YONAS BIRU, PhD April 24, 2022 Executive Summary In 2018, Ethiopia’s future was bright with both local and international stars aligned in her favor. Its citizens were beaming with hope and enthusiasm for peace, security, progress, and prosperity. The international community was opening its wallet wide to finance
Latest reports are now revealing that many of the big businesses owned by TPLF affiliated or indirectly owned by the TPLF cliques have also found not paying any taxes for the past few decades.
In addition to state level robbery and accumulation of wealth within one ethnic group and “yes boss” corrupt-minded puppets from other ethnic groups in Ethiopia, the TPLF-dominated regime of EPRDF was also known for grave human rights violations. It has tortured Ethiopians who opposed the regime. Within registered and unknown jails such as, in Somali region, TPLF was implicated in grave human rights violations, including amputating legs of prisoners in Addis Ababa. Reports of in jail rapes, sodomizations crimes among others, were common during the era of TPLF-dominated EPRDF regime. That was why the reformist Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed described these crimes as state level terrorism acts immediately after he came to power and plead for forgiveness from the people of Ethiopia.