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  Major Dawit W. Giorgis And Amhara – Kaleab Tessema

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By Kaleab Tessema

Dawit W Giorgis

I happened to listen to the speech of Major Dawit at Ethiopian National Unity Convention in Seattle, with great interest and attention. I found myself somehow sharing some of his ideas, in particular, the Amharas being reclusive and targeted by the TPLF and its cronies for the last 26 years.

 

Major Dawit is absolutely right when he says that the Amhara needs to be organized to defend itself. However, some people start to squeal like pigs unfairly against the Amhara, but when the Amharas are massively killed for no reason by the TPLF,  they stay silent. No ethnic group has been haunted and killed by the TPLF regime like the Amharas have been cruelly terrorized and slaughtered.

 

It is true, as Major Dawit has stated correctly that the Amharas are targeted by the TPLF, it is not because the Amharas are from Gondar, Gojam, Wello, and Shewa; it is merely because they are Amharas.

 

As it is known, the Woyanne-Tigre seized Addis Ababa, and immediately started aiding and abetting the OLF to slaughter pregnant women and children in Arbagugu and Bedeno, where the worst crimes in Ethiopian history were seen.

 

For that matter, Shabia did the same thing to the Amhara troops before this horrendous crime took place in Arbagugu and Bedeno. While Shabia was advancing to control Asmara, the Ethiopian armies already surrendered peacefully to the EPLF guerrillas.

 

The exact number of soldiers who surrendered was not known. The information disseminated from those who managed to escape the executions, and surprisingly, the Shabia selected only the higher ranking Amhara officers. This included many wounded soldiers to be brutally murdered, which is an unforgivable, unforgettable, and horrendous crime.

 

I am unsure if Major Dawit would agree with Shabia’s brutal murder of the Amhara soldiers in Asmara in the early 90s. If I recall correctly, Major Dawit and Isayas collaborated on an ad hoc basis to topple the Colonel Mengistu Hailemariam government. I also read an article written by Major Dawit, which stated that Isayas was in favor of a federation with Ethiopia. I heard the same rhetoric from different Ethiopians and I could not believe it.

 

Of course, Isayas could say anything to any Ethiopians who can fight for him with the TPLF in order to achieve his goals. Even his recent interview with the OLF folks was a gimmick and was perplexing, when he said that the ordinary Amharas are not responsible for what their leader did in the past. Funny enough, he continued by saying Ethiopia being a country for 3,000 years is a “myth.”  This is not a new decry, what Isayas was trying to say, but Isayas’ interview seemed to have a lack of candor.

 

If Isayas had any empathy for the Amhara, he would not have such a kind heart shooting the peacefully surrendered troops. It was crystal clear, both Shabia and Woyanne had the same stance against Amhara when they were close alliances, but now it is a different story. Anyway at this point, Isayas is not as nearly as dangerous to the Amharas as TPLF and its surrogates.

 

I know for sure that some folks will not be happy when I try to divulge what should be revealed about the Amhara’s soldiers ordeal in Eritrea. However, it is a reality.

 

Leaving this aside, I was enthralled with Major Dawit’s encouraging speech about the unfairness of some people when the Amharas come together to defend itself from the extremists. However, I was perturbed by the allegation made by Major Dawit about Moresh Wegene saying that “the Oromos are not Ethiopians, they emigrated to Ethiopia from Madagascar.”

 

I thoroughly spent countless hours on the internet to find out the veracity of what Major has said, and I found no documents that support Major Dawit’s speech about Moresh Wegenie.

 

Beside my efforts, I read a rejoinder from Moresh Wegene to Major Dawit’s inaccurate speech which inquired to produce evidence. If it was an unintentional speech, it needs an apology.

 

I was a little bemused when Major Dawit spoke publicly about Moresh which is not on the surface, unless to pleased the TPLF and the OLF.  I have been following the chairman of the Moresh Wegenie speeches, which strongly condemns the TPLF and the OLF deliberately killing the Amharas. The chairman always speaks about the Amhara’s contribution to the Ethiopian history.

 

To that extent, Moresh Wegene has tirelessly been vocal for the Amharas indiscriminately killing by the TPLF regime for no apparent reasons, and there is no doubt that the TPLF’s and the OLF’s diabolical action to the Amharas was not covert for Major Dawit. It is very strange why Major Dawit chooses to accuse Moresh Wegene of being against Oromos; if Major Dawit wants the Amharas and the Oromos to come together, he would have done his speech in a circumspect manner.

 

I also read some articles of Major Dawit, which were insightful with measured approach, but compared to his recent speech about Moresh seemed a vindictive and personalized speech that degrades his credibility.

 

As I mentioned above, I agree with Major Dawit’s partial speech that he touched the indispensable issue about the Amhara’s participation in any political party or organization is vital and effective. The same thing is true that, not only the Amhara, its land is geographically and politically strategic. Otherwise, it would be a daunting task for any political party who excludes the Amhara.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Theresa May must act over British Father on Ethiopian death row for 3 years today

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Actress Joanne MacInnes, Yemi Hailemariam and Andy’s brother Bezuneh Tsege handing in the letter at Downing Street.

Andargachew Tsige

Today marks three years since British Father Andy Tsege was first illegally kidnapped from an international airport and rendered to Ethiopia’s death row. Andy’s partner, Yemi Hailemariam, has written to the Prime Minister asking her to negotiate his return home to her and their three children Helawit (17) Yilak and Menabe (both 10) in London.

The children haven’t spoken to their father since December 2014, six months after he was abducted on 23rd June 2014. Andy is a democracy activist and political opponent of Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and was convicted of trumped-up charges in his absence in 2009 while living in London with his family.

In her letter, Yemi writes about their children, saying “I am still at a loss about how to explain to them why their dad can’t come home. How can I tell them that their own country, their own Prime Minister has not called for his return? Instead of fighting the Ethiopian government on this together with you, I am still stuck fighting for the UK government to do the right thing.”

Yemi, who stood against Theresa May in her Maidenhead constituency during the recent general election in order to bring Andy’s case to her attention, also asks the Prime Minister to meet with her so she can explain Andy’s desperate situation.

Commenting, Maya Foa, Director of Reprieve, said

“Theresa May needs show she has the strength to stand up to the Ethiopian Prime Minister and negotiate Andy’s return home to his family. Three years is already too long for Helawit, Yilak and Menabe to have been without their father. There is no excuse for the Prime Minister abandoning one of her citizens. At the very least she owes Yemi an hour of her time to explain why there has been no progress in Andy’s case and what she intends to do about it.”

Source: Reprive.com

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Ethiopia may have grown but Kenyans are better off

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By Dominic Omondi | Updated Sat, June 24th 2017

As the world woke up to news that Ethiopia had overtaken Kenya to become Eastern Africa’s largest economy, a number of conflicting developments were also taking place in Addis Ababa. An article carried by the Weekend Business on June 11, 2017 showed that Ethiopia’s economy had outpaced Kenya’s to become the largest economy in Eastern Africa.

This was happening at a time Ethiopia when was finding it difficult to adequately feed its population. The United Nations has noted that about 7.8 million Ethiopians who had been receiving food aid are in danger of sliding into hunger with relief food expected to run out next month.

It was an embarrassing indictment of a country that had just achieved seminal economic success. Even as millions went without food, Ethiopia, which was the first to launch an electric cross-border railway line in Africa, continued with its signature growth of investing in eye-popping projects, achieving yet another first. It introduced the first smart parking system at a cost of $2.2 million (Sh220 million).

Meanwhile, analysts say Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn’s administration does not want to admit that things are going wrong.  “There is the making of a real potential disaster here … because the government will simply not acknowledge the number of people who need help,” an aid worker told the Financial Times.

Living standards for Ethiopians continue to trail those of Kenyans, with the latter enjoying a higher per capita income. Ethiopia, with one of the fastest economic growths in the world, is also, ironically, one of the poorest countries. According to the World Bank, Ethiopia’s per capita income of $619 (Sh63,757) is lower than the regional average. Kenya’s per capita at $1,376 (Sh141,728) is more than twice that of Ethiopia.

We should not worry over our GDP being overtaken, let us focus on living standards,” said XN Iraki, a lecturer at the University of Nairobi. There have been claims that Ethiopia’s fast gross domestic product (GDP) growth is masking the ugly reality of poverty in the country. GDP is monetary value of all the finished goods and services produced within a country’s borders in a specific period, usually a year.

Although GDP remains the main measure of a country’s well-being, it has its faults. “But there’s a big, elephant-like problem with that: GDP only accounts for a country’s economic performance, not the happiness or well-being of its citizens. With GDP, if your richest 100 people get richer, your GDP rises, but most of your citizens are just as badly off as they were before,” said Micheal Green, the man who invented the social progress index which tries to go beyond the use of GDP to measure a country’s well-being. The index looks at three factors: Basic human needs including nutrition, water and sanitation, shelter and personal safety; foundations of well-being including access to basic knowledge, information and communication, environmental quality, and; opportunity which includes personal rights, freedom and choice, tolerance and inclusion and access to advanced education. Although Kenya (99th) and Ethiopia (126th) are both ranked low in the Social Progress Index 2016, Kenya outshines Ethiopia in all of the three measures of basic human needs, foundations of well-being and opportunity.

Relative to the country with similar per capita income, Ethiopia is doing badly in undernourishment, depth of food deficit, upper secondary school enrollment and rural access to improved water, and basic freedoms such as of speech and movement.

