By Firdu Yitayew

The Ethiopian and Eritrean Diaspora and home public are aware of the current heated debates on yet to be resolved burning national issues. At his capacity as the current AU Chairman, Colonel Gadafi promised recently to do his utmost regarding the Ethio-Eritrea stalemates, but in vain. At last, with effortful agitation and awareness creation, it is encouraging that more and more Ethiopian and Eritrean public are moving towards the pathways leading to informally unveil erroneous fictions, frictions and factions; and stand firm to fight against and resolve injustices incurred thus far by the two dictatorial renegades based in Addis Ababa and Asmara. For as long as the Ethiopian and Eritrean public consistently remain alert and know the fundamental problems manufactured and spread by the 2-hydra, we can ultimately create solidarity to block or eject these two devilish-hydra dictatorial tyrants from our nations; and solve the mountain high or the ocean-deep of conflicts and wars concocted by them. Tyrant Afeworki and Dictator Meles should vanish along with their axis of devils. Particularly, for Ethiopians, the ongoing resistance inspirations must pave the way for the downfall of Dictator Meles Zenawi’s Agazi regime; a regime that is filled with untold injustice, contempt, humiliation and deceit.

When Meles vigorously supported the succession theory of Issayas while in the bushes, he had no choice as his only means to come to power was to initially cling on to EPLF and make all the EPLF-demanded concessions that came from his Godfather Issayas Afeworki fulfilled. And when we look at what Dictator Meles did to the Tigre speaking people both within Tigray and to those from Eritrea, it could be said that: Zenawi’s generous give-away of Assab and part of the Afar population to his mother’s homeland Eritrea; a country populated by nearly 4-million inhabitants; was part of such deal concluded in the 1980s. To us this malicious and nepotistic deal and actions taken there of by Zenawi is nothing but a matter of benefiting his affinity in the extreme North. But, what are the reasons behind such coercive political stand taken by Zenawi? The following are 3-key political cards Zenawi plays best with:

1. Obviously as promised to his Godfather earlier, breaking the socio-economic and political spinal cords (which Zenawi once boastingly spoke of as: Akerkariachewun Sebrenal) of the Amhara and the Oromo that are considered as potential threats and competitors for power was one mission accomplished. Likewise evicting that Eritrean Tigre population who are potential threats and competitors against those from Tigray is another mission accomplished.

2. Maintaining Assab outside the bounds of Ethiopia until the divisive policy dust settles well is mission possible that is still ongoing.

3. Until Issayas Afeworki is eventually replaced by a pro-TPLF leadership within Eritrea Zenawi will continue to support Eritrean opposition to simply soft-land and stand against Afeworki’s way; while Zenawi prepares for a major blow if and when Afeworki tries to flex his muscles against Zenawi’s army. Much so, the border demarcation and Assab utilization arrangements will remain pending as these are among the last resorts on which Zenawi can cling on to and use them for spreading further fear waves against anyone and all his opponents. Regardless of attempts by Colonel Gadafi, the current stalemate conditions between Afeworki and Zenawi depend on who holds tight the fulcrum to his advantage. So if anyone has the illusion that Zenawi’s stand on Eritrea is because of his principled belief for freedom that is not the case. In actual fact both Zenawi and Afeworki are 2 hydra nihilists who know who is who between the two of them.

Indeed, lack of knowledge is darker than night. An ignorant person is always a slave; and he works without knowledge; and he works uselessly. Hence, it is up to us the Ethiopian and Eritrean public to exploit the chances of forging long-run peaceful coexistence, economic-co-operation and mutual prosperity. After-all, Ethiopians and Eritrean kin and kits are fraternal brothers and sisters; and as the saying goes: “Blood is thicker than water”, so also the fate of these twp kin population tied with diachronically thick blood bondage.

Given that there is injustice, one such injustice concocted jointly by Tyrant Afeworki and Dictator Zenawi is that of land-locking 80 million Ethiopians and keeping us imprisoned in Zenawi’s-amputated and restructured Ethiopia. In Eritrea, due to fear for Tyrant Afeworki continuous wave of exodus and dispersal of able-bodied Eritrean youth in all directions of the world is happening in recently. There is also heavy embodiment among Ethiopians and Eritreans by widely exposing the inner make-up of Tyrant Issayas Afeworki of Eritrea and that of Dictator Meles Zenawi. The opposition at home is left to be what Dictator Meles once called as Kin Tekawami; literally meaning ‘Loyal Opposition groups allowed only to soft land on political concerns’. But all these situations are for a reason. As the Chinese saying goes: “Every bad situation has its own good” and as the equivalent expression in Amharic goes: “Saydegis Aytalam” the current moment is becoming a golden opportunity for a new start afresh; for working out fresh, non-contaminated and strategically visionary and long lasting solutions by determined citizens both at home and in Diaspora.

On a critical note, Eritrea during its 1^st 7-years of the so called independence remained economically tied to Ethiopia. The only thing that changed since the 1998-2000 war is the aftermath during which time Meles decided to suddenly cut-off Eritrea from accessing beneficiary resources it enjoyed from and within Ethiopia. One may dare to ask: If tension with Ethiopia is Afeworki’s main reason for confining the Eritrean youth in plenty in his SAWA military garrisons, why is the conflict with Ethiopia more painful to him than those where he waged war against Sudan, Yemen or Djibouti? In the region, there are nearly a number of border disputes between several developing countries; yet none of them use dispute as a pretext to indefinitely lock their young and able bodied citizens in military camps like that of Afeworki’s SAWA.

The case between Tyrant Afeworki and Dictator Meles is synonymous to a situation between 2-furiously angry and jealous lovers who subconsciously fight; but to return to one another eventually as each one can’t dissociate and live without the other. That is why peace, stability and economical prosperity will shrine in Eritrea only and only when Afeworki and Zenawi are ejected from power; and Assab seaport is left as Ethiopia’s legitimate corridor to the sea. No matter what comes may, Tyrant Afeworki will never stop broadcasting what he indoctrinated in the minds of Dictator Meles Zenawi and other TPLF cohorts; in fact, Afeworki will continue intervening in Ethiopia’s political and economical affairs even if we assume that Colonel Gadafi’s current attempt to forge border demarcation to be accepted by both Shaabia and Woyane regimes. The main reason for this is such that you can’t teach new tricks to an old dog; much so, Afeworki’s only professional expediency lies in hatching and concocting wars and conflicts. Ever since 1966 when he was in the Eritrean bushes, Afeworki continues stead-fistedly waging banditry and bloody wars against Ethiopia, Yemen, Sudan, and Djibouti; and lastly interfered in Somalian politics and war. Actually for Tyrant Afeworki Eritrea is too small to play with and quench his highly inflated ego. In order to cover-up his envious and inferior complexity egos created by the mounting pressure from his own disciple and junior comrade of earlier days, Dictator Zenawi (whom he trained and supported to come to power seizure in Addis Ababa), Afeworki is stubbornly refusing to settle pending matters. On the other side, knowing in advance that Tyrant Afeworki is not going to pardon him, contemptuous Zenawi decided to take advantage of the situation and inflicted grave injury on his Godfather Tyrant Afeworki by quickly transporting Tigrinya speaking people of Eritrea in the pretext of security back to Eritrea. This action included ejecting Shaabia’s extended arms whose mission was to spy and report on Zenawi and his Woyane regime movements. Since then, Tyrant Afeworki remains boiling with anger that has eventually aggravated ulcer in him; and he is nothing but a failure figure; isolated from major global leadership events by his own political choice and stubborn stands. For nearly two decades now, what the Eritrean public benefited from his leadership and the “independence dance and temporary euphoria” we know of is nothing but serfdom, wanton and war. Afeworki who fabricated a war condition after the other will not be ready to give up his war-mongering habit, which is his only profession at best; and as the notorious evil doer of the region, he is ever anxious in his divisive missions to see havoc and conflicts taking place in ethnically weakened Ethiopia.

In order to block Afeworki’s pathetic attitude and endless mission against Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Diaspora must carefully watch and avoid those who somehow associated themselves with Tyrant Afeworki and Dictator Zenawi. When all is said and done, and when the Ethiopian public at large was angered by the conspired and brokered take-over of power by Zenawi and Afeworki in 1990, OLF and today’s Ginbot-7 founders were euphorically dancing along the two hydra-despots that ultimately shattered the hope for democracy in the region. This reminds us the Ethiopian saying: “Ye Kotun Aword Bila Ye Bibitwan Talech”. To add insult into injury and by turning their faces like a sunflower to where the sun-shines Ginbot-7’s Andargachew Tsige and Birhanu Nega have this time changed their previous Woyane platform positions of the 1990s for a Shaabia one. Tirelessly these two crisscross European and American cities to plant a revisionist attitude and stand in the minds of Diaspora Ethiopians by preaching to the latter that Tyrant Afeworki is Ethiopia’s ultimate savior and salvager not only to oust Dictator Meles from power but also to enable all allied opposition LFs to wage their succession from the rest of Ethiopia. We should guard ourselves not to join those who rally behind Tyrant Afeworki-tailored ethnically divisive self-determination up to succession motto; we should dissociate from these wolves hiding under innocent sheep-skin.

Instead we should be emboldened to workout and devise other alternatives that pave the way for toppling the Eritrean Tyrant and the Ethiopian Dictator from power as these two are cancerous to our fraternal, egalitarian democratic fate. The next step should be to outweigh the long run political consequences of keeping vast sea costal area under Eritrea while at the same time keeping 80 million people land-locked unlawfully. Indeed, keeping Assab within the bounds of Ethiopia is not a win or a lose option; but a critical necessity for Ethiopia’s security and a survival means for its economic interests. As the saying goes:”Anger does nobody good; but patience is the father of kindness.” Much so, there is still good chance for eventual reconciliation and negotiated settlement on Ethiopia’s access to Assab; create peace, prosperity and unity among the two kin-peoples of Eritrea and Ethiopia at will once the evil doer Tyrant Afeworki and his misguided EPLF policy crumble altogether. It is said that: “There are three friends in this world–courage, sense, and insight.” So also the courage that we Ethiopians are bearing in mind these days is great. Ethiopia without Assab is a joke similarly Eritrea without Assab is nothing. So a win-win deal is ultimately possible for both the Ethiopian and Eritrean populace.

We should not forget how these 2-despots were actively operating during the late 1980s and early 1990s due to favorable circumstances they had around them; and due to the promises Zenawi made to Afeworki having no choice at that time. Particularly, between 1991 and 1993, Meles was more involved in Eritrean succession affairs than Isayas was until he realized the power sharing or power holding situation in which there can’t be two leaders with equal power within the Federal Ethiopian State that Meles was suggesting during his early days getting accustomed to holding government power. So instead of keeping himself in a junior position as deputy; and leave the driver’s seat as the Federal Presidential level to Isayas, he opted to cut-off Eritrea, give away Assab as a bonus and take full control of power in his amputated Ethiopia by one’s own choice; completely ignoring the Ethiopian populace whose socio-economic and political spinal cord he claimed to have broken once and for all.

Figurative or federative wise, Eritrea remains too small to the evil doer Tyrant Afeworki who is ever anxious; and not satisfied with the power he has thus far consolidated within Eritrea; and he keeps on flexing his Shaabia muscles confined at SAWA-military garrisons and momentarily breeding geo-political problems with neighboring countries. Suffice to mention the troubles he ignited with neighboring Sudan, Yemen, Ethiopia, Djibouti, and even his courage and deep involvement in the recent political war inside Somalia. Otherwise he leads people who seldom protest against him by exposing his malicious deeds to the outer world. If Afeworki wants his Tigrinya speaking people not to oppress the minority ethnic groups within Eritrea including the Kunama, the Afar, the Saho, the Bilen, Bejawi, Bin-Amir, and etc, he could have let these people to opt for self-determination up to secession. Instead, simply to keep weakened Ethiopia in check, he chose opposition groups coming from within Ethiopia to fight for their freedom from their Tigray oppressor, Meles Zenawi.

Regardless of the odd teachings coming from Afeworki’s camp, in actual fact, there is no political conflict between the Ethiopian Afar and Eritrean Afar population; rather the Afar unilaterally always wanted to remain as part of Ethiopia. The same holds true for the
Ethiopian Irob (Saho) and the Eritrean Saho population; the Ethiopian Agew and Eritrean Billen (Agew) population; the Ethiopian Kunama and the Eritrean Kunama that unilaterally always wanted to remain as part of Ethiopia. On top of these, the Ethiopian Tigre population and the Eritrean Tigre population have lots in common with the Amhara who were originally the same people by their roots until the coming and spread of Islam along the Red Sea Coastal areas. Ethiopians also have no problem with the Eritrean Naras, Bejas, and Rashidas.

In later years for a long while there developed deep sentiment of resentment and hostility between the Ethiopian Tigrei (from Tigry) and the Eritrean Tigrinyi population although both speak the same language and practice the same Coptic Orthodox Church in the majority. That is one reason why Meles found it easy to deport inhumanly an estimated 80.000 Eritreans in mid 1990s; most were Tigrinya speaking persons. This deportation action was done simply for security reasons in case Afeworki would opt to attack Zenawi’s regime; and at the same time to eliminate likely competitions between the two Tigre population for economic and political power. Likewise, on the other side of the isle, all Tigrian persons from Tigray who once lived and worked in Eritrea for generations were expelled in thousands from Eritrea by Afeworki in extremely inhuman and barbaric manner; by physically attacking and confiscating their personal belongings.

The reason why the Eritrean Tigrinya speaking population confined in the three districts of Hamasien, Serae, and Akle-Guzai remain hostile towards the population of Tigray is mainly for fear of being taken-over (dominated) by the latter. In Eritrea the Tigrinya speaking people of these 3 districts are about 1 million (35%) of the entire 4-million Eritrean population. The Tigrinya speaking population in Tigray is estimated at about 5 million of which an estimated 4 % are said to be other ethnic groups like the Kunama, Saho/Erop, Afar and Agew. Hence, if Eritrea and Tigray were to become united as a Tigray-Tigrini ethnic region, then the Tigrinya speaking population of Eritrea will obviously be swallowed by those from Tigray and lose its hegemonic dominance that it has been enjoying thus far within the confines of Eritrea. And if the Tigrinya speaking population of Eritrea attempts to become hurdle on the way of the power holders of Tigray, then the likely scenario is for the latter to allow other ethnic groups within Eritrea to opt for waging their mini self administration for own statehood. So Eritrea under Issayas Afeworki has turned into a military garrison where disgruntled amateur political opposition groups like Ginbot-7, Al-Shabab and other terrorists are given a safe heaven.

