Dictator Meles always took care not to convey inconsistent messages to his audience, particularly, the international community during interviews. Although he knows deep inside him that whatever political phrases or statements he utters are just lies, he always pretended as if he spoke the truth while bluffing his regurgitated responses with a false sense of confidence.
But humanly and naturally, you can not maintain that consistency, when you are a pathological liar. Somewhere, sometime, you will be caught unaware. That was what exactly happened to the dictator Meles a couple of weeks ago, when he was interviewed by his own mouthpiece newspaper, the Ethiopian reporter, regarding what advise he would give to his daughter if she was to enter into politics.
His advice to his daughter, or for that matter, anyone aspiring to become a politician in Ethiopia was, “to stay away from politics”, similar to the old Ethiopian adage that goes, “politikana korenti beruku”. With that response, I believe dictator Meles has for the first time spoken his heart and mind. He forgot that he had to pretend. May be, because the interviewer was his own pawn.
But again, during the same interview, when he was asked about the “opposition parties’” involvement in the “2010 election”, he accused them of trying to blackmail the “upcoming election” by trying to boycott the election.
Why does a dictator that advices people to stay away from politics, and does everything in his power to keep them away from assuming political power through an election on the one hand try to give them incentive (distribution of money through the “election board”) and intimidate them to participate in the “election”. Wasn’t he advising them to boycott and stay away from politics?
In democracies, citizens are encouraged to participate in politics, and those who run for public office are given due respect. And once in office, they exercise their duties and responsibilities governed by the law. Dictator Meles always thought and believed he is the only “god send”, qualified to rule Ethiopia, while all others have to stay away. All along he has been pretending to be a democrat, but his true nature was revealed in his words, I public.
For us we always knew, he will only relinquish his power by force. And we will force him, for sure!!!
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Why Expect a Pigeon’s Egg from a Snake?
I never had doubted about the destructive motives of the TPLF thugs, even when they were fighting their gorilla war in the 1970s, as their ultimate objective was to separate Tigray from the rest of Ethiopia. Every policy they have implemented since their assumption of state power in Ethiopia has been special treatment of Tigray against all odds. Their whole objective since 1991 was consolidating Tigre supremacy than delivering services to the Ethiopian people.
Soon after their entry to the capital, their first attempt was to call for fake and opportunistic ethnic entities to participate in the “Transitional Charter”, that they were able to dictate its outcome, legitimizing their governing of the country as a coalition of ethnic representatives. That was when they were able to recruit their pioneer fake ethnic representatives, like Tesfaye Habisso, Beyene Petros, Simon Mechale, Petros Wontamo (all southerners), in addition to what they already had for the OPDO (Kuma Demeksa, Aba Dula Gemeda, Hassen Ali, etc) and ANDM (Tamirat Layne, Addisu Legesse, Tefera Walwa, Bereket Simon was already a woyane member disguised as Amhara), to endorse their “Transitional Charter” that ensured the division of Ethiopia along ethnic lines, and preferential treatment of Tigray on the pretext of being marginalized and affected during the civil war.
They then instigated vengeance against the Amhara in Arbagugu, Bedeno, Chelenko, sowing the seed of hatred amongst Ethiopian societies that have lived in harmony for generations. Such kind of TPLF instigated ethnic conflicts continued unabated in Awassa, Bech Madji Zone, Gambella, Gedio and Borana Zones. Such ethnic conflicts continue to happen to this day in all parts of the country, unfortunately with the support of the federal government and the involvement of the federal army.
Along side with this ugly promotion of ethnic division is, the concurrent strategy of the TPLF that tries to undermine the free movement of people, by confining them to learn and work only in their ethnic language, that would eventually bar them from moving to any other parts of the country as they would not be able to speak the language of that ethnic group or region.
The level of discrimination has reached an untold proportion in Ethiopia where , members of the Tigre Ethnic groups have controlled everything in the country: entry level public sector jobs (cleaners, messengers, guards, secretaries, etc) to all sectors of the professions (physicians, engineers, teachers, geologists, lawyers, etc.) businesses (where the EFFORT is on top of everything) and politics (the cadres/indoctrinators of the Revolutionary Democracy).
