Thousands of Ethiopians and Eritreans staged a demonstration in Washington D.C., demanding for cancellation of H.R. 6600 (Ethiopia Stabilization, Peace and Democracy Act) and S. 3199 (Ethiopia Peace and Democracy Promotion Act) bills that the United States is set endorse against Ethiopia, APA learned on Tuesday.
The protestors said that H.R. 6600 and S. 3199 are poised to essentially make Ethiopia a U.S. Colony and should be cancelled.
They said that they are targeting the very existence of Ethiopia and that they will harm Ethio-US relations.
Tomasz P. Malinowski, a congressman from New Jersey, drafted HR 6600 the bill but it has got support from four other congressmen.
S 3199 was proposed by Robert Menendez, a senator from New Jersey.
Many Ethiopians believe, as expressed on multiple social media platforms, that the United States has been supporting the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), an entity that dominated Ethiopian politics and economy for nearly three decades after it came to power in 1991 with support from the United States.
In May 2021, the Ethiopian parliament declared TPLF a terrorist organization after it attacked several bases on the Northern Command Base of the Ethiopian Defense Force in what it called a preemptive attack.
The TPLF had also made an incursion into Eritrea in November 2021 right after it attacked the Ethiopian Defence force with the aim of internationalizing the conflict.
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