By Dr. Baro Keno Deressa
In medical terminology: Pathogen is an agent causing disease or illness to its host. Pathogens are mostly microscopic, such as bacteria, viruses, protozoa, and fungi.

Today i am going to talk about the macroscopic pathogen of the humanity TPLF government. I said this because of my profound belief that, the TPLF government and their leaders  are very much aware of the real situation in Oromia which is quite different from what they were trying to portray to the Ethiopian empire nations and international community. Before i am going to enter to my main point i would like to quote the universal declaration of humanity.

Declaration on a shared humanity:

• Human being are born equal and that they all share hopes and aspirations, paths of fulfillment, paths of suffering, and dreams within a common journey as human beings.
• Human beings share the freedom to follow particular paths of life within the rights and obligations shared by all and contributing to the common good of humanity.

Recently the spokesperson of TPLF government in Ethiopia (Mr. Getachew Reda) openly and publicly on the TV insulting Oromo people after killing, torturing, imprisoning and evicting from their land. I don t know what the other viewers concluded but for me I seriously questioned his sincerity.  As a result, I concluded that the statements he made was may have been based on the following premise: He know the exact reality in the country but he is  too arrogant to tell the Oromo peoples and other oppressed nations that no matter what the truth is, they MUST accept it. Why not? After all, TPLF is the victor and the strong always dictates!

It is unfortunate that I am an Oromo and I am familiar with the real situation. Let me raise some questions to evaluate TPLF and Mr Getachew Reda emptiness and brutality:

• Where is your humanity?
• Where is your moral value?
• Hoe gave you right to occupy Oromo farm? Mining? City?peoples?
• Hoe gave you right to govern Oromo people? Other oppressed nations?
• Hoe gave you right to decide our fate let alone killing us?
• By the way what is your intellectual capacity/academic grade? Sorry to ask you this question, most of you are allergic for!!!!!
• Did you forget your history of 25 years ago, when you put your leg for the first time on the Oromo land you were beggars, you were weak, you were poor, you were hungry and you were vulnerable. But the Oromo people and Oromia gave you all: Feed you well, makes you rich, makes you strong, helps you to build sky rocket buildings, gave you warm home. So how comes that you are turn back to the killer, torturer and murderer of child and pregnant women of this generous and blessed nation of Oromo!!!!!! And other oppressed nations!!!!

Now you are telling us that the Ethiopian economy is growing very fast, and that the freedom of press is among the best in the world and democracy is thriving, even though we know that the poverty level is at its worst and Ethiopian empire ranks number one in the world in the number of journalists and political leaders (like Mr Bekele Gerba) becoming prisoners of conscience. TPLF as the core player of the Ethiopian government and Mr. Getachew Reda as a spokesperson of TPLF government are failed to understand the traditional way of respect of humanity, failed to read and understand the core value of universal declaration of humanity, failed to respect and implement their own constitution, failed to build independent judicial system and failed to build a responsible government. TPLF junta government is well succeeded in killing, torturing, imprisoning, harassing and evicting the Oromo people and all oppressed nations in Ethiopian empire. All those parameters of failures and success shows that TPLF government is deadly pathogen and needs eradication therapy.

Before i am going to enter into the eradication therapy let me summarize the evil act of our colonizers.

Oromo people are colonized for more than centuries by narrow minded, uneducated barbaric and brutal junta elites. During the colonization period those elite groups shamelessly and brutally destroys our democratic ruling system (Gadaa), destroys our identity, stole our freedom, evict our people from their ancestral land, and brought total destruction to our people and our country Oromia.

Our colonizers in general especially the current colonizers TPLF-junta sticks a knife in our back ten inches and pull it out six inches, there’s no progress. If they pull it all the way out that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven’t even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound, they won’t even admit the knife is there (thousands of our brothers and sisters are died/dying, children of age 8 and 13 including pregnant women are executed on the day light without any criminal charge, medical doctors are murdered while they are treating critically wounded person, millions of Oromo peoples are languishing in the prison camp, sick people from Oromo and oppressed nations are suffering from natural disease and manmade disaster-but TPLF is talking about reparation of chromosomal disorder (killings machine of agazi commando).

Eradication therapy:

TPLF junta comes to power not by his strength. There are several factors which played crucial roles, namely the majority negative view of Derg, the weakness of the Derg military mighty, the fertile geo-political situation, the enormous influence of international powers on Derg regime, the multiple pressure of the rebel groups (from north EPLF and TPLF and from east and west OLF).

OLF, TPLF and EPLF overthrow the Derg because it was not a democratic institution. Now OLF has the same view about TPLF and therefore OLF want TPLF to leave; if TPLF will not leave voluntarily, they are willing to remove TPLF by force. TPLF, You overthrew the Derg regime, with the help of the gun. And now you tell the world, that OLF can come back only if it renounces armed struggle. Why is it that Kalashnikovs in the hands of TPLF can bring democracy but in the hands of OLF can only bring misery to Ethiopian empire?

In my opinion, your Kalashnikovs killed thousands of innocent peoples across the nations of Ethiopian empire no matter what you call them and of course that did not bring democracy to Ethiopian empire. Our nation is still ruled by gun-carrying young cadres of TPLF.

How many factors are fulfilled now days?

• All nations in the Ethiopian empire including the innocent Tigrians hate TPLF
• Thanks to our hero’s Fayyisa Lelisa the international community are embarrassed by the brutal act of TPLF government and shocked by the magnitude of TPLF atrocities against Oromo people and other nations in Ethiopian Empire (still enormous tasks waiting us concerning the international community).
• At this moment OLF, ONLF, SLF are effectively confronting this brutal government. G7 with his union is also starting the confrontation.
• Currently geo-political situation is not in our side
• The moral and determination of the TPLF Ethiopian government soldiers are diminishing gradually.

All factors of the victory are almost fulfilled for all oppressed nations in Ethiopian Empire. Now, the main question is all nations has to do his parts in order to fasten our victory. In case of Oromo people I am telling you confidently that our brave qeerroo and OLA (WBO) are working hard in order to complete our eradication therapy (eliminating colonization).

Let me explain my confidentiality of this fact: Our “WBO” are the best fighter in the battle field, our “WBO” are trustful , our “WBO” are vanguard of our people, our “WBO” never betray the truth of our people, our “WBO” is never give up during harsh and worst time. Let me give you one real fact from thousands of episodes. In the end of 1995 and beginning of 1996 after many destruction and challenges we start to regroup under the true son and heroes of our people comrades Gutama Hawwas in the desert of Bale. Later on the reinforcement Comrades come from Harar. During those periods, our WBO successfully eliminate enemies in various places  and start to combat the enemy in the heart of their camps. But later on the TPLF government wage total war with thousands of his soldiers against hundreds of WBO’s. Their soldiers are logistically supported by airplane and helicopter. At the end we decided to fight this enemy with smaller group and brought to them  many casualties. One week later the TPLF government occupy all villages, rivers and start to torture local residents. During that fight most of our comrades were passed away including our hero and our commander in chief comrade Gutama Hawwas, some of the comrades were captured, and some of us were remain in the bush with wounded comrades without medicine, bullet, water and food. The remain comrades start to share our urines to support our wounded comrades just to make wet their lips and start to eat soil. But we were swear to each other and to our peoples justified cause not to surrender to our enemy and prefer to die.  One captured comrades also showed the patriotic act according to the information from local residents in Bale. While he was captured and tight his hands on the back side one OPDO come to him and questioned him about other comrades where about  and our comrades spit on the face of OPDO soldiers and showed the commitment of our “WBO” to our goal (eradicating colonization). During such critical moment in the hands of our enemy the reaction of our comrades (WBO) gave tremendous proud to local residence.

Here, I tried to reaffirm the ability, the commitment and determination of our fighters in order to defeat the colonial rule. We know the fighting technique of the TPLF, we know the grade of their heroism and we know the their limitation. But some factors down played our desired victory especially,  geo-political situation and limited resources. But now our qeerroo is opening new liberation base from in out.

The Fascist government of TPLF junta confirms nationally and internationally his pathogenicity. TPLF government atrocities was/are comparable to Nazis genocide act against humanity. This kind of government have no moral value and legal right to lead Tigrai regional state let alone Oromo’s and other nations in Ethiopian empire. I am quite confident to win this war and liberate our people Oromo and other oppressed nations in Ethiopian empire. I am calling all Oromo peoples to support OLF in order to empower our qeerroo and WBO and defeat our chronical enemy colonial ruling system.

Victory to the Oromo people!

Dr. B. K. DERESSA, Medical degree in internal medicine, specialized in Gastro-Hepatology diseases. University Hospital of Brussels-Belgium

Yesterday the regime announced that the top two puppets in Oromia have been removed and replaced by not so new faces. TPLF is either still dumb and numb about the depth of the crisis or chose to continue insulting the intelligence of our people. The cause of conflict between the regime and the Oromo and other peoples of Ethiopia is TPLF’s mission of and obsession with building and maintaining the supremacy of Tigreans. They have successfully built a system whereby power and wealth is monopolized in their hand. They are killing, jailing, exiling and reshuffling to preserve such domination. The puppet parties be it OPDO, ANDM or SEPDM were built and maintained to serve as tools of advancing and protecting this Tigrean supremacy. Hence reshuffling men and women at the head of these puppet parties does not make any difference in the ongoing conflict. They could appoint an OPDO or ANDM as prime minister, and still it won’t solve the problem. Since its created to advance TPLF mission of creating and protecting Tigrean supremacy, the so called EPRDF cannot be reformed through changing of guards or policy fixes –solution will come only when the mission is defeated and the regime is dismantled.

bY Siobhán O’Grady and Brian Stout

When Ethiopian marathoner Feyisa Lilesa held his arms in an “X” as he crossed the finish line for a silver medal last month at the Rio Olympics, he says he was culminating a political protest he’d planned for months. But top Ethiopian officials say he was put up to the stunt by U.S.-based opposition groups in order to protest the government’s crackdown on demonstrations and further fuel controversial secessionist movements at home and in neighboring Eritrea.

Speaking to Foreign Policy in an exclusive interview from the living room of his suite at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on Tuesday, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said he strongly believes that groups of anti-government Ethiopians based in the United States convinced the athlete to use the Summer Games as a protest venue. He also figures they helped get him from a Rio hotel to Washington, D.C. in time for a televised press conference last week.