When all is said done, Ethiopia will be at disadvantage to be represented by Dictator Meles Zenawi as his heart is neither with Ethiopia nor with Tigray; but with Eritrea. Ethiopian voters should thus depose Meles Zenawi and his TPLF party once and for all during the 2010 election. Likewise, Eritrean Diaspora must dissociated from Tyrant Issayas Afeworki’s EPLF ties and replace this notorious regime by an amicable and democratic minded leadership within Eritrea.

By Obo Arada Shawl Febreuary 13, 2009

I have plenty of questions but I do not have the answers

The persistent past of political economy

For the last 150 years, the ideologies of Marxism, Nationalism and Liberalism have divided not only the Adam & Eve Society in particular but also had divided the whole humanity. Ideology refers to systems of thought and beliefs by which Aethiopians as a group or individuals had attempted to explain how the social system functions and the principles applied. The Marxists led by EPRP, the Nationalists led by EPLF and the Liberals led by EDU were at the center of economic analysis before and on the eve of the Revolution. The Eathiopian Student Movement has attempted to explain the Eway Revolution in such a manner.

On the one hand, the conflict among those Eathiopian intellectual groups was based on three moral and intellectual positions that have revolved around the role and significance of the market in the organization of society and economic affairs. The three ideologies were –

• Economic liberalism ጥቅም ለኔ ብቻ VISION OF EDU

• Marxism ለእድገት እንስራ VISION OF EPRP

• Economic nationalism ጥቅም ለጝ ብቻ VISION OF EPLF

The Liberals of EDU and the traditional Marxist of EPRP consider the integration of a society into world economy to be a positive factor in economic development and domestic welfare. Both agree on this position.

EDU like most liberals were for economic development via trade. But their domestic sources of growth were to depend on foreign flows of trade, capital and technology.

Marxists, on the contrary believed that the external forces could promote economic development only by breaking the bonds of Aethiopian conservative social structures. And that was not desirable though necessary condition.

The Nationalists believe that the world economy only operates to the disadvantage of their domestic economy and domestic welfare. Trade in their view was an engine of exploitation and for underdevelopment only.

These three controversy of EDU, EPRP and EPLF over the role of world market economy in the global distribution of wealth, power and welfare constituted the underlined problems of Aethiopia, as a result of these positions, EDU had collapsed quickly during the Revolution, EPRP still persists and EPLF is still fearful of global economy. Today, we can still speak of ideologies not of “theories” as applied to trade, investment and development. Once more, the current governments of Aethiopia are confusing issues of TID (trade-investment-development). What a tragedy!

While on the other hand, many copycat organizations such as the DERG, TPLF, and many others have differed on broad range of questions such as:

• What is the significance of the market for economic growth and distribution of wealth among groups and societies?

• What ought to be the role of markets in the organizations of domestic and international society?

• What is the effect of the market system on issues of war and peace?

Each of these three perspectives has strengths and weaknesses. It is clear now for the entire whole wide world that no perspective provides a complete and satisfactory understanding of the nature and dynamism of these ideologies. Together all three can provide useful insights for our future.

These were the main issues for our Eway Revolution. I believe that the Aethiopian Student Movement had embarked on a political Revolution to be followed with economic revolution and it is in this light that the struggle of EPRP should be evaluated and judged. Not the other way round. I heard a group who were discussing on why EPRP did not build roads and bridges. What an argument!

Having said this let me go to the current irregular conditions to be concluded by suggestions for posterity.

ANOMALIES that may persist in the future

Paguemen 13 is equivalent to Friday the 13^th

Paguemen is the 13^th month in Aethiopian Calendar, which consists of only 5 days (September 6-11). The slogan of “Ethiopia a country of 13 months of sunshine” has been a welcoming gesture of tourists. But most important is the fact that Aethiopians do not pay bill as they work for free during this month. What a wonderful concept!

Friday 13^th is a superstition about a day of good or bad luck. The fear of Friday the 13^th is called Paraskavedkatriaphobia = 23 letters which is derived from the Greek words of

Paraskevi = Friday

Dekatreis = Thirteen and

Phobia = Fear

The history, rate of accidents, occurrence and its social impact of phobia of thirteen are too much to tell. Suffice to say that the number 13 was considered as irregular transgressing completeness. The number 13 is incomplete as reflected by the 12 months of the year, 12 signs of the Zodiac, 12 hrs of the clock, 12 Apostles of Jesus, 12 tribes of Israel, twelve gods of Olympus and so on and so forth.

From Jesus to Christ

This week “Frontline” on PBS (public broadcasting service) is broadcasting this journey to the public. It is important to see this program. No judgment here.

DEBTERAW vs. OBAMA

When I compared these two individuals in terms of education, experience and ability, individuals scolded me for my views and some websites refused to post the article of comparison. My message was simply to expose the fact why and how Americans put their man on top of the job while we Aethiopians put our man with the same caliber in dungeon.

What about now? This week we are witnessing that President Obama is celebrating Honest Abe who kept the American Union pursuing Civil War and Emancipation. By the way Abraham Lincoln used to worship in 1313 N.Y. Ave. NW. Washington, DC.

This week we are approaching the third wave of Eway Revolution that will herald the end of TPLF and EPLF tyranny and dictatorship respectively. No doubt DEBTERAW’s long struggle in keeping EPRP alive and intact for the purpose of Unity and Revolution of Ethiopia will be celebrated. It is a matter of when and where.

Unification Churches vs. All Souls Church

What is the difference? Both Churches are located along the 16^th street, to be specific; Unification Church’s address is at Columbia Rd., NW Washington, DC 20009. The address of the All Souls Church is located at 2935 16^th street, NW Washington DC 20009

The are located on 16^th street along the Golden Gate to the White House facing each other though their entrance is located from different location. The thing I don’t understand is why all the meetings organized by Ethiopians are held in the Unification church. I might add that the Symposium that was organized for DEBTERAW was held in the same church. The organizers for DEBTERAW, I believe chose this place for its low budget. But there are rich organizations that have and still conducted their meeting in this unification church. May be Ethiopians love unity than diversity!

On Adam & Eve

Who comes first E or A? Eve was tossed from the Garden of Eden for a minor offense but now she is dealing with her mate, children and disappointed father as described in Elissa Elliott’s Eve. Elliott asks was Eve the first lady? Who knows may be it was Lucy of Aethiopia!

Innocent and Lucy ገርሂ እና ድንቅነስ

The archeological bones that were discovered in the highland of Eritrea and in the lowlands of Ethiopia are named to reflect the wishes and desires of people. Of what people! People of the gods or of GOD, I wish I knew the answer.

What is preferred to be an innocent or a beautiful? Innocence is a hallmark of old generation while beauty is a hallmark of this generation. Can’t Aethiopians have both attributes? Cash flow has destroyed our innocence. The current rulers do not seem to grasp the concept of finance let alone cash money. Should we not be aware of the history of money since king Ezana’s time? Let us first learn the use of money before we try to run for money.

Also, a piece of advice to our women folk, where do you stand in the following ranks of history. When a woman is between 15-20, she is supposed to be wild like Africa,

When she is between 20-25, she is beautiful like America

When she is between 25-30, she coarse like Germany

When she is between 30-35, she is mature like France

When she is between 35-40, she is rough like Russia and

When she is between 40-45, she is old like England

On Issayas (E) vs. Meles (Z)

How does Issayas apply his name in relation to the Bible? Does he sign his name with an E or an I? Why is he not forthcoming to his identity? Why did he keep people guessing who he is and his philosophy? I bet nobody asked him directly for he does not believe in questions, as he does not delve in democracy of any sort except in jokes.

What about Melese? Why does he not use his given name? Is he still in a disguise format? Who is he and what is his personal philosophy and what does he want out of the Ethiopian and Eritrean people? Why does he behave in a tyrannical way? I bet deep in his heart, he is GUILTY about his friends who died for real DEMOCRACIA. Fear is killing him just like his predecessor Menghistu Haile Mariam.

On Iyassou (E) vs. EPRP

What about Iyassou? Why does he not use the letter E? He is one of the founding members of EPRP. He is also one of the leading collective leaders of EPRP. Since he is still in the business of struggle of empowering the people of Ethiopia and Eritrea via DEMOCRACIA, I understand his position to use pen name also known as nom d’guerre የትጥቅ ሱሪ and so on in various languages. What is in a name, call me by my name?

Why do current/ex members and supporters blame Iyassou for nothing? If he is not a democrat with a capital D, he is a democrat with a small d. has he not fought all his life and is he not still fighting to establish a system of democratic government in Aethiopia. Or is fighting with ideas and thoughts are irrelevant in the struggle for Aethiopia? Is it not true that the pen is still mightier than the sword? In actual fact, our fighters have not used swords but guns and bombs, which they have not manufactured themselves.

What is better for Aethiopia or Eathiopia or Ethiopia? What is in a name? What is the solution? A choice among, Dictatorship as in Eritrea, Tyranny as in Ethiopia or Democratic Republic with EPRP will have to be made soon. We need to choose!

On Africa’s Ghadafi

President Ghadafi openly admitted that no democracy is needed for Africa. He is now the head of the African Authority. What a shame!!!

What is the relationship between Libya, Eritrea and Somalia? I wish I knew the answer.

On Al Gore vs. Earth

Al Gore, the Nobel Peace winner told the Senate Committee, … “would bring a screeching halt to human civilization and threaten the fabric of life everywhere on the Earth – and this is within this century, if we don’t change.”

When John Kerry, presidential candidate asked Al Gore to tell the Senate Committee about the energy solution, he quickly answered that it is Geothermal

“Geothermal energy. This has great potential; it is not very far off.”

I bet Al Gore know the territory of the Afar from where Lucy came. The Afar land was and still is hell – a burned face of the Earth. Geothermal is plenty in the Afar land. I hope he was not speaking about this land – an inconvenient truth!

Trillion is 1,000,000,000,000 = 13

The year of many trillions is in place for stimulus and bailout. Could the year 2013 be for solutions for our perceived solutions?

CONCLUSION

Currently in Aethiopia, Will power is in short supply, but good intentions abound. How about a kick in the rear by external forces if good intentions can’t cut it? A kick from Issayas or Melese in our case, a kick from Ghadafi in the case of Africa or a kick from President Obama in the case of America. Definitely a kick from President Obama and DEBTERAW would be desirable as both are qualified for a kick! But not from the others.

For us, there was a call from DEBTERAW. While he was corresponding with me about his whereabouts I asked him what the solutions would be for all Eathiopians. He said the solutions lies in AAGMELAGO (see this in call me by my name…). Since DEBTERAW had suggested this term some years back, I have been trying to figure it out as what he meant by that concept. By the way Geothermal is plenty in Eathiopia. I wish Mr. Gore have seen the place where the human civilization is discovered and where the Geothermal energy is located. Currently, Mrs. Lucy is in Washington Seattle while the geothermal energy is along Awash River.

What a coincidence of history and culture HC = ዘር A clash of Geez and Latin letters. Or a convergence of alphabets!

Truth will prevail

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By Firdu Yitayew

Surprisingly, both Afeworki and Zenawi still continue blowing their whistle of fictitious and self-proclaimed theories of Eritrea and Ethiopia thesis; and try to mobilize their respective public to join drum-beating for war yet to come. Nearly 2-decades after Afeworki and Zenawi have seized power, the Eritrean sovereignty question remains on shaky-grounds and at stake. Its internal and external problems reflect distinct political, economic and instable sovereignty crisis characters. More so, Afeworki’s Eritrea remains isolated from the rest of the world due to his contemptuous and malicious internal and external actions since he came to power in 1993. My assertions to these crystal clear Eritrean crises are based on the following 11-points:

1. Contemptuously spearheaded by Meles Zenawi, TPLF/Woyane/ cohorts were sworn in to recognize Eritrea’s self determination already since TPLF’s inception in the heart of Eritrea.

2. Principally TPLF worked hand and glove with the EPLF/Shaabia/ during the anti-Derg armed struggle ascertaining to Afeworki and EPLF army the fraternal belief TPLF holds as regards Eritrea’s self determination question.

3. In 1993 when the de facto Eritrean independence was declared, TPLF cohorts were the first to declare their recognition of the verdict of EPLF leading to its brokered power seizure in Eritrea.

4. During the 1998-2000 border conflict Meles Zenawi ordered the Ethiopian army to withdraw from land it occupied deep inside Eritrea; simply to live-up to the oath he and his cohorts made during the comradeship with EPLF.

5. Playing on the fear-factor of the Eritrean army, Meles Zenawi is telling the world that no provocation is coming from the Ethiopian side and that the TPLF-leadership will not be the first to shoot the bullet under any circumstances. What he does not say is that TPLF has the might to crash any such venture by Afeworki’s army.

6. To this day there is no clear demarcation between Eritrea and Ethiopia putting the sovereignty issue of this young nation questionable and leaving it in critical breakout of war at any time in the near future. Heaven knows what may happen if and when one of these two despotic tyrants is toppled from power.

7. Issayas Afeworki’s who once said: “we don’t rule out federation or co-federation in 1991-2” eventually started the 1998-2000 war on the excuse to regain the Bademe area which he called it “meaningless or senseless” later on.

8. Although every reasonable government and organization of the world is asking the two Ethio-Eritrean tyrants to enter into unequivocal dialogue, demarcate the boarder and provide Ethiopia and its 80 million population an outlet to the sea, out of empty pride and sheer contempt both Afeworki and Zenawi keep on refusing to arrive at feasible solutions; in fact both have given deaf ears to pleas and suggestions for negotiated settlement coming from the world community.

9. Particularly, Afeworki and his dictatorial regime keep on taking provocative stance including evicting the UN-peace keeping mission from the buffer zones.

10. Afeworki’s and Zenawi’s contemptuous and despotic policies seem not to open the space for bringing peace and fair universal suffrage including opening the access to Assab Seaport; rather, both leaders exert their despotic power on both Eritrean and Ethiopian public. As a matter of fact, neither Eritrean nor Ethiopian will benefit out of the decisions made by these senseless war-mongering dictators; except Afeworki’s and Zenawi’s diehard cohorts. War with Eritrea’s neighborhood is Afeworki’s hidden agenda for suppressing internal uprisings; and crying foul while ready to invade is Zenawi’s outright military tactic.

11. Eritrean youths are fleeing the country by thousands simply to escape anticipated war and tired of lingering in the boring SAWA-military garrisons where there is unilateral life-style of fighting and carrying arms.

Diaspora Ethiopian and Eritrean communities as well as the international community at large remain keen witnesses to the fact that arrogant dictator Issaias Afeworki had, since the start, been rejecting the path of peace. Viewing the quest for peace through its warped vision of military exigency, Afeworki has demonstrated an appetite for the peaceful option when faced with military defeat, while rejecting that same option when it believed it had the upper hand. In the end, Afeworki ensured the failure of the Algiers peace talks with its customary intransigent positions; but to no avail of viable solutions.

