By TesfaNews,

Over 20 prisoners were feared killed and many others injured after guards fired at inmates who were trying to flee fire that gutted the Qilinto maximum-security prison on Saturday night.

The intensive gunfire that ensued have created a tense situation among local residents in the area.

According to reports that are coming out of the capital, 22 bodies were taken to Paulos hospital. The death toll is expected to rise sharply after reports of 13 deaths at Tor Hailoch Hospital and 14 at Police Hospital have beenreported.

Under the Federal Prison Administration, Qilinto hosts the country’s high profile political prisoners including senior leaders of the Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC).

The fate of these political and religious prisoners, however, remains unknown. There is heavy presence of security forces from the federal police around the scene and the prison remains cordoned off to public.

State media put the toll as one person dead, and six others injured. None of the victims have been identified by their names though.

Distressed families of prisoners are awaiting to hear the fate of their loved ones.

The TPLF dominated regime has a history of setting prisons on fire in order to use the chaos to eliminate critical political figures. During the aftermath of the 2005 election, the regime killed 163 prisoners at Kaliti prison using a riot as a pretext.

OFC deputy leader Mulatu Gemechu told the VOA Amharic program that his party is anxiously awaiting to hear the fate of its leader such as Bekele Gerba and other party members.

“We are seriously worried about the fate of our leaders, members and supporters of our party,” said Gemechu.

He said the Qilinto fire incident was reminiscent of the Ambo Prison and Gonder Prison tragedies. In both cases, prisoners who were trying to save themselves by fleeing the inferno were gunned down by security guards.

According to Addis Fortune sources, the federal police unit has taken over security of the Qilinto prison from Federal Prison Administration.

By Engidu Woldie

ESAT News (September 4, 2016)

450 soldiers have deserted Ethiopian regime’s army today in North Gondar and announced that they have joined the struggle launched by the people to remove the brutal regime.

A representative of the defectors told ESAT on the phone that, the army, as it is made up of the sons and daughters of the Ethiopian people, should stand on their side at this critical time.

He said the army, like the people, has suffered in the hands of the corrupt TPLF Generals and other top brass officers who are all

Tigrayans and who inflicted untold misery on members of the army.

Today’s desertion bring the total number to over 1000, just in the last ten days.

(More updates will follow as they come)

(Photo from file)

The Movement: Road to Reform or Uncertain Future? SBS Amharic
በአውስትራሊያ የኢፌዴሪ ባለ ሙሉ ሥልጣን አምባሳደር ትርፉ ኪዳነ ማርያም፤ የወቅታዊውን የኢትዮጵያ ሁኔታ አስመልክቶ በመንግሥት በኩል ስላለው አተያይ ይናገራሉ።

Does the LF in TPLF stand for Lie Factory?
The T-TPLF  (Thugtatorship of the Tigrean Peoples Liberation Front) has now launched a slick disinformation campaign to discredit and diminish the historic popular uprisings against it in Ethiopia.

The ruling T-TPLF party in Ethiopia is a criminal terrorist organizationlisted  in the Global Terrorism Data Base.

Disinformation is “intentionally false or inaccurate information that is spread deliberately.”  The underlying aim in disinformation is to generate deceptive and false statements to convince others lies are truths.

Disinformation courses in the bloodstream of the T-TPLF body politics.

A good example of disinformation is what the T-TPLF did when Melies died.

The T-TPLF claimed Melies was on vacation after he had been dead possibly for weeks. T-TPLF leaders ramped up a silly disinformation campaign to convince the world that Melies  was recovering from “exhaustion resulting from long public service”. They gave daily briefings for days on the “health status” of the dead Melies.

The chief disinformation minister at the time was Berket Simon who reminds me of  Iraq’s cartoonish “Chemical Ali”, Saddam Hussien’s Information Minister. Ali used to tell reporters during the 2003 Iraq war, “The Americans are going to surrender or be burned in their tanks. They will surrender, it is they who will surrender.”

Of course, the Americans had parked their tanks and Humvees outside the Information Ministry as Ali was pronouncing their doom. Melies was already dead as Simon told the world Melies was on vacation.

Melies was definitely on a permanent no return vacation.

Lies, damned lies and statislies make the body politics of the TPLF. Is it Meles or Melies?

Just last week, the New York Times had a story on how the Russian regime uses disinformation as a “powerful weapon”.  The story suggested that the Russians are generating “a flood of distorted and outright false information on social media, confusing public perceptions of the issue” of NATO and Western nuclear weapons strategy.

Disinformation is like what Mao Zedong said: “A lie repeated a hundred times becomes the truth.”

The T-TPLF is repeating the lie a hundred times that the current countrywide uprising in Ethiopia against them is the work of “Shabiya [Eritrea]”, “Egypt” and other imaginary enemies manufactured in the warped imaginations of T-TPLF leaders.

The T-TPLF is repeating the lie a hundred times that the current countrywide uprising in Ethiopia against them is the work of terrorist cells sponsored by foreign elements who have designs on Ethiopia and want to thwart the completion of the Nile Dam.

The T-TPLF communications minister recently said that the current countrywide uprising in Ethiopia against them is the work of  “illegal committees” who are involved in murder and kidnapping, and had a large cache of weapons.

T-TPLF  puppet prime minster (PPM)(I did not say crime minister) said the current “disturbances” were the handiwork of  “anti-peace forces” who have “inflicted losses on human lives and government and private property in a bid to divert the people’s legitimate questions.”

The PPM also said, “Ethiopia is an island of stability within the Horn of Africa, which is a troubled region. Our people are very much engaged in fighting anti-peace elements and terrorism.”  In other words, without the T-TPLF not only will Ethiopia disintegrate and be reduced to ashes, the Horn of Africa will also go up in flames!

Behold Melies Zenawi and the TPLF, the Second Coming in (the Horn) Africa.

That is what the T-TPLF wants Obama Administration and the international poverty pimps to think; and they willingly oblige.

The T-TPLF has made Ethiopia the Land of Living Lies.

I wrote about it in my commentary  “The Bedtime Stories of Meles Zenawi” in May 2012 and March 2015 commentary  entitled  “A Tale of Tall Tales and ‘Ethiopia’s Diplomat-in-Chief’”.

The indisputable fact, indeed the undeniable truth, is that the uprisings taking place and spreading like wildfire throughout Ethiopia today are grassroots and organic movements.

Only the T-TPLF living in Denial-istan denies the manifest truth.

Ethiopians today have drawn the line in the sand for the T-TPLF. The T-TPLF has got to go. No ifs or butts about it!

Ethiopians are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the T-TPLF.

Of course, the T-TPLF is trying its best to put on a brave face to the world and declare to the world they are still in charge, they are still the boss and they still run the show.

The fact of the matter is that the T-TPLF is on its last wobbly legs.

More accurately, the T-TPLF is Humpty Dumpty today. Neither the king’s men nor horses can put Humpty Dumpty together.

For that matter, neither Debretsion Gebremichael, Samora Yunis, Senbat Nega, Tedros Adhanom, Seyoum Mesfin,  Arkebe Oqubay, Abay Tsehaye, Abadi Zemo, Tsegay Berhe, Azeb Mesfin, Haftom Abraha, Redwan Hussien,  Hailemariam Desalegn (?) nor anyone else in T-TPLF thugdom can put Humpty Dumpty T-TPLF together again.

Everyone knows the T-TPLF is tone deaf (at least pretends to be deaf)  but if it took the wax out of its ears it could hear the bells toll.

If the T-TPLF wonders for whom does the bell toll, I would answer it with a line  from John Donne: “It tolls for thee.”

The fact of the matter is that we should never let the T-TPLF pull the wool over our heads. In other words, we must never allow the T-TPLF scammers scam us; the T-TPLF con men con us and the T-TPLF flim flammers flim flam us.

