{"id":1115872,"date":"2023-07-03T05:55:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T05:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=287636"},"modified":"2023-07-03T05:55:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T05:55:13","slug":"ethiopia-crushing-freedom-creating-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/07\/03\/ethiopia-crushing-freedom-creating-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: Crushing Freedom Creating Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When in 2018, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office in Ethiopia, a wave of hope and optimism enveloped the nation. After 27 years living under the brutal TPLF (Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front) dominated EPRDF coalition, the people breathed a collective sigh of relief. Many Ethiopians living overseas, eager to contribute, returned to their beloved homeland;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/07\/03\/ethiopia-crushing-freedom-creating-fear\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/07\/03\/ethiopia-crushing-freedom-creating-fear\/\">Ethiopia: Crushing Freedom Creating Fear<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When in 2018, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office in Ethiopia, a wave of hope and optimism enveloped the nation. After 27 years living under the brutal TPLF (Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front) dominated EPRDF coalition, the people breathed a collectiv&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1115930,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115872\/revisions\/1115930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}