Hermon Cohen

"The political leaders of the Ethiopian Government have a policy of killing all opponents who take to the streets to demonstrate against them. Other opponents who do not demonstrate but make public statements instead, are sent to jail for long periods. I fail to understand why the Ethiopian regime feels it necessary to exercise such extreme control to the point of committing murder periodically against their own citizens...The more citizens you kill for no reason, the more difficult it will be for you to govern in peace.” Hermon Cohen form Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs who mediating the transitional period in 1991