That means the fate of Eritrea to date remains in limbo and in stiff stalemate. The Eritrean elite community that helped in the write-up of fictitious arguments about Eritrea’s colonial claims seems silent as the despotic Afeworki continued to rule his people hard-handed and given them a blow calling these elites as self-aggrandized capitalist running dogs.

2-Grave Diggers Dumped into Despotic Ditches 

Whereas Afeworki’s Shaabia regime in Eritrea prohibits “ethnic-self determination up to secession” doctrine within Eritrean bounds of nine (9) distinct ethnic sub-regions; Afeworki continues to advocate for national unity and integrated cohabitation policy within a united Eritrea run under one flag, one nation and one leader; and that leader is – Issayas Afeworki. Likewise, Afeworki strictly works to bring into semblance the two common religions (Christian and Muslim) existing within Eritrea.

On the contrary to the Eritrean outlook, Afeworki and his tyrannical regime persistently preach and persuade ethnic-led manipulative political leadership within Ethiopia. Indeed, the Shaabia tailored motto for Eritrea reads: “United we stand; divided we fall”.

Decades back, the motto tailored by Afeworki and his Shaabia cohorts for likely consumption by liberation fronts’ coming from Ethiopia reads: “Divided we stand firm; united we fall.” Hence, Afeworki’s manipulative and ethnic-led political whim establishes its “national self-determination” notion on the basis of what was fictitiously fabricated, exclusively tailored, spear-headed and spread with clandestine intents made between Afeworki and Zenawi to enhance the good-old Shaabia’s principal dream of keeping a divided and weakened Ethiopia at bay. But this same tactic is negatively affecting both regimes. Tirelessly Afeworki is urging and supporting opposition groups like OLF, AFD, EPPF, UIC, Al Qaeda, G-7; while Zenawi is supporting Eritrean opposition groups led by Eritrean Democratic Alliance (EDA) embracing 13 sisterly Eritrean political organizations.

To this day, I have never ever read, heard or witnessed the kind of crime and animosity done by any other leader against one’s own citizen and nation as is happening with Afeworki and Zenawi. By virtue of their affinity and kin-tie, the former remains tyrannical forcing Eritrean people to dwell within labour and SAWA camps and pay by their sweats, tears and blood in the name of self-sufficiency; while the latter keeps Ethiopia as a land-locked nation where tribally divisive polity of Kilil keeps on killing consistently the nationhood and national spirits of Ethiopians by each day that goes by. Afeworki and Zenawi can fool some people some of the time; but they cannot fool all the Eritrean & Ethiopian people at all times. Consequently, they are paying the price for their malicious actions in the same manner as they incurred their tyrannical acts on their own nations and peoples.

TPLF continues to hold power in Ethiopia under gun-points and have no respect at all towards the nation and its people. When and if needed, it uses TPLF’s specially trained invading forces that shoot and kill on the spot mercilessly; and takes everything it feels important for its advantages and mere existence. The entire TPLF cohorts are buying time simply by snatching Welqite-Tsegede, Tselmet, Alem Wouha Zuria, Woldiya, Kobbo, Alamata and other nearby places from Gonder and Wollo regions and keeping them within the newly devised bounds of Greater-Tigray. To any rational minded person this reflects TPLF’s bad-ego and self-centred thinking. For as long as Ethiopians at home are left without quickly healing from this TPLF–spread hate-cancer (which is founded on TPLF’s Ethnic Apartheid policy known as Kilil), Ethiopia will regress backwards and continue to allow TPLF to play its deception, scam, hoax and swindle, smoke and mirrors by shading snake oil and strengthening tribal centers and fortifications; while at the same time pretentiously pushing tribal-power to the regional institutions for its own full power-control in all of the six regions designated within TPLF’s amputated Ethiopia where parties and communities are instructed to play within the bounds of TPLF’s ethnically divisive political cards only.

At the end of the day, the outcomes of these actions has left the two sisterly populations with 2-distinct geopolitical controversies that still remain as key sources of constant tensions; that may even trigger bloody conflicts and war. These unresolved 2-weak-points of EPLF and TPLF include, but not limited to, the following quarries: (a) the 1000km long border disputes between Ethiopia and Eritrea are not yet demarcated; will this be realized at all? (b) Ethiopia’s access to the sea has never been a point of discussion for Zenawi’s dictatorial regime. Would Assab port remain unresolved? Would Assab be inclusive during future settlement attempts? Or would it indefinitely remain as a source of tension between the two sisterly nations?

What do these conditions mean to Ethiopian and Eritrean stakeholders? It means that stakeholders must immediately face the good, the bad and the ugly challenges intertwined within these two key national socio-economic issues. It means that it is high time for them to pave the way in which feasible or plausible solutions are arrived at in a timely manner. Stakeholders representing the two sisterly nations must talk the talk and walk the walk in order to arrive at palatable and sustainable solutions that can revitalize the socio-economic conditions there of.

But evident enough, Afeworki continues spreading his ethnic-venomous political propagation focused on sheer hate and revenges all around the region surrounding Eritrea. Contemptuously, Issayas Afeworki’s despotic regime continues to dig its own final grave as his own malicious deeds and creations are pushing him more and more towards his down fall from power. For instance, faced with tough times, the political and economic plights in Eritrea continue to cause untold exodus and dispersion of young Eritrean people due to Afeworki’s one-man tyrannical and oppressive regime. Although totally alienated from the rest of the world and from the African Union, Afeworki continues to commit flagrant violations of human rights by turning Eritrea into a country where democracy and justice are absent; where its population yearnings for independence and freedom are ultimately trapped in intimidation, indecency and serfdom. The time is becoming ripe enough for consistent challenges coming not only from its neighbouring countries but mainly from Eritrean opposition groups operating in Diaspora. One such group is the Eritrean Democratic Alliance (EDA) embracing 13 sisterly Eritrean political organizations. In its 9-year on operation, the EDA has laid out its strategy, on how to dismantle and up-root Afeworki’s persistently repressive rule and tribulations eventually.

As far as Ethiopia’s socio-economic interest is concerned, no matter what comes may the issue of Assab Port must be resolved instantly with regard to Ethiopia’s rightful access to the sea. Otherwise, this may eventually become one of the serious points for popular opposition against the TPLF-led dictatorial regime. Possible rationales for the access to the Assab seaport concern the following 4-points: (1) Ethiopia needs an outlet to the sea in order to maintain its socio-economic interests and geopolitical security; (2) for quite a long while, prior to 1935 and between 1952 and 1990 Assab Port used to be part of during which time this Port was prearranged by TPLF to be given as a good-will gesture to Eritrea without asking the consent of 80 million Ethiopian population; (3) the 1993 Eritrean referendum was conducted on emergency grounds; without formally carrying-out the border demarcation prior to the 1993 de facto Eritrean independence inauguration date; (4) keeping Ethiopia landlocked will prolong the suffering of both the Eritrean and Ethiopia peoples since it will remain the source of constant tension and fear factor for any future skirmishes between the two nations.

Putting contempt and empty pride aside, Eritrea becomes a stable nation when and only when it forges the proper geopolitical ingredients for enhancing mutual coexistence with Ethiopia. Peace, stability and economical prosperity will shrine in Eritrea only when Assab Port is left as Ethiopia’s legitimate corridor to the sea.

By Alex Birhanu

Under Issayas Afeworki, the despotic god-father of pirates and terrorism, Eritrea succeeded to enter into a series of conflicts with all its neighbors indiscriminately since 1994; while at the same time internally skirmishing aggressively with the soul freedom fighting Afar peoples along the Red Sea Coastal areas. To add insult into injury, the conflict between Eritrea and Djibouti is still lingering on the desks and files of the Security Council of the United Nations in New York without getting its due response.

Currently, due to persisting misfortunes both at home and abroad, Issaias Afeworki’s tyranny is temporarily ailing its political stance beyond repair and only counts the arrival of its doomsday. All its Machiavellian tactics of governance by using spy soldiers at home and by spreading terrorist tactics using voluntarily allied foot-soldiers have collapsed and all its cards are likewise burnt-out. The arrogant fascist branded totalitarian dictator – Issaias Afeworki’s Shaabia regime has gone to the extent of harboring fundamentalists and dashed into Somalia simply to simply quench the desires of his fund raising friends among few Arab governments but in vain. By now, Issaias knows it better that he is just buying time; he knows it well too that  he can no longer collect Diaspora funds through Eritrean youths spread all over the globe. Obviously, the totalitarian mantle and dictatorial road which Issaias Afeworki’s despotic regime has chosen to move on may buy him a little while; but definitely his tyrannical tyrant regime can no longer continue tossing terrorism until his ultimate downfall is realized sooner or later.

Deceitful Political Deal

What was invented, willed, devised and kept alive for their strategic alliance since 1975 between God-father-Issayas Afeworki and his junior-Meles Zenawi was exercised more so in a reversed order between 1991 and 1997. As such Zenawi became the foremost runner on Eritrean secession matters while Afeworki pretended as his subordinate until he secured the momentum for acquiring most of what he initially aspired for. The inept excuses these two despotic principal dictators gave for their step-by-step actions of the time were mainly two-pronged: (1) that of the emergency situation of the aftermath of war in both countries as a priority issue to be given due attention.; and (2) the need for a transitional charter in order to endorse the de facto independence of Eritrea as equally crucial.

To this effect the July 14, 1991 conference in Addis Ababa was led by Dictator Zenawi who tirelessly pressured on TPLF / EPRDF partisans to adopt a new ‘Charter’, wherein he made it clear to participants that “… no individual, group, or party, including the TPLF / EPRDF itself, was there because of democratic mandate from the Ethiopian people. No one was deputized by the express will of the people but because of martial victory or support thereof. Hence soon after the Conference TPLF / EPRDF issued the “charter” with the primary aim to endorse the de facto independence of Eritrea; while at the same time to introduce its own ethnic-federal rules within Ethiopia” [For details see 2 & 3].

At the time, Herman Cohen who brokered the 1991 soft-landing of the TPLF / EPRDF in Addis Ababa and that of the EPLF in Asmara told the Conference stating: “… by not allowing Ethiopia a country of 70 million people access to the sea – if this is not the crime of the century then it is the biggest mistake of the agreement”. In the conference room, Herman further took Zenawi aside and told him: “… look you got to negotiate access to the sea. For the interest of the country you are going to lead, for your name and for the name of the group that you lead, it is very important you do that.” All Zenawi did was: look straight into Cohen’s face, smiled and vanished into the conference room [For details see 2 & 2.1].

Also, Jimmy Carter, the ex-president of USA, who had known Zenawi as a close friend, also made further efforts in clarifying the crucial importance of bringing Ethiopia’s access to the sea to the negotiation table. In his words: “Look Mr. Zenawi, you got to bring this issue to the table. It doesn’t matter weather Eritrea agrees on it or not; … put it on the table and leave it there. A future generation of the two countries will deal with it. At least you will not be responsible for land-locking 70 million people. For Christ sake you got to do it”. Again Zenawi looked into the eyes of former President Carter and remained speechless [For details see 2 & 2.1].

At the July 1993 National Conference for Peace and Democracy spear-headed by the TPLF / EPRDF regime, both the late Professor Asrat Weldeyes and the late Dr. Mekonnen Bishaw expressed their resistant reservations about the mandate or legitimacy of the conferees to make such principal and fundamental decisions involving the severing act of component parts of the people and territory of Ethiopia. These two gentlemen questioned two basic faults being committed at the time, namely: (1) the tactic in which the Conference participants were selected; and (2) the decisions passed regarding the eventual Eritrean cessation. Procedurally, they reiterate resiliently the equivocal need for a national referendum conducted both by the Ethiopian and Eritrean people alike, but in vain [For details see 4].

Notwithstanding several appeals and requests made by senior personalities in defense of Ethiopian interests and rightful proprietorship on key resources, the TPLF / EPRDF regime decided to bring its agencies into play to engage in lobbying, facilitating and in taking active steps to urge the international community and key agencies including the United Nations to make the Eritrean myth and dream come true; so that the new Eritrea could acquire its de facto independence from Ethiopia. Meanwhile, in such crucial national matter, the war weary Ethiopian people were never consulted by the contemptuous TPLF / EPRDF regime. Instead they were told that the government was taking essential steps for Ethiopians’ own good; in Meles Zenawi’s own view, with independence of Eritrea, Ethiopia could safely put its own home in order and do its own business of nation-building made as the result of the peace and tranquility with Eritrea [For details see 3].

Connecting to Cut-off

In the next four years stretching between 1993-1997, Eritrean citizens were heavily engaged in their own nation building while at the same time using the Ethiopian currency to conduct both Eritrea’s domestic and foreign businesses; the Ethiopian air lines became its de facto air carrier; and true to form, Eritrea, a country that didn’t grow a single coffee tree, became the main coffee exporter of the region. To one’s dismay, Eritrean citizens were provided more access to major Ethiopian public and private business resources than ordinary Ethiopians within Ethiopia. Afeworki, the Eritrean strong man, the architect God-father known for setting-up of pirates and politico-business kiosks within Eritrea for all sorts of so called liberation fronts(LFs), was hailed as the persona of wisdom and vision whose intelligence was so compelling that those very close to him and benefited from his mentorship needn’t worry about acquiring university education! This period was remarked as a grand period for Eritrea’s short-lived progress [For details see 3].

As far as Eritrean independence is concerned, the conspiracy, the frictions and factions that have been taking place endlessly during the last 18 years are all remaining in limbo. To this day, there has never been any official border demarcation laid on the ground between Ethiopia and Eritrea. (1) The de facto independence waged by Afeworki and his tyrannical junta through coercion on his people stating: “if you vote red you will be dead”; (2) the give-away action taken by Meles Zenawi and his despotic fascist-fed-army through denial of the right to the Ethiopian people from participating in the process of referendum; and (3) the continued suppression being made by Meles Zenawi’s dictatorial regime on Ethiopians not to reclaim Assab Port as Ethiopia’s rightful outlet to the sea; are all implicitly null and void; and a matter of time to revert.

Amidst all these geo-political chaos, both Ethiopian and Eritrean peoples are suffering due to the despotic, tyrannical regimes holding the government seats by force.

Suffice to mention what the well-known modern history professor, Dr. Tekeste Negash, time and again has pointed out: “Myths in whatever form they appear do more harm than good. Unfortunately Eritrean nationalist thought and practice is replete with myths; … and in the process of myth-building, Eritrean myth-builders were actively assisted by the present government in Ethiopia.” [For details see 4].

