Ethiopia: bombs in Addis

Ethiopundit reports on the two bomb blasts that went off in Addis Ababa on Sunday – both incidents included a hand grenade….As we have said before, for Ethiopia's rulers, Politics is a Continuation of War by other Means. The language that the government is most fluent and the debates it finds most comforting have nothing to do with region or ethnicity but are best translated as the stuttering echos of AK-47s, the wailing of the bereaved and screams of the tortured.”

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