As A Tigrayan My Bond With Ethiopia Feels Beyond Repair – OpEd

By Temesgen Kahsay*

We’re told the war is not with ordinary Tigrayans. Yet as thousands suffer and our compatriots remain silent, that’s how it feels.

As a child growing up in the then Ethiopian city of Asmara in the 1980s, my parents used to ask me what I wanted to be when I was older. My answer was always that I...