Obviously, the myth telling about Eritrean state shall decompose by itself soon and come to the fore for as long as Ethiopians are united and stand firm not to buy the false myth being propagated by TPLF / EPRDF and EPLF alike. More so Ethiopians should be careful of the gangs of Ginbot-7 who once were voluntarily ganging-up and dancing to the pipe tune of Meles Zenawi. Now these wolves and gangs of G-7 have resorted to gang-up with and dance to the pipe-tune of Eritrea’s Afeworki. Unless we are hand-cuffed and blind folded, the gang of G-7 will never succeed to draw us into the already failed Afeworki’s camp of totalitarian tyranny. We should no longer contemplate to look into the Meles and Afeworki’s conspired camps that ultimately resulted in breeding and spreading reign of tyranny, fascism, totalitarianism, contemptible despotism in the region. Rather we should look for other options to liberate Ethiopia from the yoke of tribally laden totalitarian and tyrannical regimes we face today.

In Tekeste’s own words: “Gone are the days when Eritrean partisans believed about the strategic and economic importance of Eritrea to Ethiopia. Also the myths of Eritrean economy and Eritrean entrepreneurship have been greatly weakened. … Eritrea is a resource poor country, and as long its resources remain what they are, Ethiopia will remain as the most important partner. This economic argument does not take into account the common history and culture. … The political and economic realities of an independent Eritrea are quickly leading to a revision of earlier perceptions. During the war of independence it was commonly believed that Eritrea was more important to Ethiopia. As the negative impact of Eritrean secession on Ethiopia does not seem to be so noticeable, one can argue that Ethiopia is far more important to Eritrea.” [For details see 5].

These critical national issues are still without proper replies. The sooner an all out unity of Ethiopian political groups is formed to take over power, a lasting justice will be done to matters left lofty by the two contemptuous and despotic dictators that keep on tossing a one-man-show on each side of the Ethio-Eritrea isles.

Conclusive Comments

In conclusion as regards Eritrea, Afeworki can no longer continue to fool Eritreans in Diaspora. No matter how much Shaabia is trying to deceive all eyes watching Afeworki’s single-handedly led totalitarian regime, Eritreans are alertly observing the troubled, drained and domineering EPLF regime; and are taking it with bitter salt. Some are even daring to air-out by waging enough is enough.

At either side of the isles, corrective actions must be operational without any delay; the voices and choices of the people must be given the upper hand to take their fate in their own hands. The ever growing and ongoing – one man show – and protagonist political platform, characterized for the most part by brutal dictatorial governance and despotic polity within the Ethio-Eritrea bounds must be clogged once and for all.

In particular, as regards the current situation in Ethiopia, let me site from the recent message of Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam: “If we want to see a more just and equitable society in Ethiopia, a country where the rule of law is supreme and where government fears its people, each one of us must act. Every Ethiopian is a power for good or evil. We have to make the choice to be a force for good. By every thought we contemplate and act we perform, we can bring about greater unity and harmony among the people. This is a burden of responsibility we carry for ourselves now, and for the next generation. The power of one for good or evil can not be underestimated. We have seen for nearly two decades how one man with a small group of henchmen has been able to destroy an entire nation. What we must also see is that many individuals working together can heal the wounds inflicted upon our country and set it on course to its glorious destiny.” [For details see 6]. In all fairness, we need a leader who will balance the power base and will bring lots of prosperity and dignity to Ethiopians of all walks of life. Afeworki and Zenawi have been in power for so long and enough is enough. No one should be more equal than the other. We need egalitarian and democratic framework to start with and leadership that is ready to serve the nations and its peoples vested interests harmoniously. Indeed, we have come a long way and sacrificed dearly in dispensing with the 2 despotic Ethio-Eritrean dictators. Don’t let new tyrants from the inner circle of Afeworki or Zenawi come into our lives any more.

Foot Notes

[1] Source: Mekonnen Kassa, Ethiopia – It is all about access to the sea – 01/24/07 http://nazret.com/blog/index….&tb=1&pb=1
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[2] Source: Agere Aleme, Time to regain the hitherto lost political chances – Dec. 27, 2006. www.ethioforum.org/For…t=681.html
[2.1] Source: Indian Ocean Newsletter N° 1208 17/02/2007
[3] Source: Professor Negussay, Commentary On the 12/12/00 Ethiopia-Eritrea Algiers ‘Peace’ Deal; http://www.ethiopians.com/Views/Commentary_on_AlgiersDeal.htm
[4] Source: Prof. Tekeste Negash – Eritrea and Ethiopia: From Cooperation to Competition; May 2, 1998. http://www.geocities.com/~dagmawi/News/News_Aug18_TekesteNegash.html
[5] Source: Ibid. http://www.geocities.com/~dagmawi/News/News_Aug18_TekesteNegash.html
[6] Source: Prof. Alemayehu G. Mariam, Ethiopians United Can Never be Defeated!
http://nazret.com/blog/index.php?blog=15&title=ethiopians_united_can_never_be_defeated&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

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— — — — — In Diasporas community 1. The revolution starts from D.C as woyanee revolution started  in Debebit in remote area  no man land .{focus should  be  who is the vector of the revolution and the social environment } 2. A call for conference all political parties, activists, blogers ,radio journalist to form a loose federation mainly to protest in Western world via Internet  or open street  demonstration according to issues we confront . 3. A call  to  Internet radio broadcaster to form a media conglomerate under one station which transmit and allocate  all participants programs transmits in time sharing manner  which  includes  all  who is willing to pay its due from religious entity to social service { it creates a powerful media center ” 4.A call to form an advocate group  for refugees  and for Diasporas who invest in real state and other investment  in Ethiopia and been embezzled , abused by Woyane cadres ” there is high incidents of cheating  and wide spread   angers among Diasporas “It  will  bring them to opposition camps for support ” 4.A call for intellectuals to  open a research forum on burring issues In Ethiopia what is to be done 1.The the slogan  and the ultimate strategy is the Orange revolution which is “le neka le tedrage le Tatke  hizabwee amez” 2.Tedrage “get organized ” should be the talk of nations and house holds .  legal and illegal.association to help urban poor  such as  food for poor in kebble level  or self help groups among young people. and challenge as group in any minor incident the local authority by peaceful means ‘” to develop militancy among public sectors from day to day 3. A demand   from  public  to their    parliamentarian to call public meeting  to discuss  their burring issues and call to intellectuals in universities to organize forum  for discussion ” always public meetting   increase public militancy which lead to demonstration  soon or later 4. unless these benchmarks are addressed  I would not Imagine things will change soon .we might see Meles Zenawi  transferred his power to his dear son before his death unlike Kimel sung  in North Korea or  Hafiz Assad  in Syria but like Libya Qaddafi’s son sifeislam Mohammad . By Abud Hassan.

ከጌታቸዉ ረዳ (http://ethiopiansemay.blogspot.com)

አቤቱታዉ በቋሚነት በየጊዜዉ በድረገጻችሁ “ኦቦ አራዳ ሻዉል” (Obo Arada Shawl) በሚል የብዕር ስም ስለሚጽፈዉ ኤርትራዊዉ “ራስ ሃይሉ” መጠርያ ስሙ “ተወልደ” የተባለዉ ግለሰብ ነዉ። ግለ ሰቡ በእድሜዉ ወደ 70ኛዉ አመቱ የተጠጋ አዛዉንት ቢሆኑም፤ በጸረ ኢትዮጵያነቱ ለአንድነት በሚታገሉ እወቅ ኢትዮጵያዉያን ታጋዮች በእነ እንጂነር ሃይሉ ሻዉል፤ በእነ ዶ/ታ ወልደሰማያት፤ በእነ ፕሮፌሰር አለሜ እሸቴ ፤ፕሮፌሰር መስፍን አርአያን እና በጣም በርካታ እወቅ በሆኑ በሞት የተለዩ ጀግኖች ጥንት ኢትዮጵያዉያን አርበኞች ሳይቀር ስም በመለጠፍ እና በማንኳሰስ በተለያዩ ፎረሞች እና በሰሌዳችሁ ላይም የኢሕአፓ ደጋፊ አባል ወይንም የአመራር አባል በሚያስመስለዉ አቀራረቡ በተለይም የኢሕአፓዉ “የጸጋየ ደብተራዉ” ስም በየጊዜዉ በመጥራት ለጸረ ኢትዮጵያ ተልእኮዉ በመጠቀም ኢትዮጵያዊ ጸሃፊ ለመመስል ኢትዮጵያዉያን እና የኢሕአፓ አባላትን በጣም በተካነ አቀራረብ በማሞኘት ጸረ ኢትዮጵያ አንድነት ሲያስተጋባ ቆይቷል። ይግረማችሁ ብሎ ደግሞ በቅርቡ የኦነግ ወታደሮች አዛዉንት እና ህጻነት አማራ እና ትገሬ ገዳዮች መሆናቸዉ በሰነድ ተሰንዶ እያለ የነጻነት እና የዲሞክራሲ ታጋዮች ናቸዉ። ማለቱን ተያይዞታል።

በግሌ የሰዉየን ማንነት እና አጻጻፍ ከተጠራጠርኩ ቆይቻለሁ።ብዙዎቹ ግን የነቁበት አልመሰለኝም። ሰዉየዉ በፕሮፈሰር አለሜ እሸቴ (Opne letter to Professor Aleme Eshete the Crisis and the deportation of Hagos G/Yesus)) እና በእዉቁ ምሁር በፕሮፌሰር ሓጎስ ገ/የሱስ ላይ የሰነዘረዉ ጽሁፍ (በአሲምባ እና በማህደር ሰሌዳ ላይ) ተመልክቼ በዉይይት ፎረማችሁ ላይ ባቀረበዉ ጽሁፍ አስተያየቴን ስሰጥ እንደተለመደዉ የኦሮሞ ነጸነት ግምባር ብሎ ራሱን የሚያታልለዉ ወንጀለኛዉ “ኦነግ”ን በመደገፍ የጻፋቸዉን መልክቶቹ ለእናንተ እና ለመላዉ ኢትዮጵያዉያን አንባቢዎች እንድታነብቡት ከዚህ ቀጥየ አቀርበዋለሁ ። ጽሁፉ በአሲምባ.ኦርግ ወይንም በደብተራዉ.ካም የሃሳብ መለዋጫ ሰሌዳ ላይ የጻፈዉ ቅጅ ነዉ።

On January 2, 2009 at 5:32 am obo arada shawl Said –

To Getachew:-You should accept that you are not alone to born out of two nationalities or nations. Geta plus Redaie i.e Lord and Helper don’t match. What a confusion! You cannot be a master and a servant at the same time. Or you should give us a separate explanation GETA for who or SERVANT for whom? I am sure you are not a master to OLF or a servant to ePLF. After the Revolution of 1974 and which is still going on, you seem to be lost in the 18th Century. I am so sorry for you. Please, open your heart for solutions not for problems. I suggest you start by learning the ABC of DEMOCRACIA. I see that YOU and EPLF/TPLF army boast of 18,000 OLF soldiers were captured. The 18,000 were not soldiers of dictatorship but soldiers of DEMOCRACIA.

I just want to remind you that the OLH leadership chose to accept for four posts of a) Agriculture b) Education c) Development and d) Information. This is not difficult to figure out how smart the OLF leaders were. Mind you, they did not want to share power from the Defense, Foreign or Trade. They were looking for long term what we call DEMOCRACIA -building a bridge not destroying a bridge. Ato Getachew in any obituaries, you will see names, names and strange names. Lastly, what does Ras Hailu mean? Please, explain to me. I want to learn. I would suggest that you read my article entitled ” call me by my address, solutions with DEBTERAW, III” dated on October 23, 2008. I think it will indicate who we are first and then build a United States of AETHIOPIA (USAE)or something of that sort. Ato Germame Neway thinks that it is loaded and he does not believe it is appropriate to discuss with what he calls his “enemies”. And I am a believer who discusses with my enemies more than with my friends.

እንግዲህ ከላይ እንዳነበባችሁት ኦነግ አገሪቱን ከወያኔ በበለጠ የጦር ሃይሉን የማንቀሳቀስ አቅሙ እንደሌለዉ ሁላችን ብናዉቀዉም፦ የተወልደ (“የኦቦ አራዳ ሻዉል”)- *ኦነግ* አስተዳደሩን የሲቭል አና የትምህርት ዘርፎችን ለመምራት የጓጓዉ አማርኛን እና የግዕዝ ፊደላችነን ለማጥፋት በቅኝ ገዢዎች ፊደል “የላቲን” ቋንቋ ለመተካት ሆን ብሎ እንደተሟሟተበት እና የልቡ እንዳደረሰለት እየታወቀ “ኦቦ ኣራዳ ሻዉል” ተባለዉ ጸረ ኢትዮጵያ ግለሰብ ግን ከላይ እንደጻፈዉ “ኦነግ የተረከበዉን ያስተዳደር ዘርፎች “ዲሞክራሲያ” ለመገንባት እና ሰላም ፈላጊ እና ሰላማዊ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ድርጅት መሆኑን ለማሳየት እንጂ የጦር ሰዉ ቢሆን “የወያኔዉን የመከላከያዉ ሃይል በመቆጣጠር ያዝዘዉ ነበር” ሲል ሊነግረን ሞክሯል። ሞኝን ሞኝ ቢሉት ሹመት ይመስለዋል። ሰዉየዉ “ብልጣብልጥ-ሞኝ” መሆኑን እያወቅነዉ “ሞኝ” ብንለዉ – “ሹመት” ይመስለዋል እና እንቀጥል።

ወያኔ የማረካቸዉ/ (በሽግግሩ ጊዜ የበተናቸዉ 18,000 የኦነግ ታጣቂ) በሌንጮ ለታ እና በሌሎቹ ጸረ-ኢትዮጵያ ግለሰዎች የሚመራዉ የኦነግ ታጣቂ ሰራዊት በኦሮሞ የኢትዮጵያ ክፍላተሃገሮች (አሱ ዩናይትድ ስቴትስ ኦፈ “ኤ’’ ኢትዮጵያ ይለዋል) ’አካባቢ የአማራዉን፤የትግራዩን እና የጉራጌ ገበሬዎች እና የሰፈራ ጣብያዎች ህጻናት ሳይቀሩ በአንድነት/በጀምላ ሰብስቦ በእሳት የጋዩት በእነዚህ በኦነግ ጦር መሆኑን እየታወቀ እና ሰብአዊ ተመጓቾች የዘገቡት “የዘር ማጥፋት” ወንጀል የተፈጸመዉ በዚህ በኦነግ ጦር እንደሆነ እየታወቀ- ግለሰቡ/(Obo Arada Shawl) ወንጀለኛዉን የኦነግ ጦር 18,000 OLF soldiers were captured. The 18,000 were not soldiers of dictatorship but soldiers of DEMOCRACIA. በማለት ሲከራከር- የኦነግ ጸረ ኢትዮጵያነት እኛ ብቻ ሳንሆን መሪዎቹ በቅረቡ “በተሳሳተ መንገድ ህዝቡን ይዋሹት” እንደነበረ አምነዋል። ይህ ግለሰብ የማንነቱ መለያ ቁልጭ ባለ መንገድ ሲነግረን _ እናንተ ወንድሞቼ ከእንግዲህ ወዲህ በመድረካችሁ ብታስተናግዱት እኔ ለድረ-ገጻችሁ የነበረኝን ከበሬታ እንዳለ ሆኖ “በናንተ ድረ ገጽ ግን እንደማልሳተፍ ግልጽ ላደርግላችሁ እወዳለሁ። ሰዉየዉን ብታስተናግዱት አንባቢ ለናንተ የነበረዉ ከበሬታ እንደሚቀንሰዉም በእርግጠኝነት መናገር እችላለሁ።በተለይም ይህ ግለሰብ መድረካችሁን ለመጠቀም የኢሕአፓን ስም እና ታጋዮች ጣልቃ እያስገባ የጸረ አንደነቱን መልእክት ስለሚያስተጋባ ኢሕአፓዎች ለድረገጽ አዘጋጆቹ ብታሳስቡዋቸዉ ለድረጅታችሁ ክብር እና ስም ለመጠበቅ ያመቻችሗል።

