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Ethiopian Runner Calls on US to Push for

Human Rights in His Country By Salem Solomon
Oromo Olympian draws big crowd at

his Minneapolis appearance
Marathon silver medalist seen as a hero for his running as well
as his political statement.
By Pat Pheifer Star Tribune
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Feyisa Lilesa, the Ethiopian silver
medalist in the marathon at last
months Rio Olympics, was in Washington this week, calling on the U.S.
Congress to take action in solidarity
with Ethiopians protesting their government.
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I know that Americans are
peace-loving people. My people are
also peace-loving people, but they
have been denied peace for a very
long time, he said in his native Afaan Oromoo at a news conference
Tuesday on Capitol Hill. People are
calling for the freedom, democracy
that you have here. We want the same
things, and I call on the U.S. government to urge the Ethiopian government to make sure that democracy
prevails in Ethiopia.
Lilesa gained worldwide attention
when he crossed his wrists as a sign
of protest as he approached the finish
line during the Rio mens marathon.
He is Oromo and made the gesture in
solidarity with Oromo protests that
have occurred in Ethiopia since last
November over issues including land
rights and fair representation in the
government.
U.S. Representatives Chris Smith,
a New Jersey Republican; Keith Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat; and
Mike Coffman, a Colorado Republican, presented House Resolution
861, Supporting Human Rights and
Encouraging Inclusive Governance
in Ethiopia, during the news conference. The resolution calls on the government of Ethiopia to end the use of
excessive force by security forces and
investigate the killings and disturbances during protests in the Oromia
and Amhara regions. It also urges the
government to hold security forces
accountable for wrongdoing through
public proceedings.
FILE Silver medalist Feyisa Lilesa of
Ethiopia crosses his writsts as he celebrates on the podium after the mens
marathon at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug. 21,
2016. He had made the same gesture

line of the race.
FILE Silver medalist Feyisa Lilesa of
Ethiopia crosses his writsts as he celebrates on the podium after the mens
marathon at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug. 21,
2016. He had made the same gesture
line of the race.
Smith said he met with Prince Zeid
Raad Al-Hussein, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, in New
York to discuss human rights issues
in Ethiopia.
Hes called for a major fact-finding
effort where we could get to the bottom of people who are being killed,
tortured, slaughtered in the streets,
and then to hold the perpetrators of
these crimes to account, the lawmaker said.
Eleven civil society organizations
have signed the resolution.
Its an effort to say to Ethiopia, Yes,
youve been friends and allies in the
war on terror. Youve got some very
good things with regards to Somalia, but you are mistreating your own
people and its time we spoke out,
Smith said.
Oromo (Ethiopian) Olympian Feyisa Lilesa entered the Minneapolis

Convention Center Sunday, Sept 18,
2016 to a crowd of about 1000 well
wishers. He won the silver medal in
the 2016 Games in Rio and crossed
the finish line with his arms crossed
in an X, symbolizing the plight of
the Oromo in Ethiopia. 2016
The line outside the Minneapolis Convention Center auditorium Sunday afternoon was nearly a
block long, with elders in suits and
many women and children in traditional red, yellow and green Oromo
dress. It took nearly two hours for
the crowd of more than 1,000 to enter. Then Oromo Olympian Feyisa
Lilesa made his grand entrance. The
silver medalist marathon runner
from Ethiopia high-fived an elder in
the front row and graciously greeted
the crowd.
form the letter X above his head as

he crossed the finish line at the Rio
Games.
He did the same as he entered the
auditorium Sunday and the crowd
erupted in cheers.
The Oromo Community of Minnesota said more than 100 Oromo
people were killed in Ethiopia in
August alone while peacefully protesting the governments persecution of the ethnic group.
Lilesa, who faces jail if he returns
home, has been granted a special skills visa to the United States
so he can train and compete. His
wife, 5-year-old son and 3-year-old
daughter remain in Ethiopia.
His visit to Minneapolis was sponsored by the Oromo Community

