"In Ethiopia, citizenship is being replaced by [party] membership."
Gebru Asrat, former president of the Tigray Regional State and founder of the opposition party, Arena Tigray, which split from the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, said in an interview with the Amharic weekly, Negad Ras, on Wednesday, January 6, 2010. He went on to explain that there are two kinds of citizens, those who are party members and those who are not.