hosts nearly 1000000 other refugees in various other states and therefore will not be able to cope with this crisis on its own. So while the aid organizations are sounding the alarm and calling for supposed to be able to respond to this current and for refugee crisis, people here say theyll wait to hear and feel things are safe before they go back home and take very thin. If he a pia lets introduce our panel in ethiopias capital, addis ababa . Samuel, get it . Youre a journalist at the reporter in ontario, canada, and fitzgerald, director of the Balsillie School of international affairs. You worked in ethiopia, for many years. And in cambridge, u. K. , William Davis and a senior ethiopia analyst at the International Crisis group, a warm welcome to you all. Now the Ethiopian Government declined our request for a representative to join this discussion. In fact, what they did say is that they wouldnt appear on a panel that potentially could have a member of the Peoples Liberation front, calling them attack, calling them a terrorist group. I want to begin with samuel, get you all they a terrorist group. Well, it depends on who you ask. So tricky question for me to answer. You have to consider the position, im in to declare them a terrorist and move on. Would be unbecoming of 1st someone who works for a newspaper. And i would respectfully refuse to answer that question, but can you explain to us why the government might call them . Well, you know, there are no conflict government and the p. L. F. Had been in conflict for a while. And this just moved on to a real conflict about something, thousands of people and ito. If you hear the p. L. F. Side, im sure theyll make the same kind of like hes asian. So its just barking for then weve been watching this from a distance. And weve been, you know, concerned with this, this was heading for a long time, and many of us are not surprised that it went this far to a conflict thats just killing so many of our fellow men and women. Well, theres talk about mediation. If there is, theres a Strong Language being used, the a share amount of people being displaced, accusations of war crimes became being committed in the k. L. A. All of this is, is going to put pressure on any kind of mediation to be successful, right . You know, the Prime Minister, you have to give them the benefit of the doubt. Hes been saying from day one that hes given the t. Pill, a future ship, a chance too many chances. At mediation, we watched this from a distance when Haile Gebrselassie the long paean joint elders, and went to mcnally trying to bridge the gap between the 2 governments. It did not work. Hes keeper, you know, many people who are criticizing the Prime Minister for being slow in taking actions. Not just in mclean or to great, but all across the country that you know, people are dying in many, many parts of the country or, i mean, they were dying and many people wanted him to take action. People felt he was being too soft. In his reaction to what was happening in ethiopia and what happened in my county. It was, you know, we watched it form for, for a year when they were going back and forth. And we were concerned, and we knew many of us knew this was going to happen. We just didnt think it was going to be this fast. And you know, its just, it has become to being given to control it. And i think its too late for mediation, the Prime Minister has said it a few times. And theres just, and michael, you know, theyre fighting among themselves that the team p. L. F. And the chip inside. And he said it will conclude in a few days. And we hope that will, that will happen, but personally, i dont believe in conflicts. I grew up in canada, a peaceful nation. We believed in dialogue mediation, and all kinds of stuff. And ive traveled to the, to great region, and ive met many of these people. And im not saying that t. P. R. Never, im saying every day to people from to agree to be very peaceful and to see them suffer is just as heartbreaking as you can find anywhere in the world and bridges so sad people are just dying left and right and the reef fijis, in the sudan stories theyre telling us. Thats so scary and i dont blame the u. N. Human rights commissioner when she said there is some sense, a sense of war crimes happening. Integrate. I dont really think something is happening and i cant wait to go and see what really happened and start the conversation. Well, lets bring in an fitzgerald has in waterloo, ontario. One of the things that is crucial to this conversation is the fact that Prime Minister ahmed has actually said that hes only going to talk to people that he thinks represent the people of that region of to go to great region. What does that mean . Is he picking and choosing the people they can negotiate with or are they just his own people . I think what it means is that there is a question of legitimacy and thighs equally. There is a question of legitimacy and the other party has eyes as well. And this is the, the gray stays there between both positions that people are trying to analyze. People are trying to navigate through the Prime Minister. Feels an election, a legal action went forward without the proper constitutional authority. And he has, in his view, made efforts to engage in dialogue with the party. In his view, those efforts have failed and not been through full. And, you know, i think its important to recognize here that mediation is a person as a 3rd party is brought into the still a tape discussion and then to speak to resolve the dispute. But its a person which comes by invitation only, and its a person rich addressed as a dispute, and i think we can all agree that this is beyond what is classified as a dispute. Now, this is a full of conflict and you know, theres a lot of gray space in between those 2 go. Now in cambridge, william docent, obviously these things dont happen in a vacuum. There have been issues with the federal government. Would he go state between them for many years now, but what was the real spark for this conflict . Why did this happen . 