“It’s me who sent him to Rio for the Olympics, and we expected him to come back after winning the medal,” Hailemariam said, specifically naming members of the Oromo Liberation Front as having likely contributed to Feyisa’s protest. “This is not the capacity of the man himself. It’s something which has been orchestrated by someone else from outside.”

The OLF did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Feyisa could not be reached for comment, but he told theWashington Post earlier this month that Oromo sympathizers helped him with his U.S. visa application.

Feyisa’s move was meant to signal solidarity with protesters in Ethiopia’s Oromia Region, who have taken to the streets in recent months to protest their marginalization from the country’s central government. International human rights groups, including Human Rights Watch, have reported that security forces killed more than 400 peaceful protesters in the Oromia and Amhara regions since demonstrations began last November.

Feyisa claims that he had planned his own protest in Rio for months. Fearing retribution for his political demonstration, the silver-medal winner left the Olympic Village after his race and hid in a Brazilian hotel until early September, when he flew to the United States and appeared at a press conference organized by Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Africa. There, Smith announced his plan to introduce bipartisan legislation that would recommend the Ethiopian government allow an independent rapporteur into Ethiopia to assess the human rights situation in the country.

Ethiopia wants nothing to do with that.

Hailemariam, who is in New York for the U.N. General Assembly this week, told FP that he would never allow an outside investigation to take place when Ethiopia has its own institutions available, because to do so would be a “breach of sovereignty.”

In an email to FP, Smith said that the rapporteur would not be imposed upon Ethiopia without its consent, but that “in the absence of any credible human rights reporting from the Ethiopian government on many incidents regarding the denial of human rights,” it would be standard for the U.N. to “gain an impartial assessment” of the situation on the ground.

But Smith’s claim that Ethiopia has not proved itself credible in human rights investigations rubbed both the prime minister and the ambassador the wrong way.

“Ethiopia is a sovereign country and Ethiopia has the capability to investigate its own case,” the Ethiopian ambassador to Washington, Girma Birru, told FP in a conversation at the Ethiopian Embassy in Washington last week. “When the Ethiopian government is assumed to have failed to do these things, it’s an insult.” He accepted that protesters have legitimate grievances regarding land reform but denied accusations of institutional discrimination by the government, pointing to Oromia’s share of seats in both chambers of parliament — the largest of any region.

Critics of Ethiopia’s human rights investigations say the government deflates numbers in order to cover up abuses taking place at the hands of their security services. Human Rights Watch’s death statistics roughly quadruple those of Ethiopian civil society groups such as Human Rights Council Ethiopia, a nongovernmental organization that monitors human rights in the country, and those published in an official Ethiopia Human Rights Commission report presented to the country’s parliament.

ESAT DC Daily News Wed 21 Sep 2016

The long march to free Oromia stops at Finfinnee

By Albasa Dagaga
September 2016

Oromia under military occupation
Ethiopia currently under TPLF controlled EPRDF is practically a failed state. In Oromia, the largest and most populous regional state, TPLF and its crony OPDO lost authority to govern since the Qeerroo lead resistance successfully mobilized Oromo to reject EPRDF rule. Since March 2016, Oromia has been under military occupation and OPDO is only relegated to security as informants to identify resistance leaders for the military to eliminate. The killing of close to a 1000 since the movement started 10 months back, and mass arrest of Oromo nationalists has not broken the Oromo will, instead, has strengthened the resistance. For the Ethiopian New Year, Qeerroo successfully mobilized for a complete shutdown of business lasting about a week in Oromia.

TPLF can’t be reformed and must be destroyed. In Oromia, TPLF grand plan was to systematically cleanse Oromo out of Oromia and control her resources for generations to come. Over the past 25 years, they have tried to do just that as we will see later in this article. Just as the land proclamation of 1975 was the best solution to “land to the tiller” student’s demand that brought down the Haile Selassie regime, only destruction of TPLF from Oromia can bring about complete freedom in Oromia.

In September, the Amhara region, the second largest region in the country, joined similar resistance against TPLF rule. The resistance that sparked in Gonder moved on to Gojjam and within two weeks-time, EPDRF political and economic infrastructure were destroyed. Currently, this region is also at war with EPRDF army. The Oromia and Amhara regions are home to over 70% of Ethiopia, and the day of reckoning and the impending demise of fascist league of Tigray/TPLF is approaching fast. Try as she might, the sure demise of TPLF, one of the most fascistic, cruel, selfish, and hateful clique to come to power from poverty stricken Tigray to the helm of political power in Ethiopia is fast approaching. Her gun tooting Agazi killers will be overwhelmed by popular mass resistance.

Background

Oromo youth uprising, known as Qeerroo Bilisummaa Oromoo by Afaan Oromo was born out of Oromo frustration from TPLF abuse of power and unrestricted land grab of Oromo land with little or no compensation. Oromo Student protests began around April 2014 in response to TPLF plan to expand the Addis Ababa City Administration by grabbing land from the surrounding Oromia regional state. The TPLF Oromia land grab plan was secretly prepared under the Addis Ababa Integrated Regional Development Plan (AAIRDP). The plan extends the city’s authority to the surrounding Oromia region, totaling 1.1 million hectares. The secret plan aims at achieving two major goals: displaces Oromo farmers from their ancestral lands and settles Tigre and their cronies in the newly acquired lands; divides Oromia from contiguous territory into two, east and west, disconnected and detached territory, thereby redesigning the one Oromia nationhood. Tens of thousands of Oromo students from all universities in Oromia rallied opposing the malicious plan. The youth warriors called themselves qeerroo, and their resistance Fincila Diddaa Gabrummaa (meaning Revolt against Subjugation). The TPLF response was predictable, and within a span of few weeks, about 100 youth were summarily executed for peacefully demonstrating.

By November 2015, the resistance has reorganized and re-ignited at a small West Central Oromia town named Gincii, in response to the decision by TPLF to transfer a school compound to a regional cabinet; to sale Gincii stadium to investors; and the adjacent Chilamo forest for international investors. TPLF’s decision to transfer property without notifying the community or asking the community’s consent was the last draw for Gincii youth. Within a span of few days, peaceful demonstration against Oromo land grab spread throughout Oromia. The resistance transforms from opposition to land grab and metamorphoses to resistance rooted in Oromoness and Oromo nationalism, and freedom of Oromia. With that, the Qeerroo resistance movement, Fincila Diddaa Gabrummaa, transforms to Fincila Xumura Garbummaa (meaning Revolt to End Subjugation).The entire Oromo from every corner of Oromia rally behind Qeerro led resistance uniting fractured activists at home and Oromo diaspora. In December 2015, Haile Mariam Desalegn, the phony prime minister, said “merciless legitimate action” would be taken against those causing disorder.

By March of 2016, the death toll reaches 500. Notwithstanding, the resistance intensifies and TPLF was not in any position to stop the tide wave coming at it. TPLF could not control Oromia through its surrogate OPDO, and all the arrests, pounding and clobbering, shooting at point- blank range, and torturing and killings of those arrested can’t silence the Qeerroo generation. In desperate move, TPLF divides Oromia into 8 sections, and officially put Oromia under its military rule; all except 2, the Defense Council that governs Oromia were Generals of Tigrai origin. Not a single Oromo General was trust-worthy of TPLF to be included. Such desperate move still could not lower the resistance, on the contrary, the struggle intensified. Oromos of all ages had enough of TPLF abuse and inhuman reaction to peaceful resistance and joined Qeerro.  Political volcano reaches full eruption in every corner of Oromia, and the call to the TPLF to vacate from Oromia and the voice pronouncing Oromia belongs to Oromo got louder by the day.

The TPLF also continued to believe in the might of its gun, and true to its usual barbaric manner, ordered its killer Agazi force to kill without mercy irrespective of age, gender or skill. As I write this, the entire Oromia is erupting and Agazi forces assisted by other security apparatus are in every part of Oromia, shooting and murdering students and their parents at point-blank range. The death toll is now estimated at about 900-1000. Every indications are that, as many innocents TPLF might murder, Qeerroo will not stop until Oromia is liberated from the yoke TPLF tyranny. When all is said and done, Oromo will be victorious and free their homeland, and TPLF will face justice for genocide. Until that day of reckoning arrives for TPLF, the country is run by a failed state. (For a more detailed background information about the TPLF political rise to the help of Ethiopian government, see my article titled “Oromia at the Crossroads. Qeerroo Led Revolution: Bloody, but Unbowed” March 2016 on http://www.bilisummaa.com, Ayyaantuu.com, Ethiomedia.com, and Zehabesha.com).

Oromo misfortune

As the geopolitical situations turned unfavorable for the Military junta of Ethiopia in the late 1980’s with Socialist bloc countries drastically cutting military aid to Mengistu regime and the Soviet Union retreating under glasnost and perestroika, the strong man of the junta, Mengistu Hailemariam decided to run away on May 21, 1990. Mengistu slipped out of the country to Kenya and then flew with his immediate family to Zimbabwe, where he was granted asylum and still resides. That opened the door for TPLF led rebel forces of EPRDF to drive to Menelik palace with help from EPLF and OLF. EPLF took on Eritrea and the country was liberated, while OLF as we know was chased out of the country by TPLF with the help of Western countries and EPLF. Western countries, relieved at seeing demise of communist dictatorship in Mengistu, started pouring money to establish TPLF through direct aid and using international monetary and development organizations. In particular, billions of dollars were channeled o TPLF government through World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), against the advice of many opposition groups, particularly the OLF. The World Bank and IMF ignored all council and created one of the worst dictators and human rights abusers in the country’s history–TPLF. Shamelessly, these two institutions are still working with this murderous clique, stubbornly preaching the phony economic miracle and double digit growth.

If You Want Good Leaders, Make Sure They’re Good Thinkers

Recent Oromia history is filled with melancholy and deep introspection. The question that torments any Oromo goes as follows: How come a nation rich in natural resources and that produces some of the best and the brightest individuals allow tyrants from a small minority to control, exploit and abuse your sons and daughters? It is a fair question, and the answer is contained in the following three factors: leadership, Oromoness, and Unity. Oromia has been waiting for good leaders who are also good thinkers, and is on the verge of getting one now.