So I have written this commentary to inform and edify my readers on the T-TPLF’s 25-year-long disinformation campaign in the context of the info wars the T-TPLF is waging today and to warn that we should remain vigilant for any T-TPLF disinformation campaigns on the current uprising in Ethiopia.

Over the years, I have been writing about the myriad disinformation campaigns the T-TPLF has conducted in the local and international media.

Following the 2005 elections, the late T-TPLF thugmaster Meles Zenawi launched a disinformation campaign to convince the world that the hundreds of innocent and unarmed protesters he massacred and wounded were actually armed terrorists who posed a “challenge to the “constitutional order”.

In a videotaped interview,  Melies Zenawi justified what  he called the “deaths of up to 194 civilians”. He said,  “… There was a challenge to the constitutional order in Ethiopia; and that challenge had to be faced.” By massacres, of course.

In other words, the protesters invited their own deaths, and their deaths should not matter because they threatened the “constitutional order”. That is code for terrorists.

Melies said he “doubted” if the massacres had changed “the views of world leaders” towards him, but “it clearly tarnished the image of Ethiopia.” Simply stated, killing terrorists ain’t no big deal and it had no effect on his prestige and credibility. Melies was right. The U.S. was pumping $3.5 billion within three years of the 2005 Meles Massacres.

Fortunately, Melies’  own Inquiry Commission exposed Melies’ lies and put all of the responsibility for the 2005  massacres at Zenawi’s feet declaring that “there was no property destroyed [by the unarmed protesters]” and that “not a single protester who was armed with a gun or a hand grenade (as reported by the government-controlled media that some of the protesters were armed with guns and bombs). Police and security officials intentionally shot and killed 193 persons and wounded 763.” [Parenthesis original.]

In December 2006, I exposed the T-TPLF’s disinformation campaign to justify its  invasion and occupation of Somalia alleging an existential threat by the Islamic Courts Union and Al Shabab terrorists. Melies Zenawi said, “what has happened since last summer is that the Islamic courts have been training, equipping and smuggling armed opposition elements into Ethiopia. These elements have been engaged in activities of destabilization in Ethiopia. Hundreds of these have been smuggled and they have been involved in clashes with security forces in Ethiopia.” Zenawi asserted the legal doctrine of pre-emptive self-defence (the right to use force in anticipation of an attack, Art. 51, UN Charter) in his disinformation campaign to clothe his naked aggression against Somalia.

In June 2008, I exposed the T-TPLF’s  disinformation campaign on famine in Ethiopia in a  commentary entitled “The Art of Denial (Lying)”.

The T-TPLF has always claimed that there has never been famine in Ethiopia since they took over power in 1991. There have been “food shortages”, “severe malnutrition”, “droughts”, etc., but never famines. In other words, Ethiopia has been a land of milk and honey (for them exclusively, of course) growing at a rate of over 10 percent per year over the past decade. Famine simply could not happen.

The T-TPLF even got the U.S. and the international poverty pimps to sing in chorus about Ethiopia as one of the handful “fastest growing economies in the world”. These guys are so shameless that they do not even bat an eye when they say Ethiopia is facing the “worst famine in 50 tears” and in the same breath claim Ethiopia is one of the fastest growing economies. They think we are all dumb and stupid. Are we? (Just wondering!)

Luckily, that disinformation campaign stopped after I demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that the T-TPLF disinformation on the so-called growth is a lie, a damned lie and a statis-lie (statistical)  lie. I put out the challenge, and again do so for the hundredth time now, to anyone to prove by clear and convincing evidence that the T-TPLF’s claim of 10 percent and more annual growth over the past decade is true.

In 2016 as Ethiopia faces the “worst drought in 50 years” in 2016, the T-TPLF even got one of  their toadies from their bush days to further spread their disinformation on famine in Ethiopia.

In a recent  op-ed piece in the New York Times (International Edition), a well-known  T-TPLF toady  proudly declared the end of the “era of great famines” in Ethiopia, and that “Ethiopians aren’t starving to death”, only their “animals are dying of thirst.” The current USAID Administrator Gayle E. Smith, another T-TPLF groupie from the T-TPLF’s days in the bush, said exactly the same thing.

In 2010, I exposed the T-TPLF’s disinformation campaign on why Melies decided to jam Voice of America (VOA) Amharic language broadcasts into Ethiopia. Melies said  the VOA was promoting  Rwandan-style “interhamwe” (which in Kinyarwanda or Rwanda means “those who stand, work, fight, attack together”) genocide in Ethiopia. “We have been convinced for many years that in many respects, the VOA Amharic Service has copied the worst practices of radio stations such as Radio Mille Collines of Rwanda in its wanton disregard of minimum ethics of journalism and engaging in destabilizing propaganda.”

The truth was that Melies  and the T-TPLF were the ones preaching and practicing genocide in Ethiopia.

In April 2011, I wrote a commentary about the T-TPLF’s art of war by mass distraction exposing its disinformation efforts to distract public attention by beating the drums of war on enemies that exist only in the figment of their imaginations.

Melies claimed, “Recently, Eritrea is training and deploying Al Shabab and locally grown destructive forces to terrorize our country. But Egypt is the direct force behind these destructive elements that back them.” Melies blustered,  “We have to facilitate ways for Eritrean people to remove their dictatorial regime. If the Eritrean government tries to attack us, we will also respond proportionally.” It is like Tweedle Dee attacking Tweedle Dum.

In May 2, 2014, the T-TPLF massacred at least 47 university and high school students in the town of  Ambo 80 miles west of the capital Addis Ababa peacefully protesting land grabs in Oromiya. The T-TPLF launched a disinformation campaign to sweep the massacre under the rug claiming that a “few anti-peace forces incited and coordinated the violence”.  Human Rights Watch issued a statement condemning the “shooting at and beating [of] peaceful protesters in Ambo, Nekemte, Jimma, and other towns”.

The T-TPLF even  snookered President Barack Obama in its disinformation campaign.

When Obama visited Ethiopia in July 2015, he shocked the world by lying through his teeth: I don’t bite my tongue too much when it comes to these issues. We are opposed to any group that is promoting the violent overthrow of a government, including the government of Ethiopia, that has been democratically elected. We are very mindful of Ethiopia’s history – the hardships that this country has gone through. It has been relatively recently in which the constitution that was formed and the elections put forward a democratically elected government. (Emphasis added.)

Obama was right. It is hard to bite a forked tongue. That is why snakes have no teeth.

In May 2015, the T-TPLF held “elections” and declared it had won it by 100 percent. Yes, by one hundred percent.

By the way, in May 2010 the T-TPLF claimed to have won the “election” that year by 99.6 percent. I predicted at the time that the T-TPLF will win the 2015 election by 100 percent. The T-TPLF did, indeed.

Over the past year, the T-TPLF has been making killing fields in Oromiya and Amhara regions.  According to a June 16, 2016 Human Rights Watch (HRW) report:

State security forces in Ethiopia have used excessive and lethal force against largely peaceful protests. Security forces shot into crowds, summarily killing people during mass roundups, and torturing detained protesters. Many of those arrested or killed were children under the age of 18. Security forces regularly arrested dozens of people at each protest, and in many locations security forces went door-to door-at night arresting students and those accommodating students in their homes. Security forces have tortured and otherwise ill-treated detainees, and several female detainees described being raped by security force personnel. Very few detainees have had access to legal counsel, adequate food, or to their family members.   (Watch HRW’s video of  T-TPLF Oromiya Massacres and torture.)

In June 2016, I wrote a commentary entitled, “Ethiopia-Eritrea Wargames of Mass Distraction?” exposing the T-TPLF’s disinformation campaign about war, rumors of war and drumbeats of war signaling a ground war between Ethiopia and Eritrea.