3 weeks ago, while the final trigger for the conflict was an incident on the night of november, november 4th, when the federal government describes it. And its happened by forces on the federal military. Alternately what seems to have happened is that they take ray and forces the grand leadership believing that there is about to be a federal intervention. They have forcefully taken over elements of the military. And this really is the final trigger that led to the federal Governments Ministry intervention that going back as your other guests have have described. We have this process where to go run an election against, you know, in defiance of federal rulings that, for the federal government said that secret government was illegitimate and unlawful. And in turn, take raise. Government said that the federal government no longer had legal authority. The original inspire each of its term in early october, and this was due to, to an election that was delayed because of the pandemic. So its really this constitutional dispute, if we go a little bit further back and that authorized the federal government in its eyes to intervene and scipio it correct this situation in the region. Of course, we can go back further to 2800 and the change of power. Our Prime Minister and beyond its arrival and after that to crazy ruling party, they lost a lot of federal power. And they sort of ended up with their power focused at the regional level. This was accompanied by a lot of bitterness allegations, from the federal government that to praise leaders. Leadership was the stabilizing, ethiopia, by sponsoring conflict, allegation from tick race leadership that the federal government was scapegoating them, and their party and flaccid destabilization all for all sorts of abuses and corruption that they said had approved the response of the sea across the room, Ethiopian Ruling Coalition and so you know, its a dispute that goes some way back. We could go further back into the history of music, very ruling parties and the era of predominance during effect really ever since the early ninetys. And we could go even further back into history and to have to explain, you know, some, some of the roots of this conflict as well. Well, let me bring in, samuel gets a to head, lets bring it right up to date. And so we all, we had a stage now where the federal government was afraid that was going to become a breakaway nation, was that what was driving the government . The white house will be, you know, its a gray state, decided to hold an election when it was told it was against the constitution of the land. Theyve been openly debating about independence. I mean, whats a federal government if it cant even keep its, its, its nation intact . And i mean, thats one of the reason the many reasons what provoked this conflict including the tax on the military site. And luckily, so, i mean there are many, many reasons why i provoked it and you know, myself and we know, and we watched it. And i disagree about when this was just moving forward. And conversation started very peacefully. I remember when there is you on the head of the t. P. N. Left stood behind the Prime Minister in 2018 when he became Prime Minister and made all of us so excited about this mediocre. There they were trying to build the peaceful transfer of power. Weve been watching from a distance in other countries was beginning to happen in ethiopia. But last year something happened in ethiopia that we cant even begin to understand. It was no longer a conversation. It was just about, you know, one side showing power and the back in force that was going on between the Prime Minister and the head of the t. P. M. Left, the jokes that were being made. And the propaganda as though were being told and government t. V. s was just so overwhelming, really disappointing for many of us whove been watching it here. And we wanted, you know, i grew up in and you know, for the ethiopian famine and we really wanted it to succeed. And we watched it from near and far, and were not surprised that it became this something that my own generation and the generation before me. Ive been watching you have to know the 2. Great state has been at war for a long, long time. It was beginning to have peace they tube and famine of 1905 happened in the 2 great state. Ive toured the whole almost the whole part of the tudor, a state forest. Its just poor as it gets even by ethiopian standard into see it in this state is a fear leadership, not just by our leaders, but all of us and fish terrill. Is there any strong evidence that might suggest that he great was about to break away . And thats why this has to breakaway in terms of us led, become a breakaway state, a breakaway nation, declare independence. Well, there are, there was definitely posturing and positioning 2 words. Something some sort of a recognition, whether an asymmetrical federalist posture that they were vying for. Whether it was some some more as some negotiations that brought in the International Community. Whether it was efforts to breakaway, we are not sure. But what we are sure of was that there was a gradual pulling back of governance capacity to grant representatives and to grant governments capacity from and is that to the regional capital. So we start that exodus and that increased focus on the region. We start lot of news coming from the region about Economic Development priority, and the propaganda and the numbers against the federal government hit an all time high. So we just arent sure about the plans. We arent sure about the intentions, the electricity, and the internet blackout in the region, particularly around the area where the conflict is make proper well informed analysis is very, very difficult at the moment. And we have seen this conflict take on another trajectory one that is all about an information war with disinter mation and misinformation being thrown around on an hourly basis. And this is having a very divisive and polarizing effect on the people. We have always lived in an error of this information, but in the age of social media, this disinflation of now care crescendo, which is playing havoc with a 110000000 miles from here, windows. And let me bring you in here. Lets talk mediation now. If it is right, the Prime Minister then should fall to Ethiopian Forces in the next few days. They then have to hold it. Thats an in, thats an occupation. As weve seen in many other countries. If theres an occupation, theres generally an insurgency. Are you concerned that there will be an insurgency in the colon . And yes, there is certainly a possibility that this phase of what is essentially being conventional wall for the last 3 and a half weeks is certainly a possibility that the Ground Forces lose control of major urban areas as they have done so far. And then possibly,