FlagsmalI have often contended that the ruling regime in Ethiopia controlled by the Tigrean Liberation Front (TPLF) is a thugtatorship, the highest stage of African dictatorship.  If democracy is government of the people, by the people and for the people, a thugocracy is a government of thugs, for thugs, by thugs.

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\"Flagsmal\"<\/a>I have often contended that the ruling regime in Ethiopia controlled by the Tigrean Liberation Front (TPLF) is a\u00a0thugtatorship, the highest stage of African dictatorship<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0If democracy is government of the people, by the people and for the people, a thugocracy is a government of thugs, for thugs, by thugs.<\/p>\n\n

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