The country also has low mobile subscriptions and press freedom is constrained. No wonder, even as news came out that Ethiopia had overtaken Kenya to become the largest economy in the region, a lot of Ethiopians did not get the news as the government had blocked all access to Internet as students sat for their national exams. Kenya, on the other hand, is doing well in most of these areas relative to countries with the same per capita income. It has high performance compared to countries in the same income band in areas such as access to basic knowledge, lower secondary school enrollment, internet use and life expectancy. The country is also doing well in electricity supply, outdoor air pollution, waste-water treatment, access to advanced education and contraception. Notably, Kenya is doing badly in areas of corruption, access to electricity (not to be confused with access to ‘quality’ electricity), violent crime, perceived criminality, political terror and traffic deaths. Another way of looking at the well-being of a people of a country is through the United Nation’s Human Development Index which “focuses on the richness of human lives rather than on the richness of economies,” according to the 2016 report. Human development emphasises such values as self-determination, decent standard of living, human rights, access to knowledge, good health, dignity and non-discrimination, which the report thinks are universal. On this front, again, Kenya ranks ahead of Ethiopia. It is ranked in position 146 while Ethiopia is ranked 174. Kenya might have better living standards than those of its neighbour, but that does not mean Kenyans should rest on their laurels. Ethiopia’s fast-paced economic growth has not been vain. The high and consistent economic growth has seen the share of people living in poverty decline by 33 per cent from 44 per cent in 2000 to 30 per cent in 2011, according to a 2015 World Bank report.

Dr Martyn Davies, Managing Director of Emerging Markets & Africa at Deloitte Africa, notes that Ethiopia’s stellar growth will soon be felt widely in Ethiopia. “The magic growth number is ‘seven per cent’ because at this rate, GDP doubles every 10 years,” he said. “Of course, Kenya has a far stronger business sector but is losing out to Ethiopia in attracting foreign direct investment and, in particular, into the value-adding manufacturing sector. Ethiopia has created an ‘effective state’ which is able to drive growth,” said Davies. “Kenya’s challenge is to restructure and reduce the cost of its public sector bureaucracy and increase efficiency.”

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The walled city of Harar in eastern Ethiopia

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Harar, Ethiopia- With 368 alleys squeezed into just one sq km, the old walled city of Harar in eastern Ethiopia is a colourful maze that begs exploration. Its thick, five-metre-high walls were erected in the 16th century as a defensive response to the neighbouring Christian Ethiopian Empire, but today Muslims and Christians share the city in peace.

Harar grew into a crossroads for commerce between Africa, India and the Middle East and was a gateway for the spread of Islam into the Horn of Africa.

With its 110 mosques and 102 shrines, Harar is often referred to as the fourth-holiest city in Islam and known in Arabic as Madeenat-ul-Awliya (the City of Saints). Before the holy month of Ramadan, locals repaint the walls of the old town in vibrant colours.

As the sun sets, the streets of Africa’s Mecca come to life as locals break their fast, meet neighbours to chew khat and practise the rhythmic zikri ritual among the Sufi shrines.

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‘We are Ethiopians’: Prince Ermias Sahle-Selassie Haile-Selassie


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ኢሳት (ሰኔ 19 ፥ 2009)
በአዲ አበባ ታላቁ አንዋር መስጊድና በሌሎች የኢትዮጵያ አካባቢዎች የተከበረው የኢድ አልፈጥር በአል ኢትዮጵያውያን በከፍተኛ ቁጥር በተገኙበት ዩ ኤስ አሜሪካ በተለይም በዋሽንግተን ዲሲ በደማቅ ስነ-ስርዓት መከበሩን ዜናው ያስረዳል።
የፈርስት ሂጂራ ፋውንዴሽን ኢማም ሼህ ካሊድ ኡመር እና የፋውንዴሽኑ ፕሬዝዳንት ሃጂነጂብ መሃመድ በተገኙበት በዋሽንግተን ዲሲ አቅራቢያ ቨርጂኒያ ግዛት በተከበረው የኢድ አልፈጥር በአል ሙስሊሙ ማህበረሰብ በብዛት መገኘቱም ታውቋል።
በከፍተኛ ሃይማኖታዊ ስርአት በአሉ መከበሩና ሃይማኖታዊ እንዲሁም ሃገራዊ መልዕክቶች መተላለፋቸውም ታውቋል።

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.Ethiopian Muslims celebrate Eid-al Fitr

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Muslims gather to perform Eid al-Fitr prayer at areas surrounding the Addis Ababa Stadium on June 25, 2017 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Eid al-Fitr is a religious holiday celebrated by Muslims around the world that marks the end of Ramadan, Islamic holy month of fasting. ( Minasse Wondimu Hailu – Anadolu Agency )

By Addis Getachew

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia

Tens of millions of Ethiopian Muslims on Sunday celebrated Eid-al Fitr marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan.

In the capital Addis Ababa huge crowds arrived at and around the Addis Ababa stadium for Eid prayers early in the morning.

Addis Ababa Islamic Affairs President Sheikh Muhammed Nur Sheikh Ahmed Shafi, Ethiopian Islamic Affairs Supreme Council President Hajj Mohammed Amin Jemal and high officials of the city administration joined the joyous crowd.

Speaking on the occasion Sheikh Mohammed said “our country Ethiopia is characterized by religious plurality and the people live in harmony for ages. “

“Muslims in the country should stand vigilant against extremist elements,” he said.

For his part Hajj Mohammed said the month of Ramadan was marked by intense prayers, compassion, and generosity which will remain the mark of Islam.

City Mayor Diriba Kuma said religious freedom has been guaranteed in Ethiopian federal constitution.

“Indeed religious co-existence has been an age old tradition,” he said.

Ethiopia which has the second most populous muslim community in Sub-Saharan Africa had hosted the companions of Prophet Mohammed who fled persecution at the hands of the Quraish in the 4th century.

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The Cruel Political Jokes of the T-TPLF in Ethiopia – Alemayehu G. Mariam

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by: Alemayehu G. Mariam

“No Political Prisoners in Ethiopia” and “Negotiating With the Opposition”

The Voice of America (Amharic) last week reported “16 Ethiopian opposition political parties agreed to discuss the anti-terrorism and other proclamations and 13 other agenda points including communications, press and charities and civic organizations” with the ruling regime in Ethiopia. However, the Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) “made it clear” the issue of political prisoners is off the table because there “there are no political prisoners in Ethiopia”.

Shiferaw Shigute, T-TPLF apparatchik and negotiator with “opposition parties” (the  infamous ethnic cleanser of tens of thousands of  “ethnic Amharas” from the Guraferda district of the Bench Maji Zone in Southern Ethiopia (see my April 2012 commentary “Green Justice or Ethnic Injustice?”) declared:

Regarding political prisoners, the big pillar of democracy is the supremacy of the rule of law. If there are political leaders who have been jailed on an individual basis, it is because they have violated the law.  For instance, participating in a terrorist activity, encouraging terrorism, aiding and abetting in terrorism, is a mistake, prohibited and subject to penalty. A political leader must first respect the law, and if the law needs to be changed, then work to change the law but not act in disregard of the law and claim to be a political prisoner. The person is then a prisoner of the law and not a political prisoner. Just because the person is a political leader, a journalist or something else, no one is above the law, all of us are under the law. That’s is why we have no political prisoners in Ethiopia.

TPLF officials of the Ethiopian regime

The political prison guards

The mantra of “no political prisoners in Ethiopia” has been chanted by T-TPLF leaders since at least 2007. In February of that year, the late thugmaster Meles Zenawi declared in a Financial Times interview, “Nobody has been imprisoned in Ethiopia for criticising the government. No one.

In 2007, in a memo sent to members of Congress, T-TPLF lobbyist DLA Piper “argued the terms ‘political prisoners’ and ‘prisoners of conscience’ are undefined and mischaracterize the situation in Ethiopia’ and should be removed from a bill that condemned the Ethiopian regime for detaining opposition activists.” I had an opportunity to engage DLA Piper in a lengthy letter challenging the public relations narrative and lobbying advocacy on the non-existence of political prisoners in Ethiopia and other issues.In December 2006, Zenawi explained that the opposition leaders he jailed were engaged in “overthrowing the duly constituted government by unconstitutional means” and “pushing the country towards chaos”. By jailing them, Zenawi said he was upholding the “rule of law [which] is the basis for any democracy. And without the rule of law in democracy, you have chaos. And we had to enforce the rule of law. And they have had their day in court. That is as it should be. There are no regrets here.”

In 2012, T-TPLF Puppet Prime Minster (PPM) Hailemariam Desalegn in an Al Jazeera interview said (forward clip to 7:53):

There are no political opposition that are languishing in prison, number one. And there are no other, you know, political activists that are languishing in place. We are very clear in our mind and in our policy that anyone who trespasses the law of the land, whether he is a politician or is in government is under the law, below the rule of law. So the rule of law has to work in the country…

In July 2013, Getachew Reda, T-TPLF mouthpiece, similarly declared:

We don’t have any single political prisoner in the country.We do have, like any other country, people who were convicted of crimes including terrorism who are currently serving their sentence. They would only be freed when either they complete their sentence or probation on good behavior. We are not going to do release anyone just because some European Union members said so.

The T-TPLF party line is simply all prisoners in Ethiopia are street criminals or terrorists.

The T-TPLF disinformation campaign on the non-existence of political prisoners is not only a brazen denial of the plain truth, but also idiotic and ludicrous. It is a witless campaign based on the Gobbelian propaganda precept that if you repeat a big lie often enough to the public, it will eventually become a public truth.

What is fascinating to me is the T-TPLF leaders’ Orwellian newspeak and doublespeak about the rule of law and political prisoners.

