Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War /
"This book provides the first clear explanation of the factors that led to the conflict, unravelling their roots in Ethiopia's long and complex history. It describes the battles that were fought at such terrible cost and the immense suffering, particularly of women, who were brutally abuse...
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London :
Hurst & Company,
2023
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: land, power, and empire
- 1. The long arc of history: shifting empires
- 2. Challenging the empire: two visions of Ethiopia
- 3. Reworking the empire: federalism and self-determination, 1991-2012
- 4. Things fall apart: the lost years of Hailemariam and the rise of the regions
- 5. The revival of imperial politics and the path to war
- 6. Eritrea, the Horn, and the path to war
- Interlude: Nanya's story: a Tigrayan Londoner at the start of the war
- 7. Tigray from defeat to recovery
- 8. The pendulum of war swings, and swings again
- 9. Destroying the social and economic fabric of Tigray
- 10. Surrounded and starving: how aid has been cut, crops destroyed and the population faces a famine
- Interlude: Feven's story: a clinical psychologist in Mekele
- 11. Diplomacy and protest
- Conclusion: persisting obstacles to peace?
- Afterword
- Appendix: logbook of irregular flights by Ethiopian Airlines to Asmara and Massawa (Eritrea)