Of recent, when all the tail wagging to lure the Obama administration and the western democracies did not buy him any sympathy from them, dictator Meles is now openly expressing his contempt for democracy and multiparty election, as the subsequent writings of Adal Isaw of Aiga Forum (non other than Meles himself) reveal. In his most recent statement, “A Challenge to Election Observers”, Meles is questioning election observers why should they focus on freeness and fairness of an election and presenting China as a country that did not hold an election for 60 years but has become a world economic power as a success case study.
Mind you, it is this mad dog who is pretending to hold an election, but at the same time who is advocating that focus should not be made on freeness and fairness of the election process. From his statements the election outcome is already determined and Meles’ TPLF is presumed the winner and there will not be transfer of power. In this scenario, why in the hell should “election observers” be invited to Ethiopia in the first place? It is reported that close to 150 million Ethiopian Birr is allocated for the “2010 election”. In a country where more than 14 million people are starving, why should the mad dog be allowed to waste this sum of money for a fake “election”?
Meles is suggesting to the US and the West that he will shift his wagon to China and Russia, if in anyway they try to influence the democratic process in Ethiopia, in the pretext of sovereignty. He is also trying to warn the US and the West that the Horn of Africa will descend into havoc without him being recognized as the regional police.
The US and the West have intervened in the aftermath of rigged elections and subsequent mass detentions and killings in Kenya and Zimbabwe, and recently condemned the brutal killings of civilians in Gineau-Conakry, and asked the military dictator to step down. The blood of Ethiopians is no thinner than any other African, and Ethiopians also deserve an equal treatment from the US and the West in the face of brutal dictatorship that is undermining their future.
It is time for the US and the West to give an ultimatum to Meles to make the upcoming “2010 election” real using their leverage. The US and the West are the major financiers of development aid in Ethiopia and have real power to influence the democratic process for the benefit of the Ethiopian people and the stability of the Horn of Africa region.
Meles is just moving into Somalia in full force to distract international attention away from the election issues. Inciting conflict within and without is his best strategy to cling on power. He should be stopped by all concerned!!! And the time is now!!!
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Meles the Dictator Caught Unaware
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!!!
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!!!
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!!!
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