Orwell wrote in “1984”,  “The key-word here is blackwhite. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts.” It also means “telling deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed….”

The key-word with the T-TPLF is liestruth.  Applied to T-TPLF’s opponents in “1984 Ethiopia”, it means the habit of impudently claiming lies are truth, political prisoners are ordinary street criminals in contradiction of the plain facts. It is about ignoring an inconvenient truth. Thus, dictatorship is democracy. War is peace. Corruption is integrity. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. State terrorism is rule of law. State of emergency is state of peace.

What a cruel joke!

T-TPLF leaders speak reverentially about the rule of law and how their laws are exemplars of the ultimate expression of that principle.

As I discussed this issue in my April 2012 commentary, “The Rule of Law in Ethiopia’s Democratic Transition”, the T-TPLF leaders claim rule by diktat is rule of law. They scribble down their diktats (arbitrary decrees issued by command of the dictator), ram them through their rubber stamp parliament and try to palm them off as “laws” (legislation enacted by a legitimately elected body engaged in deliberative process). They  use their diktats to play policeman, prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner.

Under rule by diktat, the T-TPLF uses the “law” as a bludgeon — a sledgehammer — to vanquish their opposition.

There is no better example of this distorted and warped notion of the “rule of law” than the so-called anti-terrorism proclamation of the T-TPLF. In February 2012, Zenawi offered the following mind-boggling and mindless explanation to his rubber stamp parliament to give moral legitimacy and legal respectability to his anti-terrorism law :

In drafting our anti-terrorism law, we copied word-for-word the very best anti-terrorism laws in the world. We took from America, England and the European model anti-terrorism laws. It is from these three sources that we have drafted our anti-terrorism law. From these, we have chosen the better ones.  For instance, in all of these laws, an organization is deemed to be terrorist by the executive branch. We improved it by saying it is not good for the executive to make that determination. We took the definition of terrorism word-by-word. Not one word was changed. Not even a comma. It is taken word-by-word. There is a reason why we took it word-by-word. First, these people have experience in democratic governance. Because they have experience, there is no shame  if we learn or take from them. Learning from a good teacher is useful not harmful. Nothing embarrassing about it. The [anti-terrorism] proclamation in every respect is flawless. It is better than the best anti-terrorism laws [in the world] but not less than any one of them in any way…

For the T-TPLF, cutting and pasting words and phrases from the laws of other countries is what makes the rule of law.

I cringed in total embarrassment when I heard Zenawi proclaiming with pride his shameless plagiarism of American and British anti-terrorism laws “word-by-word” without changing “not even a comma”.

Such stunningly abysmal ignorance and shallow understanding of jurisprudence (and economics and politics and culture…) and glib talk about the rule of law is the hallmark of the T-TPLF. But that is how the T-TPLF rolls, copy and paste, imitate and impersonate, duplicate and replicate and plain old monkey see, monkey do.

The logic of Zenawi’s  argument is that America and Britain are democratic countries with a high degree of adherence to the rule of law principle; and they have anti-terrorism laws that are the “best” in the world. Since the T-TPLF has “copied word for word” their laws, it must necessarily mean they have the ultimate rule of law.

At the time, I tried to educate Zenawi with a metaphor of sorts. One cannot create a lion by piecing together the sturdy long neck of the giraffe with the strong  jaws of a hyena, the fast limbs of the cheetah and the massive trunk of the elephant. The king of the jungle is an altogether different beast. In the same vein, one cannot clone pieces of anti-terrorism laws from everywhere onto a diktat and sanctify it as “the rule of law”. For years, I have been saying that preaching the rule of law to the T-TPLF is like preaching Scripture to a gathering of Heathen or pouring water over a slab of granite.

The fact of the matter is that the T-TPLF is inherently incapable of functioning under the rule of law because they understand and practice only the rule of the bush/jungle.  In Kipling’s verse: “NOW this is the law of the jungle–,/ as old and as true as the sky;/ And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, / but the wolf that shall break it must die./As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk,/ the law runneth forward and back;/ For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack…

Such are the ways of the T-TPLF wolf pack !

John Dugard in his book “Human Rights and the South African Legal Order” (1978, p. 136), perfectly summarized the use of the “law” to maintain a vast system of repression: “Although designed to combat terrorism, the Terrorism Act [of 1967] has itself become an instrument of terror and a symbol of repression.” Such indeed is the T-TPLF’s Proclamation No. 652/2009 of 2009 (Anti-Terrorism Proclamation). (See my May 2016 commentary, The “Law” as State Terrorism in Apartheid Ethiopia.)

As for the existence of political prisoners, there are hundreds of thousands of them in Ethiopia today; and the T-TPLF has filled the prisons since the day they swarmed the capital in May 1991.

In November 2016, the T-TPLF itself announced the “arrest of 11,607 people, including 347 women.” Zadig Abraha, T-TPLF spokesman, said,“[The detainees] have been given lots of trainings that were meant to give them lessons so that they won’t be part of the destructive trend that we have seen in the past.” The 11,607 people, including 347 women are simpley street criminals according to the T-TPLF.

A partial list of T-TPLF political prisoners and torture victims serving long prison  sentences handed down by T-TPLF kangaroo (monkey) courts is available HERE.

In May 2017, the European Parliament issued a resolution demanding release of political prisoners in Ethiopia.

“Afterthought”: While we are on the subject of the rule of law, why is it that the T-TPLF leaders have failed to investigate and prosecute the “security officers” and all of the leaders who authorized the massacre of nearly 800 innocent protesters following the 2005 election?

Why has the T-TPLF  failed to investigate and prosecute  “security officers” and all of the leaders who authorized the Irrecha massacre which resulted in the massacre of over 500 peaceful religious celebrants in October 2016?

Why has the T-TPLF refused ALL requests for investigations of human rights violations by the U.N. Human Rights Council?

Discussions (negotiation) with 16 opposition parties

The VOA (Amharic) reported “16 Ethiopian opposition political parties agreed to discuss the anti-terrorism and other proclamations and 13 other agenda points including communications, press and charities and civic organizations”.

Another T-TPLF newspeak and doublethink? A cruel joke indeed.

According to the “National Electoral Board of Ethiopia”, there are 79 political parties in the country, including the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Party (EPRDF), the front organization, for the T-TPLF.

Seventy-eight of the seventy-nine are ghost make-believe political parties. They exist in name only. They are licensed and regulated by the T-TPLF. The T-TPLF maintains agent provocateurs to spy, divide and disrupt opposition parties. The T-TPLF funds and even distributes U.S. and other aid money to “opposition parties” that support it. T-TPLF poaches members from opposition parties by giving out fertilizer and other agricultural services, food relief, jobs, university admissions  and other benefits.

The real opposition leaders are arrested on trumped up  terrorism charges and languish in official and secret T-TPLF prisons without due process of law for years. All of them are prosecuted and handed long sentences in T-TPLF  kangaroo (monkey) courts.

Ethiopia is a one-party dictatorship controlled by a secretive cabal of ruthless thugs.

In May 2010, the T-TPLF “won” only 99.6 percent of the seats in “parliament”.

In May 2015, the T-TPLF bested its 2010 record by “winning” 100% of the seats in “parliament”.

In 2008, according to the U.S. Human Rights Report, “In simultaneous elections for regional parliaments, the EPRDF and its affiliates won 1,903 of 1,904 seats. In local and by-elections held in 2008, the EPRDF and its affiliates won all but four of 3.4 million contested seats.

For the last nine years, the T-TPLF has been “winning” elections by virtually 100 percent, and in 2017 shamelessly claims to be negotiating with “opposition parties”.

What a cruel joke!

What “opposition parties” are in discussions with the T-TPLF? Opposition parties and leaders the T-TPLF has created in its own image? Opposition leaders the T-TPLF bought and sold ten times over? Opposition leaders who do not oppose the T-TPLF? Self-appointed opposition leaders who want to get along with the T-TPLF and line their pockets with thirty pieces of silver?

The T-TPLF has its opposition stooges babbling, “We believe that disagreements could easily be resolved through discussion and negotiation.”

The T-TPLF wants to “discuss/negotiate” issues with “opposition parties” after ramming through their so-called state of emergency decree and holding tens of thousands of innocent citizens in their jails.

Are the “opposition parties” the T-TPLF speaks of part of the T-TPLF newspeak/doublethink?

The T-TPLF has decimated all genuine opposition political parties, jailed their leaders and members and put the rest out into exile. Now it is in negotiations with make-believe” opposition parties”?

What a cruel joke!

The European Parliament in its May 2017 resolution noted, “the negotiation between the government and the opposition lacks credibility since opposition groups have been systematically decimated since 2010, leaving few truly independent voices left to negotiate with; whereas most political parties who are genuinely representative of broad communities have their senior members in prison on politically motivated charges.”

Mandela said, “Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.” Only on Planet T-TPLF can prisoners negotiate and enter into contracts with their captors.

In a democracy the people make jokes on their politicians. In a dictatorship, thugtators play cruel jokes on the people.

A cruel joke is an inside joke a group of people play on a person they hate for their own amusement.

The Thugtatorship of the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (T-TPLF) has been playing a cruel joke on the Ethiopian people since 1991.

 

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ISIS jihadi blows up OWN LEADERS after fighter blows himself up in Mosul

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SLAMIC State (ISIS) commanders have been wiped out in a suicide bomb attack by one of their own terrorists.

By REBECCA PERRING/ Express

ISIS are said to be losing ground in Mosul

The jihadi detonated explosives at a meeting in ISIS-controlled Qaim district in Mosul, Iraq, killing a number of leaders and himself.