ክቡራን ወገኖቼ ሆይ፦ እንደምታዉቁት ጌታቸዉ ረዳ በትግሬነቴ ብቻ ሳይሆን በ ኢትዮጵያዊነቴ እድሜየ በሙሉ የኮራሁበት አገሬ ኢትዮጵያ መሆኑን ታዉቃላችሁ። በ ኢትዮጵያዊነት እና ለኢትኦጵያ በመቆሜ ብዙ በጣም ብዙ በርካታ ጠላቶች አፍርቻለሁ።አገርን በመጨቆን ላይ ያሉት ብዙ የጥንት ወዳጆቼም በዚህ ፖለቲካ ሳቢያ ተለይቻቸዋለሁ። ያ ተነሳሁበት ኢትዮጵያዊነት ግቡ አስከ መታ እና አገሬ በነጻነት አስኮነረች ድረስ የጠላቶች ጉራ እና ዛቻ ከቶዉንም አልበገረኝም ለወደፊቱም አይበግረኝም።ከመጤፍም የምቆጥረዉ አይደለም። የወያኔ ጀሌዎች፤የሻዕቢያ ጀሌዎች የኦነግ ጀሌዎች “ጌታቸዉ” የሚለዉ የኢትዮጵያ ስም ሆነ የአማርኛ ቋንቋን ለማጥፋት በተለያዩ ጊዜያት “በዘፈንም፤በጽሁፋቸዉም፤በንግግራቸዉም፤በትያትርም” የቻሉትን ያህል የአማራን ስም ለማንኳሰስ ብዙ- እጀግ ብዙ ጥረዋል።ግን ኢትዮጵያዊነትን መስበር አልቻሉም።

አሁንም ከላይ እንዳነበባችሁት በኢትዮጵያዉያን ወላጆቼ የተሰጠኝን መጠርያ ስሜ እና የወላጆቼን መጠርያ ስም በዚህ ዘረኛ ግለሰብ ሲያንኳሰስ እና ሲናናቅ በማንበቤ የማዝነዉ እኔ ሳልሆን በእኔ እና በወላጆቼ ስም በመቀለዱ እናንተ ኢትዮጵያዉያን ወገኖቼ ምንኛ እንደሚሰማችሁ እርግጠና ነኝ። እኔ እማ ዘረኛነቱንም ዘለፋዉንም እደሜየ ሙሉ በእነ ተወልደ ዓይነቱ የኤርትራ ዘረኞች፤ በላያችን ላይ ለብዙ አመታት ስለወረደብን ለምጀዋለሁ። የዘረኖች ጫጫታ አዲስ አይሆንብኝም። የሚያሳዝነዉ ግን የተለያዩ ስሞች የያዙ ራሳቸዉን መከላከል የማይችሉ ህጻናት እና በቀላሉ የሚሰበር ልብ የያዩዙ ጎልማሳ ሴቶች እና ወንዶች “የ አማርኛ ስማ በመያዛቸዉ ብቻ” በምን የሕሊና ስቃይ እየተራመዱ እንደሆነ የምታጡት አይመስለኝም።

ቀለም ቀመስ ሙሑራን ምንኛ በዘር ፖለቲካ ተዘፍቀዉ የራስ ቂልነታቸዉ ላልተማረዉ ህብረተሰብ እያንጸባረቁ እንደሆነ ከእናንተ የሚሰወር አይመስለኝም። (የአማራዉ ሕዝብ ከየት ወደየት የሚለዉ የዘረኛዉ የአንዳረካቸዉ መጽሃፍ ምንኛ ሕዝቡ እንደበከለዉ ዉጤቱ ተምሬአለሁ በሚለዉ “ኦቦ አራዳ ሻዉል” በተባለዉ ዘረኛዉ ኤርትራዊ ወልዱ ተወለደ የዘረኝነት ምርቱ እያፈሰዉ መሆኑን ማየት ይቻላል።

To Getachew:-You should accept that you are not alone to born out of two nationalities or nations. Geta plus Redaie i.e Lord and Helper don’t match. What a confusion! You cannot be a master and a servant at the same time. Or you should give us a separate explanation GETA for who or SERVANT for whom?

ወንድሞቼ- ዘረኛዉ ኤርትራዊ “ራስ ሃይሉ” የብዕር ስሙ “አቦ አራዳ ሻዉል የተባለዉ ከላይ የተጠቀሰዉ ግለሰብ – በእኔ እና በወላጆጄ እንዲሁም በአያቶቼ ቅድመ ቅደመ አያቶቼ እና አያቶቹ ሲገለገሉበት የቆዉ ኢትዮጵያዊ ስም (what a confussion!በማለት የራሱን አዛዉንታዊ ኩታራ ጨንቅላት ሊገልጽ ሞክሯል) ወላጆቼ ስም ስያወጡልኝ ወይንም አያቶቼ የወላጆቼን ስም ስያወጡላቸዉ “ግራ አልተጋቡም”። ስም ሲወጣላቸዉ እና ስም ሲያወጡልኝ የማንንም ዘረኛ ፈቃድ አላስፈለጋቸዉም ነበር።ለዘረኞች የሚንበረከኩም አልነበሩም።የኢትዮጵያን ጀግኖች እየመሩ በጣልያን እና በድርቡሽ በሁለተኛ እና በመካከለኛ ደረጃ አዋጊ ጀኔራሎች ሆነዉ የድረቡሽን ምሽግ የበረገዱ ሁለቱም አያቶቼ ማንም ዘረኛ ደፍሮ ስምህ ለዉጥ ወይንም ስምህ አላማረንም ብሎ ከፊታቸዉ የሞከረ ፍጡር አልሰማንም። የሱ አያቶችም ከአያቶቼ ግምባር ፊት ቆመዉ ደፍረዉ ስምዎትን እና ማዕረግዎን ስም ይለዉጡ ብለዉ ይሞክሩት ነበር ብየም አልገምተዉም። አያቶቹ አንደ አያቶቼ የተከበሩ ጨዋ ኢትዮጵያዉያን ነበሩ የሚል ግምት ስላለኝ።ትናንት ከትናንት በስቲያ ለዘረኞች እና ለወራሪዎች ለታሪክ አፍራሾች ያልተንበረከኩት አያቶቼ በእኔ ዘንድ ሲደርስ የእኔ ስም እና የወላጆቼን “ስም ሲያነብቡ” “የማይጥማቸዉ” የዛሬ የዘመናችን ዘረኞች አነሱ በሚፈቅዱልኝና በሚመርጡልኝ ስም እንደማልጠራ በድጋሚ ዘረኞች እንዲያወቁት ላረጋግጥ።

ኢትዮጵያዉያን ወላጆቻችሁ የሰጡዋችሁን ስም አላማረንም እያሉ በዘረኝነት ጨዋታ እየገቡ በሌላ በኩል ደግሞ “ስለ ሕዝብ ጉዳይ እና ስለ ፖለቲካ” ላዉራ እና ልጻፍ እያሉ በ አደባባይ የኢትዮጵያዊነት ስም እና ኢትዮጵያን አርበኞችን ሲኮንኑ እና ሲያናንቁ ካሁን በፊት ያነበብናቸዉ ዘረኞች ከእኔም ሆነ ከሌሎች ኢትዮጵያ ታጋዮች ጋር ሲከራከሩ ፦ በዘር በሽታ በመለከፋቸዉ ወይንም ትላልቅ ዕዉቅ ሲቪክ ማሕበራት የመምህራን ማህበራትን በሚመሩ ታጋይ መሪዎች ላይ የማይገባ የዉርደት ዘለፋ ሲዘልፏቸዉ ተደምጠዉ በራሳቸዉ ቅሌት ፈጣን ዉድቀት እየጋበዙ ከመድረኩ ተሎ እንዴት ይወገዱ እንደነበሩ ሁላችሁም የምታስታዉሱት የቅርብ የኢንተርኔት ሰሌዳዎች ትዉስታ ነዉ። ይሄኛዉም በጸረ ኢትዮጵያዊነቱ እና በዘረኛነት አቋሙ ከመድረካችሁ በማስወገድ የአስተዳደር እርምጃ እንደምትወስዱበት አደራየ የጸና ነዉ።ድረ ገጸቻችሁ የ እነኒህ ግለሰቦች ማጀብ ከቀጠለ ግን እጣዉ እነሱን ሚከተል ይመስለኛል።

እስኪ ይሄነን አሱ አምርሮ የሚጠላዉ የትግራይ ሕዝብ እና ከትግራይ ሕዝብ አስበልጦ የሚወድደዉ የኦሮሞ ሕዝብ በማወዳደር ትግራይን Biologically/naturally “ስልጣን ናፋቂ፤የስልጣን ስስታም፤አወተሪታቲቭ/ጨቋኝ፤ገዳይ ፈላጭ ቆራጭ ያለዉን እና የኦሮሞ ሕዝብ ግን Biologically/naturally born Democrat ያለዉን ዘረኝነቱን እና ቂልነቱን አንብቡልኝ።<<1. OUR VISION: Germame & Getachew are in the business of “ETHIOPIA WILL PREVAIL>> <<I am in the business of “TRUTH WILL PREVAIL”. ይህ ያትዮጵያ አርበኞች እና የመጽሃፍ ቅዱሳችን መፈክር ከ እዉነት የራቀ መፈክር በማስመሰል መርሆአችንን በማንኳሰስ “ኢትዮጵያ” -ዉሸት”- ሆና “ በ ኢትዮጵያ ቦታ የተካዉ “ትሩዝ” ዊል ፕሪቨይል” ብሎታል። ኢትዮጵያ እና ዉሸት አንድ አድርጎ “ዕዉነት” በሚለዉ ተክቶባታል። ኢድየም/ቅኔኞች የምታዉቁት ይመስለኛል። የመለስ ዜናዊ ቅኔ ተመልሶ ዞሮ በ እነዚህ ዌብሳይቶች በግልጽ መነገር መጀመሩ ነዉ። አንድ በሉልኝ።

እኔ ከ አንድ የኦነግ አጃቢ ጋር ስለ ኢትዮያዊነት ስከራከር እኔኑን “ቅማላም ትገሬ” በማለት ወደ ችጋራምዋ ትገሬ ከአገራችን ወደ መጣችሁበት እነመልሳችሗለን ሲል (ትግሬዎችን ለማስወጣት የሚተባበሩት ሃኢሎች ደግሞ- አማሮች ኦሮሞዎች ናቸዉ ይላል) አንድ ኦነግ እነዲህ በማለት ሲጽፍልኝ አንብቡ እና (ኦቦ አራዳ ሻዉል- ‘አቶ ወልዱ ተወልደ) ደግሞ አሱን በመደግፍ ምን እንዳለ ይሄን ካነበባቸወሁ በሗላ ተመልከቱት።

የኦነጉን ሰዉየ ጸወሁፍ <<Just a question: did one OL…እዚህ ላይ የብልግና ቃላቶች ለሚዲያዉ ጥራት ሰርዠዋለሁ….። like it or not, you will be back to Meqele for Qulquwal-leqema. Till then enjoy Oromia’s meat, coffee and milk for you will never get it when the time comes. You and your poor future generation will have no chance to BEG in Oromia leave alone to brag like you are doing now.

<<leave alone Ob Arada. Go on and paint OLF further with your verbal SEGERA?>>

የሚቀጥለዉን ለ ኦነጉ ጀሌ በድጋፍ የጻፈዉ ደግሞ ያንብቡት።<<Helping the Tigrians or the Oromians is not bad thing after all. It is only the way you do it. I can understand both of your pains and struggle. Getachew’s disadvantage is that he was born in authoritative community whereas Fayyis’s advantage is because he came from democratic culture. The end result is that Getachew’s community has used their dictatorial nature for power whereas the Fayyis community are using their democratic nature ነዉ። አንድ በሉልኝ።

እንግዲህ ከዲሞክራቲክ ማህበረስብ የተወለደዉ ተወልደ እየመሰከረለት ያለዉ የኦነጉ ጀሌ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ጽሁፍ ከላኢ ተመልክታችሁታል። አቶ ተወልደ ህዝብን በዘር ፈጀ የኦነግ ሰረዊት እና አመራር አስከ እነ ፖሊሲዉ የመደገፉ መብቱ ነዉ። ህዝቡን እያወደዳደረ ትግሬዎችን በተፈጥሮ ስልጣን ዩሰኞች እና ፈላች ቆራጮች ማድረጉ ግን ከትብቅና አልፎ “ዘረኝነትን በሚዲያ ማንጸባረቁ” ኢትዮያዉን የሚወዱለት አይመስለኝም። ድረ ገጸች ይህነን ሲያነቡ ሰዉየዉን ማስወገድ ነበረባቸዉ።

