Though Ethiopia has hardly been a paragon of democracy - human rights groups have constantly cited the government's repressiveness - opposition within the country had been limited, with dissidents effectively silenced.
Etiopia on kuitenkin vielä kaukana demokratian mallimaasta. Ihmisoikeusjärjestöt ovat jatkuvasti raportoineet hallituksen sortopolitiikasta, oppositio maassa on hyvin rajallista ja toisinajattelijat vaimennetaan nopeasti.