NO! To Sham Election in Ethiopia!!!

Please dear fellow Ethiopians, it is time to say NO to sham elections in Ethiopia under TPLF thugs!!

Remember, TPLF’s slogan closer to the 2005 election was an “errorless election”! (enken yelesh mircha)! In fact, that slogan just was a pretense to deceive the international community, not a genuine belief in democracy within the TPLF. They soon revealed that it was a terrible miscalculation on the part of the TPLF after witnessing their defeat in the aftermath of the election.

That was when they decided they would never repeat that miscalculation in any future “elections” in Ethiopia. If you remember, that was when dictator Meles Zenawi openly came up with the discredited idea of the “Developmental State” argument and he forcefully asserted that Ethiopia does not need a multiparty democracy, lest the long term “development” goal of TPLF be interrupted. Following that assertion there were numerous incidents where Meles and Co. strongly argued in favor of the developmental state theory and that they openly stated that liberal democracy posed danger for Ethiopia’s development and existence.

Remember dear fellow Ethiopians, at least for the purpose of pretending, prior to 2005 election, they were opening up some space for the opposition to express its position to the public and to campaign. After finding out that they lost that election to the opposition, TPLF’s actions were to completely close the little openings for fair opposition maneuvers.

You know what followed after the election: mass killings of innocent Ethiopians and opposition supporters, mass jailing of supporters including opposition leaders (CUD). For almost the five years following the 2005 election, TPLF demonstrated that it can no longer entertain the slightest effort to accommodate opposition in the country. In effect, it was accusing and in logger heads with independent and international human rights organizations, media and public institutions that criticized its handling of human rights in Ethiopia.

In the subsequent years that followed, TPLF thugs and their supporters more openly advanced their argument that liberal democracy and multiparty politics are detrimental to the Ethiopian polity and were indicating that the best system for Ethiopia is Revolutionary Democracy led by one party. They were also openly advocating that what Ethiopians need is development not democracy, accusing western democracies of sabotaging Ethiopia’s “democratic” process.

The TPLF thugs have clearly demonstrated that they would not entertain any challenge from opposition groups and rights advocates by enacting the draconian NGO law and the “terrorism law”.

Even in the most recent interview that dictator Meles gave to local reporters, he preemptively indicated that opposition members who are complaining of mistreatment by TPLF will be tried by his kangaroo court and will be sent to jail after the “election”. Hooray, the verdict is already made on the opposition by the “Prime Minister” Meles, who is also the “supreme judge”. He said that they will only be tolerated now so that TPLF is not implicated as disrupting the “election”. In effect, Meles told us that he is holding an “election” just for the rhetoric and drama, not for the meaning and substance. So why should we go to vote for an already won “election”?

It is big time to say NO to sham election in Ethiopia!!!

Why Expect Accountability from TPLF Dictators?

There was a lot of hype over the last week of TPLF’s illicit use of aid money to buy arms in the mid 1980s, while it was fighting to overthrow the then military government in Ethiopia. Since that news many have stated that for Ethiopians this revelation by the BBC was not a surprise at all.

I would even go further to say, it would be absurd to expect transparency and accountability from TPLF, whose ideology is still deeply rooted in Albanian Socialism, had come to power by the power of the bullet and is still ruling by the power of the bullet.

To this day, the TPLF thugs are the best experts in diverting donor money for unintended purposes in all sectors of the Ethiopian polity. Humanitarian and development aid, and loan monies are still siphoned continuously to fill the pockets of the TPLF thugs and to buy arms to intimidate and silence the the wider Ethiopian people and members and supporters of the opposition parties. Not only they use leaked donor money to silence Ethiopians at home, but also to prevent legislators in far away countries from passing laws that are not in their favor by paying lobbyists a generous sum of dollars.

The TPLF thugs believe their only accountability is to the international donor community and they believe they can always deceive them by using numbers. Woyane thugs are experts in putting arbitrary numbers in reports to convince the gullible or careless international community. We Ethiopians know that any figure used in any of the statistical reports in any sector of Woyane’s Ethiopia do not reflect reality! They are just arbitrary figures!!

But, though it has come late, it is good as it had rocked the dictatorial TPLF regime by exposing its secret deeds to the international public and policy makers. It would be even much appropriate if BBC could report not only of the past, but also the current abuses of famine aid money by the TPLF for political purposes.

We Ethiopians do not expect accountability from the TPLF dictators. The only way to freedom in Ethiopia today is fighting the Woyane by all means and removing them from power!! In fact their days are numbered!!

Beware of a “Terrorist Bombing in Addis Ababa” my fellow Ethiopians!!

Woyane has always been using various tactics to blackmail the opposition within and outside of Ethiopia as terrorists to silence and intimidate opposition and to buy support from those who are always hallucinating about perceived attack from “terrorists” on their people and nations.

Although there is no real threat from the weakened opposition within Ethiopia to Woyane’s wiining of “election in 2010” that Woyane has been vangardly weakening since the 2005 election, Woyane has been lamenting about “terrorist attacks” directed at its leaders recently, and with the obejective of discrediting the 2010 elections in Ethiopia, and has jailed innocent Ethiopians in its dungeons.

For Woyane thugs, it is so easy to spill the blood of innocent civilians to just buy the support of countries that are overly reacting to the notion of perceived terrorism in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa Region. Preceding the 2005 Ethiopian election, Woyane has made similar threats and claimed of foiling such detonations of bombs in a cipiule of mass transit busses and trains operating in Ethiopia. But, given that the so called fake elections are approaching in Ethiopia, this time, Woyane will go as far as really detonating bombs, killing innocent Ethiopians traveling in city busses, where city buses are in operation, or inside busses traveling long distances on domestic long transport buses to make its stories of “terrorism” palatable to those who are blindly supporting it.

And I am sure, just to convince the gullible international community that there is a real threat from “terrorists”, Woyane will blast bombs on either public transportation facilities or inside hotels and places where members of the international community frequent in Addis Ababa or elsewhere in the country. For that matter, I remember stories of Woyane where an American was killed in a bombing of a taxi in Addis Ababa closer to the buildings of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs some years back.

I would thus advise my fellow Ethiopians and innocent members of the international community in Ethiopia to be vigilant of such sinister moves from the Woyane camp, and take all the necessary steps to protect themselves and not be the cannon fodders for Woyane’s agenda of staying in power indefinitely in Ethiopia.