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Ethiopia s deputy ambassador to the United States resigned on Wednesday, citing his country s continued genocide in the Tigray region.
Longtime diplomat Berhane Kidanemariam announced his resignation from the post of deputy chief of mission for Ethiopia in Washington, D.C., due to Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed s genocidal practices in Tigray. Kidanemariam said that his country has pursued a dark and disturbing route by silencing political differences through military and extrajudicial force. I have loved serving as a diplomat for my country but I cannot do so at the expense of my values, and certainly not at the expense of my people, Kidanemariam said. There is a cost to acting on one s principles, but there is a bigger cost to abandoning them. I resign from my post in protest of the genocidal war in Tigray