Photo source: Reuters By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe Upfront W hen ten thousand Ethiopian protestors took the streets of Adis Ababa, in May 2021, the message was clear. They wanted an end to Washington’s sanctions on the government, and its army officials, over the war in Tigray, a conflict in the north of Ethiopia, that has claimed thousands of lives, and displaced more than two million people.  Some Ethiopians, at home and abroad, staged a “Hands Off Ethiopia” social media campaign, where they appealed foreign countries to stop “meddling in Ethiopia’s affairs”. But, the silence wouldn't help the situation.  The seeds of conflict in Tigray were sown in November 2020, Back then, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, winner of 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, for ending a long war with Eritrea, had sent federal troops into Tigray for a military offensive against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the northern region’s ruling leftist political cabal, that had dominated national ...