የኦሮሞ ሕበረተሰብም ሆነ የትግራይ ህብረተሰብ በታሪካቸዉ ዲሞክራሲ የሚባል አሰራር እንዳልነበራቸዉ እና ሴቶችን የሚበድል መጮቆን (ጾታ) ቀለምም (ቆዳ) ሆነ ለዕድሜ ብቃት ወይንም (የወንድ ብልትን በመስለብ ለስልጣን/ለትዳር ብቁነት ማስመስከርን) ለስልጠን በግድያ እና ሕብረተሰብን በ ሌላዉ ህብረተሰብ ንበረት እና ቤተሰብ አመጽ እና ዘረፋ መሰማራትን፤ በተወሰኑ የሙያ ዘርፎች የተሰማሩትን መዝለፍ/ለጋብቻ መከልከል….የመሳሰሉ ሰዉን እና ሕብረተሰብን የሚለያይ ስርዓቶች የመሩ እንጂ “ዲሞክራሲያ/ዲሞክራሲ” የሚባል እንዳልነበራቸዉ እኔ ባነበብኩት ታሪክ መከራከር እችላለሁ -ካሁን በፊትም በበቂ ማስረጃ ተከራክሬአለሁ። በዚህ ጥሪ ላቅርብ የሚከራከር ካለ ዝግጁ ነኝ! የኦሮሞ ህዘባችን በተፈጥሮ ዲሞክራት ሆኖ ከተፈጠረ ደስ ይለኛል እንጂ አይከፋኝም።ነገር ግን እኔ እና እኔን የወለዱኝ የትግራይ ወላጆቼ እና ቅድመ አያተቼ ፈጣሪያቸዉ ፈላጭ ቆራጭ ገዳዮች፤የስልጣን ጉግት እና ተሻሚ፤ፍትሕ አልባ _አዉቶሪተቲቭ ሆነዉ አልፈጠራቸዉም። ሆነዉ በተፈጥሮ እንዲያ ሆነዉ እንዲወለዱም አልፈልግም። ልዩነታችን ይሄ ነዉ። ህዝብን ማሳነስ ፤መዝለፍ እየተበራከተ እየሄደ ነዉ ስላችሁ አብዛኛኦቻችሁ “ቸል- በሉት” የሞኞች ንግግር ነዉ እያላችሁ እዚህ ድረስ ደርሰናል፦ እያደገ ሲሄድ እንደ እሳት ሰደድ ዘረኝነት ምን እንደሚያስከትል፤ ለናንተ ለብልህ አንባቢ አልነግርም።

ልጨርስ ነዉ-፤ በጣም አስፈላጊ እና አስገራሚ እና ሁላችንም አስተማሪ የሆነ ነገር ላስነብባችሁ እና ልሰናበታችሁ።

ከላይ በማስረጃ የነገርኳችሁ ሁሉም ኢትዮጵያዊ ከሰርጎ ገቦች፤አስመሳዮች እንዲነቀቅ እና እኛኑን መስለዉ የተሰለፉበት ጸረ-ኢትዮጵያ ተልእኮአቸዉን ማክሸፍ ይጠበቅብናል። አንድነታችንም እየመነመነ የሄደዉ በሰርጎ ገብ ወኪሎቻቸዉ እንደሆነ እንወቅ። እኛን መስለዉ ጸረ- አንድነት የሆኑ ሃይሎች እንዴት እንደሚገቡ እና በሁለት ገጽታቸዉ ምን እንደሚመስል ለማስረጃ ከሰበሰብኳቸዉ የሚከተለዉን ማስረጃ ትምህርት እንዲሆነን የሚከተለዉ ደብዳቤ ለኔ የላከልኝን ጸረ- ኢትዮጵያ ኤርትራዊ ሰዉ “የትግራይ ተወላጅ” በመምሰል በመጀመሪያዉ ደብዳቤዉ እኔን “ምን እንዳለኝ” እና ከወር በሗላ ቆይቶ ደግሞ ኤርትራዊ ሆኖ በመቅረብ- የትግራይ ሰዉ በመምሰል ሲከላከልለት በስሙ ሲነግድበት የነበረዉን የትግራይን ሕዝብ ተምልሶ ምን ዓይነት ዘለፋ እንዳወረደበት ማስተማሪያ እንዲሆነን አንብቡት።

አነሆ_

From: henok kahsay <kahnoky@yahoo.com>
Subject: comment
To: getachre@sbcglobal.net
Date: Friday, December 5, 2008, 3:05 AM

Thenok kahsay” <kahnoky@yahoo.com>

: getachre@sbcglobal.net

hursday, December 11, 2008 1:48 AM

Now you started crying for the RED SEA.

Heyyyyy what abtih agebah sile Red Sea. It is Eritrean and only Eritrean property. Do not you know that we defeated you in 1991 and took our ports by force.

dedeb Agame

From: henok kahsay <kahnoky@yahoo.com>
Subject: comment
To: getachre@sbcglobal.net
Date: Sunday, September 7, 2008, 8:15 AM

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              ያትውልድ

ይህ አስተያየት እንድሰጥ ያነሳሳኝ አቶ ሲራክ ስለህብረት (ትብብር) ከ 1 እስከ 5 ያቀረበው አስተያየት ነው። በእርግጥ እኔም በከፊሉ እስማማለሁ። ቀሪው የማልስማማበት ሐሳቡ ላይ ግን ይህን አስተያየት ለመስጠት ተገድጃለሁ።

ወደ ህብረት ወይም ትብብር ጉዳይ ሀሳብ ከመስጠቴ በፊት እስኪ ስለ ትግሉና ትግል እናደርጋለን ስለሚሉ ድርጅቶች አላማ ልበል።

ላለፉት በተለየም 18 አመታት በጸረ ወያኔ ግንባር አያሌ የነጠላም የስብስብም ትግል ተካሂዶአል፤ በዚህ አውደ ውጊያ ብርቅ ድንቅ የሆኑ መልሰን ልናገኛቸው የማንችላቸው ነባር ታጋዮችን አጥተናል። ያም አሁን ላለው የተፋዘዘና እርስ በእርስ ያደበላለቀ ሁኔታ እንዲፈጠር አስተዋጸኦ አለው። በእርግጥ ነው ትግል በተናጠል ዛሬ ባለው ያገራችን ጭብጥ ሁኔታ የሚሆን ብንፈልግም የሚሳካ አይደለም በመሆኑም ይህችን አገር ከደመኛ ጠላታችን እጅ እንንጠቅ ካልን የድርጅቶች ማለትም ወያኔ ጠላት ነው መወገድ አለበት ብለው የሚያምኑ ሁሉ መስማማት ሲሆን መተባበር ካልሆነ ተከባብሮ ሳይጠላለፉ የጋራ ጠላት ላይ ማነጣጠር የሚጠበቅ ሁኔታው የሚያስገድደው ነው።

አቶ ሲራክ አምስት መስፈርቶች ለትብብር ወይም መፈጠር ላለበት ህብረት አቅርቦአል እነሱም 1-ያገሪቱን ሉአላዊነትና አንድነት የሚቀበሉ 2-እንደ AFD አይነት ጠላት ድርጅቶችን ያላቀፈ 3- ብቃት ያላቸው በግል መሬት የረገጡ መሆናቸው መታወቅ ያለበት 4- አስመሳይ ያልሆኑ 5- እወቁኝ ባይ ከሆኑ ለተክለ ሰውነት ከሚታገሉ መራቅ ይላል።

ከላይ ከሞላ ጎደል የተቀመጡት መስፈርቶች ያቶ ሲራክ ናቸው ታዲያ በእርግጥም ጠላት አንድ ብቻ ሳይሆን ጥንድ እንደሆነ ሊገጠም የሚገባውም በዚያው መልክ መሆኑን ይህ ጽሁፍ ያሳያል።

ጽሁፉ ውብ አቀራረብ እና መልካም እርእስ ከመያዙ በስተቀር እንደኔ አዲስ ነጻና ለየት ያለ እርእሱን የሚያግዝ ሀሳብ አልቀረበበትም ባይ ነኝ። ዛሬ በየፓልቶኩ ዘራፍ ሲባል የሚዋልበት ሀሳብ አልባ እና መረን ዘለል የሆኑ፤ ዛሬ ክበው ነገ ይሚያፈርሱ፤ ዛሬ አክብረው ነገ የሚያዋርዱ፤ ስለ ትግል ደንታ የሌላቸው ግለሰቦች ከዚህ የተለየ አላቀረቡም ያው እነሱ ሲሉት ሲደክሩበት የሚውሉትን ነው ሲራክም የደገመው። እንደኔ ሐሳብ ከሆነ ስለህብረት ወይም ስለትብብር ከማሰብ ከማለም በፊት ታጋይ ነኝ የሚል ግለሰብ፤ ስብስብ፤ ወይም ድርጅት ሁሉ የራሱን ህልም ተግባራዊ የሚያደርግበት ስልት ነድፎ ጠላትን በእውን የትግል አውድማ መፋለም መጀመር የግድ ይሆናል። ይህን ሳያደርግ ከተቀመጠበት ሳይነሳ ስለትብብር ማውራት ብቻውን ከወሬ ያለፈ አይሆንም። ተግባራዊ ቢሆን እንኩአን፤ የሚሰባሰቡት ያው መሰል ወረኞች ከመሆን ላይዘሉ ነው ባይ ነኝ።

ከላይ እንዳልሁት ዛሬ በየፓልቶኩ ስለ ትጥቅ ትግል ማውራት ወይም በትግል ስልት ልዩነት ፈጥሮ መነታረክ የተለመደ ሆኑአል። አንድ ጠበንጃ የተሸከመ ሰው ጫካ ሳይሰዱ ለምን ሰላማዊ ትግል አላችሁ ብለው ሲገለገሉ የሚውሉት ስንት ናቸው። የትናንት ቱባ ታጋዮች በስንቱ አፍ ተዘረጠጡ፤ ስንቱስ እነዚያን ብርቅየ ታጋዮችን አወገዘ? ያ ሁሉ የሚሆነው ዛሬ ባዲሱ ከኮምፒውተር ጀርባ ተቀምጦ በሚወራበት ፓልቶክ ነው። ዘንድሮም አምና ታች አምናም፤ እነዚያው ሰወች ስለትጥ፤ ስለህብረት፤ የጠላት አሰላለፍ ሲያወሩ ከርመዋል። ዛሬ ዛሬ አልፈው ተርፈው የዚህን የመነጋገሪያ መድረክ መቅለል ያዩ፤ መልከ መልካሞች የስደት መንግስት አዋጅ አውጀዋል። በነዚህ ሰወች መፍረድ የሚገባ አይመስለኝም። ስድቡንም ትናንት በታጋይነት ከሚያውቓቸው ዛሬ እርስ በእርስ ሲሰዳደቡ ያውም አይነት ያለው ስድብ ካፋቸው ሲወጣ አስተውለዋል። ባንድ አፍና ምላስ የስደት መንግስት ከመኝታ ክፍላቸው ሲያውጁ ከጥንት ታጋዮች መልስ ሲሰጥ ተመልክተዋል። እንግዲህ ያለንበትን ጊዜ ለማሳየት ስል የወዳጅ ጎራ የጠላት ጎራ ብሎ መከፋፈልም አስቸጋሪነቱን ለመጠቆም ነው ይኽን ያክል የምሽከረከረው። በእርግጥም አንድ ነገር መቀበል የግድ ይላል፡ ሁነኛ ታጋዮች ዛሬ እራሳቸው በፈጠሩት ችግር ተተብትበውና ተከፋፈለው ያሉበት ሁኔታ ነው የሚታየው። እንዴውም የዘመኑ በሽታ በነሱ የሚብስ ይመስላል። የነበራቸው ህብረተሰብን የመለወጥ ብርቅ ድንቅ ህልም ዛሬ በስድብና በመወነጃጀል ተለውጦ፤ ያጉል ተምሳሌ መሳለቂያ ለመሆን የቅድሚያ ቦታ ተይዞላቸዋል። ወደዋናው ጉዳይ ልመለስና፤ ላለፉት 18 አመታት ውብ ስራ የተሰሩትን ያክል ካንድ ህብረት ወደሌላ ሽግግር ግዜና ገንዘብ ያባከነ ይመስለኛል። ዛሬ ህብረት መፍጠር እንደዋነኛ የትግል ስልት በመቆጠሩ፤ በየትኛውም መታገያ እናምናለን የሚሉት ሜዳ ገብቶ ጠላትን ከመግጠም ይልቅ ከከተማ ከተማ መመላለስና ማን ከማን ይሆናል የሚለው ጎራ ልየታ በዋነኛነት በመያዙ ዋና ጠላት ተረስቶ፤ ፎክክሩ ቲፎዞ ማፍራት ሆኖአል። ይህ ለችግራችን አንዱ ይመስለኛል። ይህ ደግሞ ትንሽ ትልቅ ድርጅት ሳይለይ የተጠናወተን አቢይ ችግር ነው። አቶ ሲራክ እንዳለው AFD መቃወም መልካም ሆኖ ሳለ በምትኩ ግን ሊታይ ሊጨበጥ የሚችል ስራ ባለመደረጉ ካራት አመታት በሁአላም እዚያው ነን ማለት ነው። ዛሬ ስድብ ትግል፤ ትግልም ስድብ የሆነበት ጊዜ ነው። እንዴው ለላሙና ይህን የስድብ ጋጋታ ለማሳየት ከሁሉም በላይ አሳፋሪ ከሆኑት ትቂቶቹ “ እኔም ትግሬ ነኝ” በቤልጅግ አሊ “አለ ነገር በነብርቱካን መንደር” እነዚህን ለአብነት ለማሳየት እርእሶቹን ብቻ እንጅ ውስጠ ነገራቸው የሁለቱም ጽሁፎች አሳፋሪ አሳዛኝም እነዚያ ከጥንት ጀምረው ባረበኝነት በታገሉበት መድረክ ተራ የመንደር ተሳዳቢ ሲውረገረግበት ስናይ ባናዝን እናፍራለን ነው የሆነብን።