T-TPLF communication minister Getachew “Motor Mouth” Reda said, “There were significant casualties on both sides, but more on the Eritrean side. We used to take precautionary measures against this regime, but this time was much more important in terms of magnitude than the measures that were taken so far.” Eritrea claimed to have killed 200 Ethiopian soldiers and wounded 300 more. Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum playing war games.

The T-TPLF has been committing massacres that rise up to crimes against humanity in Gonder, Bahr Dar and numerous locations in Oromiya.

The T-TPLF believes it can crush the popular uprisings by massive military retaliation and go back to business as usual.

I say the T-TPLF and its gang of thugs can go back to hell where they came from in a handbasket.

T-TPLF Disinformation campaign techniques on Planet Denial-istan

The T-TPLF has used a variety of disinformation techniques in their campaigns of lies, damned lies and statislies to hoodwink and mislead particularly the international community:

Deny, deny and deny the plain facts and the undeniable truth. For instance, the T-TPLF denied it had stolen the 2005 election in broad daylight; and after Melies massacred hundreds of unarmed demonstrators, he launched a disinformation campaign to blame the victims claiming they “threatened the constitutional order”, a kinder and gentler phrase for terrorist threat. The T-TPLF has always denied there has been a popular uprising or a peaceful demonstration in Ethiopia since 1991.  The T-TPLF disinformation campaign describes all protests and acts of mass civil disobedience in the country as “disturbances” and “terrorist acts.”

Deny awareness. For instance, the T-TPLF would spread disinformation that famine does not exist in Ethiopia because they are not aware of it. If there were famine, they would not know about it. Since they are not aware of it (pretend not to be aware), it does not exist. If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, did it fall? For the T-TPLF, it did not. Similarly, the T-TPLF is not aware of any uprisings, therefore people should not believe their lying eyes and ears as they witness the uprisings spreading like wildfire.

Deny responsibility. The T-TPLF has never admitted the occurrence of famine in Ethiopia since they took power in 1991. Part of their disinformation campaign has been that there has never been famine, but if there is or had ever been, God is responsible because he forgot to send rain. It is His problem, not theirs.  Similarly, the “disturbances” throughout the country today are the result of powerful foreign agents and misguided terrorists, not the result of their corruption and hogging political, economic and military power for 25 years.

Deny impact. For instance, the T-TPLF would say there is really no famine as such in the country; but if there is there ain’t nothing to it because it is just “severe malnutrition”. The T-TPLF disinformation campaign is to prevent the use of the word famine by substituting hocus pocus words invented by the international poverty pimps. What is the difference between people suffering “famine” and those suffering “severe malnutrition”? The latter is a kinder and gentler phrase for the former. Similarly, what is the difference between isolated disturbances and popular uprisings? The latter scares the hell out of the T-TPLF!

Deny recurrence: The T-TPLF would use disinformation to admit and deny facts at the same time. For instance, the T-TPLF would admit the possibility of episodic famine-like conditions but insist it just happened and they are taking care of it. The T-TPLF’s disinformation campaign would be presented in the context of their “double digit economic growth” and any famine-type conditions would soon disappear. Similarly, there are no uprisings, but if there are any, they are one-time episodic events caused by bad local governance.

Denial-by-admission: The T-TPLF disinformation would admit to everything but to the core issue. They would admit Ethiopia faces  food shortages, food insecurity, chronic food deprivation, severe malnutrition, severe drought, etc., but not FAMINE. The T-TPLF would admit there is discontent, restlessness, dissatisfaction, unrest, volatility, etc., but never a POPULAR UPRSING.

Deny-by-fatalism: For instance, the T-TPLF disinformation would say there is nothing that we must do to deal with the problem of famine because it does not exist. If it exists, it will take its own course. There is nothing that needs or can be done to change course. It is the Malthusian iron law at work. There is no popular uprising in the country, but if there are any, they are up that famous creek without a paddle. What the hell did Gandhi say?  “Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.”

Que sera, sera…. (Whatever will be, will be…)

Mao Zedong was right when he said, “A lie told a hundred times becomes the truth.”

The T-TPLF is telling tens of thousands of lies, but they will not amount to a single grain of truth.

It is important to expose the T-TPLF’s disinformation campaigns particularly at this time.

I have reasons to believe that the T-TPLF is now engineering a massive disinformation campaign to counter and destroy what they believe to be an “Amhara-Oromo alliance” against them.

The disinformation campaign is likely to involve several elements: 1) selectively use historical events and incidents to create antagonisms between the two groups; 2) use their own supporters as agent provocateurs in an effort to strain or bring about ethnic enmity between the two groups; 3) generate divisive propaganda within each group to create distrust and division and eventually cause disintegration from within each group; 4) create divisive rumors through the security agencies about Oromo and Amhara leaders and organizations; 5) demonize the popular uprising as a terrorist movement and manufacture evidence and suspects to prove that; 6) use the “legal” system to scapegoat regional and local leaders working for the T-TPLF in hopes of quelling the uprising; 7) organize their own “Oromo and Amhara” groups to infiltrate the popular uprisings and create dissension and dissolution from within; 8) create large distractions to deflect attention from the uprisings (I did not say declare war on a neighboring country);  9) buy off the youth and neutralize them by offering them special incentives such as microloans;  10) use professional lobbyist and public relations agencies to rehabilitate their image in the aftermath of the Feisa Lelisa act of defiance at the Rio Olympics seen by 3.2 billion people worldwide and thwart actions currently under consideration in the .U.S. Congress, and so on.

Suffice it to say that the T-TPLF regards the current uprising in the country with the most extreme concern and will do everything in its power and the power of its foreign benefactors to hold onto power.

The undeniable truth is that no amount of disinformation can change history.

The T-TPLF must remember, learn and accept the verdict of the iron law of history:

Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.

Que sera, sera…

Whatever will be, will be… and there is not a doggone T-TPLF disinformation campaign that can change the iron law of history.

In the end, ALL TYRANTS FALL!

INTERVIEWS
HORN SPIEGEL

Over the last 10 months, widespread protests in Oromia National Regional State, and later in Amhara National Regional State, have been unsettling the ruling party of Ethiopia- EPRDF. Independent reports indicated that security forces claimed the life of over 500 demonstrators, injured thousands, and detained tens of thousands. The regime refused UN’s call for international investigation into the killings, according to reports. The protesters have used different tactics of demonstration, from going to the streets to stay-at-home protests and now to boycott selling and buying goods during the holiday season. Merga Yonas of Horn Spiegel talk to Tsegaye R. Ararssa*, a legal expert and Oromo academic who is active in the protest, on the objective of the boycott and its implications. He also briefly touched upon changes of protest tactics from the street to stay-at-home.

HS- A call for business and trade boycotting from 6^th to 12^th of September has been going on for more than a week now. What is it all about?

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Building on its gains so far, the Oromo protests movement is entering a new phase. The unrelenting killing and brutal repression of the regime continues unabated. This is calling for a change of tactics. Accordingly, the Oromo protests is now calling for a week long, nation-wide boycott of markets and trade activities in this holiday season (of Ethiopian new year and Eid el-Arafaa). The week chosen for this campaign is a week of intense economic activities in Ethiopia. The campaign targets the economic power of the system by disrupting, through boycott, of all business and trade activities in Oromia including Finfinnee.

HS- What are the aim of boycotting business and trade?

By boycotting the market and all trade exchanges for a week, this boycott campaign aims at crippling the economy of the regime.Thiswill also demonstrate that it is Oromia and the Oromo that shoulder the heavy brunt of the country’s economy. It will also help distinguish between businesses that stand with the people’s demand for social justice and those that stand in support of the terrorist regime.

The objective of this campaign is to weaken the regime’s capacity to oppress the people by crippling its economy. As we all know, this is a holiday season. It’s a season of New Year celebration and of Eid -AL Arafaa. No one needs a reminder that the year that is coming to an end, 2008 EC, the year of trial and tribulation for the Oromo people. It has been a year of intense and bitter struggle. It has also been a year of huge sacrifices made in defense of our rights and in resisting a terrorist regime and it’s killing machine.