It comes as bloodthirsty militants lose ground in their stronghold in Iraq, with their reign of terror confined to an area of about 1km square in Mosul.

Lieutenant Colonel Salam al-Obeidi believes only “a few hundred Daesh fighters” are left in the Old City.

Noori Al-Kabeer mosque in MosulEPA

Noori Al-Kabeer mosque in Mosul

Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed al-Tamim added: “Daesh members don’t turn themselves in.“And if they don’t get killed, their last option is to blow themselves up and commit suicide.”

Iraqi’s prime minister Haider al-Abadi last week declared ISIS had admitted defeat by blowing up a mosque at the heart of its savage regime.

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Mosul used to be an ISIS stronghold

Russian warships launch missile strike on ISIS targets

The Iraqi PM said ISIS have admitted defeat in Mosul
The Grand al-Nuri Mosque of Mosul, where ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared the so-called Islamic State “caliphate”, was destroyed by desperate jihadis after Iraqi forces made significant advances on the terror group’s stronghold.Prime minister al-Abadi said the last-ditch move was a sign the extremists had admitted defeat.

The fall of Mosul, ISIS’s defacto capital, would effectively mark the end of terror group’s control in Iraq

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The Gulf crisis and the spiral in anti-Qatar’s hypocrisy

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 Zecharias Zelalem, Special to Addis Standard

Addis Abeba, June 27/2017 – Although some experts say there was bound to be a head on collision within the Gulf States sometime in the not too distant future, the speed in which the recent diplomatic crisis unfolded has caught many off guard. It began on June 05 when Saudi Arabia, with the backing of Egypt, Bahrain and the UAE, abruptly severed diplomatic ties with Qatar accusing it of sponsoring terrorism and destabilizing the Gulf region.  Although the Gulf States have in the past frequently found themselves at odds for one reason or another, it was clear from the get go that the recent crisis was no ordinary spat amongst cousins.

Qatar, which over the past several years worked so hard to solidify itself as a regional peacemaker and a diplomatic channel for disenfranchised states such as Eritrea, has all of a sudden seen its hard work trashed in a matter of hours. Everything, from allegations of supporting Israel and Iran, to accusations of funding terrorist organizations, has seen Doha scramble to defend its reputation. It happened fast, so fast that Qatari officials who retired for the night as honored dignitaries on June 04 woke up the next morning and found themselves surrounded by their once friendly neighbors turned snarling wolves gnashing their teeth at them.

Not as spontaneous as it looks

For those who closely follow political events in the Gulf States, it is quite evident that this was no spontaneous outbreak of rage.

First, let’s dissect the official explanation given by Riyadh. Qatar’s alleged funding for “terrorist organizations.” This long standing allegation has stirred up strife and civil war in several conflict hotspots, meriting the globe’s condemnation against Qatar for the sake of the peace seeking people of the Middle East, Asia and Africa. With most mainstream media outlets hesitating to go into detail with what is referred to as “terrorism,” the Saudis seem successful in dominating the narrative that Qatar is the main financial backer of what is arguably the most influential terrorist group, Daesh (aka ISIS).

A good deal of the outrage against Qatar among social media users in the west is born of the assumption that evidence linking Qatar to the Raqqa based “caliphate” was recently unearthed, triggering the standoff.  But this isn’t true. Qatari state funding of Daesh is as of yet unverified by independent sources and cannot be taken as fact. Despite rumors of wealthy Qataris openly funneling money to the group and facing no repercussions for it at home, no high level diplomat has produced an evidence beyond a reasonable doubt implicating Qatar’s attempt of directly aiding Daesh financially or militarily.

 Hamas: Much ado about nothing   

At a press conference in Paris, Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir added a further demand for Qatar, this time, to end all support for the “extremist groups undermining the Palestinian Authority and Egypt,” namely Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, speaks during a joint new conference with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, at Riyadh Air Base in Saudi Arabia, Thursday, May 7, 2015. Kerry sought to secure a pause in Yemen's war after he arrived to Saudi Arabia to meet with the king and other top officials, citing increased shortages of food, fuel and medicine that are adding to a crisis that already has neighboring countries bracing for a mass exodus of refugees. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

                      Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir    (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

However, Qatar’s alleged support of the likes of Hamas can by no means be what triggered the recent Gulf crisis. For starters, Qatar made no secret of its official recognition of Hamas for years. The militant group’s leader Khaled Meshal recently choose Doha to announce Hamas’s new political charter. Several high ranking Hamas officials have also met with Qatari diplomats and leaders, including the former Emir Hamad bin Khalifa.

Hamas Khaled Meshaal

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal announced a new policy document in Doha, Qatar, on May 1, 2017. Photo: Reuters

This well known liaison between Qatar and Hamas was by no means a new phenomenon. Nor is Qatar the sole provider of funds and resources for Hamas and/or its military wing. In fact, it the beginning of the 2000s, Saudi Arabia, not Qatar, was widely known to have been the principal financier of Hamas. Hamas’s claims to adhere to Sunni Islam virtues meant that Riyadh sought to bring them under their wing and away from the influence of Iran, which, despite being a majority Shia Muslim nation, also sought to support Hamas.

According to American research group Stratfor, Saudi’s support for Hamas diminished in the wake of the latter’s act of taking open responsibility for the campaign of terror waged against Israel as a part of the “Second Intifada” conflict of the 2000s. Under pressure from the likes of the United States, Riyadh began scaling back their support of Hamas. Nevertheless, Hamas continued to enjoy support from several other wealthy donors and governments from Kuwait to Jordan, Syria and Iran as well as Qatar and Saudi Arabia. It would be quite difficult to name a single Arab or majority Muslim country in the region that hasn’t at one point or another, offered support to Hamas.

The Saudi Foreign Minister’s reference of Hamas as “terrorists” in the wake of the latest Gulf crisis therefore holds no water. Supporting Hamas is hardly a lone Qatari initiative, nor was it ever openly referred to as a “terrorist” organization by most leaders in the Gulf States.

Muslim Brotherhood charge bogus in nature

As for accusing Qatar of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, it is not, once again, a new phenomenon that the Egyptian based Muslim Brotherhood enjoys recognition and support by the state of Qatar, which has chosen to shelter many of its members in the wake of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s crackdown against the organization since 2014.

Although have hesitated to do the same as Qatar in supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s  efforts to get a universal support in having the group designated as a terrorist organization haven’t bore fruition for the most part. As such, the Muslim Brotherhood has only been declared a terrorist organization by the governments of Bahrain, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria and the UAE. To Egypt’s continued disdain, the exiled members of the Muslim Brotherhood operate a website based in London and even have a certified Twitter page, much to the chagrin of hordes of Egyptian Twitter users. Partly owing to its 2012 ascendance to power through free elections, global condemnation against the Muslim Brotherhood will probably be extremely slow to come by, too.

Qatar’s funding of the Muslim Brotherhood is not therefore the collective reason that led the Saudi camp to cut diplomatic ties and implement a blockade against Qatar; but they all have their own different reasons and none of them involve “regional destabilization.”

Egypt’s grudge against Qatar goes back to 2013

Most media outlets were quick to point fingers at President Donald Trump’s recent trip to the Middle East and his meetings with a host of leaders as the key trigger of the current Gulf crisis. For instance, Germany’s Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel referred to the diplomatic buildup against Qatar as a “Trumpification of the Qatar-GCC dispute”.  Indeed President Trump assumes his own share of responsibility for creating the tension and fostering division amongst the traditionally allied Gulf States.

Germany’s Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel

Germany’s Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel believes“Trumpification” is at play. Photo: Press TV

But what should not ignored is the fact that long before June 05, Egypt had maintained a firm anti-Qatar stance, stemming from Qatar’s official disapproval of the 2013 overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood party leader Mohammed Morsi from his position as Egypt’s President. Egypt has also blocked broadcasts of Al Jazeera from the country since August of 2013, accusing it of bias and defamation.  Although both Egypt and Qatar form part of the Saudi led anti Houthi coalition of the war in Yemen, and both are major co-financiers of oil pipelines in the Red Sea, President Al-Sisi has long been working to turn the region against Qatar .

Al-Sisi vs Trump: A friendship with benefits

Egypt may have played the most crucial role in executing the hostilities against Qatar by obtaining the support of the United States. Al-Sisi and Trump have a well established friendship that goes beyond the normal state protocol. Trump had had a sit down with Al-Sisi in New York already in September 2016. The Trump campaign released a communiqué at the time in which candidate Trump made promises that “under a Trump Administration, the United States of America will be a loyal friend, not simply an ally that Egypt can count on in days and years ahead”. Trump’s America may have just made good on that promise. President Trump has also expressed his personal admiration for his Egyptian counterpart. “I have been close to him since the first time we met. We agree on so many things. This has been the perfect opportunity President Al-Sisi this has been waiting for.

 But the US has no reason to go after Qatar

Few days after Qatar’s diplomatic crisis, Trump told journalists that “the nation of Qatar, unfortunately, has historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level”. When one considers the fact that candidate Trump had never publicly admonished Qatar throughout his campaign, which was fraught with pledges to get rid of terrorist organizations, this statement comes as rather a surprise. Bear in mind that Qatar was also not among the seven mainly Muslim countries included in president Trump’s infamous travel ban, popularly named as “Muslim ban.” To make matters more complicated Qatar was an active participant in the war against the Houthis in Yemen, a position endorsed by the United States. It also hosts USCENTCOM, a US military base, going a step farther than many countries in the region when it comes to accommodating America’s foreign policy manoeuvring. The Al Udeid Air Base in the country is still jointly operated by Qatar and the US as part of the larger effort to combat terrorism.