In an ironic twist of fate, some of the best Oromo political minds worthy of running some of the great nations of any country would be wiped-out, some while trying to transform a country lagging behind the progress and development of others of comparable status. In the 1970’s, the best political minds and internationally recognized Oromo intelligentsia like Haile Fida, Dr. Sanai Likke, Dr. Kadir Ebba, Abdoulahi Yousuf, Birhanu Gamada, Dr. Meknonnen Jote, Mitiku Tarfasa, Hailu Garbaba, and hundreds others (most of them Meison or affiliates except Dr. Senai Likke) were brutally killed by Mengistu Hailemariam, a middle ranked military thug. Meison leaders tried to transform Ethiopia through National Democratic Revolution and eventually to establish People’s Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. During the same period, another group of bright and enlightened Oromo nationalists were engaged in struggle with the goal of liberating Oromia and forming democratic republic of Oromia. The group too were martyred by either Mengistu or Ziad Barre and Oromia lost nationalist intellectuals. Some of these intelligentsia include General Tadese Birru, Col. Hailu Ragassa, Elemo Qiltu, Baro Tumsa, Magarsa Bari, Muhe Abdo, Aboma Mitiku, Rev. Gudina Tumsa, and many others, the list too long to name all. Add to these, the thousands of OLF leaders and other political group members killed or currently languishing in concentration camps, or those chased out of the country by TPLF.

Compare the above Oromo leaders with the people responsible for governing Oromia the past two-and- a-half-decades. OPDO riffraff masquerading as luminaries included Muktar Kedir, Abba Dulla Gamada, Hassen Ali, Alemayehu Atomsa, Junadin Sado, Nagaso Gidada, Aster Mamo, Girma W/Giorgis and the rest. This is real life in Oromia, not a Twilight Zone story. The nightmare Oromia faces is similar to a scenario where one drives to Mekele slum and collects unemployed and underemployed youth appointing them to govern Tigray (after dressing them up with Cashmere suits and shiny shoes). The TPLF con-artists did just that in Oromia. OLF, the genuine representative of the Oromo, after negotiating with TPLF and agreeing to join the Transitional Government in 1992, was lied to and cheated and eventually chased out of the country after most of its fighting force were killed. Some still wonder how OLF leaders, who were much more enlightened than TPLF, would fall for a group that everyone knew even then as habitual liars and con artists.

After OLF left the scene, TPLF then followed with Killing, imprisoning, or chasing out of the country educated, skilled and competent Oromo and appointing war time captured idiotic, illiterate, self-seeking worthless elements to govern Oromia for TPLF. For the past 26 years, TPLF having sucked Oromia dry out of her resources, controlled the most expensive Oromia real estate market sites, after forcefully displaced Oromo owners of these areas and exposing them to poverty, beggary, or death using OPDO loafers and human carcasses. The TPLF then turns and asks Oromos to celebrate with them the make believe 2 digit economic growth of the two decades, taking all Oromo for fools, similar to the dummies they collected to govern Oromia.

OPDO Leadership is Culpable to Crimes Committed in Oromia

OPDO was created from captured Derg army by EPLF and TPLF for the sole purpose of implementing TPLF political, economic, military and social programs in Oromia. In general OPDO was a tool for TPLF to exploit the large resources of Oromia and build Tigray. OPDO leadership is a tool through which Oromia was to be controlled using myriads of security structures spied on through cell that stretched to family level in every corner of Oromia. OPDO leadership were instrumental in helping the TPLF to displace Oromo from Finfinnee and other ancestral lands in every corner of Oromia and populate those areas by Tigreans; rent or lease those lands for international investors. OPDO is a tool for TPLF to secure precious metals such as gold and natural resources used for building materials; OPDO is a tool for TPLF to have free access to cash crops such as coffee, xaafii; caatii; domestic animal products etc. OPDO’s major role also included identifying Oromo nationalist suspects for murder or using torture technique similar to documented Nazi torture chamber. The level of suffering, and torture an Oromo captured goes through in the hand of TPLF security agents is too gruesome and demented. Being Oromo could actually be reason enough to put one in prison and torture chamber.

In terms of employment, after several years of TPLF rule, the only way one can get a paying job is by becoming a member of OPDO in Oromia. The more TPLF became economically strong and controlled the economic, social, and political sphere, the more difficult for non-OPDO to find paid job, since TPLF parastatals have control over all economic activities of the country. Even Academic tenure at universities in Ethiopia depends not on scholarly work but party affiliation. As the result, millions of Oromos have joined OPDO as a way to find employment. Thus, it is clear that some of such individuals are there to put food on the table for their families. They did not join to work against the well-being of their own people. Such individuals have genuinely contributed to Oromo economic and cultural development in a meaningful way, albeit under very difficult circumstances.  Unfortunately, such persons once identified by TPLF as making a real difference in the lives of Oromo, will be branded as narrow nationalists. Through their “gimgema”, and they will be dismissed or thrown into jail accusing them of corruption, or some other invented crime. TPLF has perfected the art of accusing productive and entrepreneur Oromo in a similar manner the mobsters liquidate informers.

TPLF Oromia Grand Plan– Delusions of Grand Strategy

TPLF ethnic cleansing of Oromo from crucial Oromia areas began as soon as the group took the helm of power over the country. In the early 1990s, TPLF secret grand plan to depopulate Oromia though systematic carefully designed policies and military force was leaked out. The grand plan was written in Amharic and titled “Hizbawi Adera” roughly translated “national promise”. In this document, TPLF is promising its Tigre nationals how to control Oromia and allow Tigreans to exploit her resources including her land. The first stage was to eliminate educated, intellectuals, the business class, and the politically conscious Oromos through forced exile, criminalizing and imprisoning, and denying access to resources using bureaucratic means. The second was to take away important Oromia cities that are centers of commerce from Oromia regional state and put those cities under federal Charter. The third stage was to design policy and introduce laws designed to remove Oromos and other nationalities from their lands passing by-laws and using such laws designed for such purposes as enforcement tool.

For the past 25 years, such policies were carried out  by means of murder, torture, arbitrary arrest and detention, extra-judicial executions, rape and sexual assaults, confinement of Oromo population into  rural areas, forcible removal, displacement of civilian population, deliberate military attacks or threats of attacks on civilians and civilian areas, and wanton destruction of property. Finfinnee and Dire Dawa cities were put under federal charter cities. Until the recent Oromo national uprising, that has turned TPLF grand plan into delusions of grand strategy, nearly all major Oromia cities were under such consideration particularly under Abay Tsehaye as Minister of Federal affairs.  Oromos were cleansed from Finfinnee/Addis Abeba, and Addis Master Plan was designed to take millions of hectares of Oromo land surrounding Finfinnee.  Thousands of Oromo activists and non-activists were killed, tens of thousands of Oromos are in concentration camps; hundreds of thousands of Oromos are forced to flee their country into refugee life.  Legal experts call such activities ethnic cleansing and warn that, such acts could also fall within the meaning of the Genocide Convention. Those practices constitute crimes against humanity and can be assimilated to specific war crimes. Ethnic cleansing is “a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group”.

TPLF deep rooted hatred of Oromo

TPLF security of handling Oromo is so gruesome, gore, and inhuman for a normal human mind to grasp, and imagine let alone understand. It is incomprehensible how a group of university students of the 1970s, now turned TPLF leaders turned so cruel, inhuman, and sadistic when dealing with Oromo.

It has been narrated that Meles Zenawi was an avid book reader. Looking at the activities of his Agazi forces, Meles Zenawi and co. must have also been watching several genres of horror movies. Film scholars narrate that there are several film genres and the origins of Gore and Disturbing film comes from the darkest primal fears of people–Extreme Pain. These genres include torture, splatter, cannibal, and extreme films. Torture films are known for the extreme use of violence. The plot revolves around the physical pain and the emotional terror of prolonged torture. Splatter films also known as Exploitation films are known for making realistic gore into an art form. It was all about the imagery and shocking audiences with graphic mutilations. The violence in most cases is meant to kill immediately but as bloody as possible. The film is given to accentuate excesses of violence. Acts of torture, cannibalism of sexual depravity are placed in the respectively other genres. Extreme films are those films that confront almost every taboo, with the sheer goal to shock audiences. An extreme movie can easily be recognized due to being overly sexualized, but the most acts of sex in these movies are what are deemed depraved: necrophilia, pedophilia, incest, and excessive and brutal rape. In Extreme films, the humiliation of the victim is central. You really can see how you can break a human in the most brutal way.

Today, TPLF has turned real life in Oromia to “real life” ghost specials, the details of sadistic murders American kids watch on Cable television for entertainment. Such supernatural horror films about paranormal activity of a blood-guts-and-gore zombie TV series are real life in Oromia under TPLF choreographed by OPDO today. The level of sadistic torture, murder, and grotesque killings of Oromo peaceful demonstrators by TPLF  security forces, the Agazi in particular, is so twisted and too difficult for the normal human mind to comprehend, yet too distant for those of us in the Diaspora to fully grasp. For Tigre peasant warriors and mentally and spiritually numbed TPLF leadership, the distinction between real life and graphic movies is too clouded to discern and too complicated to distinguish.

The killings are also selective according to students who were released from jail. TPLF selects for torture and eventual killing university students who the group identify as the cream of the crop, selecting particularly from engineering, science, mathematics, and computer science.  Such selective killing of brilliant Oromo youth show the level of Oromo hatred and the twisted TPLF thought process.

Self-interest overriding sound leadership principles

What is perplexing or mystifying for most Oromo is the fact that the entire world, including the White House, has been watching this real time, on real people TPLF crime against humanity in silence.  It won’t come as a surprise if in fact some inside and close to the White House, particularly Susan Rice (National Security Advisor) and Gayle Smith (US AID Chief), the duo prime sponsors of TPLF dictatorship over Ethiopia, watch these dark TPLF drama with amusement. However, I should admit that I never thought President Obama will allow genocide unfolding under his Presidency’s watch. Ever-worse, I never expected Ambassador Samantha Power, currently the United States Permanent Representative at the UN, did not outright condemn. Ambassador Power is a distinguished human rights activist, and now represents the United States on the U.N. Security Council and plenary meetings of the General Assembly.  She has the power and the influence to make a real difference at the UN. Unfortunately, she chose to limit her protests of Ethiopian government’s human rights violations to sporadic one-liner-tweets, with the exception of her recent press statement, which was strong while visiting South Sudan.