እንግዲህ ህብረት ብቻውን የሚያመጣው ለውጥ ቢኖር ኢዴሐቅ፤ አማራጭ ሐይሎች፤ ሕብረት፤ ቅንጅት ከነዚያ በፊትም ፓሪስ 1፤ ፓሪስ 2 የተባሉ ነበሩን ግና ምን ፈየዱ ብለን ዛሬ ሒሳብ ልናወራርድ ብንነሳ የምናገኘው አወ በየጊዜው አዳዲስ የህዝብ ተስፋ ሰጥተዋል፤ ብሎም ትግሉን ግን ለድል ማብቃት አልቻሉም የሚል የሂሳብ ዘገባ ይኖረናል ማለት ነው። ለህብረት ምስረታ የታገልነውን ያክል እያንዳንዱ ድርጅት ቀበቶውን ጠበቅ አርጎ እና ኮስተር ብሎ በመሰለው ቢታገል ኖሮ ምናልባትም ካለንበት የተሻለ ሁኔታወች ቢአንስ ይኖሩን ነበር አልያም በለስ ቀንቶን ጠላትን ፈንግለነው ነበር። እንዳለ እድል ሆኖ ግን ቪዥን ያለው ከራሱ በላይ ለህብረተሰብ ለውጥ በቁርጥ የቆሙ መሪወች እያነሱ ወይም እየጠፉ መሄዳቸው ነው ይመስለኛል። ዛሬ ላለፉት አራት አመታት ድርጅቶች ከውስጥ እየፈረሱ ከሌላው ጋር ስለመተባበር ሲያወሩ ከርመዋል። ትግሉም ከላይ እንዳስቀመጥሁት፤ ወይዛዝርቱ ሳይቀር ከቆንጆ ቤታቸው ሳይወጡ መታገልን ስላወቁበት የስደት መንግስት እስከማቆቓም ደረሱ ማለት ነው። በዚያ ተቃውሞ የለኝም። ማንም ሰው ያሰበውን መስራት መብቱ ነው። ደግሞም አማራጭ ነው ብለው ሲያቀርቡ መልካም ቸር መንገድ ከማለት የሚያልፍ ትርፍ የሚያናግር ነገር የለውም። ግን የነዚህ ዜጎች ይህን ያክል እረጅም መንገድ ማሰብ ምክንያቱ እንደማነኛችንም ተስፋ ማጣት እና ባሉ መሪወችና ድርጅቶች እምነት መመንመን ይመስለኛ። ለዚህ ያደረሰን ደግሞ አቶ ሲራክ በየፈርጁ ያስቀመጠው ከማን እናብር የሚለው በውነቱ እንኩአን አቀበት አንድ እርምጃ ቁልቁል የሚሄድ አይመስለኝም። ለምን? ለሱ ጠላት እንደሱ የማያስብ ሁሉ መሆኑ ነው። እነሱ አንጃ ይሉታል እሱም አጃ ይላል። ግን ቃሉ እራሱ ያለፈበት ስለሆነ በጀ ብሎ የሚያዳምጥ ባለመኖሩ፤ እንደኔ ከሆነ የቁራ ጩኸት ሆኖ የቀረ ይመስለኛል። በሚኒሊክ ጊዜ የደነቆረ ይባል አይደል። ዛሬ ዘፈኑም እስክስታውም ስለተቀየረ እንደ አቶ ሲራክ አይነቶች ሁሉ የከበሮውን አመታት ቢቀይሩ ይሻላል ሰሚ ለማግኘት ነው ዋናው ነገሬ።

ታዲያ የሲራክን አስተሳሰብ መንቀፌ መተባበር አያስፈልግም ለማለት ሳይሆን፤ 1- መተባበር አስፈላጊ ነው ግን ለትብብር ቅድመ ሁኔታ ተገቢ አይደለም 2- ዛሬ ጠላታችን አንድ ብቻ ሆኖ የዚህ ጠላት ጥንካሬ ደግሞ በተቃዋሚ ጎራ ያለው አለመስማማት በመሆኑ፤ እንደኔ ይህ መጭው ትግል መለኝነትን፤ መሰሪነትን የሚፈለግ ነው፤ ስለሆነም ማንም የዚህ ደመኛ ጠላትን መወገድ የሚያምን ሁሉ ከኦጋዴን እንስከ ኢሮብ፤ ከሰላማውያኑ ታጋዮች እስከ ታጣቂወች ቢቻል ባንድ የትብብር ጃንጥላ አልያም ላለመነካካት ተስማምቶና ተከባብሮ በጠላት ላይ ፊትን ማዞር ምርጫ የሌለው ነው ብየ አምናለሁ። ይህ ነው ከሲራክ ጋር የማያስማማኝ እንዴውም የሲራክ አስተሳሰብ የመሸበት እና ለጠላት ጠቃሚ በመሆኑ ደግሞ ይታሰብበት ባይ ነኝ።

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የአቶ ሰውየውን ጽሑፎች በዚህና በሌሎችም ድረ-ገጾች ላይ ስለሚያገኟቸው ያንብቡና እኒህ ወገናችን
በሚሉት ላይ በመጨመር ወይም በመደገፍ ካለያም የግል አስተያየትዎን ያስቀምጡልን
አቶ ሰውየው ከሕብረተ-ሰቡ  የሚሰነዘረውን ለመስማት ዝግጁ ነው።

ነገሬን በተረት ልቀድሰው ባገራችን አንድ አባባል አለ ይኸውም ሰውየው ማንን ታሸንፋለህ ቢሉት ሚስቴን አለ ይባላል ደካማነቷን አይቶ ማለት ነው እንደሱ ያለውንና የፈረጠመውን ጎረምሳ እንዳይል ፈርቶ ይህንን አባባል እኛም ዛሬ ኢሀደግን እየታገልን ነው የምንለውም የዚ ተረት ወራሽ ሆነን እንደ ወረርሽኝ በሽታ ተዛምቶብን ዋናውንና የሀገራችን ደመኛ እህአዴግን ከመታገል ይልቅ አቅም ያጣውንና ሊያገግምና ሊነሳ የሚጣጣረውን የህዝብ ወገን የሆነውን ድጋፍ የሚሻውን ደካማውን እየፈለጉ ጭራሽ ከበሽታው እንዳያገግም በተኛበት ሄዶ እንዳይነሳ ማድረግ ጀግንነት አድርገነው ደረታችንን እንነፋለን ይሄ ጀግንነት ወይም ወንድነት አይደለም ይልቁንም ይሄንን መሰል ድርጊት ፈጻሚውን ትንሽነትና እርካሽነት የሚያሳይ ጉልህ መስታወት ነው።
በቅርቡ በተደጋጋሚ በተለያዩ ድህረገጾች ላይ አቶ ሰውየው በሚል ስም የግለሰቦችን ስም እያነሳ በጣም የወረደና ዝቅ ባለ ክብረነክ ዘለፋዎችን ጽፎ ተመልክቼ በጣም አዝኛለሁ። እኚህ ሰው ብዙ ግዜ በምገባባቸው የውይይት መድረኮች ውስጥ እድል ገጥሞኝ ስገባ አደምጣቸው ስለነበርና አመለካከታቸውም ከኔ ከግል አመለካከት ጋር በብዙ መንገዱ ስለሚቀራረብ ለኚህ ሰው ትልቅ ከበሬታ ነበረኝ። አሁን ድርጅት በድርጅት ላይ እየተፈጠረ ተቃዋሚው ቡድን ከቀን ወደቀን እየደከመ እየተከፋፈለ በመጣበት ጊዜ በመሀከላችን ያለውን ልዩነት ለማጥበብና ለመሰባሰብ ጎንበስ ቀና እያልን በምንሯሯጥበት ወቅት ተቃዋሚ ነን በሚል ስም በአድራጎት ግን ኢሀዴግን ሊያግዝ የሚችል ነገር እየሰሩ ተቃዋሚውን ካለው ድክመት ላይ ይባስ የሚያዳክም የእርስ በርስ ሽኩቻን አጋኖና አልፎም ተፈጠረ ለሚባለው አለመግባባት እንዳይበርድ እያራገቡ ያለ የሌለ ነገር እየቀባጠሩ መዘባረቅ የሚያስተዛዝብ ሆኖ አግኝቼዋለሁ። አለመግባባት ካለም ላለመግባባት ምክንያት ለሆነው ጊዜ ሰጥቶ ለችግሩ መፍትሄ መሻት በተገባ ነበር ያን ሳያደርጉ ተንደርድሮና ተቻኩሎ ነገሩ እንዳይበርድ ተጣድፎ ለነደደው እሳት ቤንዚን ማቀበል እጅግ የሚያሳዝን አቀራረብ ነው። ምነው እኚህ ግለሰብ ለተፈጠረው አለመግባባት አስታራቂ ሊሆን የሚችል ሀሳብ እንዳሁኑ ለመከፋፈልና ለማዳከም እንደሮጡት ለማስታረቁም በዚሁ ፍጥነትና ጉልበት አልሰሩበትም? ለማፍረስና ለመከፋፈል ሲሆን ምን አጣደፋቸው? ለግንባታ ሳይሆን ለማፍረሱ ብእራቸው ሰላ እነኚህ ተወቃሾች ዛሬ ቢያንስ ኢህአዴግን ባለ አቅማቸው እየታገሉ ያሉ ግለሰቦች እንደሆኑ እኔ እንደግለሰብ የምመሰክርላቸው ብቻ ሳይሆን ማንም ስራቸውንና ድርጊታቸውን ያየ ሁሉ የሚመሰክርላቸው ነው። ነገር ግን የህዝብ ወገን እንደሆኑ እያወቅን እኛ ያልነው ብቻ ካልሆነ እኛን ካላደመጡ በሚል ትምክህት ተነሳስቶ ይህን ያክል ወቀሳና ክብረነክ ባልተገባ ነበር ። ዛሬ ባለንበት አገር የኑሮውን ሁኔታ እያወቅን ያንን ሁሉ መስዋእትነት ከፍለው እየታገሉ ያሉን ግለሰቦች እንደማበረታታት በተቃራኒው ከፍ ዝቅ እያደረጉ ማራከስና መዝለፍ ታጋዮች ከትግል እንዲርቁ ለማድረግ የሚደረግ የውስጥ ስራ ካልሆነ በስተቀር ሌላ ሊሆን ይችላል ብሎ ለመገመት ያዳግታል።
ኢህአዴግን በጠላትነት የፈረጀና ኢህአዴግን እታገላለሁ ከሚል አንድ ግለሰብ የሚጠበቅም አይደለምና ጸሀፊው ያላቸው አቋም ኢሀዴጋዊ እንጂ ኢትዮጵያዊና ወገናዊ አልመስል ብሎኛል።
ይህንን ተደጋጋሚ የሆነ ጽሁፍ ሲያወጡ በነገሩ አላሰቡበትም አልተጨነቁበትም ለማለትም አያስደፍርም ስለሆነም የኚህን ግለሰብ የፖለቲካ አመለካከት ቀደም ብዬ አደምጣቸው ከነበረውና ከአንደበታቸው ይወጣ ከነበረው ቃል ጋር እጅግ የተለየ ሆኖ በማየቴ እውን እኚህ ግለሰብ ያን ሁሉ ጊዜ ያልሆኑትን እንደሆኑ አድርገው ነበር የሚያቀርቡት? ያ ከሆነ በእውነት በማስመሰል ችሎታቸው ሳላደንቃቸው አላልፍም። ካልሆነ ግን መሰረተቢስ በሆነ የግል ፍላጎት ተነሳስቶ ዜጎችን ማዋረድ ባህላችን አይደለምና ጸሀፊው ልቦናው ሰጥቷቸው ወደህሊናቸው ተመልሰው ላደረጉት ስህተት ይቅርታ ጠይቀው ከትግሉ ጎራ ቢሰለፉ መልካም ነው የሚል አስተያየቴን እለግሳቸዋለሁ። ያን ማድረግ ቢያቅታቸው አንኳን ለሀገራቸው በሚደክሙና በሚለፉ ቡድኖችና ግለሰቦች መሀከል እየገቡ ቀና ሰዎችን እንዳይሰሩ ከማደናቀፍ ቢቆጠቡ ይመረጣል ይህንን መፈጸም ካልተቻላቸው ግን በትክክል ከየትኛው ወገን እንደሚያስፈርጃቸው ለጸሀፊው ልነግራቸው አይገባም ከኔ የላቁና ያወቁ ናቸው ብዬ አምናለሁና።
እዚህ ላይ አንድ ሳልጠቅሰው የማላልፈው ጉዳይ ቢኖር እኚህ ግለሰብ የሚደግፉት ድርጅት የሚወነጀልበት አንዱ ጸሀፊው በጽሁፋቸው የሚያንጸባርቁት አይነት የእኔ አውቅልሀልሁና የሁሉ ነገር ፈጣረና ወሳኝ እኛ ብቻ ነን የሚል ትምክህተኝነት ስለሆነ የሚወነጀሉበትን ሁኔታ ያጠናክረዋልና ምናልባት የሚደግፉትና እየታገልኩለት ነው ለሚሉት ድርጅት እውነተኛ ደጋፊው ከሆኑ ለድርጅታቸው አሳቢና ተቆርቋረ ከሆኑ ድርጅቱን እየጎዱት እንጂ እየጠቀሙት እንዳልሆነ እንዴት ተሳናቸው? ድርጅቱም የጸሀፊው አካሄድ ትክክል እንዳልሆነ አስገንዝቦ አቋም ሊወስድበትና አባላቱንም እንዲታረሙ ማድረግ የሚቻልበት መንገድ ካለ በጽሞና ሊያስብበት ይገባል።
በትግል ስም ትግልን ማዳከም በኢትዮጵያዊነት ስም ኢትዮጵያን መግደል በህዝብ ስም ህዝብን መበደል ሊያበቃ ይገባልና ወደ ህሊናችን ተመልሰን አገራችን ከወደቀችበት አዘቅት እናውጣት።
አ . ሰመረ
አድርባይና አስመሳይ ታጋዮች ይጋለጡ
ኢትዮጵያዊነት ለዘላለም ይኑር
አምላክ አገራችንን ይባርክልን

By Obo Arada Shawl    December 13, 2008

Background Information

Aethiopia is a beautiful country. That is the only reason why the Aethiopians have kept their Independence intact. How, why and what kind of beauty? I leave the real answer to my readers.

But for me and for others who think like me, Aethiopia’s beauty lies in its natural-ecological beauty expressed in 13^th months of sunshine as in Ethiopia and 3 seasons in just 2 hours of vehicular travel as in Eritrea. In other words, Aethiopia is endowed with mountains for cooling purpose and it is located near the Earth’s Equator for warming purposes. Isn’t that something of value to be thankful to God or to our ancestors? Adam and Eve (A&E) ገርሂ እና ድንቅነሽ

According to legend, the people who have inhabited this Land are righteous, humble and God fearing people. With my own experience, these Aethiopians didn’t differentiate between names, boundaries and careers. They all lived as nomads, herders, tillers, traders, warriors, bandits or teachers (debteras included).

Philosophically, these Aethiopians had lived on the principle of “live and let live” regardless of name, address or career differentiation. All of them are governed by Market Place በአገር ገበያ and not by Wall Street. I have been visiting markets – from Monday to Sunday as was part of my job and they all were located and based on open market. The amazing part, most of them speak their own dialects or languages with no sense of fear or indignation for not knowing the language of neither of the merchants nor of the government in power. To classify them on language basis is pure racism. There is neither market place for ideas nor for products that govern Aethiopians as at to date.

Technically, though, the Aethiopians were living in 17^th or 18^th centuries, as 90% of the land mass is without communication and transport services.

Those who conceived this situation had embarked upon developing freedom of social movement and the open economic market fabrics of the Great Society into the 20^th century. Not in technical terms but in philosophical, ideological and political contexts.

Kiflu Tadesse who authored the book on “The Generation” has this to say

This is a book about a generation of Ethiopians who embarked on an arduous struggle to transform its country. The first members of this generation were born in the early 1940’s and the youngest in the early and mid 1950’s. It was a generation of activists who came together because of altruistic aims and goals. It was a generation that was visionary, idealist and perceptive and consisted of the most enlightened and brightest citizens. Many of the members of these groups were among the privileged few who had access to modern education. Most of them were successful academically and many were honor students.”