This fact strengthens explanations that president Al-Sisi has effectively twisted president Trump to submit to his will regarding Qatar. But unlike president Al-Sisi, Uncle Sam has no plausible excuse for going after Qatar. President Al-Sisi is may be in for a further disappointment because the US is less likely inclined to name the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organisation; far less likely to take actions against its members based in America. To this end, exactly what the US expects to get in return for aligning itself with Egypt in the Qatar’s diplomatic crisis is not clear.

 Seething sectarian Saudis seek Shia solution

This brings us back to Saudi Arabia. It is not hard to realize that Qatar’s rapprochements with Iran, fake news or not, only served to intensify suspicions that Qatar doesn’t maintain the same anti-Shia Muslim stance that the royalty in Riyadh strongly adhere to. Qatar had initially provoked the ire of Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the January 2016 storming of Saudi embassy offices in Iran. The main embassy in Tehran was among those attacked by mobs protesting the Saudi government’s execution of a Saudi Shia Sheikh Nimr Baqir Al-Nimr. The offices were ransacked and set ablaze by hundreds of angry Iranian demonstrators. There weren’t any casualties as no staff or embassy personnel were present. But the incident left a sour taste in the mouths of Saudi Arabia. A day later, Foreign Minister Al-Jubeir announced that his country was severing all ties with Iran and gave Tehran 48 hours to evacuate all of its diplomats from the Kingdom. Saudi Arabia and Iran have always been at odds due to the Sunni-Shia divide. For far too long, Saudi Arabia sought to politically isolate Iran much like the way it is doing to Qatar today. They called on all their allies to cut ties with Tehran. The likes of Bahrain did so promptly while African nations Somalia, Sudan and Djibouti soon followed suit. But in the aftermath of the embassy blaze, there was one nation that refrained from totally cutting Iran off: Qatar.

Although Qatar had temporarily recalled its ambassador from Tehran and condemned the defiling of the sanctity of an international embassy by Iranian rioters, it was among the last to issue a statement condemning Iran, which didn’t go unnoticed in Riyadh. Qatar’s envoy to Iran eventually returned and all appeared to return to normal again between the two, further irking the house of Saud [19]. Qatar’s reluctance to support a decisive action against Iran appears to have been taken as lack of will to actively participate in diminishing Shia influence in the region, which is Saudi Arabia’s central demand from all its allies.

 Hacking, “Fake News” and all

With tension building up throughout most of 2016, the hacking on May 23 of the Qatar News Agency and a subsequent release of a news that Qatar firmly asserted was “fake news” is now seen as the last straw that broke the camel’s back. Among other stories, the news item allegedly quoted Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani as saying Iran was an “Islamic power.” Expressing open admiration for Iran puts one in the crosshairs of Riyadh. Qatar, already under scrutiny for its decision to maintain its consular services in Tehran, was presented as having crossed the red line. The Saudis, who by this stage must have already confided their intentions with Egypt to take decisive action against Qatar, knew there would be no turning back now.

Hackerson May 23,  Qatar’s News Agency was targeted Russian hackers, according to the FBI 

Although the FBI sent a team of investigators to Qatar and it is now widely believed that the Qatar News Agency had been hacked by Russian hackers when the statements were published, the Saudi camp didn’t seem to reverse the course of its diplomatic assault against Qatar.               

It’s about Al Jazeera: A Qatari weapon of mass disruption

On Friday June 23, Saudi Arabia and co. have issued a list of 13 demands that Qatar should meet in just 10 days if it wanted a return of normalcy. Among the sweeping demands was the complete shutdown of the Al-Jazeera news network. Although this demand is now tabled officially, Egypt and Saudi Arabia have long wanted Qatar to stop transmissions of the Doha based news channel, which is widely accepted by millions of its viewers around the world as the most successful disruptive media. Al-Jazeera’s coverage of the Arab spring has undoubtedly sent chills through several Arab countries, most notably Egypt; however, the latest rage appeared to be over Al Jazeera’s decision to publish emails of the Emirati ambassador to the US, Yousef Al-Otaiba, showing details of a communications between the ambassador and Israeli lobbyists.

Al Jazeera is widely credited for bringing the Arab Spring to the television screens of millions of people around the world. The network has particularly given extensive coverage of the political dynamics in post-Mubarak Egypt and the government’s misdealing and bloody crackdowns on civilian protesters. More importantly, Al-Jazeera news network has brought immense disruptions within the Arab world, shattering long established narratives of patriarchal autocracies the region is known for.  Demanding the shutting down of the network is therefore nothing but an attempt to prevent millions of people living in the Arab world from questioning and holding power accountable.  It has nothing to do with the alleged accusations of Qatar’s sponsorship of terrorism.

Funding Terrorism is a regional problem, not just a Qatari problem

When it comes to the problems of funding terrorism, Saudi Arabia finds itself among nations with an extensive track record. A Wikileaks release of emails between former US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and her former campaign manager John Podesta revealed their belief that the likes of Daesh are thriving on consistent sources of revenue coming from members of the Saudi government, or wealthy Saudi businessmen.

In 2006, a UN Security Council report published revealed that Qatar, Egypt and Saudi Arabia were among several nations providing weapons and funds for Somalia based Union of Islamic Courts, an Al Qaeda linked terrorist group that had captured parts of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu earlier that year. These facts indicate that funding terrorism is used as de facto diplomatic arm twisting between several regimes in the Gulf.  It is therefore certainly not up to Saudi Arabia and Egypt to look down condescendingly upon Qatar accusing it of funding terrorism when both are far from being model nations to the contrary. Power, personal feuds, the age old Shia-Sunni sectarian divide and vengeance are what have fueled the current diplomatic crisis in the Gulf. The upping of the ante by Riyadh and Cairo is hypocritical; America’s flagrant and inconsiderate involvement is a flat out mockery; and Qatar’s fate of being ostracized as the black sheep in the neighborhood is outright farcical.

UNSC

Three weeks into the crisis, many are hoping the tension will subside as influential third party states, most notably Kuwait, are trying to bring everyone back to the negotiating table. However, any hope for a diplomatic solution was thrown into the fray where the Saudis and its bloc came up with unrealistic demands that should be met by Qatar.  If anything, the 13 points of sweeping demands are an indication that the Saudi bloc will continue to bribe, brownnose and intimidate more players into adopting similar stances, sending unto the unknown any sense of morality in solving the crisis though diplomatic means.

Whether we realize it or not, in the long run the free world will end up paying the price if it silently watches Qatar continued to be bullied into total submission. AS

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Spotlight: Marcus Samuelsson Brings Red Rooster to London

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By Tadias Staff
June 27th, 2017
New York (TADIAS) — Chef Marcus Samuelsson has expanded his popular Harlem restaurant business across the pond, opening a new Red Rooster in London late last month. The restaurant, which is housed inside the elegant Curtain Hotel in the East London neighborhood of Shoreditch, is the first Red Rooster location outside of New York City.

As Bloomberg News points out: “Red Rooster became a hit in Harlem thanks to chef Marcus Samuelsson’s take on Southern comfort food — and became internationally famous because former President Barack Obama was a huge fan. He even held a fundraiser there. The first foreign outpost of Red Rooster opens at the new Curtain Hotel in London’s hip Shoreditch neighborhood. About half the menu will be the same as the New York location: There will still be chicken ’n waffles for £10 ($13), fried yard bird (£19) and the Obama short ribs (£33), a recipe fit for a president. But he’s using some local ingredients and adding dishes to reflect his background, such as Uncle T’s herring (£8). Plus, there will be a taqueria called Tienda Roosteria.”

Why London?

The Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised celebrity chef and author says that like New York he is attracted to London for it’s multiculturalism. “New York is a world city, and so is London, but London has a different kind of diversity than New York and I thrive off that,” Marcus told The Globe and Mail. “We wanted to find a neighbourhood that matched the excitement of Harlem, and felt that Shoreditch and London, as a town, really matches New York.” He added: “It has incredible mystique, funk and coolness. I’ve been asked to open a new Red Rooster every week for the past four and a half years, and I always say no. When you walk into the restaurant, the first thing you’ll see is a taqueria inspired by the barrio. We have a huge Latin community in east Harlem.”

“Samuelsson, 46, became a star early in his career more than two decades ago,as he earned a three-star review from The New York Times as the chef at Aquavit. Now his brand and marketing empire has expanded to restaurants in Bermuda, Sweden, and Norway, and he’s a regular on shows such as Chopped and Iron Chef America.”

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Ethiopia asks for extension of Saudi amnesty deadline

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Thousands of Ethiopians have been attracted to Saudi Arabia by the job opportunities

Thousands of Ethiopians have been attracted to Saudi Arabia by the job opportunities

BBC

Thousands of Ethiopians are still stuck in Saudi Arabia after a 90-day amnesty for undocumented migrants expired on Tuesday without all of them leaving , the Ethiopian government has said.

Communications Minister Negeri Lencho told the BBC that the government has asked for the amnesty to be extended.

He said more than 45,000 citizens had so far returned but there were many more waiting to go back home.

Ethiopians have been employed in Saudi Arabia in building and domestic work.

Mr Negeri said that the government was expecting “a positive response” from the Saudi authorities for its request to extend the amnesty.

In March 2017 the Saudi interior minister, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Naif bin Abdulaziz, announced the amnesty under a campaign called “A nation with no legal violator”.