For Oromos and other oppressed peoples in Ethiopia, the year was no ordinary year. This holiday season therefore is not a holiday season like any other. It is not one in which we spend time just enjoying ourselves, having fun, and being merry. It is a season of remembering our fallen heroes, our martyrs, and all those who are in pain from injuries, those who are in the regime’s military detention centers and prisons, those whose whereabouts is unknown, those who grieve because they lost loved ones into the struggle. It is a week of quietly consulting with each other about the future of our struggle and ways of strategizing for the inevitable victory.

HS- What are the measures this boycotting expected to take?

During this holiday season, we shall take the following measures:

1. Our farmers shall refrain from the usual act of providing the following products/items and/or commodities that are in demand for the holiday season: A. Grains (xaafii, barley, wheat, etc); B. Honey, coffee, butter, and other dairy products; C. Cattle (sheep, goats, bulls, heifers, etc) D. Poultry products (chicken, eggs) E. Others. Households are advised to purchase food items that form part of basic necessities (such as salt, flours, etc) in time, preferably in the week before Pagume 1.
2. Our business people and our traders shall refrain from delivering the above mentioned items to the markets of big cities such as Finfinnee and to the consumers thereof.
3. Any business person and/or trader who violates this call for boycott shall be taken to be standing with the TPLF regime. As such, their activities shall be interrupted. Their travels to and from the cities shall be disrupted.
4. During this week, all Oromos, urban and rural alike, shall not be spending any money or time by going to restaurants, cafes, bars, places of buying and chewing chat (manabarcaa). Everyone shall be staying at home–with family, friends, relatives and neighbors–remembering our martyrs and deliberating on tactics and strategies for the effectiveness of our struggle in the days to come. They may also choose to spend time in their chosen places of worship (churches, mosques, temples, etc) to pray and meditate, to consult and reckon with fellow travelers of their faith.

Other measures will also be taken to communicate the central message of the protest and theboycott to the people. These acts will be acts of resistance in ordinary places, in the daily lives of the people. Our young people are now adept at mainstreaming resistance in the every day lives of our people. The details of the activities will reveal themselves in all their variety once the boycott kicks off. In the end, the story of this protest will form part of the story of the everyday life of political resistance in Oromia.

HS- There are people who argue that the week-long business and trade boycotting might have a big heat on poor farmers and if they don’t sell and buy commodities they leave their children to starvation. How do you see such argument?

Yes, that is a legitimate fear expressed by critics. The starting premise of this boycott, as long expounded by the eminent Bekele Gerba, is that through our daily contribution to the economy, we are literally funding the killing machine the TPLF is using to kill our children. Oromia is in a state of war. Military rule is enforced. Every day innocent Oromos get killed for no reason. Every day, innocent Oromos get arrested, tortured, raped, and otherwise violated. Every day, every Oromo village is cowed into silence under the occupying forces of surveillance. Every human activity is under heavy security control. Arbitrary body fris king is ubiquitous. Oromos are hounded in urban areas such as Addis Ababa and are sent to jail for no reason. Sudden ID checks are done routinely in Addis Ababa and if you have an Oromo name, you are arrested and no one will know your whereabouts. The security forces that arrest them often ask what the young people are doing in Addis while they are Oromos. This suggests that there is a de facto pass law that bans Oromos from their city, Addis Ababa. This is apartheid without the name.

These things should make it clear to you that Oromia is a war zone as is Amhara since July. This is no normal time. This is not a time when trade and making money is a priority for our people. That’s why we say that these are desperate times that demand desperate measures. The boycott is no ordinary measure. It is not an easy sacrifice our people. But when the life of a whole population is at stake, when the life of a whole generation is being stolen by the regime before our own eyes, these temporary economic sacrifices mean little. Our households may lose potential gain for now but the economic system that feeds this monstrous regime is attacked from within–and that is their reward. I am encouraged by the acts of our people in some cities such as Naqamt who are literally withdrawing all the money from the banks. This will soon run down the financial fuel that sustains the regime. This is what needs to be considered. In addition, the boycott is also a communicative action. We are saying NO to the regime in yet another form. In this sense, you can think of it as a form of political expression that is being done by ordinary households in the ordinary spaces of our political lives. By making the resistance a household matter, we now make the movement an entirely social affair, allowing every individual to take part both materially and communicatively. That’s how I see it.

HS- How do you see the current political situation in the country, particularly after the grand demo in Oromia and other demonstration in Amhara region?

The Grand Oromia Rally of 6 August 2016 was the culmination of a nine months’ long protest in Oromia. The Oromo protest was at first against the injustice of arbitrary eviction from one’s land and consequent dispossession and displacement of the Oromos. Ignited in November 2015 by the regime’s decision to implement the Addis Ababa Master Plan in spite of a deadly clash over it since April 2014, the Oromo Protest had rendered Oromia completely ungovernable to the regime. As a result, the regime was forced to impose a military rule in Oromia thereby ruling Oromia by an “Anti-Terrorist Task Force” of the federal government chaired by the Chief of Staff under the Federal Prime Minister. During this time, the civilian administration of the Oromia National Regional State was suspended and the Regional Government, typified by its President, Muktar Kedir, existed only in name. This was of course done unconstitutionally—with no Federal Intervention Order, or Emergency Declaration, or no reference to any constitutional-legal norm for justification. During this time, there was a killing of over 500 peaceful protestors, maiming of thousands, mass arrest of tens of thousands (including Oromo political and moral leaders such as Bekele Gerba), and forced disappearance of thousands. And yet the resistance was resilient throughout the year.

The resilience of the Oromo Protest seems to have inspired a similar resistance movement in other parts of the country such as the Welkayit District of the Tigray Region; a district that long resisted their forced incorporation into the Tigray since the 1990s. The “Welkayit Amhara Identity” campaign group has been taking the constitutional legal route to assert their Amhara identity and to seek constitutional redress for the discrimination, political exclusion/marginalization, and cultural domination and erasure they claim to have suffered after the incorporation. It is to be noted that for over 640 years prior to 1991, the Welkayit have been recognized as Amhara and were part of the Amhara cultural category rather than a Tigrian one. Persecuted in their own district, some of the members of the Coordinating Committee of the Wekayit Amhara Identity Campaign were at times operating from Gonder town of the Amhara National Regional State when the Tigray Regional Police and Security (with the support of the Federal Security Forces) sought to kidnap, arrest, and abduct them to Tigray in Mid-July this year. Outraged by this act of the Tigray security forces, the people of Gondar fought back in protest. Later a massive demonstration was staged in Gondar to protest this and also to project a long simmering rage against what they perceived as the regime’s discriminatory treatment of the entire Amhara population. This soon flared up to become the Amhara Protest and spread to Debre Tabor, Bahr Dar, Debre  Marqos, and the towns and districts surrounding these major Amhara cities.

While this was raging, the Oromo Protests rose to a new high on August 6 when a national peaceful protest rally, called the Grand Oromia Rally by its organizers, was staged in over 220 cities in Oromia,including Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa, all at the same time. This rally showed an enhanced sense of solidarity with the Amhara Protests (which had also showed a gesture of solidarity to the Oromo Protests earlier on).

This rally encouraged the protest in Amhara region and the two protests quickly started to echo and reinforce each other’s outrage against the repressive and terrorist practices of the regime. Owing to the regime’s military approach to respond to all political demands (and the consequent mass killings, maiming, arrests, kidnappings, tortures, and disrespect of their national identities) in both regions, these hitherto rival groups started to feel united in their rage against injustice and started to synchronize their movements in such a way that they madethe entire country ungovernable to the regime. This in turn has pushed the regime to the brink of collapse.

