Why do people support Armed groups in Ethiopia? personal experience.
Let me tell you about why i hated every armed group first & then how become the Die-hard svpp0rter of Fan0.
When the new administration under EPRDF came to power everyone in my home-town or region fall in love with him(Abiy) and everyone( NOT me btw) thought he's going to be the best for Ethiopia.
In short period of time, this country started to see bizarre crisis & savageness due to lack of Rule of law. there where mobs everywhere & started targeting ethnic Amharas with the weakness of central gov't to act around the country specially East Wollega and Horo Guduru, Benishangul Gumuz (Metekel) & Welkait.
Travelling from one town to the nearest town became so hard because of the Lawlessness of the country.
Abiy himself started ethnic framing & attacking Tigrayans and used words like "Yeqen Jib".
He proudly started talking sh!t with people he met how he broken down the NORTH political dominance and how planned to destroy the North(he admitted that when he proudly said we changed Mekelle from important city to Beshasha ... his rural village).
I think that's when we as Amhara obviously saw the conspiracy he planned when he lets OLF entered to Ethiopia with their arms & co-created OLA ( source Afendi Muteki).
Under a year extremist Oromos started massacring & displacing Amharas who lived over 50+ years in his region & his gov't officials were the part of that, they had No shame even to deny the deceased no. of people.
The Main road blockade to Addis Abeba became Normal thing to stop Amharas entering to the capital.
That where in every Amhara zones started PEACEFUL demonstration. the massacre and displacement of Amhara people continued for years in the region (still actively goin on).
The demonstrations continued throughout years for around 7 rounds. to make things worse, after pretoria agreement, the cl0wn wanted the disarmament of every Amhara including Police. Lol why? because he had a plan of breaking & controlling Amharas as simple as Tigray(his current advisor Getachew Reda said that while he was his main enemy back in 2021.)
That's when the last Peaceful demonstration ended with ..... *
As soon as the people opposed that with that last Demonstration, he & his gov't never wanted discussion, convincing the people or armed ones what they planned or anything tangible. he wanted that refusal incidence to happen and he already knows it. his Mirkogna Generals started ranting and insulting the entire ethnic group.
*... from now on we will come with sword not demonstration. ( ካሁን በኋላ በሰልፍ ሳይሆን በሰይፍ እንጠይቃለን). Why?
Because the PP officials were ridiculing and mocking the demonstrator and used words like "Let them cry, it's their habit". insulting farmers who asked the Fertilizers they need & calling them "የጅራፍ ፖለቲከኞች"
They claim that their disarmament even goes to every Armed Amharas' Belt not just his/her Arms only.
He never hesitate to deploy tanks and drones and the region and started bombing & massacring everyone i mean everyone. i am not exaggerating here. i am telling you what i saw with my own eyes. his savage army was killing everyone they got in the road in Debre markos, Merawi & Woldeya & house to house arrest & killing became normal.
Their presence in the region was shocking in the savage way and it didnt give us a time to think what was happening.
The Abiy's army raped women, mutilate boys and minor Boys were also the main victim of the rape. the higher level leaders(colonels, captain or Generals) were completely okay with it.
they burned farm lands with fire deliberately, killed animals just for enjoyment. that unheard, unnatural behavior of the Army(አራዊት) created fear among the society.
The regime continuously bombed schools, civilian homes and Farm lands with heavy artilleries. they thought they can control by that type inhuman action.
That's where Amhara Fano re-organized and started defending what the Orromumma regime was doing. why do i say Orromumma? because the soldiers deployed here were majority ethnically Oromos and they repeatedly used the word "you hate us." &"Neftegna".
The main reason Fan0 still exists and become more stronger is, you have NO idea how specially the rural areas svpp0rted them after they witnessed the savage behaviors of Abiy's soldiers(never dare to say ENDF) & the cruelty of the regime once they adored.
Anyone who criticize or blame someone or people who Supports armed groups, what choice do you have in this kind of situation?? do you die without doing anything? or do you pray for your God?? or what do you do??