During this period any one in breach of the country’s residency and labour rules or regulations would be free to leave without facing any penalties.

In 2013 a similar amnesty was announced, however any illegal migrant who did not leave Saudi Arabia had to face punishment by way of fines, prison or being deported.

During that time a number of Ethiopians were killed in clashes with the Saudi police as they were being rounded up for deportation.

Illegal migrants sit on the roof of a police bus with their belongings on November 13, 2013 before being transferred to a center in the capital Riyadh ahead of their deportatioImage copyrightAFP
Image captionIllegal migrants were deported from Saudi Arabia in 2013

Mr Negeri says that there was a slow uptake during the amnesty period because some people were sceptical the Saudi authorities would take action during the just ended period of Ramadan.

Minister Negeri added that a taskforce and money has been set aside to receive and resettle the Ethiopian returnees.

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A response to Tsadkan Gebretensae’s call to wage war on Eritrea

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By Shiferaw Abebe

In a recent interview to Addis Zemen, posted on Zehabesha TV the former TPLF General, Tsadkan Gebretensae harped on Ethiopia’s inability to influence geopolitical developments in the Red Sea region and how this weakness is putting the country’s long term security in danger. He primarily fingered at Eritrea for his worry and blamed it for, among other things, leasing the Assab port to Arab countries (United Arab Emirates/Saudi Arabia) for a military base, and for supporting Ethiopian armed opposition forces.

The retired TPLF General stated more than once that he was not privy of what the regime is thinking or doing to address his anxieties, but he left no doubts that his trust and faith still rests with the regime for solving any strategic challenges the country faces. He therefore advised the regime to do two things to (re)assert Ethiopia’s geopolitical interests in the Red Sea region:

First, he advised to do whatever is necessary to get the Esaya’s regime removed from power, by military force if need be. He believes removing the current Eritrean government will somehow change the geopolitical dynamics in the Red Sea region in Ethiopia’s favor because, among other things, he thinks Eritreans by and large will welcome TPLF’s hegemony in the region once Esayas is gone.

Second, he argued Ethiopia must flex its muscle to get the attention of the forces that are gaining a foothold or establishing their dominance in the Red Sea region.  He mentioned the two Sudans, Egypt, Arab countries from across the Sea, Western powers such as the US and France, and even China as positioning themselves in the region without paying any notice to Ethiopia’s interests. He didn’t elaborate on what specific actions Ethiopia must take to get their attention or what these forces may have to do to address Ethiopia’s national security concerns.

The concern about Ethiopia’s long term geopolitical and security interests may appear reasonable, even supportable, if one didn’t know who is talking. The fact that this concern is expressed so belatedly by someone who cut his teeth as a TPLF fighter eventually taking the highest military post of Chief of Staff should given any anti-TPLF Ethiopian a pose before offering a wholesale endorsement of his views, let alone his recommendations.

Tsadkan is the wrong person to air this concern now because, for all we know, there is no evidence that he cares about Ethiopia’s national security more than he cares about the continuity of TPLF’s rule. If he were genuinely concerned about Ethiopia, he would have seen the real and present danger for Ethiopia’s security – TPLF itself – the menace that is pulling the country to its demise faster than any real or imagined external foe may have a chance to do any harm to it. Any national security concern of tomorrow is meaningless when the very existence of the nation itself is in question today.

In case Tsadkan suffers from selective amnesia, Ethiopia lost its sea outlet back in 1991 because he and his comrades fought hard to make it the largest landlocked country in the world. TPLF had a second chance to correct that historic sin during the 1998-2000 Ethio-Eritrea war, but it blew it wilfully against the advice of notable Ethiopians like Dr. Yocob Hailemariam and others who made a compelling case under international law to pursue a peaceful and legal avenue for Ethiopia’s access to a sea outlet.

No one within TPLF – not the retired General who now has the temerity to lecture Ethiopians about national security threats from the comfort of his lavish retirement, not even those who were eventually kicked out of TPLF – raised a whisper when Meles ordered not to include any negotiation on a sea outlet in the Alger’s negotiations. They said nothing or challenged that mindless decision in public. They kept and handled Ethiopia’s affair as if it were their family or party affair.

TPLF and Tsadkan will go to the grave with this burden hanging on their neck. Ethiopians would have to be too foolish to shed a drop of blood for another war that TPLF or its former Generals want for their own security. TPLF and the General can march to the Red Sea and sink in it for all the people of Ethiopia care.

Tsadkan’s advising to going to war with Eritrea is nuts on the face of it and quite likely driven by a sinister objective.  We must not forget for a moment that, TPLF is, above all things, a master of division, diversion, and deception. The General is a graduate of that school. Nothing he says can be taken at face value.

TPLF has a simple and, to this point, very effective strategy to stay in power – keep Amharas down by among other things pitting them against the Oromos, and keep Eritreans out by making them an eternal enemy to Ethiopians. In the last few years, this strategy has started crumpling on both fronts as the Oromos and the Amharas at long last started to look at each other’s pain and appreciate their common destiny, and as Eritreans and Ethiopians started mending their tattered relationship outside TPLF’s orbit. These developments have no doubt scared the devil out of TPLF.

Relationship between Ethiopians and Eritreans is improving as Ethiopians broadly and Eritreans in general are softening their feelings toward each other; friendly interaction are slowly taking place at individual and community levels especially in the Diaspora; with social events featuring Eritrean and Ethiopian singers sharing a platform to entertain their mixed audiences. The goodwill the Eritrean government extended to Ethiopian unity forces to have a base inside Eritrea, and ESAT’s on the ground documentary of Eritreans attitude toward Ethiopia and Ethiopians have contributed to the regeneration of this relationship. Much new information has also come to light including learning from Gebru Asrat’s book, Democracy and Sovereignty in Ethiopia, that contrary to popular belief, EPLF or Shabia was actually against TPLF’s ethnic divide and rule politics from the very beginning.

With this backdrop, Tsadkan’s advice to go to war with Eritrea is nothing more than a veiled attempt in the name of national security to sever the slowly recovering relationship between Eritreans and Ethiopians. A sinister plot designed to exploit still lingering doubts among Ethiopians about a mutually beneficial relationship between the two countries. Ethiopians must not give another TPLF ploy a working space in their thoughts.

Under no pretext concocted or imagined by TPLF must Ethiopians go to war against Eritreans. Not again. This is the 21st century and wasting any life and resources to fight a 20th century war would be utterly foolish. The chapter of war or animosity with Eritrea or any other neighboring country for that matter must remain closed.

The solution to alleviate any national security threat must include a strategy that brings Ethiopia and Eritrea closer, not tear them further apart.  Eritreans understand Ethiopia’s stake in having a reliable sea outlet; it is too obvious to fail to notice.  But the strategy must be to work out a mutually agreeable and mutually rewarding arrangement peacefully, a task that cannot be entrusted to TPLF.

Ethiopians cannot also be a party to any diplomatic effort to make Eritrea a target of international sanctions and isolation, as Tsadkan is promoting. Any effort by the TPLF regime to play such a role on Ethiopia’s behalf must be opposed by Ethiopians. There is absolutely nothing Ethiopians will profit from a diminished Eritrea. Ethiopians’ number one headache is TPLF. They need to fix this problem first before thinking about addressing any other concern.

Finally, the times of Tsadkan’s media appearances are too coincidental to ignore. The last time he penned a TPLF-apologetic piece was when Ethiopia was engulfed by a popular uprising in the Oromo and Amhara regions, a time when TPLF appeared visibly shaken. At that time, Tsadkan urged Ethiopians to calm down and seek a solution to the crisis within the TPLF political framework.  Today, he refers to those uprisings derogatorily as “huket and bitbit” or “disorder and disturbances”.

This time, he is back on the air waves likely because he is concerned with the resistance in Gondar and the armed struggle that is gaining a footing there.  Predictably, he calls these fighters “Shabia mercenaries”, the same garbage he copied from TPLF’s propaganda book. Eternally loyal to TPLF, Tsadkan simply cannot see or reconcile with the possibility of an Ethiopia that is not ruled by TPLF.  The reason why Ethiopians must ignore his advice!

The writer can be reached at shiferawabebe1@gmail.com

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World-Bank Sign New 5-Year Parnership Agreement

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June 29, 2017 – Ethiopia, World Bank agreed on a new five-year partnership to build on development gains achieved over the past decade and boost institutional accountability.

The renewed partnership stresses sustainable and inclusive growth, placing a focus on education, increased access to markets and job creation for young people.Improved governance and social accountability to help tackle corruption make up another important plank of the agreement.

“The Country Partnership Framework intensifies our support for poverty reduction in Ethiopia and seeks to address key challenges facing the country,” said Carolyn Turk, World Bank country director for Ethiopia.

“Among other things, our interventions will support increased citizen engagement, greater resilience to the effects of climate change, more inclusive growth, and youth employment.”

The partnership also hopes to facilitate a bigger role for private investment in supporting Ethiopia’s development, and a shift away from public funds.

Adamou Labara, country manager for the International Finance Corporation in Ethiopia, said: “In the past, Ethiopia’s development model was based on public investment but there are increasing needs and opportunities to unlock the potential of the private sector.

“IFC’s strategy is to create markets and mobilise private capital, including offering products aimed at de-risking investments to make more investment possible.”

Ethiopia has an ambition to achieve lower middle-income status by 2025 but is hampered by some significant regional inequities and stubborn pockets of poverty.

In some parts of the country, people have very little access to services. The World Bank said it hoped a ‘spatial approach’, which focuses on access to land, infrastructure and housing, would overcome these regional disparities.