The current political situation has become volatile as a result. Things are fast changing. And developments have become increasingly unpredictable. International ‘patrons’ of the regime have also finally started to express serious concerns and are calling on the regime to allow the United Nations to investigate the massive human rights abuses in the Oromia region in particular.

Currently, Global Solidarity rallies are raging across the globe especially in major cities where there are Oromo and Amhara diaspora groups. From the look of it, the regime seems to have lost its strong grip over the country. The two regions (which constitute over 70 % of the country) are already ungovernable. Basic public and social services have long broken down in Oromia. Many localities are virtually taken over by protestors. There is every indication that the regime’s end is very much in view. It seems to me that it is time for politicians (especially those who are in opposition) to start working towards a peaceful democratic transition to a just political order where every political aspiration is pursued and achieved only through a consensual, peaceful, and democratic political processes.

HS- How do you see the stay-at-home demo, and transport disruption for three days in Gonder?

I think this is a commendable non-violent form of resistance. It not only shows complete rejection of the regime by the people but also blunts the regime’s false narrative that the protests were violent. The Stay-at-home protest is an indication of the increasing maturation of civil disobedience in Ethiopia. However, it needs to be supported by other forms of resistance, for otherwise, it is only a matter of time until the regime goes door-to-door to hunt down people and force them into prisons (as they are doing in Oromia).

HS- Why the Ethiopian government does not want to let UN investigators?

Well, the regime is still in denial of the injustice its policies have resulted in and the atrocities it has meted out on the civilian population especially of Oromia. It is used to killing and abusing people with impunity and does not know how to do things accountably and transparently. In my view, this rejection of accountability is rather characteristic of the regime. It is perhaps the first indication to the international community of the completely undemocratic and irresponsible nature of the regime. But to the vast majority of the Ethiopian public, and certainly to almost all of the Oromo public—who know from experience that this as an utterly brutal ethnocratic regime decidedly rigged in favor of the Tigryan hegemony in Ethiopia with no tradition of accountability and transparency–this doesn’t come as a news. The people have endured (and were mostly victimized by) a quarter century of perversion of justice and shameless deployment of institutions of governance (including courts, legislators, electoral and human rights commissions) for purposes of repression of the peoples’ voices and justifying the regime’s privileging and imposition of Tigryan hegemony on the population of the entire country.

Opening up of the regime to the UN investigation will expose these untold atrocities that the world had turned a deaf ear to thus far. To the more discerning observers of the international community (e.g., Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the CERD, the UN Committee of Experts on the Right to Life and Extra-Judicial Killings, PEN International, etc), this rejection of accountability through opening up to investigation by the UN forms a long established pattern of closure of the regime to international and national democratic scrutiny.

HS- Although the western governments are well informed about the killing of protesters, why do they keep on giving support to the regime?

They keep supporting the regime, firstly, because the Westcurrently prioritizes security interests to interests to promote human rights and democracy. As you know, the regime in Ethiopia is invoked as a “key strategic ally” of the West in its ‘war against terrorism’. Of course, this is not true as the regime has been benefitting from Western financial aid, technological support, and technical assistance in wreaking havoc in the entire Horn and Great Lakes region. In my view, the Western support of the regime (which they know is clearly undemocratic, if not out rightly anti-democratic) is the very cause of the state terrorism we observe in the region. This is of course unsustainable in the longer term as it has increasingly left the region more and more unstable and increasingly more volatile than it was in 1991.

Secondly, the West is now cautioned against intervention in the third world because of the disasters they faced in Somalia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc. It is the age of self-doubt in the international stage now. And there is a palpable hesitation to intervene in the name of human rights, democracy, justice, and peace. This paradigm of self-doubt which counsels them against intervention makes them acquiesce in the status quo despite the atrocities, especially when regimes can somehow manage to get away with.

Thirdly, Ethiopia, as important as it is geo-politically and strategically, is not too well-endowed with wealth to attract the economic interests of Western capitalism. They see “nothing much in it” for them to stake their diplomatic and political voice therein.

HS-What are ways forward for the demonstrators? Where do you see the country in the coming years? What are you recommendation to the officials?

The demonstrators are voices of resistance. They are voices seeking justice. They are truly the voices of suffering. The Protestors are victims of one of the most brutal regimes the world has ever seen. They are victims of a terrorist regime. As such, they have put up an incredibly successful peaceful resistance that has restored agency to them and has crippled the regime’s capacity to control and oppress as it has so far. They are doing this at a great cost—and there is little one can say in terms of what they have to do. If anything, they only need to remain resilient, persistent, and stand their ground until the regime is gone. They also need to remain committed to horizontal peace, especially in relation to other groups and other political formations. Other opposition political forces, especially those that subscribe to armed struggle, need to support this civil resistance of the protestors by protecting them from the military reprisals of the regime (if need be militarily).

The country finds itself in a difficult trajectory. The contradictions that have long been left unresolved in the country are now threatening the very existence of the state in its modern iteration. However, the protests and the inevitable collapse of this regime also offers an opening for reconstruction of the state on a consensual, just, fair, democratic, and peaceful foundation. There seems to be a real possibility now to address the age-old structural injustice embedded in the state and its limitations to empower peoples trapped in the unjust configuration of the modern Ethiopian state. In the coming couple of years, I hope to see a negotiation of transition to a fair system, a system in which we will see an all-inclusive deliberation over the future, a carefully negotiated and legitimate transitional justice (where the regime will be held accountable for the violence and the injustice it meted out on the peoples of the country and the social wounds among various sectors of society are healed), a legitimate constitutional democracy is put in place, unjust relations of the past are publicly acknowledged and rectified, victims are restored, and just peace is established at last. Above all, I hope to see a system in which people are heard, a system in which ordinary people, the humble and the lowly, find their political voice and get properly heard. This protest, above all, was a demand for voice, a demand to be heard.

The officials have only to desist from their violence. They need to wake up from the state of denial they seem to be in. They need to realize that people’s voice matters. They need to realize that people are saying “Enough is enough!” So, the first thing for them to do is to stop the violence. They should release all the political prisoners they have unjustly—and illegally—arrested and detained for the last 25 years. If they can, they should start to take political responsibility and start to open themselves to the voice of the people and the various political formations that they have thus far repressed or sidelined so that they become part of the solution to the problems they have created. Knowing TPLF, and from the way their officials are behaving in recent days, I sincerely doubt that they will take political responsibility and start to negotiate a future in which they become part of the solution to the historic problems they have created so far. It seems to me that a more organized force needs to step in and remove them from office by force if, as every indication suggests now, they are bent on continuing with their brutal acts taken to terrorize the people into silence.

Any last words?

As indicated above, these are tough times. Tough times demand tough measures commensurate to our challenges. This campaign week, because it is holiday week, is a time of heavy economic activity in the country. The campaign’s modest goal is to hit hard on the economic activity of the week by a simple act of boycotting the wanton consumption and provision of products needed thereof. This is done in order to weaken the regime’s economic power deployed to repress our people. It is also done to identify businesses and traders that side with the people’s just causes and those that stand in support of the regime’s imperative of killing and brutal repression. We call upon all other justice-loving people to join our people in this campaign. We will also call upon them to understand, to pay attention, to bear witness, and to respond to this appeal to conscience.

The suffering public shall triumph.

Justice shall prevail.

*Tsegaye R. Ararssa is a Melbourne -based legal scholar closely following the developments in Ethiopia. Email:ararssat@unimelb.edu.au; or tsegayenz@gmail.com.

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says her country has raised “grave concerns” about what it calls excessive use of force against protesters in Ethiopia.

BBN TV Breaking News – Kilinito Prison September 5, 2016

ESAT DC Morning News Mon 05 Sep 2016_

This petition is a call on respected Ambassador Power to visit Ethiopian Qilinto’s prison where unknown number of prisoners were set on fire and gun downed, and verify who and how many prisoners are died and survived including all political, journalists, and human right advocating leaders such as Bekele Gerba et al.