Bewildered and disappointed, about what goes on in the State Department, I join millions of Oromo and repeat here what the British historian Lord Acton coined, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. I still have hope and appeal to the Obama administration to save the peoples in that forsaken country from the savagery of small clique of inhuman killers of innocent children, pregnant women, and the elderly using the resources US provided, before a country of 100 million people turns into cataclysmic event of potentially biblical proportions. The killing and massacre of Oromo in Oromia and the entire country by a group coming from a minority  representing only 6% of the population, must be brought to a stop now. TPLF sponsors should tell the group that quarter of a century of robbery and dictatorship went on for too long, their vanishing way overdue, and should disappear from Menelik palace before things gets real ugly.

The case for economic embargo/boycott

The “theory” behind economic sanctions is that economic pressure on civilians will translate into pressure on the Government for change. Nevertheless, there are some who believe that economic boycott is ineffective and can backfire. They reason that civilian hardship can easily be translated into political advantage by a ruling regime. They also mention that in regimes where political decision-making is not democratic, there is simply no easy pathway through which civilian pressure can bring about change in the Government. Some researches show that the traditional calculation of balancing civilian suffering against the desired political effects is giving way to the realization that the efficacy of a sanctions regime is in inverse proportion to its impact on civilians.

This is misleading and there is a twist to this theory. Economic embargo can backfire, in some instances when the embargo is imposed on one country by another government or through the UN Security resolution to put pressure and bring about change in the Government. In some specific cases, this action could make the government even more popular due in large part to nationalistic feeling of citizens of the country targeted for embargo.  The citizens will be angry at the embargo and rallying behind their government, not because they necessarily like their government, but take the embargo as an attack against their country. In this scenario, the government will be popular but the citizens will suffer the full impact of the embargo and suffer. Depending on the level and the reason for such embargo, the populous could also decide to hold their own government responsible, and bring about change. That is why some embargos succeed and others fail.

The boycott and embargo we are recommending on TPLF is very differs from the above scenario. It is internal. TPLF is the most hated and despised political force in every part of the country with some exception of its home base.  In our case, it is our citizens against this fascist government. The embargo and boycott is aimed at cutting the resources this fascist league of Tigrai use to suppress and oppress our people. It is to starve its security forces of resources the group use to harass, murder, and torture our people.

The boycott should be targeted at TPLF economic empire. Our struggle to liberate Oromia uses multifaceted approaches to liberate Oromia and one is economic boycott of TPLF owned and controlled consumer products.  We already know TPLF controlled corporations and their associated consumer products. All we need is educate our people to boycott these products. We should also identify the natural resources exploited and areas of operation and destroy the infrastructure these companies use to exploit these resources.

TPLF controls total economic and political domination of Oromia today by engaging in massive corruption and unethical business practices by national or international business rules. It controls strategic sectors of the economy and engages in commercial and trading activities. It uses its economic dominance as a political weapon to harass, incarcerate, dominate, to weaken free competition.

Today, the Ethiopian economy is controlled by two large major conglomerates and one major relief association.  The two conglomerates are EFFORT (The Endowment Fund for the Rehabilitation of Tigrai) and MIDROC (Mohamed International Development Research Organization Companies), the Saudi billionaire, Sheikh Mohamed Al-Amoudi’s vast business enterprise. The relief association is REST (Relief Society of Tigrai).

EFFORT is TPLF economic empire and has monopolized the private sector of the Ethiopian economy to the extent never seen anywhere in the continent.  The TPLF-owned companies, referred to as parastatals controls strategic income generating sectors such as agriculture, industry, banking, mining, import-export, transport, construction, insurance, and communications. TPLF hierarchy has effectively used EFFORT as a “cash cow” to accumulate immense amounts of wealth and political and economic domination of the country. As the result, competitive policy and trade practice are absent, the country is plagued with nepotism, insider information, and other political considerations. Endemic culture of obscene corruption leveraging state resources through granting privileged access to the most important commodity–land– and procurement information has created instant Tigrai overnight millionaires and billionaires in one of the poorest countries in the world with GDP per capita  of 486.27 (bottom 10 in the world) in 2015. (See article titled “Urgent Call to Boycott TPLF Owned and Controlled Businesses!” Published on Ayyaantu.net, by Albasa Dagaga, February 16, 2016.)

REST was a relief organization, formally registered with the Ethiopian government’s Relief & Rehabilitation Commission as an “NGO” and is headed by a TPLF Central Committee member to collect donations from the international community and channeled to the TPLF.  A large part of the billions of dollars donated by the international community goes to REST coffins for development of Tigrai.

After TPLF controlled Ethiopia, Al-Amoudi moved to Ethiopia and started buying several companies from TPLF using government privatization program. Al- Amoudi’s MIDROC Ethiopia owns substantial business interests and owns a broad portfolio of businesses in construction, energy, agriculture, mining, hotels, healthcare and manufacturing, security firm amongst others. MIDROC Gold Mine Pvt. Ltd. Co. (MGOLD) is one of about 30 major corporations with about 70 group and affiliate companies owned and operated by the Saudi billionaire Al-Amoudi mostly in Oromia region. For example, Al-Amoudi made 1.3 billion dollars over the past 16 years from the Legadembi Gold Mine in Southern Oromia alone.

The Saudi billionaire area of operation and resource for exploitation is mostly limited to Oromia. Research also show that Al-Amoudi loathed Oromo and so shares none of wealth taken away from Oromo land.  Oromia suffered all the negative attributes associated with his business activities but none of its benefits. MIDROC provided no employment, no infrastructure development, no schools and no hospitals for Oromo communities residing in the areas of his business operation. Not a single Oromo is employed as head of the 30 or so corporation at a CEO level; out of 40 million Oromo. The communities experience deforestation, lethally polluted lakes, toxic, acidic water, too many very sick people and animals with symptoms related to toxicity and pollution.  The benefits go to his sponsors TPLF. Thus, Qeerroo should force the shutdown of MIDROC Empire inside Oromia and should also boycott all MIDROC consumer products at all levels.   (For more detailed information, see article titled: “Oromos Should Boycott MIDROC Ethiopia Products; Force Shut Down Gold Mining in Oromia!” on Ayyaantuu.net and Zehabesha and others, February 20, 2016 by Albasa Dagaga.)

In general, boycott should target the ruling party directly, party supporters, facilitators, and policy implementers. Boycott should minimize hardship on the civilian population, particularly, the poor; sanctions that directly or indirectly cause deaths of innocent civilians should be avoided. Boycotting TPLF and its cronies owned resources will have devastating effect on TPLF. The economic power that it utilizes to exert its political and military power will be eliminated. At the present stage, Oromo resistance should shift from peaceful demonstration to carefully designed and targeted economic boycott, and carefully planned and direct guerrilla attack at TPLF leadership, property, murderer Agazi and its other forces. Peaceful demonstrations have been effective so far, but, the cost to human life has out-weighed the damage to TPLF. It makes no sense to continue to cross one hand above head and peacefully demonstrate when TPLF security forces fire live bullets at point blank range killing nearly a 1000 so far. In general, there should be few peaceful demonstrations if any at all, and concentration more on economic boycotts/embargos/sabotages, and intensified hit-and-run tactics at TPLF security and political structure of TPLF to remove this fascist group from power.

Unity of purpose among all Oromo political groups is crucial and overdue.

Today, there is no one dominant Oromo political organization or a liberation front that all Oromos can rally behind to defeat TPLF and free Oromia. There are, instead, several political groups masquerading in the name of Oromo in the Diaspora some calling themselves liberation front while others aim at democratizing Ethiopian state. As Oromo luck would have it, most of these splintered groups were all part of the OLF at some point, some even founders. Just when Oromo needed unity, to defend Oromia from TPLF savagery over the past 25 years, Oromo politicos chose dividing OLF in the name of perfecting the political program while others opted for power struggle, splintering by appealing to all sorts of ugly political taboos.

Oromo Waaqaa finally spoke and children born when TPLF took political power in Ethiopia could wait no more for OLF they hoped will come and liberate Oromia, and took the responsibility of liberating Oromia onto their own hands. As the entire world witnessed, Qeerroo shook the entire TPLF built colonial infrastructure in Oromia in less than a year. The effect on old politicos was scramble for control of Qeerroo, but was not to be, for Qeerroo is not in the business of unproductive non-ending talk but action. Now that the emperors have no clothes, there is only one option left for old politicos to at least be useful for themselves and not be an obstacle to Oromo unity. They have to come together and unite to be counted. Hence, unity of purpose to develop a decision that all can support. All Oromo political groups can agree to work united until a space and condition is created for political power over Oromia to be controlled by Oromo. True consensus is something we value for its ability to unite a group around a particular decision. To achieve this, the logical first step will be designing strategy and tactic united, to remove TPLF control of Oromia. For all Oromo political groups to agree on such a minimum program, (short-term goal), all political groups will keep their original political goal and aspirations. In other words, unity of purpose is based on agreeing to defeat TPLF and free and liberate Oromia, first and foremost. All groups still hold on to their original Kaayyoo. All Oromo political organizations can agree on this one goal.  They still may differ on how to get to that goal. Whether it is through Bole or through Bale, both paths are wide open, as long as the target is defeating the common enemy– TPLF. The tactic is also wide open for both who wish for a peaceful protest or armed resistance.  If there is an Oromo group that does not believe in creating space and condition for Oromia to be controlled and represented by Oromo, such group can’t seriously call itself an Oromo political organization, thus, should take out the name Oromo out of the title name.

Once Oromia is liberated from TPLF fascist rule, the different Oromo political groups with different objectives can bring their cases peacefully without spilling blood, and democratically to Oromo people or otherwise. The Oromo people can listen to the different choices presented, and pick what it wishes, and the majority voice will win. Those who wish for Oromo to live in a free and democratic country, should abide by the verdict of the Oromo people’s free choice.  In one voice, the right of self-determination of Oromia shall be realized.

It is very clear for veterans of Oromo resistance struggle that there are at least two major fundamental philosophical differences among Oromo political groups: independent Oromia versus democratic multinational federated Ethiopia. If there is an Oromo political group that advocates for a “unitary” Ethiopia or homogenized and assimilated Ethiopia, such old ideas is  gone for good, and will not have a listening, let alone a hearing day.

