GETTING ETHIOPIA DEAD WRONG

By Rasmus Sonderriis

They rank among the great and the good of our media, academia, humanitarian work, politics and diplomacy. Yet they demonized a friendly people and fueled a big war with dire mispredictions and shocking lies. Who were they? How could they get away with it? What was the bigger picture that they so distorted? And why? Getting Ethiopia Dead Wrong exposes how the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate use of force was blurred, even reversed, during what is commonly referred to as the Tigray War, raging across northern Ethiopia from November 3, 2020 to November 2, 2022. It vindicates the analysts whose warnings were disregarded. It maps out how a power struggle was deceptively reduced to tribal rage, tackling the full range of hair-raising accusations, from weaponized rape and starvation to hate speech and genocide. It concludes that the narrative about the war says a lot more about the narrators than it does about the war. And it ends with a call not to misjudge other ethnonationalist insurgencies still going on in Ethiopia. More generally, this is a thought-provoking case study of how the Western moral-superiority complex, even in progressive clothing, continues to wreak havoc. For colors, choose the hardcover or the e-book version.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DBW1BQ24
• ISBN13: 9798883646552
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"