Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much. This is a very interesting question and I can answer it very easily. In my own opinion, and in our opinion, I don't think the Canadian government has to stop aid to the Ethiopian people and the Ethiopian government. However, we have to differentiate between humanitarian aid and development aid.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  If you don't bring both, there is no reason for any negotiation at all.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Are you asking me whether there is a discussion between the Amharas and the central government?

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  This is a very interesting question. I think we have to put this question to the government of Ethiopia and the TPLF. The reason they did not invite their Amhara colleagues is that they think they are very contentious, and they think they are the oppressors. They want to exclude them because they have been excluding them from time immemorial, since the TPLF government—

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'm sorry. [Inaudible—Editor] to compare it.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  If I can add to that, we don't understand why the Amharas were excluded. It's not only the Amhara region that was excluded, but the Afar region, because the northern war affected both the Amhara and Afar regions, as well as Tigray. The reason the government of Ethiopia and the TPLF people excluded the Amhara and Afar regions is beyond us.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Ethio-Canadians for Human Rights makes a special reference to human rights violations in the Amhara and Oromia regions. Ethiopia's crisis stems from the 1995 constitution, which changed the administrative borders from a unified republic to a federation of ethnic regional status drawn on ethnic fault lines.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you.