Oromo future course of action must be based on lessons acquired from our past experience (the good and the bad). By now, the most important lesson we all can agree on is not coming to a consensus on minimum program by past Oromo political organizations and currently, has been the main weakness that allowed the political control of Oromia for the first century by Amharas and recent quarter of a century by Tigres. There are just two choices now: agree on a minimum program and free Oromia now or condemn Oromia to the status quo. If there was one dominant Oromo political organization that can galvanize the Oromo nation that can free Oromia from TPLF now, the Oromo wouldn’t be pleading for Oromo political organizations to unite. Unfortunately there is none now, and the OLF that had the potential to do so, has splintered into several factions during the past 25 years, reversing all the gains made the first 15 years. That also explains why Qeerroo became the vanguard of the struggle for freedom rather than the organizations that had 40 years of experience. As the tyranny of TPLF intensified, and the survival of Oromia was threatened, while the OLF continued to splinter, Oromo youth took on the burden of facing the enemy armed to the teeth with bare hands registering legacy of uncommon bravery and valor  unrestrained sacrifice, and unbounded courage. Qeerro shook the TPLF political foundation without shooting a gun and brought to the world attention the fascistic nature of TPLF rule.

Just this month,  Fayisa Lelisa, a 26 years old Qeerroo who won a silver medal in the men’s marathon at the 2016 Rio Olympics completed his victory with an exclamation, crossed his wrists with his arms in the air, in solidarity associated with the his Qeerroo comrades. With a symbol of defiance to TPLF led government, Fayisa used the few minutes to highlight Oromo resistance against TPLF fascist regime to the millions watching the closing of the 2016 Rio Olympics. The story spread like a wild fire to the world media and to the hall of the US Congress.  When Edward Everett Hale once wrote: “I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”, he must be thinking about persons like Fayisa Lelisa. Fayisa’s determination, timing, and efficiency also exemplify the potency of the Qeerroo generation that defy a status quo that tried its damnedest to stop Oromia from creating a future with courage and sheer impertinence to the brighter future.

The political volcano that erupted in Oromia is now in full swing in the Amhara region, starting in Gonder and moving fast on to Gojjam.  Within a spat of two weeks, Amharas who know TPLF better than anyone gave a devastating blow to TPLF infrastructure using everything at their disposal with precision. TPLF who counted on the two major national groups, constituting over 70 percent of the country’s population, was damn-struck for the one instrument it effectively used to divide and conquer the two is no more. The group that boasted about TPLF bravery and glory and wrote self-aggrandizing book calling itself “generation that moved mountains” felt struck by lightning that those make believe mountains are erupting just under its belly, and there will be no room left to hide and no instrument to use to divide and conquer. The murderous TPLF fate will be decided soon by Oromos, Amharas, and the other Ethiopian peoples.  For Oromo, it is forcing the TPLF to vacating from Oromia and opening a new chapter where the future generation Oromos can live in freedom in a prosperous Oromia. For the TPLF, the logical destination will be their old military base at Dedebit, which should also serve them as a last and final resting place for the TPLF gerontocracy. Qeerro will accomplish this mission; this generation is a type that internalized what Winston S. Churchill once said, “Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”  Winston S. Churchill, Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill’s Speeches.

A winning formula

The Qeerroo resistance has dramatically changed Oromo struggle from incrementalism with the banal, trivial, humdrum, and tedious debates to results oriented extraordinary action. Qeerroo should make its leadership known and all Oromo political organizations should selflessly work with that leadership or directly join. United forces of Qeerroo leadership and veterans of Oromo struggle spanning over 40 years will for sure free Oromia once and for all. I can confidently say that in more than 150 years, Oromia is in good hands and no amount of deception, support from alien forces, or mountain of lies can forestall the inevitable: free and independent Oromia that will confidently chart its future.

About the Author: Albasa Dagaga is a researcher and resides in Washington DC Metro area. He can be reached through email at:  albasa1@verizon.net

The ¼ Prime Minster of Ethiopia was at it again. Abay and Mesfin have been busy warning us of the consequences of getting rid of Woyane. Debretsion is more concerned about the rift in the military while Tigrai warlord Abay Woldu is swearing Wolkait or death. Aba Dula and Kassu were added to give color to discussion not that any body paid attention. It was quarter PM’s turn and he delivered his colorful speech to Woyane 100% Parliament. As usual it was all theatrics and void of any quotable moment.

He did not fail to demonize any and all Ethiopians that do not agree with TPLF. Quarter PM was channeling Woyane madness and very happy to get the rare pat on the back from his handlers. He emulates his mentor Meles Zenawi in every manner. He has copied the late evil leaders sarcasm, his bullying manner where he attempts tasteless jokes at the expense of others and make statements that are neither verifiable nor true. To have no qualms about lying used to be a Woyane trademark but HMD seems to have acquired that habit too. He is a cheap Chinese copy with all the flaws of the original. Americans will call him Mini Me.

He was speaking on behalf of TPLF since he really does not have any vision we know of or any agenda other than serve TPLF as needed. The only power base he has is the Wolaita community he comes from and that is nothing to write home about. He has been a virtual prisoner since Meles plucked him out of Arba Minch to be used as the ‘minor’ nationality face of Woyane. Here is a transcript from a monologue at his recent public appearance:

‘The point where we disagree is we believe Ethiopian politics have to be Ethiopia’s business but they tell us we generate only 90 percent and 10 percent comes from abroad and they want to meddle. Here is Adwa and all that comes in….We Ethiopians have to do our politics ourselves …you can not mess with us like you do with other African countries, like you hoist a flag and announce the regime has resigned, that would not work in Ethiopia. You cannot control us, we don’t allow outside forces to meddle (play) in our politics. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church that has built so many beautiful churches from contributions because people believed in them if you want political legitimacy you have to make people believe in you, it is not about lack of funding, we will take your ten percent because we need dollars ( laughter) this charities law has destroyed families (corrupt) from getting income, it has cut the hands of those that wanted to involve in our politics. Thus if you go on social media you hear criticism about the stifling effect of the Ethiopian Charities Law, on the other hand if you bring ninety percent from America and get involved locally

I told you it is typical Meles type bravado void of substance. Quarter PM was focused on demonizing the Diaspora and in a roundabout way speaking of the US and the west. Both targets are what keep his regime standing with one leg. The Diaspora Ethiopian is the number one contributor of needed hard currency and a formidable investor in Woyane ponzi scheme. The US is the one that turns it head not to see the Human Rights violations and also allows the regime to borrow from international institutions knowing it is going to be misappropriated. The US also trains Woyane army and pays for all the so-called ‘peace keeping’ missions. These are the two giants quarter PM was chastising for wanting to be involved in Ethiopia affairs. The individual is clueless in the workings of money and politics. He huffed and puffed about sovereignty and pretended to be a Nationalist while TPLF is selling land to the Indians, Chinese, Saudi and others. He wants to hide behind the flag while Woyane is exporting beef to the Arabs while the people starve. He wants to pretend he controls his destiny while his masters have their palms stretched asking for alms.

Quarter PM also discussed the building of churches and the generosity of the faithful in Ethiopia. Why he confused this with politics is not clear. I guess the logic is if Ethiopian Christians can build all these Churches from contributions then charities (NGO) should not get any funding from outside.  Why the regime receives millions from outsiders to balance its budget and why that is considered legal is not clear.

The Ethiopian people never elected HMD to that high office. He was appointed by the Tigrai ruling group. Thus when he speaks no one pays attention. As far as the people are concerned he is just another cadre temporarily occupying the office by the good will of the Woyane party. The late evil tyrant recruited him like he did with Addisu, Abate, Tamirat, Tefera, Aba Dulla, Junedin and many other feeble minds to serve his purpose because he saw something in them. They all were pliable. They were brought in to show the inclusive nature of TPLF. They were window dressing and the Ethiopian people knew it.

As we speak Woyane is calling the debt in. It is time to pay back for the fame and riches made possible by Meles and company. Muktar Kedir and Aster Mamo are the latest victims. The killings in Oromia are going to be their doing. It is time to bring a puppet, make him confess and humiliate him/her in public to wash the crime away.  The TPLF has done this before. Some like Tamirat and Abate Kisho are thrown in the dungeon while a few are allowed to keep what they stole and made to leave (Junedin, Ali). There are those left to roam the City like a ghost (Tefera. Addisu).

Quarter PM was asked about athlete Feyisa Lilesa and his protest in Rio. Of all the things to be said HMD decided to question the ability of our friend to make such a determination. Ato Feyisa was clear about what he is not happy about in his homeland and used the opportunity to let the world know. He was not focused on some philosophical discourse but said as a matter of fact that he has seen family and friends get killed, disappear or suffer and that is what he is protesting. Quarter PM speculated Ato Feyisa did this because others imposed on him. He is not willing to accept that some people have moral values and would not accept being abused for any price. How could that be, doesn’t everybody have a price is what HMD thought.

Ethiopians are lucky to be able to witness such successive mental meltdowns in the mafia group in a matter of two weeks. We witnessed Cadre Getachew Reda and veteran Woyane birdbrains Abay and Mesfin completely lose it when confronted with Amhara Oromo unity. How could that be so, aren’t they like hay and fire subject to ignition without notice asked Getachew while Abay and Seyoum made their bets on the two fighting it out. HMD was totally disgusted by Feyisa Lilisa’s selfless act. What a wasted of opportunity when he could return as TPLF made hero, receive land, build a hotel and share his riches with Woyane. I am hoping this situation with Feyisa is a teachable moment for HMD. I pray that it opens his eyes and he comes to realize leadership is a heavy responsibility and it has to be earned. A young man like our athlete hero is showing HMD the right way to pay back your debt to society and harvest the goodwill of fellow country people. In the action Ato Feyisa undertook there was no financial gain and it also exposed his family and friends to high danger. That is a definition of a hero. His conscience won over.

Quarter PM is in New York for a UN assembly. I ask the individual to sit in his hotel room and see where the road he is on is leading him. The last five years he has been dealing with Woyane and by now he should know that they have no honor. It is clear association with such criminals does not end well. Is he willing to trade his beliefs and core human values for a few years of fame? Is he willing to drag his family thru mud due to the actions of his associates? There is always a way out. He does not have to go back. He can ask for asylum and undo the evil he has facilitated and sleep peacefully knowing finally he did the right thing. HMD please remember to err is human but forgiveness is divine and the Ethiopian people are the kind that will forgive you if you will come clean and help us find a solution to the problem your associates have caused. We pray your God help you make the right decision.

