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Behind the News: Ethiopia's Bloody War w/ Ann Neumann

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The Amharah State Is a Persecuted Majority

The Amharah state, as we use that term today, didn't really exist until the TPLF government set up individual federated states. These ethnicities then can squabble over whose territory is what and whose top dog. And I think that's why the Obby administration is blaming the T PLF for setting up the situation. But in some ways they are a persecuted majority, kind of like Christians here in the United States.

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