There have recently been reports of widespread conflicts, hungers, and medical emergencies in the country, particularly that of cholera, consuming the lives of people in the capital, Addis Ababa, and spreading all over the country at an alarming rate, which the TPLF is denying.
Instead, the TPLF thugs are busy, pretending, negotiating with the non-existing opposition in Ethiopia towards the upcoming 2010 election, in a forum organized by the British Embassy in Addis, Meles , is bluffing about vetoing the climate talk in Copenhagen (as if Meles is concerned to any of the real issues affecting the Ethiopian and the African peoples, and as if he has any power of influencing global policies as a beggar).
My fellow Ethiopians, let us wake up!! TPLF has always been consolidating its power, to control every aspect of the people over the last 19 years, not delivering services to the Ethiopian people. And it is boldly setting the stage further to continue to rule by force, no matter what!!! Today is the day we have to pledge ourselves to an urgent mission of saving our country from the TPLF gangsters, not tomorrow!!! Don’t expect a pigeon’s egg from a snake!!!
Soon after their entry to the capital, their first attempt was to call for fake and opportunistic ethnic entities to participate in the “Transitional Charter”, that they were able to dictate its outcome, legitimizing their governing of the country as a coalition of ethnic representatives. That was when they were able to recruit their pioneer fake ethnic representatives, like Tesfaye Habisso, Beyene Petros, Simon Mechale, Petros Wontamo (all southerners), in addition to what they already had for the OPDO (Kuma Demeksa, Aba Dula Gemeda, Hassen Ali, etc) and ANDM (Tamirat Layne, Addisu Legesse, Tefera Walwa, Bereket Simon was already a woyane member disguised as Amhara), to endorse their “Transitional Charter” that ensured the division of Ethiopia along ethnic lines, and preferential treatment of Tigray on the pretext of being marginalized and affected during the civil war.
They then instigated vengeance against the Amhara in Arbagugu, Bedeno, Chelenko, sowing the seed of hatred amongst Ethiopian societies that have lived in harmony for generations. Such kind of TPLF instigated ethnic conflicts continued unabated in Awassa, Bech Madji Zone, Gambella, Gedio and Borana Zones. Such ethnic conflicts continue to happen to this day in all parts of the country, unfortunately with the support of the federal government and the involvement of the federal army.
Along side with this ugly promotion of ethnic division is, the concurrent strategy of the TPLF that tries to undermine the free movement of people, by confining them to learn and work only in their ethnic language, that would eventually bar them from moving to any other parts of the country as they would not be able to speak the language of that ethnic group or region.
The level of discrimination has reached an untold proportion in Ethiopia where , members of the Tigre Ethnic groups have controlled everything in the country: entry level public sector jobs (cleaners, messengers, guards, secretaries, etc) to all sectors of the professions (physicians, engineers, teachers, geologists, lawyers, etc.) businesses (where the EFFORT is on top of everything) and politics (the cadres/indoctrinators of the Revolutionary Democracy).
There have recently been reports of widespread conflicts, hungers, and medical emergencies in the country, particularly that of cholera, consuming the lives of people in the capital, Addis Ababa, and spreading all over the country at an alarming rate, which the TPLF is denying.
Instead, the TPLF thugs are busy, pretending, negotiating with the non-existing opposition in Ethiopia towards the upcoming 2010 election, in a forum organized by the British Embassy in Addis, Meles , is bluffing about vetoing the climate talk in Copenhagen (as if Meles is concerned to any of the real issues affecting the Ethiopian and the African peoples, and as if he has any power of influencing global policies as a beggar).
My fellow Ethiopians, let us wake up!! TPLF has always been consolidating its power, to control every aspect of the people over the last 19 years, not delivering services to the Ethiopian people. And it is boldly setting the stage further to continue to rule by force, no matter what!!! Today is the day we have to pledge ourselves to an urgent mission of saving our country from the TPLF gangsters, not tomorrow!!! Don’t expect a pigeon’s egg from a snake!!!
Friday, September 4, 2009
Every Inch of Land in Ethiopia is Our Home, Including Bench Madji Zone
Today, I am writing as a very proud Ethiopian, born to parents who belong to two different ethnic groups from the southern parts of Ethiopia. But I am writing today because I was saddened by the usual sickening effort of the TPLF to always confine Ethiopians to reside and thrive only in their ethnic enclaves.