Ethiopia has seen some significant economic and social gains over the past decade. The poverty rate has fallen from 55% in 2000 to 34% in 2011, while real GDP growth averaged 10.5% a year between 2003 and 2015. Life expectancy has risen from 52 to 65 years.

Source: public finance international

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Ethiopian Premier League Record Breaking Striker Speaks

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Getaneh Kebede of Dedebit & Ethiopia

Getaneh Kebede was born in Dilla town in southern Ethiopia. He is an Ethiopian footballer who plays for Ethiopian Premier League (EPL) club Dedebit Football Club and the Ethiopian National Team. He began his footballing career with Debub Police before he moved to Dedebit and was crowned the top scorer of the EPL. In 2013, Getaneh succeeded in passing trials with Bidvest Wits and signed a three-year contract with the team. In September 2016, he rejoined his old club Dedebit. Getaneh made his debut with the Ethiopian National Team in a FIFA World Cup qualifier against Somalia in November 2011. Back in the EPL, he became top scorer of all time with 25 goals in 30 games, and in the process breaking the record held by Electric player Yordanos Abay for the last 16 years with 24 goals. Dawit Tolesa of The Reporter sat down with him to discuss his current performance and future plans. Excerpts:

The Reporter: The 2016/17 EPL ended last week. How do you evaluate the season?

Getaneh Kebede: Well, it was very tight compared with previous seasons. All clubs were trying to win every match, especially home games. Even then top clubs were struggling to get three points at every match. But, still we can’t say that it was very tough because some clubs like Sidama Coffee and Dedebit had a chance to win the championship. However, the clubs didn’t succeed and they failed to win games towards the end of the season. Until the very end of the fixtures, it was not easy to identify those clubs that were to be relegated.

You have been playing for South African side Bidvest Wits and Pretoria University. How was your stay out there?

After four years with Dedebit FC, on July 19, 2013 I moved to South Africa for trials with Bidvets Wits and I later signed a three-year contract with the team. I played two years for the club and one year for Pretoria University. I had a great time out there as my debut with a foreign club, and it was a great experience for me. But since the coach was sacked from my first club, it was not easy to get attention like previously. There were also other clubs which I was planning to join. Unfortunately, I couldn’t succeed and I decided to return home.

Source- Reporter

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The Agenda of Dismemberment of Ethiopia by the Oromo and the Tigrayan Thugs is now reactive! will You Compromise for it?

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Getachew Reda

I hope you heard the news from ESAT that the Tigrayan Fascist gangs are said to be raping the Amhara ethnic nuns who are living inside Waldiba monastery (listen to the video above- though, the back ground music unnecessarily added is nuisance to hear the interview clearly). Sad!

Do we have any answer so far, to the question ‘where Ethiopia is heading under these Tigrayan fascist thugs?!!!!!!!!??

Hearing this, it is been hard to write anything now. It is shocking news for me. Let me take you slowly to my commentary, since it is shocking news ever heard in our history- even during Grang Ahmed or Italian colonialist era.

Forgive me for not using the Amharic language this time to address my commentary. I wrote this commentary in English to make sure the Oromo youths (who do not read Amharic) understand our arguments that their elites are leading them with fake nationalism to create another round of destruction and civil war in Ethiopia. It is been proven time after time as we speak, the elites will not be affected directly by the conflicts. Because they lived in Europe, USA and in the Arab countries with their families and millions of Oromo youth without sharing the Oromo sufferings in “practice”, but strangely, dampening the flames of ethnic conflict among our people from thousands of Miles away from home is what they are engaged.

So we advice the OLF and TPLF followers (educated or not- all walks of life) need to understand that their organizations are in the business of ethnic cleansing politics by destroying Ethiopia, which they referred it as the land of “Amhara” and “Orthodox Christianity”.

Since 1991, Both OLF and TPLF attacked our flag referring it as “CherQ!” (OLF created its flag—- and TPLF painted a blue color and communist Star in the middle of our flag) intentionally to degrade the flag highly feared by colonialist.

The next was Orthodox Christianity. Amhara labeled as its protectorate. Tefera Waluwa/Sebhat and others speak of it “Orthodox is the cave for the Amhara, so need to be destroyed”.

The next target was the Amhara and all Ethiopian farmers. Nationalizing lands from the hands of the Ethiopian farmers is a well studied plan by TPLF (OLF) to refuse the Amhara from taking over the lands back to their hands again (Meles told the CIA Cohen).

The next step is the final blow, that is “dismantling Ethiopia” (the land of Amahra and Christians) which is now reactive by proclamation.

The recent proclamation of giving away Addis Abeba to the so called Oromo/Oromia/ by the Tigrayans in power is part of what I called it “Agenda 91”. It was a plan agreed to be controlled by OLF, if not by its surrogate OPDO. The OLF elites told us “Slowly, but “surely” we will control Addis”. And Assefa Jaleta and his likes of OLF vowed “once we control Addis (Finfine), we will open an exit corridor for the Amhara”.

Mohammed Hassen hailed as the theoretician of Oromo secession tells us:-

“The Amhara attitude was nourished by the specter of the disintegration of their empire for, without the resources of Oromia, Ethiopia cannot exist as a viable state.”

(Sent to me with other historical documents and private chats referred it as “secret email to Getachew Reda: (from a very close friend of mine a hero and my teacher the late grandeur Aleme Eshete from Rome)

So as you see several evidences above; all these nihilist activities are linked targeting the Amhara.

The Tigray Fascits in power told Ethiopians ‘Addis Abab’belongs to the Oromo

When I heard the news from the Ethno-Fascist media three days ago that the capital city of Ethiopia Addis Abeba to be given to the so called ‘Oromo’ ethnic as their legitimate territory; I was in a state of shock, feeling annoyed, really angry even as I was writing this commentary.

Perhaps you have read my previous commentaries {The Emergence of the Oromo and Tigre hegemony by Getachew Reda (Editor Ethiopian Semay 1/12/16}
And {The Border Lords of Tigre and Oromo Fascist gangs by Getachew Reda (Editor Ethiopian Semay (August 17/2016}

As I heard the news, the next day, I visited the Tigrayan ethno-fascist propaganda websites to see their reaction to the proclamation that their masters promulgated. Boy, was I not right! As usual, all of them accepted with no objection or rational analysis at all. Even they glamorized as a democratic step. Chilling! Horrifying! Isn’t it?

Ethnic politics is a herd behavior. TPLF and OLF followers are bound together to accept anything that comes down to them from their herders. Large proportions of this ethnic herd are completely glued to their ethnic doctrine as their religion. They are not willing to examine the mind process injected into them. Therefore, this time particularly the Tigrayan Weyane puppets accepted the giving away of Addis Abeba and other large territories to the so called Oromia/Oromo/ as democratic and legitimate decision; exactly as they accepted the Eritrean independence with no compromised, or hesitation, even when Meles Zenawi’s told them Eritrean question is a ‘colonial question’.

They have no argument, but to accept with ululation. Now, some of their leaders (even ‘SEBHAT NEGA’) who fooled them are saying “it was mistakenly characterized as Colonial Question” and are demanding at least one sea ports should be given back to us as it is our legitimate land and right (Gebru, Tsadkan, T/Hailmanot and others..).

Now, these puppets are accepting the TPLF proclamation as a legitimate action. So we are dealing with human-herds that are completely ignorant and unaware to what is going on in the back ground of their organization.

So, my argument is now with you people that are not the herds of these ethno- groups. I am talking to you all Ethiopians beside these fools who compromise anything that comes to their table. So the question is do you believe there is an ethnic group called ‘Oromo’ who owns the ¾ of the Ethiopian territory, included the capital city of Ethiopia? If yes, let me hear your argument; if you say ‘no’ let me hear it also.

I am not here to please or displease any one. I am here to protect my beloved country, my people from being destroyed by the CIA and its surrogates (OLF/TPLF…) to alert my people to let them know what is coming towards them. I like to argue here with those who can argue with me rationally without any premature motion. So, let me present my argument regarding this issue of Oromo ownership of Addis or other territories if you are going to compromise for it or not.

Therefore, my argument is there is no such ethnic group or name called ‘Oromo’ who owns these vast lands inside Ethiopian territory. To begin with, who are these so called Oromo or Oromia?! I do not care if they want me to call them Oromo, I will call them, but, not taking lands claiming owned by Oromo and naming it Oromia. That is my point.

The territory they claimed and controlled already by the so called Oromo/Oromia belongs to all Ethiopians. Did you hear me? If they claimed they are owners of those territories, then I have a problem with it! Okay?

Let me ask you all my readers; have you ever read or heard such name before 1974 or during the king or kings/Queens, even before or after Axumite kingdom? No, never heard such/name/country/place(Oromo/Oromia). If so, where did it come from? Who created it? We have to ask rationally- Right?!

If these groups want us to believe such ethnic existed with a country/place/ called ‘Oromia’ we need to see it with historical evidence if such name exist in history? But, they can’t. There is none! Because, it is all made up, fabricated name and fabricated territory by the TPLF and OLF Mafiosi group who are all CIA supported elements.

We all know that, CIA and Italian fascists had been doing their dirty jobs behind the curtain- sometimes openly, sometimes covertly for a long time. We knew how CIA involved with Ethio/Eritrea issue and our Orthodox Christian institutions (we will comeback one day how Aba Paulos was called to Ethiopia after TPLF took over, and who was behind , and who is really Aba Paulos?) .

What is CIA? CIA is a secret spy agency in foreign lands to advance the interest of America. To carry its mission, it does secret-political-infiltration,kidnapping, psychological-warfare, through force and secret plots and even murder leaders of countries and dismembering stable countries.

