Sporadic incidents of arbitrary killings circulate over the media with no end in sight. Today (February 2, 2025) a Medical Specialist, Dr. Andualem Dagne, was killed in Bahir Dar City of Amhara Region. News circulated that the long serving well experienced professional was dragged out of a vehicle while moving out of a hospital where he provided medical service and was about to take up routine in another hospital in the city. In addition, the news report indicated that he was a lecturer at a university in the city.
Assassinations in the Amhara Region appear to be more common, which is often blamed on Fano insurgents. It is alleged that they target political functionaries of the Government in what seems retaliation for measures directed against them by the Government.
Basically, assassination should not be the measure and that directed against the civilians whether it is politically motivated or personal grudges. Above all, loss of rare professionals the country may have produced through rigorous processes both on the part of the professional and the country is damaging. The professional may have spent more time of his age studying and practicing in the execution of duties. He may have gone through hard times to attain the level he/she may have attained. It may be the stage for a sigh of relief leaving behind the ups and downs and he/she became effective in the service rendered to the country.
The country too, expectedly, has invested much to produce the professional who is badly needed for the specific sector of service. During college days, there are services and facilities the Government is obliged to provide. Feeding, accommodation, lecturing, provision of required materials and coaching for specific field are expected of the Government in much of the practice so far.
All the efforts exerted by the individuals and provisions by the Government are meant to build the country as the CDG see it. When it comes to medical sector, obviously, it is more pressing to have sufficient physicians and other medical personnel in a country where advancement in modernity is still far behind. The efficient professional lost in a matter of seconds cannot be replaced in years easily. Forgetting the rough road traversed in the teaching learning process of acquisition of knowledge, the experience gained over a given period of time is hard to imagine. Such a loss, is therefore, devastating to development of the sector as part of advancement of the country.
As long as the horrifying action continues unabated in that Region or elsewhere, it becomes mandatory to devise mechanisms for protection of nationals. Above, the Government should come up with a system of protection to spare nationals from elimination.