^* Emphasis is mine

However, a widespread ignorance of a crucial nature in politics, philosophy and economics is apparent in today’s Aethtiopia. What has happened to the Ethiopian Eway Revolution? Was there something wrong with the stars or the Revolutionaries? What has intervened or what has happened in between the following years? The answer should come from my readers. Decipher the letter B. You will find the answer.

1961 – 1974 = 13 years

1974 – 1987 = 13 years

1987 – 2000 = 13 years

2000 – 2013 = 13 years

• Hint: Menghistu brothers; international conspiracy against Aethiopia; peace deal and the dawn of DEMOCRACIA

If we cannot figure out the years of the software indicators for reflection, conspiracy, peace and downfalls for 52 years, then surely all our docile educated class have reason to believe that WMD (Wallelligne Makonnen – DEBTERAW) have brought to Aethiopia real WMD (weapons of mass destruction).

If this is the case, we have to revisit the software path of the Eway Revolution.

Again, Ato Kiflu continues writing in his preface as follows

“ An effort is made to portray events, incidents, decisions and activities realistically. Detailed analysis and interpretations of the activities are not provided, only the account of the history itself. This was done for the sake of fairness and with the intention to express the actual feeling of the fallen comrades. It is the intention of the author to tell their story the way it was made and the way they want it to be told and retold. The correctness or wrongness of events or decision is not the main focus, but an explanation of why things happened the way they did and the attenuating circumstances that influenced decision making.”

^** Emphasis is mine

This week, I have visited the office of EPRP in Washington, DC. Although I have made several visits in the past, this is my first time to observe a special item of interest. Was it the set up of the office? No. Was it the variety of books? No. Was it the rack on which computers was place? No. Was it the radio room? It was none of the above.

It was a painting, hanging on a wall that attracted my attention. I have seen it a dozen of times but never figured it out the way I did it now. ልብ እንጂ ዓይን አያይም የሚሉት ትክክል ነው። The painting has been in the office for almost 2 decades, but to my amazement, I did not give the attention they (the personalities) or it (the painting) deserves.

Now that I have, what does this painting represent in EPRP’s office? Who were or who are these personalities? These three individuals were true comrades who honestly believed to be the pioneers in idealizing Aethiopia but only if they would be involved in the Eway Revolution. All three portray different family and education background but above all their true passion in each of the following areas of

• Politics

• Revolution and

• Philosophy

Matters to all of the Great Society of past Ethiopia and the future of Aethiopia, for understanding these three departments of knowledge is a priority. I believe that without these precondition, nothing will go forward and albeit backward. For EPRP, these tasks have been carried out by many of its members and supporters and so the task of the party of EPRP will be focused on organization and leadership.

On Organization

Anyhow, let me go back to what I can decipher from the painting where I can contribute to the truth.

They are from left to right

1. Wallelligne Makonnen ዋለልኝ መኮነን

2. DEBTERAW and ፀገየ ገብረ መድህን

3. Tilahun Gizaw ጥላሁን ግዛው

As widely believed to be, nameless and faceless members of EPRP and supporters are considered to be followers of Marx-Engels-Lenin. But that was and still is not true. Aethiopian Revolutionaries were not reading or following what Marx, Engles or Lenin have written or said, or as the paintings of MEL as displayed on Revolution or Meskal Square. The majority of EPRP supporters and associates were following their own national heroes of Wallelligne-Debteraw-Tilahun (WDT ሠዐፐ). Let us briefly examine what these personalities have represented and are still representing.

Wallelligne Mekonnen: on collectivism

Wallelligne was a person who deeply believed in independent thinking. He was an individualist who believed that collectivism in any form was wrong especially the type of Russian or the Chinese style. I am actually referring to our way of organizing principles -on the basis of nationalities – is very wrong. Organization should not be based on languages alone. Even by the standard of Stalin’s definition, language is one among many. True to Wallelligne’s nature, language be it any language including Amharic by itself is not a criterion for an identity. Wallelligne believed that language is only a tool for communication and a tool for thought processing. Nothing else. That was actually the main reason why he wrote the article on nation and nationalities in order to dispel oppression, as many believed that the culprit is the language of Amharic.

Since Wallelligne was a political science student as such, he was writing, thinking and acting on political level. He knew that the Amhara was a symbol of political affiliation not an economic or a cultural affirmation. He did not only address the problem of the national question but he had also attempted to redress it. It is up to us to follow his solution in the right context and in the correct way and not a^ la Woyane’s way. Wallelligne Mokonnen Kassa did not recommend the future of Eritrea as a state of nine nationalities or as many as eighty-one something in the Ethiopian case and worst at that solely based on geography or ethnic languages.

As to his organizational affiliation to EPRP, he was recruited or has recruited others on an individual basis not on a group or national as it was the case with the Woyane and Shaebia’s way of recruitment. Any EPRP member was convinced to join the organization on a personal level and not by threat or cheat. Wasn’t this a wonderful way of organizing a revolutionary political party. There is no regrets whatsoever for those who has joined on this principles of organization.

I have no doubt that Walleligne would abhor the concept of ethnic rule. Ethnic rule with all its dogmas and rules, traditions and dialects would surely be a mental disaster. Tribes will subsist on the edge of starvation and at the mercy of natural disaster. A man of self-esteem like Walleligne would not accept the notion that the content of his mind should be determined by muscles, namely by the means of unspecified string of ancestors. Determinism by Marxism is far superior to ethnicity. Collectivism based on language should be abolished. That was not the idea of WMK. Due Consideration might be given to the article of October 23, 2008 (call me by my address: Solutions with DEBTERAW, III). The proposal was not mainly based on the three individual’s wish, but of thousands especially with mixed parentage.

Tsegey Gebre Medhin – DEBTERAW: on myth

The mystic’s doctrine that men must give credit to God for all their virtues and vices was unacceptable to DEBTERAW. Religion encompasses ancestral or cultural traditions, writings, history and mythology as well as personal faith and religious experience. Ritual myths of performance practices or patterns associated with temples or centers of worship, preliterate oral traditions that may vanish as the written word becomes the story and the literate class becomes the authority. Aethiopians must blame for all their sins upon themselves, is the mystic’s doctrine. The principle of men’s right to their own life, their liberty, to the pursuit of happiness would be the ultimate goal of all Aethiopians after the Eway Revolution as declared by DEBTERAW and his party.

However, social myths reinforce or defend social values or practices. On the one hand, in our cases, we have seen nationalist modern scholars such as Tecola Hagos (a Tigrian nationalist), Jordan Gebre Medhin (an Eritrean nationalist) whose works of studies was/is as exposed by Girma Bekele in his writings on ethnocentrism is distortion of the highest form.

DEBTERAW, on the other hand, expounded the traditional story, typically involving supernatural beings or forces of creature, which embodies and provides explanation. Justification (etiology) a religious belief or ritual or a natural phenomenon was clarified by DEBTERAW, Tsegeye G Medhin to anybody who needed at the time of the revolution.

Not all traditional stories are myths. For instance, a person or thing held in awe or generally referred to with near reverential admiration on the basis of popularly repeated stories be it real or fiction is not a harmful myth. Those who knew DEBTERAW personally can testify.

So what is wrong with being debtera? DEBTERAW has enlightened the Aethiopian population through traveling – physically, philosophically, socially, spiritually and above all via the Eway Revolution from Assimba via Tselemt, via the Abay river back to the Market Places of Aethiopia.

For those of us who do not know the difference between a debtera and a priest, the former is mostly responsible for education (spiritual life of community) whereas the latter has a representative function. Unlike that of the Jewish debtera, the Aethiopian debteras were part and parcel of the church hierarchy for they are poets, writers, musicians, dancers and healers. DEBTERAW has opposed the interference of the state into the affairs of the church and vice versa. By the way, the Independence of Aethiopia has been kept by the work of the debteras. The distinction between the task of the debtera and the priests is the same between personal and business matters.

Tilanhun Gizaw: on altruism

Tilahun Gizaw was the elected student president of USUAA. Tilahun was from the nobility of Tigrai state. His sister was married to Emperor Haile Sellasie’s son.

Tilahun has been taking courses in Sociology, which was not popular at that time in Haile Sellassie’s University.

However, from our class discussions and personal conversation, Tilahun had the following core beliefs

• The right to own property over random search and seizure

• Liberty over oppression

• Natural right to life over the constant fear of death

After his failure to become a student president, he studied the true nature of Aethiopian societies condition and desire first hand. Unlike the unholy claim that he was against the fortune’s of his sister, Tilahun finally took the idea that when Aethiopians have the opportunity to choose, they will choose to be ruled by the consent of the governed not by the coercion of the Ethiopian State. This is what we globally call nowadays as the rule of law, not by the whim of the rulers. How true Tilahun was.

As to his altruism, I do not think, Tilahun had believed in this concept. I also think that the author Kiflu Tadesse’s statement of altruism did sink or match with the beliefs of most Revolutionaries let alone with all Aethiopians. Why? It is an appropriate question. Here is why.

Altruism is a condition, which refers to people who keep sacrificing themselves and their values. We have seen this state of conditions during the DERG era, the Anja era, the TPLF and the EPLF era. That is to say that altruists sacrifice their friends to enemies, their allies to their antagonists, their convictions to anyone’s wishes, the truth to lie, their strength to anyone’s weakness and the good to any evil.

There is a misconception about altruism in the Eway society. Altruism is confused with kindness or due consideration to others. In fact, altruism is a moral theory that preaches that man must sacrifice himself to others. In our revolutionary struggle, many people thought that the comrades should place the interest of others above their own and that they actually are required to live for the sake of others. Was this not our Aethiopian core of confusion? If it is not let us discuss and solve our problems.

The reason why Tilahun Gizaw participated in the Eway Revolution was simply to ameliorate the economic and the social conditions of all Aethiopians via the politics of democracy – allowing the will of the majority to prevail while protecting the rights of the minority, including the Royal Family.

Concluding remarks

Unless the term ‘generation’ has different meanings to Ato Kiflu, a generation is defined as the average time between a mother’s first offspring and her daughter’s first offspring. This makes a generation around 30 years in length. Compare this with 33 years of Jesus Christ as one generation. Sociologists mostly accept the classification of generation of Silent (1925-45); the Boom (1946-61); the Thirteen (1962-81); the Millennial (1982-2000) and the New Silent (2001-?). Ato Kiflu should rename his title of his book; otherwise, the generation he is referring to is dying out. It is time for detailed analysis and conceptual understanding of a generation. The struggle is still continuing with or without DEBTERAW. But Ato Kiflu seems to forget WDT. Let us all visit the EPRP office for a reminder of the living and the fallen comrades as Ato Kiflu has displayed a poem on the page of his book.

Ethnicity has a history of endless and bloody warfare. We should not wait for that to happen. Our only hope would be to be organized on a common cause and common ground. DEBTERAW has shown us the way to dispel mythology, Wallelligne has written and struggled until death to bring the solution to the problem of nations and nationalities and Tilahun has shown the courage for what was right and honorable in defiance to his social class. The painting that is hanging on the walls of EPRP office is a true reminder of Aethiopian role models for political leadership.

In other words, these three giant personalities have shown us

• How to know ourselves

• How to love our country and

• How to differentiate one’s ally from the enemy

^ የዋለልኝ መኮነን የአገር መበተን ዘመቻ፤ የጥላሁን ግዛው የምንቀኝነት አባዜ፤ እና የደብተራው ፀገየ ገብረ መድህን መሰሪ ሥረ በተራው ሕዝብ ዘንድ ሰለተስራጨ ይህን ጽሑፍ ይነበብ።

TRUTH WILL PREVAIL

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By Tedla  Asfaw                                   To
read Awde Ethiopia – 19th Edition [1]

_Hate is a force that is driving_ _Meles and his racist_ _circles.
They are also experts in digging underground jails in Northern
Ethiopia where they kept many EPRP leaders like “Debteraw” and former
Ethiopian army high officials for more than two decades. The case of
the Ethiopian Air Force pilots we recently learned about is fresh
testimony to that._

To read Awde Ethiopia – 19th Edition [2]

The military government of Mengisu Hailemariam, Derg, was known for
widespread killing of its opponents. Elimination of opponents was well
choreographed then. The first official victims were the sixty high
officials of Imperial Ethiopia thirty five years ago. Since then many
opponents lost their lives and we were accustomed to the accompanying
musics/ “Shilela”, the famous one was “Yefeyele Wetete/young goat Vs
tiger” , the trademark of Derg’s brutality.

However, the TPLF regime is totally different. It has its own
choreography. You do not hear official music/shilela before or after
killing of opponents. Killing is usually followed by seating down with
victim families and watch who is showing up and try to find out what
the public is thinking about the killing and possibly find other
enemies.

The killing is also going slowly in many prison camps as we speak.
Young Oromo prisoners were gunned down few years ago under the cover
of prison riots, however, the most common method of eliminating
political opponents is by exposing them to unsanitary and deadly
condition inside the prison. One of such prisons is the malaria
infested Ziwaye prison where our beloved son Teddy Afro is rumored to
be sent.

Why Ziwaye prison/ Abu Ghairb ? It is just to expose Teddy Afro to the
deadly malaria that took many prisoners lives in the past. It is also
a place where torture is carried out regularly far from witnesses and
we might not see Teddy Afro alive if he is sent to Ziwaye. We have to
expose the deadly scheme of TPLF before it is too late.

TPLF racists can not sleep well until they shut down Teddy Afro’s
mouth forever and that is why they are going to send him to his death
cell in Ziwaye. Teddy Afro is not a criminal to be sent far from his
families and millions of his admirers. TPLF wanted to preempt the
weekly visit of thousands of Ethiopians similar the elected Kinijit
leaders while they were locked up in Kaliti few years ago.

TPLF know that Teddy Afro has millions of followers, most of them
young who would like to see him each week if he is in Kaliti. When
Ethiopians are calling for Teddy Afro’s immediate and unconditional
release in last month Great Run, sending him to remote far prison not
to be visited is an insult to millions of Ethiopians.

Hate is a force that is driving Meles and his racist circles. They are
also experts in digging underground jails in Northern Ethiopia where
they kept many EPRP leaders like “Debteraw” and former Ethiopian army
high officials for more than two decades. The case of the Ethiopian
Air Force pilots we recently learned about is fresh testimony to that.

Meles and his inner circles had “Phd” in “prison management” and have
more than thirty years of experience on how to brake opponents spirit
using prison and in many cases these underground prisons also became a
burying ground for many Ethiopian patriots. Ziwaye Prison is not
underground but still run by the underground prison experts guided by
the thick prison book/constitution of TPLF.

Human Right Organizations should expose these prisons both underground
and on surface for international community and held those who run this
deadly enterprise accountable. Former TPLF founders like Ato Sieye
Abraha, Gebru Asrat and many others who now claim to be on peoples
side should expose the “prison industry” of Ethiopia they pioneered to
bring all who have blood on their hands to face justice.