Well, it broke because it moved sovereign power from “we, the people of Ethiopia” to “we, the tribes of Ethiopia”. After three decades, or 30 years, Ethiopians started to think as ethnic groups or tribal groups, and that's exactly what we are witnessing here today. Our Amharan friends are talking about only Amhara. Our Tigrayan friends are talking about only Tigray.
We have federalism in Canada and in many parts of the world. The Ethiopian federalism is unique in the sense that it treats the people of Ethiopia as peoples, as if they are different, so that created this animosity across ethnic groups. We have now come to a point where we cannot solve this process by ourselves, because we are locked in a permanent kind of political equilibrium from which we cannot correct by ourselves because—