BBCNEWS HARDtalk June 4, 2024 00:54:00
That as long as our self—determination rights are fully preserved, fully protected, we'll be willing to live within ethiopia. i have told you, the last time i appeared on your show that we have never been separatists. we have never been for secession or anything. but secession is a function of whether people feel represented and fully represented in the body politic of the country. as long as that suspicion on the part of the population persists, it doesn't matter whether i believe in an ethiopian unity or not. what matters is whether the authorities in addis ababa or the entire population i...