The TPLF mouth piece, the Ethiopian Reporter, wrote two days ago (09/02/09) about the repatriation of 804 “Amharan” households “illegally settled” in “Bench Madji Zone” of the “Southern Region”, back to Humera in “Amhara Region”.
Why was it in the first place “illegal” for them to move to any place within the Ethiopian border and settle, as long as the neighborhood has welcomed them, unless freedom of movement and settling in any part of the country is made illegal in the Ethiopian “Constitution:”? From the Reporter article it can be inferred that these settlers have been living there for about two years, and have been farming and happy in their new home, growing rice, pepper, and oil seed (selitt), all important products for domestic consumption and export. This shows that the settlers were welcome by the local residents, as they have been actively farming and harvesting their products in the last two years.
If there was any problem with the locals, they would not have been able to farm and harvest in the last two years. But because the local people didn’t care about ethic politics, and welcomed and accommodated these people, the TPLF was angry and sought a strategy of repatriating them back to “Amhara Region” against their will, leaving their harvest and anticipated profits (I am sure, a couple of kilos of pepper would have fetched them more than 140 Birr they were handed out during their repatriation).
The other reason the Reporter gave to their repatriation was that these settlers occupied a land that was intended for investors. Who are these investors (foreign or nationals) and how many people they are expected to hire from the local people is not clear in the article. If we multiple 804 households by the average family size in Ethiopia, which is 6, we have approximately five thousand individuals being dislocated form the site. Will the investor hire more than 5000 people in the area? Nothing is clear from the article. Should we give a priority to an investor over a citizen in such a scenario?
And if at all these people have to be resettled, why back to “Amhara region”? Aren’t there other places in Ethiopia which can accommodate these people in other parts of the country? Why make them feel they can only live in “Amhara Region”? This is a consistent strategy of the TPLF to confine everybody to their ethnic enclaves, eventually making them believe that they are different, forcing them to believe that they belong to these or that ethnic group before they are Ethiopians, to which they have to say no.
I beg every Ethiopian to say no to this sinister motive of TPLF, express their anger to such moves of the TPLF that is heading towards fragmenting the country.
The TPLF mouth piece, the Ethiopian Reporter, wrote two days ago (09/02/09) about the repatriation of 804 “Amharan” households “illegally settled” in “Bench Madji Zone” of the “Southern Region”, back to Humera in “Amhara Region”.
Why was it in the first place “illegal” for them to move to any place within the Ethiopian border and settle, as long as the neighborhood has welcomed them, unless freedom of movement and settling in any part of the country is made illegal in the Ethiopian “Constitution:”? From the Reporter article it can be inferred that these settlers have been living there for about two years, and have been farming and happy in their new home, growing rice, pepper, and oil seed (selitt), all important products for domestic consumption and export. This shows that the settlers were welcome by the local residents, as they have been actively farming and harvesting their products in the last two years.
If there was any problem with the locals, they would not have been able to farm and harvest in the last two years. But because the local people didn’t care about ethic politics, and welcomed and accommodated these people, the TPLF was angry and sought a strategy of repatriating them back to “Amhara Region” against their will, leaving their harvest and anticipated profits (I am sure, a couple of kilos of pepper would have fetched them more than 140 Birr they were handed out during their repatriation).
The other reason the Reporter gave to their repatriation was that these settlers occupied a land that was intended for investors. Who are these investors (foreign or nationals) and how many people they are expected to hire from the local people is not clear in the article. If we multiple 804 households by the average family size in Ethiopia, which is 6, we have approximately five thousand individuals being dislocated form the site. Will the investor hire more than 5000 people in the area? Nothing is clear from the article. Should we give a priority to an investor over a citizen in such a scenario?
And if at all these people have to be resettled, why back to “Amhara region”? Aren’t there other places in Ethiopia which can accommodate these people in other parts of the country? Why make them feel they can only live in “Amhara Region”? This is a consistent strategy of the TPLF to confine everybody to their ethnic enclaves, eventually making them believe that they are different, forcing them to believe that they belong to these or that ethnic group before they are Ethiopians, to which they have to say no.
I beg every Ethiopian to say no to this sinister motive of TPLF, express their anger to such moves of the TPLF that is heading towards fragmenting the country.
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