Early Saturday morning, gunshots were heard at Qilinto’s notorious prison where high profile prisoners have called it at home along with over 3000 other. Soon after several reports were coming from OMN and other news such as Addis Standard outlets confirmed that bodies of several prisoners.

An eye witness tells Addis Standard he was on guard the morning of Saturday Sept 3, that armed prison guards were indiscriminately shooting at prisoners most of whom were running “frantically to extinguish the fire out. While BBC reports that the government confirms causality and death, other local media reports that at least 20 people had died in the incident. According to other news and activists the deaths have reached over 60. Now nearly 48 hours later there is no evidence of their whereabouts of survivors and families are told they will not be notified.

We are gravely concerned the safety and well-being of all prisoners in Qilinto and even other prisons in Ethiopia. Since protests started in Oromia ten months ago over 500 have lost their lives according to rights group and ten thousands more relinquish in several prisons and military training camps.

The petition expects Ambassador Power not only say “her country has raised grave concerns about what it calls excessive use of force against protesters” but take measurable action that guarantees the wellbeing of our prisoners and leaders. The #OromoProtests and the Ethiopia people in general would like to ask you to make the TPLF regime to take responsibility for the cruel killing of innocent legal prisoners, and demand respect for human rights in Ethiopia.

This petition will be delivered to:

• US Ambassador Samantha Power
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• President of the United States

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THE LOCAL independent Ethiopian citizens’ news agencies are reporting outside the country that there is a huge popular mobilization against the government.

Jerusalem Post

In January, 2016, Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom was nominated as Africa’s candidate for director general of the UN World Health Organization.

Just this past week, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg was named global ambassador for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) by the WHO, a position in which he will serve under whoever is ultimately appointed as the WHO’s director general. While Bloomberg, with his impeccable record of public health advocacy and international philanthropy, is clearly over-qualified for this role, what frightens me is the potential appointment of Adhanom as his superior. A rudimentary comparison of these two men’s records highlights the latter’s extreme unfitness for the office he seeks to assume and the absurdity of his even being considered.

During his unprecedented three-term tenure, mayor Bloomberg took direct control of the troubled New York City school system and oversaw a marked increase in children’s test scores; he banned smoking in restaurants, bars, parks and other indoor and outdoor public arenas; he partnered with and empowered citizens of the city by calling upon them to notify authorities of suspicious happenings they observed; he established a comprehensive information hotline that provides vital factual data to city dwellers and visitors in more than 170 languages; he banned trans-fats and mandated the posting of calorie counts in New York restaurants, measures that have since been adopted in major cities throughout the nation toward combating rising obesity rates in both adults and children; he used his own private funds to pay for a Super Bowl ad promoting stricter gun control.
And this is a mere sampling of his contributions to the quality of life of the people he governed. Now that his terms as mayor have ended, he has expanded his health, well-being and justice initiatives to the broader global community and continues to work tirelessly, and to donate generously, to promote causes at the core of human flourishing.

No model of leadership could be more divergent from Bloomberg’s than the one Ethiopian Foreign Minister Adhanom, along with his political associates, represents. The current Ethiopian government is widely recognized as a criminally organized group with high rates of human rights abuses. According to The New York Times and Human Rights Watch, tens of thousands of peaceful protesters against the government have been incarcerated, and over 700 have been killed, in recent months. The Ethiopian athlete Feyisa Lilesa made a powerful public gesture in solidarity with his oppressed countrymen at the Summer Olympics in Rio last month and was warned not to return home afterward.

The International Committee to Protect Journalists reports that Ethiopia is among Africa’s leading jailers of journalists and has destroyed its own independent civil society. The UN Commissioner for Human Rights has requested an independent evaluation of the deaths of hundreds of peaceful civilian protesters in recent months at the hands of the Ethiopian army. However, Foreign Minister Adhanom and his government have refused external evaluation of human rights abuses complained of by large numbers of citizens.

THE LOCAL independent Ethiopian citizens’ news agencies are reporting outside the country that there is a huge popular mobilization against the government.

The local citizens are demonstrating peacefully, with the following complaints: that the government is killing them indiscriminately and robbing the country of power and economic resources, which are being funneled to one small, elite tribal group (known as the Tgria Peoples Liberation Front), and that their land is being sold to the Tgrian tribe, or that this tribe is selling their land to foreign investors.

On the day that the athlete Lilesa showed his support at the Olympics in Rio, there was a demonstration planned in the capital city of Addis Ababa, but the government deployed military force to put down the peaceful citizens who organized it. Only Lilesa could make his statement, safely insulated, for the moment, from the army’s threatened violence, by a couple thousand miles.

His fellow citizens at home were not so fortunate. Just this past week, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn announced on national television that all military personnel would be ordered to open fire on peaceful demonstrators, which, on the first day following, resulted in dozens of civilian deaths.

Britain Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond recently warned, in a meeting with Adhanom, that Ethiopia’s “repeated failure to deliver on our basic requests” regarding an Ethiopian-born English citizen being held on death row simply because he is the opposition party leader had led him be begin “looking carefully at the bilateral relationship” between the two nations. This is yet another example of the current Ethiopian government’s pervasive corruption and lawlessness.

As a chief agent of this depraved, bloody government body, how can Adhanom be considered as a prospective director general of the WHO? How does his candidacy reflect on the WHO itself, or, more broadly, the UN’s role as the world’s moral anchor and arbiter? Clearly, there is no just way forward but for the UN to investigate the current Ethiopian government’s reported abuses and to renounce the candidacy of its foreign minister for the position he seeks at the WHO.

It is perhaps in the values that underlie the actions of Bloomberg and Adhanom, respectively, that the starkest contrast between these two men might be drawn. Bloomberg has often been quoted as saying, “The thing about great wealth is that you can’t take it with you,” by way of explaining why he is choosing to give so much of his private fortune away – a total of $4.3 billion thus far, including $510 million distributed by his philanthropies in 2015 alone. Adhanom, on the other hand, is a prominent member of the Ethiopian government whose former leader, Meles Zenawi (the man who appointed Adhanom to his position), had a reported net worth of over $3b., having amassed this amount entirely during his years in office.

He took power in 1991 with an officially listed salary of $220 per month, and had no private financial resources to his name at that point. Today, all the top leaders of the TPLF are billionaires, though their nation remains an impoverished member of the Third World. Sadly, the source of these leaders’ newfound wealth is not too hard to surmise.

I have lived, for years, under the governance of both mayor Bloomberg and Finance Minister Adhanom and can thus attest, on a personal level, to the disparate impact of their leadership on the people they’ve ruled. I know, first hand, what it has been like to live under the policies of Bloomberg’s and Adhanom’s administrations, and how each has affected the daily life of his constituency.

More than all the facts and figures I have cited above, these real-life, on-the-ground experiences have shaped my conviction that Adhanom and his cronies must go if my native land is ever to prosper as my adopted city has in the past few decades. The WHO’s recent appointments, within the broader context of rising unrest in Ethiopia, where my family resides, and my own relatively secure life in New York, have brought this realization home to me as never before. I can only hope that the world will begin to see things in kind.

The author, a social activist on behalf of the Ethiopian Jewish community, served in the Israel Police. He holds a master’s degree in community leadership and philanthropy from Hebrew University and is currently pursuing a doctorate in educational leadership and administration, while studying for rabbinic ordination.

Mastewal Belete (Addis Ababa, mz23602@gmail.com)
I sympathize with the so called ISIS when I try to compare them with TPLF (Tigray People’s Liberation Front), because, apparently, what these ISIS men are doing is absolutely incomparable with that of the evil acts the TPLF men have been committing here in Ethiopia especially for the past 25 years. My point of comparison is, of course, cruelty and immorality.[Mind you, ISIS kills once, in whatever cruel manner; but TPLF kills more than twice, in a cruelest manner, cruelty which is  the first of its kind that could be registered by the Guinness Book of Records. I will display some of them later.]

