We heard Bereket Simon lamenting last week, labeling the Ginbot 7 as the "desperado" group in relation to the fabricated coup-turned assassination attempt trying to creat havoc in Ethiopia. They were also calling the US to extradite the leader of Ginbot 7, Dr. Birhanu Nega, as the culprit of this "terrorist" act. Blinded by their inflated perception of themselves, and proving their ignorance of how international relations operate, they thought they can horse ride and persuade the US government to submit to their wish.
Having learned that their effort was futile, they are now openly and desperately trying to discredit the US Department of State's 2008 Ethiopia Human Rights Report on their state controlled ETV. I am sure, they are doing this with three objectives in mind. First, this is a follow up foolish attempt to their earlier attempt of warning the US, conveying "if you don't cooperate with us, we will destabilize the region, which is already prone for terrorism" and trying to hold the US hostage to their sinister motive.
The Second is to send a message to the US pretentding that they no longer care about relations with US as they are building reliable relations with Russia and China as was being professed by Ambassador David Shinn. Again, ultimately trying to hold Amerca hostage, if it attempts to criticise the Woyane regime.
The third, certainly is, to send a chilling fear on the Ethiopian people at home, on the assumption that the people who are listening to these robust declarations on the ETV will think that the regime, which is not afraid of ending relations with the US will not hesitate using any force to silence their dissent. For that matter, in a related intervie, the dictator Meles has already recently revealed that any dissent will not be tolerated by the security forces and that they have completed all the preparations to harshly deal any dissnet, where he warned the people that they have to adequately learn from their mistakes of the 2005 election aftermath.
Beyond being desperate, the way they are trying to discredit the US State Department Human Rights Report is just laughable. While crtisizing the report as invalid on the basis of evidnece and methodology, the very methodology they used to counter the report and finding their "truth" was at best, interviewing frightened and helpless family members of the victims and equally frightened community members,and members of the local government security and police force, the perpetrators of the violence, at the worest.
So I say, this week was the week that showed that the woyane are the real desperados, and a second sign of the real count down to their demise
