Another Nobel Peace Prize winner goes rogue

Can I defend Abiy Ahmed too? I understand how difficult his situation was, and all the other separatist pressures in Ethiopia, and the fact that he started out as a child soldier, but no, I can’t. Message to the Nobel Peace Prize committee. Next time, wait a little longer.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, the Nobel Peace Prize Winner in 2019, waited the statutory two years before launching his genocidal war in Tigray last November.Photograph courtesy of Commons Wikimedia

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

April 12, 2021

LONDON, U.K.—Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, the Nobel Peace Prize Winner in 2019, waited the statutory two years before launching his genocidal war in Tigray last November. ‘Statutory’ is the right word. U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger, who won the Peace Prize in 1973 for ending...

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