Both bandit groups, TPLF and ISIS, have formed governments with the blessing of the Leader of this world. The contemporary Leader of this world, especially Planet Earth, is someone I know well, in my readings, of course. If you like, you can also know him well unless you block your head not to entertain such ordinary but most important knowledge. This knowledge needs only open-mindedness and an insatiate interest of exploration into this bloody Universe as much as possible. If you are a “victim” of the so called mainstream media, plus, if you are a man of only the five stupefying senses, please do not read this piece.

Let me call this Leader of the world “Mr. X”, here after “he” and the concomitant pronouns when necessary.

Actually, he is represented by humans whose influence in this world is by now has reached its peak. In fact, he is not a man, his carnal manifestations could be animals or man like us though. He is naturally spirit and stands for Negative Energy which is always opposed to Positive Energy. He solicits people to be his slaves and through various initiations, he recruits especially influential people from all countries and all walks of life irrespective of which is what; he has followers and worshipers from every ethnic and every race – white, black, and yellow. He is gluttonous. He craves to rule the Universe.

He makes people reach the highest peak of richness; the highest tower of power, be it religious or political. For the time being, he seems to be invincible worldwide. Yes, he is acting as our lord.

He has strong arms. IMF, World Bank, NATO, UN, AGOA, NAFTA, EU, US, AU, etc. are all his instruments through which he can enslave the poor citizens of this planet. No one has the right to emancipate the nearly eight billion population of the globe. No one! What a pity?

He enables his humanoid children to invent extremely sophisticated weapons so that he can reduce the population by at least 80% and form his own government. That government is known us “The New World Order” (Novus Ordo Seclorum). He has numerous achievements hitherto.

He knows how to control the world; he has millions of magnetic baits to attract his prey. His children are so smart, erudite, secretive, and intelligent, who can scientifically maneuver humans as they wish. So far, FYI, they have managed to launch the third world war and are doing their best to implement their plan of the aforementioned new world order. They began the job long ago through the “selected race” of humanity. As I mentioned here above, his children are clever and mentally superb. They have changed the shape of this world in a dramatic fashion especially in the last 50 years or so; the building-size computer is, for example, transformed into a level of palm-top. You can refer documents to realize how far these children of the Beast have been successful in science and technology particularly in the past couple of decades; look, for instance, the achievements of CERN which is found in Europe and the underground cities that are said to be found in Australia. These people of our “Leader” are wise enough to make you stupid and control your mind (MC) so that you get blind and ignorant of their mischievous acts. You don’t know what they feed you; neither do you know what they make you drink.…

TPLF is one of their tools used to destroy an historic site, ETHIOPIA, in East Africa. From conception to birth, the hands of these crooked creatures were with TPLF. They are the major architect of this satanic cabal, TPLF. Perhaps, they may not know that we know of this insincere long term plan of theirs; perhaps they despise us saying, “Ethiopians are backward and poor and illiterate.” But we understand their international agenda; we know even beyond as what will happen to them and to us in the near future. It seems they are people of much intellect, but practically they are ignorant with some secular knowledge of modernity, of course. Let’s understand the difference between the Flesh and the Soul.

TPLF and ISIS are the same facets of a coin minted by our BIG BROTHER, also known as UNCLE SAM. What did the so called civilized people from Europe and America say after Rwandans “victoriously” concluded their killing spree? Yea, they said, “We knew the genocide before it was started.” Then, why should they allow the genocide to happen while they could avoid it? It is obvious. Their Master, the Great Leader of this world needed the libation of the blood of those poor Tutsis and the dirtying of the karma of those crazy Hutus; killing two birds with a bullet. Believe me, they will be repaid. “There is no free lunch.”

The US knows what TPLF is doing in Ethiopia as she perfectly knows what ISIS is doing internationally. The breeding place of all evil acts is the Capitol or a place that the Capitol knows and funds as major sponsor. They have to appease their Master. Their Master to get appeased, he has to drink the blood of the innocent, gnaw the bone of the ill-fated, and spill the tear of millions. That is it. Simple equation: in order to reduce the population of the world, different techniques must be devised and implemented.

The ISIS’ responsibility is to destroy the status quo in the Middle East and beyond. The Syrian rebel factions are there to go ahead with the Russian and American interests and eradicate Syria along with her historic people and civilization. That is also the interest of the Big Brother(s).  Boko Haram and the Tuaregs destroy the status quo in West and Central Africa. The FARC destroys the status quo in Latin America. The Taliban destroys the status quo in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The drug cartels destroy the mind of millions of people worldwide. The Hollywood inspired –woods like Nollywood, Bollywood, etc. demolish the moral and religious fabrics of the young generation everywhere on the planet. The music industries along with the alcoholic beverage industries deaden the brain of the youth anywhere so that they never demand their human and citizenship rights from puppet rulers. The poor quality of education especially in countries like US – controlled Ethiopia kill the current and future generations. Vandalism here, nihilism there. Hedonism there, another  bad –ism here. Homosexuality here,  lesbianism there. Atheism over there, Skepticism overe here. All sorts of satanic fruits are sowed worldwide by our Leader to sterilize the generations of every nation and make the tree of life completely barren.

The US sponsored ethnocentric conflicts here and there maim the cultural ties of people who used to live in love and peace. The US sponsored lab inventions of various illnesses such as HIV and AIDS and other countless viral and bacterial diseases are cleverly minimizing the population of the world. The seismic and climatic interventions of the US are doing their best in destabilizing the natural course of earthquakes and rains. The heartless tiger, the CIA, along with its sister intelligence “companies” all over the world, is let free to eradicate any living thing or non-living thing so long as it presumes the existence of that THING is a menace to the interest of our Leader, HE Mr. X.

Currently, the whip of our Leader, Honorable Mr. X, has chosen to severely scourge the Amharas in Ethiopia through his agent, the TPLF. The world knows that this Negative Energy, whose global representatives are by now politically and economically more active than ever, is using ISIS and similar satanic occults to terrorize the residents of this otherwise beautiful planet. The Amaharas of Ethiopia are hence the innocent targets of this arch enemy of the planet especially since the past 42 years.

You may ask why it is happening. In the first place, we should understand the fact that our Leader is fond of practicing evil deeds; he is evil and none other than evilness makes him happy. Besides, there are some secondary causes that could be attributed to him for the staunch interest he has on our elimination as a nation and as a people. Nevertheless, I do not want to go deeper into these geopolitical and religious aspects of our country to explain the secondary reasons that have been contributing a lot for the destruction of this beautiful country. As a matter of fact, you all may know that he is always disturbed in real religion and real pride of one’s nation. As a general truth, authentic religious connection with the Almighty GOD and the national pride one has to his nation could play a major role in attracting the wrath of Mr. X, our Honorable Leader, He is jealous. He is the greatest enemy of you and I….

TPLF is the most beloved child of this Leader of the world. As this world leader cannot survive without drinking blood, almost on daily basis, TPLF as well cannot stay even for an hour without drinking human blood. This is the stark reality. The CNN or the BBC never tells you this fact, because they are his fans and his sympathizers and his creations as well. Especially as of the last 10 months, hundreds of Amharas and Oromos are being massacred, thousands are imprisoned, tens of thousands are being internally displaced and evicted from their real estate and/or residential areas by TPLF in Oromo and Amhara regions, namely, Gondar and Gojam. This massacre is directly sponsored by our Leader. Truth be told, TPLF doesn’t even speak any word, offensive or pleasing, without his Father’s blessing. They are identical twins in terms of cruelty and sadistic nature. The Big Brother, Uncle Sam, is always there to give TPLF any help it desires. The fact that it is a representative of only 6% out of the total population of nearly 100 million people in the country has never made it refrain from doing anything it liked. Thanks to the blessing and the overall support of the Big Bro., leave alone acting, TPLFites have never hesitated to speak their mind in a vulgar manner. In Amharic we have a saying which goes like this in literal translation:- “A sheep who over-depends on her master leaves her tail out of the house at night.” I do believe that our Leader, Mr. X enjoys these words of his servant in East Africa, Ethiopia:-

Let’s see these samples which can be seen as the “golden words of the millennium” which are spoken by TPLFites, and, mind you, if anyone in any other nation spoke such ‘satanic verses’, Big Brothers would take them to The Hague.