of Minnesota, headquartered in St.
Lilesa, 26, became a hero to his peo- Paul. The group estimates that up to
ple and brought global attention to 40,000 Oromo people are living in
the plight of the Oromo in Ethi- Minnesota.
opia when he crossed his arms to
Since Lilesa made his gesture, other athletes have followed suit. Ebisa
Ejigu crossed his arms in the Quebec
City Marathon in Canada, and Tamiru Demisse, an Ethiopian paralympic
runner, did the same as he won his
silver medal in the mens 1,500 meters for the visually impaired at the
Paralympics in Rio.
Lilesa, in the U.S. on a temporary visa,
said he was figuring out his future but
was not seeking asylum in the U.S.
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6 emails you must read about Ethiopia from Hillary Clinton

emails published by Wikileaks
From: OpsNewsTicker
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 12:34 PM
To: NEWS-Mahogany
Cc: SES-0
Subject: Ethiopian peacekeepers to arrive in
Abyei Friday (AP)
NAIROBI (AP) Ethiopia says it has started
deploying peacekeepers to the contested region
of Abyei, which
Wikileaks has released thousands of Hillary

Clinton emails on July 5, 2016. Here are six important emails we found that specifically talk
about Ethiopia. Email 1
clinton-ethiopia-wiki-emails-satenaw-news
MELES
From: Wendy Sherman
To: Hillary Clinton
Date: 2012-08-20 00:14
Subject: MELES
UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State
Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05791778
Date: 11/30/2015
RELEASE IN FULL
From: Sherman, Wendy R <shermanwr@state.
gov>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 12:14 PM
To:
Cc: Mills, Cheryl D; Sullivan, Jacob J; Carson,
Johnnie
Subject: Meles
Madam Secretary, Further to our conversation,
Meles political party, the Ethiopian Peoples
Revolutionary Front, will convene a party
council tomorrow to nominate a new PM and
DPM. Hailemariam, the current acting PM will
be the PM nominee. No
name yet for the DPM. Parliament , on break
until October, is expected to be recalled into
session to vote on the PM
and DPM likely on Thursday or Friday of this
week so there should be a smooth transition of
government, even given
that Meles loss is a very big one for Ethiopia,
Africa and for all of us. The funeral is expected
next week and the date will
be decided tomorrow. A/S Carson believes that
any successor will be more autocratic and authoritarian, less receptive
to us and more ethnic tension is likely. Johnnie
is working with Cheryl and Jake on message,
call and funeral
arrangements.
Best,
Wendy Email 2
From: Cheryl Mills
To: Hillary Clinton
Date: 2010-05-02 02:23
Subject: SUMMARY OF 5/3 0845 AND 0915
MEETINGS
AF: (A/S Carson) Weekend attack on Somali
mosque believed work of ASJ group is Ethiopia-supported and affiliated with Email 3
ANOTHER WIKI CABLES STORY THE
SEYCHELLES AND US REAPER DRONES
From: Cheryl Mills
To: Hillary Clinton
Date: 2011-09-19 11:03
Subject: ANOTHER WIKI CABLES STORY THE SEYCHELLES AND US REAPER
DRONES
Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05783212
Date: 01/29/2016
RELEASE IN PART
B1,B5,1.4(D),B6
lies between Sudan and South Sudan.

Dina Mufti, spokesman of Ethiopias foreign
affairs ministry, said Thursday that the troops
began a weeklong
From: Mills, Cheryl D <millscd@state.gov>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 11:03 PM
overland journey on July 7. Mufti said the battalion will definitely be operational Friday.
To: H
Subject: Fw: another Wiki cables story the
Seychelles and US Reaper drones
News Tickers alert senior Department officials

to breaking news. This item appears as it did in
its original publication and does not contain
analysis or commentary
by Department sources.
Classified by DAS, A/GIS, DoS on 01/29/2016