Ethiopia is now a target of CIA and the Arabs. Both penetrated through the corridors of their puppets “TPLF/OLF”. This is not new target. It is a chronic. We have heard from Tesfamichael Gorgio how the CIA launched a secret operation by Copeland in 1969 as he was first hand eye witness in the activity recruiting Isayas Afewerk as CIA puppet. The operation named “Seed Planting Project” was a code name given to the CIA operation. That relation continued all the way to MaTsawa and Afabet operation against the Ethiopian Defense Army.

Remember, The Police spy chief during the king who is an Ethiopian by the name General Iyasu or Danile (correct me if wrong. interview on Tobia or Menlik magazine (2001), the General told us “Paul Henze was our advisor for 27 months (1969-1972) while Isayas who was recruited by us to spy for Ethiopia in the Jungle was plotting with Richard Copeland in Asmara to break Eritrea to dismember Ethiopia”. Said our General Daniel. Those who are not familiar with the name ‘Paul Henze’; he was the TPLF right hand advisor. He is dead; taken by God’s power few years back.

So we know from two credible individuals (The Eritrean ‘Michael Gorgeo’ who got murdered by EPLF&TPLF coordinated plot in Addis Ababa after TPLF got to power) and our own General testifying that CIA is been involved in Ethiopia for a long time as we speak also.

So, the present proclamation to give Addis Abeba to the Oromo as “legitimate owner” of the city is part of the process to dismember Ethiopia to create fragmented countries like Somalia and USSR. All this is happening under our moment of unawaken by the CIA surrogates namely “OLF and TPLF”.

When TPLF allowed OLF to control those vast lands, TPLF already got for itself vast land for its Tigra Tigringi agenda.

{ “Thus aggrandized in the west and south , TPLF’s Tigrai has been blown up from the traditional and official size of 65,000 sq. kms to 102,000 sq. kms “restoring” what the TPLF says was land taken away from Tigrai, on the basis of an entirely unfounded ,..”} Aleme Eshete (as above)

Simultaneously, to progress its agenda of disintegration Ethiopia, TPLF allowed the 350,000 sq. kms or (now even more) of Ethiopian territory practically covering all of southern Ethiopia, carved-out through the force of arms by the TPLF surrogates to constitute CIA’s future “Republic of Oromia”.

We can’t compromise or accept or look at it quietly to this national crime as minor step. This is an open-speedy colonial agenda to rape Ethiopia in a day light! At least we need to speak and leave a record inside the brain of the Ethiopian new generation that they need to confront such national crime and conspiracy by inside and outside enemies. There should be no any political compromise under any circumstances with such crime; not now, not tomorrow, not in the future! No compromise to the dismemberment of Ethiopia.

The proclamation asserted that Addis Abeba belongs to Oromo is historically fake. But when you see the steps that the Tigrayans taking one at time in the last 26 years in its power time, it is a well orchestrated agenda by (CIA behind the plan) leading the final blow by which Ethiopia is intended to be dissolved.

Will you Compromise?

Therefore, will you compromise to this conspiracy? Let us talk. To compromise is to decrease your value, your quality. In this sense, if you compromise Ethiopia under any pressure, you are weakening its dignity, its territory, and pride and history of our people. What it means is, if you give up the nation’s quality that is the end of the story! If you do compromise, it is not the Ethiopia that our ancestors left for us which was sealed and stamped with their blood and bone.

What I saw majority of the Ethiopian elites, particularly the opposition political leaders (most of them) have been lowering the value of the nation like a commodity for sale. In the last 26 years of Tigrayan and Oromo hegemony against Ethiopia sovereignty and dignity; compromising was their word of agenda in the mouth of the opposition. The more the opposition inside or the opposition outside Ethiopia compromise with these thugs; the thugs demanded more and more and more concession.

When we confronted the political leaders, and their followers and their media propagandists to stop compromising; they want to bow for it, because “for of that reason, or for this reason, or for unguaranteed compromise of ‘Give and Take’ negotiation”. By doing so, they discredit their pride; they discredit and dishonor the nation by risking a value in a way it reduces it. Many Ethiopian elites, be it they are in politics or by standards, they all bend or give-in to the pressure.

Ethiopia currently needs not some mediocre politicians who compromise with different sorts of enemies, but leaders and citizens who can resist “pressure”. I have been saying all along do not give in to it! Do not give in to the pressure, don’t compromise. Because, the more you compromise, the more you tolerate. That means you will always allow any harm that comes from enemy as accepted norm. You will start to say things that you never say before, so you can tolerate them. This is exactly what we are hearing in the opposition media like ESAT and other commentators and journalists all over using names of place/cities/towns/universities created by Ethiopia’s enemies. AdamaFinfineHaromayaBiher… on and on…

They claimed “it is okay, no big deal, we are families, we are all Ethiopian, and we can talk or deal about those names when Weyane is gone…”. This how the opposition give-in to the propaganda pressure from the thuggish group and misguided the youngsters to use them for the rest of their life. The reason they tolerate them, is not because of the reason mentioned above; hey tolerate them, because they are afraid to confront them. What you do not realize is every time we tolerate something, we are compromise our value system.

This is how the opposition leaders, journalists, commentators, Internet, TV and radio media tolerate the crime and conspiracy of OLF/TPLF/EPLF/ONLF design in the name of tolerance (MECHACHAL). When the media and such groups use or tolerate the terms/ vocabularies/ names/flags designed by enemies, it demonstrates they are in agreement with it.

Scholars in such field will tell you, that the more you tolerate something, the greater chance of doing it yourself. That is why we see the Ethiopians opposition conferences seen decorated by Ethiopian flag together with the OLF/EPLF/ONLF flags. Strangely also, the audiences do not seem to be bothered by it- because; they are tuned to tolerate such conspiracy by leaders who are willing to give-in to pressure. By doing so, the opposition brought discredit to our flag, to the nation and to the God of Ethiopia who designed our flag.

The God of Ethiopia is calling you all for integrity to the flag and to the nation whom he protected her from various enemies!!!!!!!!! The God of Ethiopia in our religion might teach us to love the sinners, but we do not have to tolerate the sin. No compromise!!

These elites of ours are defusing our concentration, our quality by diluting enemies’ agenda into our business“. My mother used to run a popular Tela Bet business (our traditional beer) that was famous for its “concentration” quality (WEFRAM/GUSH). Many people loved it. They do not need to eat any breakfast/even lunch once they had two or three Menlik/ Wancha/ of it. If she saw the servant adding too much water in to the barrel, she stands up and stops her from adding too much water into it. Her objection is , ‘even though we can make money by adding too much water to the process, we should not do it; even if the process required adding water, once it loses its concentration (strength), the quality that people respect will be gone”. That is what she my mother used to say.

Yes, she is right. When you add water, it does what? It looses its concentration. That is what happens when you compromise; you begin to loose your concentration. By losing your focus/ originality, you become a diluted Ethiopian!!!! You become weaken, you loosen your strength. It is hard to go through a storm when your strength is gone!!!!!! It is hard to fight against the enemy when you are weaken and diluted. It is hard to deal with national crisis when you loose your concentration. All this is because you compromised to the enemy!!!!!!

The weakest groups in the political struggle in our opposition organization regardless they preached you they have a fighting army are those who are willing to compromise “principle” or fight enemy with no policy or principle.. They are defeated groups. Because they give-in their Ethiopian principle due to the pressure from those enemies. Respecting enemies’ flags and their agenda is a defeat!!
We can see where OLF/ONLF and others were few years back and where they are now. Now days,, they are touring with those who claimed Ethiopia groups (unity force)and allowed to brainwash, insult and disrespect Amhara or Ethiopia in-front of Ethiopian audiences. The Ethiopia audiences have now accepted the defeat. They are not in a state of judging what is right or wrong.

This is because; our society is guided by defeated leaders. Our society is lead by chameleons! They adapt and blended to the enemy’s environment with no shame, thinking they are playing politics/tricks. Every time these political Chameleons are around with different groups of nihilists, you will see them transformed into one of them.

They speak the language of the enemy, they speak and exercise the conspiratorial terms framed by the enemies and they too use them. When you heard this with your own ears; to the extent, you will ask to yourself saying “Are these ours? Or theirs?” These are human chameleons. They acted like them, pleased every environment, they please enemies.

Worst of all, our people gather around them in every conference. When you sit too long with enemies eventually, no matter how much you resist, I guaranty you, you too will preach and talk the same thing the enemy talks and do. Dr.Getachew Begashaw (Doctor 0/zero/) is a typical example for this argument. Remember!? He was telling us OLF never demanded or fought for secession.

At the end I like to say this; – When an Ethiopia forms a binding relationship with none Ethiopian believer, it weakens his/her commitment, weakens character and lowers his/her standards. I do not know about you- as far as me, I can’t afford to loose concentration and allow myself to become a diluted Ethiopian. I have been going too much in my life to be weak right now at this point, so I decided, through hell or high water, I WILL NOT COMPROMISE!!!!!! If you call yourself Ethiopian, you are going to have to bring-up yourself where I am. I am not saying, I am better than anybody else, but, I refused to lower myself by compromising my country that my father served, fought and die.

The agenda and the conspiracy of dismemberment of Ethiopia by TPLF & OLF that we patiently observe for the last 26 years are national crime and sin. We don’t hate these sinners, but, we don’t have to tolerate their sin. No compromise, through hell or high water!

Thanks
Getachew Reda (Editor Ethiopian Semay) getachre@aol.com

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