The signing of the valueless “Code of Conduct for 2010 Election”, by nominal “opposition parties”: AEUP, EDP, and CUD” with the gangster TPLF has caused a sense of euphoria within the TPLF camp. The aim of the whole fiasco is part of TPLF’s deceptive strategy to dodge the gullible international community and give a false recognition to the powerless and egomaniac Hailu Shawel, Ayele Chamiso, and Lidetu Ayalew, through a photo opportunity with the dictator Meles Zenawi. Nothing more, and nothing less.
While there is nothing to celebrate, TPLF loyalists are shouting from all corners about this fiasco as a decisive moment in Ethiopia’s history towards a democratic transition. However, leave alone Ethiopians, even the targeted international community has doubts regarding this move, since they were repeatedly being told by the same TPLF loyalist thugs in no uncertain terms that TPLF is no friend of liberal democracy, and one party rule in the model of communist China is the best path for Ethiopia.
The fact that this “Code” is just a fiasco is coming to light, since we are already witnessing that even before the ink Hailu Shawel signed the agreement with dried, TPLF loyalist newspapers like the Ethio Channel, are accusing and sabotaging Hailu Shawel and his party (AEUP), as being immersed in corruption and engulfed by internal crisis. What a “Code”, that is breached by the very enforcer!! That is why I labeled it valueless from the beginning. Even the creator and enforcer doesn’t value it.
Although Hailu Shawel and the other two puppets declared that this was a really negotiated agreement, it is obvious from the process and the outcome that it was an imposed one, as also witnessed by Dr. Merara Gudina and Prof. Beyene Petros of MEDREK who declared the whole process as a “political theatre”. In fact, if it was a negotiated process, MEDREK’s demand for a unilateral engagement with the TPLF should have been respected and their concerns should have been heard and addressed. In stead, MEDREK was forced to exclude itself from the table and is now being told by Bereket Simon of the TPLF to be bound by the code it was not involved in and didn’t agree with.
The Ethiopian people who know what is going on in reality in Ethiopia, but who have no way of voicing their concern, will now be told about this “code” through the government controlled media until they are deafened and, even may be forced to come out and rally in support of the agreement by the Kebeles, who are rationing the basic food items the people depend on for their survival. The people may even come and rally by force, but they will not register and vote for TPLF. TPLF was rejected by the people in 2005 and has done nothing since then to win their favor.
The “code” fiasco, I believe is aimed at frustrating and confusing the Ethiopian Diaspora, who have been consistent in their resistance to TPLF’s divisive, monopolistic, and corrupt politics on the one hand, and to convince the gullible international community that there is now consensus within the opposition to hold a free and fair election in Ethiopia in 2010 on the other.
The moron and egomaniac Hailu Sahwel and the puppets Ayele Chamiso and Lidetu Ayalew have openly expressed that they trust the TPLF has come of age to conduct a free and fair election in Ethiopia. The international community may also endorse this and give the go ahead for the TPLF to run the show.
But, let it be known that, the voiceless Ethiopian people and the Ethiopian Diaspora do not believe that there would ever be a sustainable democratic change in Ethiopia with the TPLF thugs on the wheel. And we will fight this despotic TPLF regime to the end!!!