Constitutional Expert, resides in Melbourne, Australia

For genuine solidarity to occur, trust is necessary. For trust to emerge, honest  conversation is key. For an honest conversation to exist speaking truth to each other is a must. Truth is essential.

When we stand in solidarity with others, we keep truth central. From our part, definitely from our perspective (for we all see partially/ perspectivally), we offer the whole truth.

We won’t settle for anything less just for the sake of an empty rhetoric of peace. Yes, we want a just peace, not an imperial peace built on hierarchic relations of primacy and subordination. But we can’t have just peace without truth. We can’t get to just peace without the truth, our truth, the truth about our pains of the past and our aspirations for the future.

We refuse to accept fake gestures of solidarity. We reject false unity. We oppose empty political platitudes. We welcome a genuine dialogue based on truth–historic or contemporary.

We reject convenience and expediency that are called forth at all costs. We welcome unconditional mutual recognition, ethical and painful listening, and an agonistic engagement with each other that points us towards a genuine transformation. Anything less is a TPLF-style instrumentalism . It’s cheap pragmatism that wants to address the issue of power (perhaps) but not of justice. And we have seen it fail many times, and that’s as it should be.

Our peoples’ shared demand — as expressed clearly in their protest demonstrations from North to South, from West to East–at a very basic level, is a demand for a hearing. It’s a demand for voice. They sought a space where they can speak as valued political subjects.

In the last ten months, passing through blood and fire, they have created their own space, their own site of resistance. Through sacrifice, they have done the work of democratic self-empowerment. Now, they have assumed their political subjectivity. Now they have resumed their speaking positions. Now they have wrested their right to political action. Now they have reasserted their sovereignty. Now they have created their own space, if only a space of resistance, in an environment where the regime has closed down every possible avenue of meaningful political engagement.

This space of resistance needs to be preserved, expanded, and invigorated. The work of solidarity can start with expanding this space of popular democratic self-empowerment. This is the beginning of mutual recognition of each other’s sovereign act while under lethal oppression. This mutual recognition is, and must continue to be, unconditional.

While still in this space of mutual recognition, we need to chisel out the basic values [e.g. dignity, equality, democracy, (social) justice, human rights, compassion, etc.] that will ensure a lasting solidarity that will lead to a future of just peace, socio-political reconciliation, and total, perhaps rupturous, transformation.

For now, though, we need to remind ourselves of the supreme importance of TRUTH, JUSTICE, PEACE, and RESPONSIBILITY at the center of any political discourse, especially if we want a genuine solidarity that will last.

ESAT Daily News DC Thu 22 Sept 2016

By Alem Mamo

The reputation and credibility of international peacekeeping is at stake

“The regime in Addis Ababa could recall its peacekeepers as the political crisis in the country deepens.”

Like a keen school kid who thinks he knows the answer to all the questions that the teacher asks the regime in Addis Ababa is the first one to raise a hand whenever there is a talk or a need for international peacekeeping. The immediate question is why? Is it because the authoritarian and brutal regime that continues to terrorize its own people cares about world peace or is there an ulterior motive behind it? How could it be that the regime that uses all available military and police forces against peaceful and unarmed civilians would be concerned about regional and global peace?

The answer to these questions is simple and straightforward. However, it is important to establish a context within the international diplomatic arena and the state of the world as it relates to the world strategic and political order. For those who are not familiar with the current political contour of Ethiopia, the country is effectively a one-party state of ethnic-kleptocracy. This single party authoritarian system of governance is further compounded and riddled with problems because the political and economic power is solely controlled and managed by the Tigray Liberation Front (TPLF) which claims to represent less than 6% of one hundred million population of Ethiopia. Astute and curious 21^st century political analysts might raise two key questions from this fact. Firstly, what is a liberation front created to “liberate” a particular ethnic group doing governing the entire country? Secondly, why is the country’s political landscape entirely saturated with ethnic political groups. Well, these two questions by themselves require separate analysis and examination. Nevertheless, I believe the questions themselves offer some kind of context to the political reality of Ethiopia.

So, why is the TPLF so keen to participate in international peacekeeping. Obviously, all authoritarian regimes suffer from a malnutrition of legitimacy from their own people whom they claim to govern. In the absence of consent from citizens, they search for legitimacy and recognition elsewhere.  Most of the time, they feed their illusion of legitimacy by concocting bogus elections and ultimately declaring themselves the winners of 100% of the vote. As was the case in the 2015 national election in Ethiopia where the regime declared 100% victory. No, it is not a joke. Just ask United States National Security Advisor Susan Rice.[1]

Currently, this hundred percent ‘victory’ is being rejected by the people of Ethiopia, as a popular uprising spreads like a wild fire across the country. As far as the people of Ethiopia are concerned the regime is an elected and illegitimate.  While this is the reality of the political landscape in Ethiopia, the regime is attempting to garner support and legitimacy from outside the country. Its involvement in international peacekeeping is precisely meant to achieve this objective.

Hence, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF)-led authoritarian regime in Addis Ababa has significantly accelerated its contribution to international peacekeeping, and currently there are 59 police, 104 military experts, and 8170 troops[2] dispatched by the TPLF regime serving in peacekeeping missions in Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, the Sudan regions of Darfur and Abeyi, and South Sudan.

Concern for peace is the least defining characteristic of the regime in Addis Ababa. In fact, since its inception the TPLF has exploited conflicts in side the country and the region. Furthermore, this violent group directly and indirectly manufactured national and regional conflicts to advance its political and economic agenda. For instance, its role and involvement in Somalia and South Sudan raises a serious concern. Peace and conflict analysts and political observers allege that the rise of al Shabaab in Somalia and the ongoing crisis in South Sudan is the making of the TPLF regime. These are the true natures and the distinct characters of the regime. In this context why is the TPLF always jumping on peacekeeping missions?

Here are the main reasons:

First, TPLF views international peacekeeping as lucrative business/money making opportunity. According to the UN’s publicly available information “countries volunteering uniformed personnel to peacekeeping operations are reimbursed by the UN at a standard rate, approved by the General Assembly, of a little over US$1,028 per soldier per month.” Which means based on the current troop contribution TPLF pockets close to one billion US dollars a year (8333 troops x $1028= $85,663.24 x 12months =$10279588). How much of this fund is allocated to the participating troops or police officers is not disclosed, and there is no system of accountability or an official audit. Peacekeeping to the TPLF regime is the wider extension of entrenched corruption within the economic and political system of Ethiopia.

Second, the regime’s eagerness to dispatch troops to international peacekeeping is motivated by gaining some level of international prestige/recognition, which it often propagates for a local audience, as well as the outside observer. This allows it to project an image of an internationally responsible regime. In doing so the regime believes it can harvest legitimacy to govern, which it has lost from the citizens of the country it rules with an iron fist.

Third, participating in international peacekeeping helps the regime create an illusion of ‘peace’ and ‘stability’ at home. The fact is that the situation in Ethiopia is a full blown crisis. There is no a single part of the country which is not experiencing anti-government uprising. In addition, on top of the peaceful popular uprising, several armed groups are challenging the regime’s legitimacy and authority to govern. Given this fast escalating political crisis in the country, diplomatic sources are indicating that the regime could withdraw its peacekeeping troops posted in several countries to quash pro-democracy movement in the country.

TPLF routinely uses its military and police to silence dissent, torture citizens, and murder peaceful protesters. This has been the case in Ethiopia over the last twenty-five years. Furthermore, authoritarian regimes such as the regime in Addis Ababa, and many others including Burundi and Uganda have blackmailed the international community threatening to withdraw their troops from various missions unless the West stops advocating for human rights or criticize their overall political and economic policies. This is further confirmation of the regime’s unreliability as they see their participation in international peacekeeping as a reward for their brutality and violations of citizen’s rights.

How is it morally and ethically acceptable that members of the same police and army are welcomed the fold of international peacekeeping? Doesn’t this contradict the very values and principles of the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)? The UN must uphold its own values and principles and hold those who violate the rights of citizens accountable instead of offering them a platform of legitimacy at the international stage. Furthermore, engaging authoritarian regimes in international peacekeeping has a reliability problem. The possibility of the troops from Ethiopia being recalled is real. Hence, the UN must consider this factor seriously before involving peacekeepers from countries ruled by authoritarian regimes.

The author can be reached at alem6711@gmail.com

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXFXl4avLVw

[2] http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/resources/statistics/contributors.shtml

Discussion with Ethiopian Somali People’s Democratic Congress Leadership
ዶ/ር ኡስማኢል ቋዳህ፤ የኢትዮጵያ ሶማሌ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ሸንጎ ሊቀመንበርና አቶ ዓሊ ሁሴን፤የኢትዮጵያ ሶማሌ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ሸንጎ ሥራ አስፈጻሚ አባል፤ ስለ ሸንጎው ሚናና ወቅታዊው የኢትዮጵያ ተጨባጭ ሁኔታ ይናገራሉ።

by Muluken Gebeyew

TPLF (Tigray People Liberation Front) has ruled Ethiopia for the last 25 years under the cover name of EPRDF (Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front). This elite anti democratic group which is pseudo representative of Tigrean people progressed to rule as minority group through sophisticated means.

TPLF by its nature is anti-Ethiopian and anti-unity entity. From inception, it was an agent for Eritrean secession agenda but later it reinvented itself as merciless ethnic minority group with aim to rule the majority of Ethiopians under the pretext of Ethiopian agenda. TPLF came in to power 25 years ago and imposed its dark policy against Ethiopian people.

TPLF has ruled Ethiopians through hate, fear, divide and rule policies. It has monopolized the economy, military, foreign affair, security and all sector of the society. It has killed, tortured, imprisoned, looted, destabilized large sector of Ethiopian society principally the Amahra and Oromo people.

TPLF has caused lots of mass suspicion among Ethiopian people. It has created a delusional federal system with figure head puppets while its operatives rule under iron fist. It continued to wage war among ethnic and nationalities. Its inflammatory polices have made Ethiopians displaced, homeless, dispossessed, unemployed and flee from their country. TPLF killed generation’s mind and psychological development.

The future of Ethiopia has along road to travel. The poison that would be left by TPLF would take time to detoxify. The paranoia and false identity it created among different nationalities need proper handling and therapy.

