Ethiopian Americans both for and against the country's government are demonstrating in Washington. They say their communities, and even some families, are divided over the war in their homeland.
A man who came to the US to escape political persecution says the country he now calls home is empowering the very people he fled. A health care worker says she fears her family may be starving whenever she sits down to eat. War in Ethiopia is more than 7,000 miles away from the US capital. But for these Ethiopian Americans who spoke with CNN at recent demonstrations in Washington, the conflict is of urgent importance -- and they say it should be to the world, too.
"We mobilized our Ethiopian community," he says."We are literally switching parties." For Besu, the reason is simple. He says he came to the US to escape political persecution when the Tigray People's Liberation Front was in power. He sees the former ruling party as terrorists, just as Ethiopia's prime minister declared when he recently urged citizens to take up arms against Tigrayan forces.
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