Yesterday the dictator was pretending to call for the unity of Ethiopians behind TPLF in the name of famine. Today, he came back with his real face (again by the pseudonym of Adal Isaw in Aigaforum) full of anger with intent to ban the Ethiopian Diaspora from traveling to their homeland bogusly charging them as threats to national security.
As typical to all dictators whose days are numbered, his is colliding with every nation that does not sympathize with him, except Britain. His contemptible list of countries who are conspiring his demise is growing by the day, Iran, Libya, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Eritrea (did he forget Sudan?), USA, etc. I am sure after reading this post we will read a new list of enemy countries from Meles and his TPLF tomorrow.
To the dismay of every sane person, Meles is now accusing the opposition as promoters of faith based intolerance, when promoting religious and ethnic intolerance is his signature trademark, and warning that nothing will stop him from eradicating the, “self-exiled opposition” and its members and supporters in the name of preserving national security. He is also warning in advance the international human rights groups not to raise any issue of human rights violations in the aftermath of his action.
All these tactics are to intimidate the US and the West to buy their sympathy to allow him to cling to power without question. In reality, radicalizing and polarizing Ethiopia’s relations with the closest Middle Eastern countries would not be an advantage to Ethiopia’s long-term diplomatic and geo-political interest, but Meles is ready to compromise the country’s national interest for the short-term political gain.
The US and the West should never concede to these deceptive tactics of the dictator and should tell him to stop and to open up Ethiopia’s political environment to real electoral politics. That is the only way to guarantee long-term stability in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. .
