There is nothing more barbarous, and thus more disgusting, than an oppressive system that perpetrates unspeakable violence and injustice, and yet insists that its victims be polite to it or apologise for speaking up.
The survivors of the injustice have the right to speak back, criticise, censure, and shame the system ALWAYS. And they should do so unapologetically and excoriatingly, and with righteous indignation. It’s the system that owes them apology albeit agonistically and painfully.
To expect the victims/survivors to be polite or apologetic is to attempt to silence resistance and to re-enact the original violence.
Oppressed peoples (in Ethiopia or beyond) owe no apologies for criticising and exposing the oppressive/genocidal system and “telling the truth like it is”. For as things stand now, the Ethiopian state stands indicted for genocide and several other dastardly crimes, historical and contemporary.
It’s our human(e) duty, as survivors and witnesses, to expose it, to shame it, and to mobilise people to resist it. It’s their job to respond, accept responsibility, atone for it, and apologise while there is time.
Yes, you owe us an apology and much much more! We owe you nothing, except criticism (which, by the way, is an act of loyalty).