The Party Program of TPLF – “Amhara is the enemy of Tigay and Tigrians.”

The Party Program of TPLF – “Amhara is the enemy of Tigay and Tigrians.”

Meles Zenawi (the most pampered son of the Big Brothers) – “ I am proud of being born from                               your loins [to Tigrians]”, “ I would like to see all Amharas become beggars.” etc.

Siye Abraha – (former Chief of Staff) – “We have over-trodden the Amhara like a cigarette butt.”

Samora Yenus (the fake General of TPLF and the Head of the Army; he is said to be the stupidest               of all TPLFites)) – “We have buried the Amhara and the Orthodox Church.”

Sibhat Nega  (the kingmaker of TPLF) _ “We have dismantled the Amhara and their religion,                                              the E.O.C)

Gebrekidan Desta (an arrogantly idiot TPLFite who claims to be historian) – “ The Amharas are                           chauvinists.”

Getachew Reda (the current Minister deta’t  for State Communication or whatever they call it ) –             “It is due to the failure of our party, TPLF, to stock the fire between the Oromo and the Amhara                            that the peaceful relationship and the concerted rebellion is flourishing; this shocking                                   phenomenon shows that we didn’t do our homework (of making them fight with each                           other so that we stay in power forever, he means, in plain language.) .

Debretsion G/S (“We have an army that can destroy Africa leave alone 30 million Amharas.”)

Such satanic words of  TPLF are infinite and this is well known by their masters too.

Very few of TPLF’s evil actions: (TPLF is fond of fire, I hope its horoscope is “Fire”.)

It set on fire purposely to burn so many forests in Ethiopia so that this country would change into desert when their time of leaving comes; it is inevitable too.

It usually sets fire on prisons whenever it needs to kill inmates. This is a new invention of this crooked junta. I have never heard of such cruelty hitherto; neither the ISIS now nor the Nazis and the Fascists before did such atrocity on citizens of this world, to whatever degree they might have been tyrant and ruthless. This group, TPLF first besieges the prison with snipers, then sends the arsonists, then the fire blows and the houses flare. Next, as natural and instinct it is to escape a danger; the targeted inmates try to run helter skelter to save their lives. This is very natural. Rather, if anyone doesn’t try to do this, s/he is not normal and should be institutionalized if by chance escaped the accident. But TPLF has made this tradition of stocking fire on purpose to kill in both ways extra-judicially.  [I hope this means of untold human atrocity should be emulated and be served in the US and Europe too. It is a new invention of human suffering.]

It is currently engaged in mass killing in the Amhara region. Though the so called mainstream media is busy of reporting trifling news stuffs such as Clinton and Trump, which don’t have any sign of bloodshed, the Amhara people are  being massacred for the simple reason that they demanded TPLF their human rights. And surprisingly, the so called International Community is observing in silence this tragedy as if it is blameless in world history to be unfolding in the near future. All will be responsible  to what is happening now in Ethiopia, because most of the nations, especially the developed ones,  are playing a role in supporting these children of Satan, the TPLFites.

I shall conclude in this manner: – My piece of writing may not be entertained on many of the sites I send to due to a number of reasons. But this doesn’t mean the truth remains hidden and all of us should bear in mind that the ones who have a role in dismantling ETHIOPIA and killing the INNOCENT citizens of this country will soon be retributed according to the severity of the impact they impose upon her. We are equally important to the GOD the Big Brothers scoff at. Our blood is not green or blue; it is red as theirs. After all, we are also His creatures with the same anatomical and behavioral traits. We have the same DNA and RNA formulae as human. Our body parts can fit theirs in time of necessity. Even though they look at us with contempt, we too have the same right of living in this world provided we respect the rights of others. All what they claim to have is acquired through time and with an exertion of unreserved effort, not inherited through blood. If they come to their senses, they would realize that they are wrong in many aspects. Nevertheless and eventually, both TPLF and their masters will leave this bloody planet in one way or another, and that time of tribulation is coming soon.

 2 Corinthians 4:8-10 ESV / 231 helpful votes

We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.

The following signs are the signs of our Big Brothers who are mistreating the majority and pandering their loved ones such as the TPLF all over the world.

Albert Einstein once said: “Two things are infinite; the universe and human stupidity.”

1. I used some internet sources to get the signs.

Mahlet Fasil

In a disturbing e-mail message received by Addis Standard, an eyewitness who said he was on guard the morning of Saturday Sep 3, says that armed prison guards were indiscriminately shooting at prisoners” most of whom were running “frantically to extinguish the fire” that broke at Ethiopia’s notorious prison ward known as Qilinto, in Aqaqi, on the outskirts south of the capital.

The government has not released the extent of the fire, not the cause of it, but several social media accounts allege the death toll reaching above 20.

Until this morning families of prisoners who want to know the safety of their loved ones are not allowed to pass the Tirunesh Beijing Hospital, located at about three km before the prison.   Some families said the prison administration told them information on the safety and whereabouts of the prisoners will only be available on Wednesday this week.

In the e-mail, the person who also attached his work ID but said he wishes to remain anonymous wrote many prisoners were “kept at gun point” from approaching the area where the fire was destroying parts of the prison in the “southern end of the ward.” “I have seen about five prisoners gunned down in the spot by armed security guards from two different towers during the first 20 minutes only,” the email said. It added: “unarmed guards at the gate, including myself, were told by the prison admiration to instruct family members who were already at the gate and who came to visit their loved ones to return back.”

The maximum security prison is administered by the Addis Abeba Prison administration but since Saturday morning the “federal army has taken over the security and most of the prison guards, including myself, are not allowed inside since then.”

The fire broke at around 8:10 AM in the morning and lasted a good “two hours” before the fire brigade from the Addis Abeba Fire and Emergency Prevention and Rescue Agency arrived at the scene.  The state-affiliated news portal FBC reported that three firefighters were treated at a hospital for smoke related breathing problems while it maintained only one person was killed in the accident.

However, in the email received by Addis Standard, the security guard revealed that he has helped “18 bodies being taken out of the prison in the late afternoon. As far as I know none of the dead were due to the fire. They all died of gunshot wounds.”

Abusive prison

Qilinto is known for the harsh treatment of its prisoners, many of who are prisoners of conscious including the prominent opposition leader Bekele Gerba, secretary general of the opposition Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC), and 21 others with him facing charges of terrorism.  It is also where Yonatan Tesfaye, the young senior opposition Blue Party member, and prominent rights activist is held.

Recently Bekele Gerba and others with him were mobilizing activists from their cell by sending letters which were secretly smuggled out of the maximum security prison. One such letter called for peaceful resistance as part of the ongoing #AmharaProtests and #OromoProtests and asked supporters of the protests to shave their heads and wear black, to which supporters responded in numbers.

Three days after the tragic incident exact figures of causalities (both death and injuries, as well as property damages) are still hard to come by. The prison itself is not accessible to anyone and is being guarded by heavily armed federal police officers who are also conducting rigorous searching of residents living nearby.

Eyewitnesses say the remaining prisoners were taken on Saturday afternoon to Ziway prison, located some 200km south of the capital. However, due to the inaccessibility of the prison and unavailability of official information, Addis Standard is unable to verify both the e-mailed information and other eyewitness accounts.

Source – Addis Standard

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