A national reconciliation among Ethiopians must be the rule of thumb to start the journey for democratic and compassionate Ethiopia. TPLF is by its nature anti-love and anti -people which should be completely removed and has no role in the future Ethiopia! TPLF and its culprits have to face full force of justice. The pathogenic policies of TPLF should be eradicated in the New Ethiopia.

TPLF should handover the power to Ethiopian people through peaceful means. Its brutal crackdown of killing, torture and imprisonment wouldn’t kill the whole Ethiopian. At the end, the people will win! Those TPLFits who are under megalomaniac delusions have to wake up to realities and think for the fate of their children if not for their own. Their children need a country which is peaceful and democratic. The money they looted wouldn’t guarantee their children a peaceful life neither at overseas nor in Ethiopia.

The transitional Ethiopian government after TPLF should be inclusive of all except TPLF to form a government that would rectify the obstacles the TPLF leave for us. It should come with new Constitution that would guarantee any Ethiopian a full citizen right and responsibility. It should pave the way for legitimate government elected by the people. A constitution that would curb the power of those in power and should limit term of Prime minster or/and President. The parliament should be representative of not only the usual first-pass-the post system but Proportional representation too.

TPLF’s 100% victory type of wicked election result should never be repeated in future Ethiopia. Beside first-past-the post voting, every million or half million voting should be proportionally represented whatever party the public vote for.

The fundamental work for all these first and foremost should be national Reconciliation among Ethiopian people. Reconciliation from our past deed and tragedy, to reach to new height of human consciousness . A reconciliation that would lead to forgiveness, create new vision and brother-sisterhood among Ethiopians. A reconciliation that can lead the victim and perpetrator to live in bright future than dark soul. A reconciliation that would pave lasting peace among Ethiopians.

“..Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God” Psalm 68:31.

May God help us!

Ethiopians from Philadelphia came in vans to stand with the people of Ethiopia and denounced the killing and jailing of innocent Ethiopians who demanded justice and Say No to land grabbing in Ethiopia. The protest that started in the Oromo Region in November 2015 brought Gonder in July/Hamle 24 followed by Gojam and Wello into mass action against the corrupt regime of Ethiopia.

The Philadelphia Ethiopians marched through Manhattan streets starting 50th and 9th Avenue waving Ethiopian tricolor, Green, Yellow and Red chanting against Killing and jailing in Ethiopia. The sunny blue sky and warm temperature energized the crowd from start to finish.

The crowd stopped at NBC studio at Rockefeller Center and educated the media about the atrocities in Ethiopia which is financed by USA tax payers money and ignored by the Western medias. Challenged the media to inform the American people.

The destination of the crowd was Dag Hammarskjold Plaza at 47 Street between First and Second Avenue. Before entering the Plaza they protested in front of the Ethiopian Mission and held accountable Hailemariam Desalegn for the death of close to thousands of people in the Oromo Region, Gonder and Gojam and tens of thousands languishing in malaria infested camps throughout Ethiopia.

Protesters carried signs which demand the release of all political prisoners and the regime in power dominated by TPLF to stop the terror in Ethiopia and transfer power to elected people representatives immediately.

The policy of silencing the masses by terror is only to bring more resistance and bloodshed in Ethiopia. The scare regime propaganda by its media, the Rwanda of 1994 and Syria now, is the last futile attempt to hold on to power.

In fact the tactic of isolating Amhara as the enemy of nations and nationalities was decisively defeated by the July/Hamle, 24 Gonder huge protest. Peace between the largest ethnic groups in Ethiopia, Oromo and Amhara, should not scare other nationalities rather will accelerate the defeat of the last 25 years of ethnic divisions and bring peace and justice to all Ethiopians.

The rally that started 11 45 am ended before 3 pm by holding Ethiopian Flag high and promising to stand with our people until Ethiopians are Free from Tyranny.

It was indeed a Phillies Ethiopians rally in New York.

From Michyas Gizaw

In part one I wrote about the conjugal between the “illuminate” (ILU) and the Haughty Sebhat (HS): the architect of “Great Tigray” and the owner of “EFFORT”. Now I will try to say a slight about the disorders of TPLF; the toxic by-product of Sebhat and the little toy of the illuminate.

Dear Ethiopians – time and history brings us into an area of great importance for the correct understanding of the current situation in Ethiopia. Presently Ethiopia is suffering from satanic tyranny (a conjugal between the Illuminate and TPLF). TPLF kills; never care about lives of Ethiopians. TPLF has deaf ears; never listen to the woes of the poor. The groups of TPLF never learn; they are boasting for constructing the Renaissance Dam or Addis-Nazareth motorway. TPLF has no obedience which springs form the heart and conscience. “Their hearts are turned towards selfish gain; their hearts are callous and unfeeling”. The problem of obedience arose when their will was confronted by an alien will; the illuminate. Hiding within the souls of TPLF traitors – the illuminate – is tormenting Ethiopia; one of the most respected land. Dear Ethiopians – We need to cooperate and unite more than ever, before Satan kills us one by one.

It is known that the very best leaders are first and foremost a country and people loving individuals. Unfortunately, Ethiopia today has no such a “human” leader. (Even human tyranny (DERG) was better than the present satanic tyranny (TPLF)). The puppet Prime Minister, HD is surrounded by “evil obsessed TPLF gangs”. They are using him as a remote controlled dummy. I doubt that PM HM, as a Christian grasps the word of God. “For you say I am rich. I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind and naked (Rev.3:17). PM HM – I don’t think that you apprehend what is going on. Please read these words. “..Put no trust in extortion; set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart on them (Psalm 62:10) “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy (John 10:10). Do you have to lie to make Satan happy? Do you have to lie to be a prisoner in the palace? You have ordered agazi soldiers to kill Amharas and Oromos. Wouldn’t that make Satan happy? Please dear PM – run then confess then wash your hands.

TPLF – the little toy of the illuminate – received guidance from World Bank and IMF: an off-shot of illuminates. Major parts of Ethiopia therefore are taken by USA affluent individuals. China, on the other hand, is investor and prime lender in Ethiopia which indirectly controlled a significant part of Ethiopian resources. The Saudi rich man, Al amoudi is looting the minerals and gold of Ethiopia. The rest part of Ethiopia is literally sold to Turkish, Indian, South Africa and other Western investors. It is indeed a shame to Ethiopia – a 3000 thousand years old independent and sacred country – to be misappropriated by the evil powers. Is it not a shame – to clergy-men and Imams?

The groups of TPLF suffer from personality disorder characterized by enduring antisocial behavior. They will kill anyone who stands in front of their interests. When people asked for their rights TPLF lose trust and eventually become bitter and killer. Even their servants, whom are without empathy and remorse, are killers too. They are rewarded by the groups of TPLF for acting the way it craves. If all could be sent to a criminal psychologist they’d be diagnosed as psychopaths and cowards.

TPLF encourages greed. But greed is only for bad men. For normal people it is anti-social and soul destroying. TPLF destroyed the belief of Ethiopia which relies on altruism, compassion and a generalized concern for others. TPLF got credit from colonizers for doing this evil. Prostitution, corruption, inflation, unemployment, etc., is deliberately done to get cheap labor by suffocating moral and ethics. This is a direct revenge against Ethiopia.

TPLF is a system of minority privilege and class rule based on satanic ownership of means of livelihood. This gives the groups of TPLF not only the power to exploit but to kill or burn humans alive. Innocent people are sent to prison and tortured alive. Unless God interferes they can destroy the entire population.

The group of TPLF knows how to speak about “nation and nationalities”, but they destroy beliefs and psychological make ups of “nations and nationalities”. TPLF gave permission to “nations and nationalities” to dance their traditional dances. Thus, they went out the back door to bargain the land and wealth of the “nations and nationalities”. They vended the land to foreign investors. In connection to this we recall with sorrow the speech of President Jomo Kenyatta, the first president of Kenya. He said, – “They –colonialists – taught how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible”. The opposition parties at home and abroad fight bravely to reveal this kind of misery. But TPLF undermine all that encourage people to cooperate with each other and act collectively to safeguard their wealth and land. Eskindir, Andualem, Habtamu, Bekele and others are sent to prison for telling the truth to TPLF.

IMF and World Bank make the largest propaganda system for TPLF to convince us that it is the only system possible to make the “double digit” economic progress. It turns people into naive through propaganda, entertainment (dramas and movies) and even so-called news. They are using their creativity to twist feelings of love, desire, human solidarity and fairness into tools of manipulation, so that ever more looting and robbing flows into the hands of tiny TEGARU minorities and their collaborators.

TPLF is a system in which the principle of abhorrence dominates love. The puerile websites that supports TPLF learned how to lie to elevate the evil government and the parasitic economy. Even rich people use their money to manipulate boob journalists.  Hence – those with the power and money got coverage on the news. The insolvent Journalists (cronies) therefore are entitled to the most goods (luxury) and services. The high they echoed the untruth – the big money they are rewarded. Even those who worked for the “SHIEK” for a dollar are daily asked to uncritically follow orders, to act as if they are machines, and limit their creativity to what profits their bosses.

TPLF proclaims the virtue of “DEVELOPMENT”, but development without regard for morality. The empty “Developmental State Doctrine” and “The Pretext of Poverty Reduction”, leads TPLF to seek profit absolutely everywhere, regardless of the damage done to the will of the people and the health of livelihood. Their twisted conviction of “development” leads TPLF to destroy any rival system or way of thinking (such as land not for sale, democracy, humanism and respect for human rights) that can be a barrier to their endless quest for looting.

TPLF is not a friend our Tigray brothers and sisters but ultimately their enemy. When pushed, they choose to run with the money they stole over them. If the Tigray people use civic disobedience, demonstration or violence to weaken the power of the evil TPLF – no doubt that TPLF uses various forms of fascism in order to keep them silent. This is the fear of our Tigray brothers and sisters “Look – what we’ve done – we are scorching prisoners in Klinto”, no one cares for them; we rounded up and kill the youth in Oromia, Konso, Gojam, Gonder and Bahrdar, no one cares; our brave agazi soldier killed a young man in Dembi Dolo and ordered the Oromo mother to sit on the corpse of her deceased son and lashes her with the stick he holds, no one cares. In Konso our brave agazi soldier killed a newly born woman and took the weaned baby away. No one cares.  Our sniper shooters kill the youth everywhere, who cares. We sent all the journalists to prison, no one cares. Who perceives the empty cries of the opposition parties, Diasporas, human rights activists, journalists and concerned individuals? You know why – USA is our friend, GB is our friend, China is our friend, Germany is our friend, Israel is our friend, Norway is our friend, France is our friend, Al-amoudi is our friend. Even the UN is our friend. We gave them land and minerals – they gave us protection and money”, says every inhuman TPLF vagrant to the Tigray people to downgrade their courage and belief in God. But sooner or later Tigrays upsurge against TPLF is inevitable. Tigrays are patriots and God fearing people.

