
Ethiopia's leader said he would bury his enemy. His spokeswoman doesn't think it was incitement to violence
CNN
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed pledged to bury his government's enemies "with our blood" last week, in an inflammatory speech marking the one-year anniversary of the war in the country's northern Tigray region.
"We will bury this enemy with our blood and bones and make the glory of Ethiopia high again," Abiy said at the military headquarters in the capital, Addis Ababa, on Wednesday, a day after declaring a national state of emergency and urging Ethiopians to take up arms to fight advancing Tigrayan forces.
The speech doubled down on comments the Nobel Peace laureate made in an earlier Facebook post urging supporters to "march ... with any weapon and resources they have to defend, repulse and bury the terrorist TPLF." The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which ruled the country for more than three decades before Abiy came to power in 2018, has been designated a terrorist group by the current government.

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