TPLF is a cancer taking over ethics and morality. Even brokers (with a hierarchy to the top) make profits from selling university girls to Arab fornicators and Nigerian mobsters. It is a shame for all of us. During the times of Hailesselassie and the Derg – prostitutes and street girls- were not allowed to get contact with foreigner erotic purchasers – let alone students and young girls. Today “universities” in big cities are becoming a “red light districts”. It is a shame on us.  In sadness, we heard that homosexuals in Addis Ababa raped a young man. For us Ethiopians it is better to die 1000 deaths than wound our honor.

TPLF is destroying humanity, traditional ethics and morality and lied to the nation that the current uprisings of the people of Oromia, Amhara, Konso, Ogaden, Bensangul, Afar, etc., are the result of the growth of needs (craving of material necessities) or “increase of demand” which the government will eventually tackle it by “increasing supply”. They are joking. “Supply” from where?  Ethiopia is becoming a hell for looters, thieves and their masters.

Go away TPLF – the little toy of the illuminate – you are with disorders that cannot be cured.

Dear Ethiopians – Only by getting rid of TPLF can we rescue our soul, humanity, history, patriotism, culture, moral, ethics, beliefs, relationships and tradition.

Let us throw off the yoke of Satan oppressors.

Long live Ethiopia.

TPLF (Tigray People Liberation Front), a minority regime terrorizing Ethiopians is exhausting all its dirty political tricks to survive longer ruling Ethiopians. It is mobilizing all the money and resources it looted from Ethiopians to galvanise its security services, Agazi “killing machine” army, propaganda outlets and mercenary agitators. But the new generation said “No” and “Enough” resisting it peacefully with bare hand in peaceful demonstrations.

TPLF’s propaganda outlets in Ethiopia and Overseas are drumming day and night with false information, confusion, disinformation, exaggeration in a manner typical of manic patient disorganised thoughts, pressure of speech and grandiose delusions. The culprits, mostly paid mercenaries continue futile attempt to damp the struggle of the Ethiopian People against TPLF.

Those who betrayed the Ethiopian people and sold their sole for money are serving as TPLF microphone on social media, pal talk rooms and conventional media outlets. They deprived their human morality for their selfish endeavours. They shift gears every time TPLF is wounded and their “Joseph Goebbels” commands them. Part of their tactics include; lying, smearing, exaggerating, insulting, blackmailing and singing the TPLF “growth and transformation”.

These TPLF propagandist and spies live overseas as refugee or foreign citizen under false pretext and identity. These dangerous scavengers defend TPLF’s killings, torture and imprisonment of Ethiopians. They should be identified and reported to the host nation for their crime and false asylum claim or citizenship.

The new generation has no fear to their killings, imprisonment and torture. A generation which has been doctrine at school their false history, propaganda and illusion woken up to the reality! The new generation revolt on their dirty tricks and polices of “Divide and Rule”, “Carrot and Stick”, “ Phantom federation and Direct rule”, “Blackmail and make them work” etc.

The Agazi killing machine may continue to kill with guns bought by Ethiopians tax money, looted property, military aid from some countries and diverted funds from famine aid. They may kill more but they wouldn’t finish all Ethiopians. Most of these soldiers are fed with false propaganda and denied of the information they deserve as human being. All round effort should be made to penetrate the wall to inform these citizens about what the TPLF is doing to Ethiopians; most will abandon it, some may point the gun against TPLF and only few psychopaths will remain as killing machine.

The Ethiopian people should continue and intensify the struggle against the TPLF regime. TPLF is on cliff edge. A popular well organised and united push from Ethiopians of different nationalities, faiths, educational status, ability, income, gender and age will bring the demise of TPLF.

The Civil servants; rise up and take part in industrial action and strikes to fracture TPLF’s spine.
The Students; demand your right and demonstrate for equal citizenship and opportunity which TPLF denied you and gave it for “The special citizen and its supporters”

The Diplomats; give up the TPLF missionaries and join the people. Inform the world the crime and atrocities of TPLF against Ethiopians.
The Business people; demand for change and fairness in the competition against TPLF companies which owns more than 70% of nation wealth which controlled all the playing field.

The Police; rise up against TPLF which used you as a tool for TPLF to criminalise, arrest and even kill innocent brothers and sisters of your own.

The Army: demand your role is not to kill your own people but protect Ethiopian territory against invading foreign army. Point your gun against the TPLF generals and senior officers who are “herding” the army for killing against its own people.

The Religious leaders of all faith; stand up against the TPLF’s disunity, merciless killing, torture and imprisonment. Stand up for truth! Stand up for your “lambs”! Denounce the suffering! Stand up for your God’s given right for your followers.
The Farmers; rise up against TPLF. The TPLF owns all land in Ethiopia. TPLF sells your land anytime to highest bidder, to foreigners. On your land, you will be a slave for the “investor”. Your land is all yours where you labour on and harvest under God’s will. Protect your land from TPLF.

The Journalists, writers, bloggers, media experts; stand up against TPLF which denied your God given rights to express yourself and the world around. Stand up for your people. Stand up for your country which is under TPLF internal colonization.
Intellectuals; support your fellow citizens in the struggle against TPLF. Provide them the knowhow, the skill, the knowledge, the wisdom to destroy TPLF and build bright future for Ethiopians.

The Opposition Political parties; narrow your differences and unite against TPLF oppression. Don’t fragment by TPLF wicked drama. Stand up for your people and country! Guide and direct the oppressed people.

Ethiopians of all ethnicity and nationalities; rise up against TPLF as our forefathers done to all invaders! Mothers are crying, young people are deprived of their future, our country has become land of woes and death. Rise up against TPLF!
Let’s push TPLF down, it is on cliff edge.
Lets not give air for the gasping TPLF.
We should never surrender our promised victory.
We should never let down the sacrifice of those killed, tortured and imprisoned by TPLF.
Let’s build a new nation of hope for ourselves and children!

ESAT Radio 30min Wed Sep 23 2016

             Today in a massive turnout Ethiopians in Canada have showed to the government of Canada their anger and frustrations over the ongoing Human Rights Abuses and political crisis in Ethiopia. The demonstrators, enchanted slogans and mottos which sent a strong message to the government and the public in  Canada. They insisted, Canada must not be silent about the ongoing atrocities in Ethiopia. It must speak loud against who abuses Canadian assistance to commit crimes against  humanity and genocide. They requested the Government to put pressures on the Ethiopian government to to unconditionally release political prisoners, allow an independent investigation by the United Nations and open up the political space.

The demonstration is organized by the cooperation of Ethiopians living in Ottawa, the nation’s Capital and Toronto, Canada’s largest city through their coordinating committee. They marched towards the national parliament, the Prime Minister’s office and  US embassy in Ottawa. Among other things demonstrators; have condemned in strongest terms the brutal crackdown of dissents, torture, killings and mass arrest in the Oromiya, Amhara Regions and the people of Konso in Southern Ethiopia. They decried the burning of prisoners of conscience, who are supposed to be under Government’s protection, is a heinous crimes committed against prisoners by the regime.

It is learned that the massive turnout is an unusual and attended by many peoples from all walks of life. One of the organizer of the demonstration, an activist and coordinator of the Toronto Task Force, Sahelu Bekele has commented that such massive rally is a reflection of the worsening political crisis and brutal crackdowns in Ethiopia. He further urged, since the regime is intensifying its repression, all  political parties and social forces in the opposition camp should muster energies and pool their resources to expedite the democratic transformations that all Ethiopian are demanding and anxiously waiting for.

The demonstration have the audience with Honorable Gordon John, member of Parliament, on behalf of the Canadian government. He expressed to the demonstrators that everyone has freedom of expression and free speech. He appreciated the demonstrators for coming to express their concern and informing what is going on in Ethiopia.

The leaders of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Ethiopian evangelical Church and the Ethiopian Muslims’ representative have urged the people and various groups to work together in unity.  A letter addressed to the Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau and to the Parliament were delivered by the company of the organizers and Community leaders.

Ethiopians concluded their rally in a very fruitful, orderly and peaceful manner. The Task force have also thanked Ethiopians for showing up at such time of critical need to show solidarity to the Ethiopian people. The task force, have expressed their readiness to double their effort until the regime’s changes.

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Now is the Time for change

by Graham Peebles / September 23rd, 2016

Ethiopia’s foreign minister and previous health minister, Tedros Adhanom, has thrown his hat into the ring as Africa’s first and only candidate for the post of director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO).

Six international health experts, including four from Europe, are to compete to become the next director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) after its current leader Margaret Chan ends her tenure next June.

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia is the only candidate from Africa in line to become the next Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). Among the six candidates running for the post, four are from Europe and one is from Pakistan.

The WHO, which was established as a United Nations specialized agency nearly 70 years ago, has never had a director-general from Africa. Tedros hopes to break that mold and promises to wage a vigorous campaign to achieve that goal.

Dr. Tedros Adhanom has been serving as the Minster of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia since 2012 and previously he served as Ministry of Health of Ethiopia from 2005-2012. He joined the Ministry of Health in 1986, after graduating from Asmara University, then part of Ethiopia. According to his biography, he is an internationally recognized malaria researcher. As Minister of Health, Dr. Tedros received praise for a number of innovative and system-wide health reforms that substantially improved access to health services and key outcomes. Among them were hiring and training roughly 40,000 female health extension workers, cutting infant mortality from 123 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2006 to 88 in 2011, and increasing the hiring of health cadres including medical doctors and midwives.

Below is the full candidates list

• Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Ethiopia
• Dr Flavia Bustreo Italy
• Professor Philippe Douste-Blazy France
• Dr David Nabarro, United Kingdom
• Dr Sania Nishtar, Pakistan
• Dr Miklós Szócska, Hungary