Class: CONFIDENTIAL Reason: 1.4(D)
Declassify on:
09/19/2026
From: Hammer, Michael A
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 10:07 PM
To: Carson, Johnnie; Wharton, David B; Mills,
Cheryl D; Kennedy, Patrick F; Mull, Stephen D;
Blake, Robert 0; Benjamin,
Daniel S
Cc: Smith, Dana S; Zeya, tiara S; Naranjo, Brian
R
Subject: Re: another Wild cables story the
Seychelles and US Reaper drones
The WaPo article just posted:
U.S. building secret drone bases in Africa, Arabian Peninsula, officials say
By Craig Whitlock and
Greg Miller,
Tuesday, September 20, 9:14 PM
The Obama administration is assembling a
constellation of secret drone bases for counterterrorism operations in the
Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as
part of a newly aggressive campaign to attack
al-Qaeda affiliates in Somalia
and Yemen, U.S. officials said.
One of the installations is being established
in Ethi o pia, a U.S. ally in the fight against alShabab, the Somali militant
group that controls much of the country. Another base is in the Seychelles, an archipelago
in the Indian Ocean, where a
small fleet of hunter killer drones resumed
operations this month after an experimental
mission demonstrated that
the unmanned aircraft could effectively patrol
Somali territory from there.
Emails 4
ETHIOPIAN PEACEKEEPERS TO ARRIVE
IN ABYEI FRIDAY (AP)
From: Cheryl Mills
To: Hillary Clinton
Date: 2011-07-13 01:02
Subject: ETHIOPIAN PEACEKEEPERS TO
ARRIVE IN ABYEI FRIDAY (AP)
Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05783907
Date: 09/30/2015
RELEASE IN FULL
From: Mills, Cheryl D<millscd@state.gov>
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 1:02 PM
To:
Subject: FW: Ethiopian peacekeepers to arrive
in Abyei Friday (AP)
humanitarian agencies to provide food, water,

emergency care and shelter.
Working with local partners and NGOs such
as Doctors Without Borders, Save the Children
and Italian Aid, UNICEF will
be vaccinating hundreds of thousands of children. Dehydrated and suffering from malnutrition, these children
especially those under the age of five are particularly susceptible to the measles, polio, diarrhea and pneumonia.
To date, in fiscal year 2011, the United States
has provided over $450 million in humanitarian aid to the Horn of Africa
through USAIDs Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance and the Food for Peace Program, along
with refugee assistance
from the State Departments Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration.
Email 5
But much more needs to be done. The next

three to six months will be critical. The drought
is expected to worsen, at
THIS SPEAKS TO THE FTF OPPOR WE

HAVE BEEN DISCUSSING FOR SPEECH
HE DID THIS YESTERDAY
least through the end of the year. And then we

will wait to see what happens during the next
cycle of rains. Will
From: Cheryl Mills

To: Hillary Clinton
Date: 2011-07-27 18:14
Subject: THIS SPEAKS TO THE FTF OPPOR
WE HAVE BEEN DISCUSSING FOR SPEECH
HE DID THIS YESTERDAY
communities be able to recover? Will small

farmers be able to plant new crops? Or will
heavy rains produce floods that
drive communities deeper into poverty?

Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05781563
Date: 09/30/2015
My colleagues need to understand, however,

that the current crisis, terrible as it is, could
have been much worse.
From: Mills, Cheryl D <millscd@state.gov>

Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 6:14 AM
There is good news amongst so much tragedy.

The last time a drought of this magnitude hit
Ethiopia, over 14 million
people faced starvation. This time, about 4.5
million Ethiopians are in need of emergency
aid. The difference? Since
To:
Subject: This speaks to the FtF oppor we have
been discussing for speech he did this yesterday
2005, the United States and other donors have

made significant investments in Ethiopias Productive Safety Net
Program.
James P. McGovern (MA)

5-Minute Special Order
I saw first-hand several of these programs in

2007. They help small farmers and poor communities diversify the crops
RELEASE IN FULL
Thursday, July 28, 2011

U.S. MUST LEAD GLOBAL RESPONSE
TO FAMINE IN HORN OF AFRICA
M. Speaker
Last week, the United Nations declared famine
in Somalia and reported urgent needs in Ethiopia and Kenya. On our
nightly TV news and daily papers, we are seeing
the pictures of people dying, of children suffering extreme malnutrition,
and mothers carrying their babies walking over
a hundred miles in search of food and safe haven.
Tens of thousands of people in Somalia have
already died. The Horn of Africa is suffering a
devastating drought, with
this year being recorded in some locations as
the driest or second driest year on record since
1951. The impact has been
compounded by war, neglect and spiraling food
prices.
Currently, some 11.5 million people across East
Africa urgently need food aid, medical supplies
and care. More than
130,000 Somali refugees have left their country
for refugee camps along the borders of Ethiopia
and Kenya. They arrive
exhausted and physically depleted. News reports estimate that about 1300 Somali refugees
arrive in northern Kenya
every single day. They join already overcrowded camps, and stress the ability of the Kenyan
government and
they planted, broaden their sources of income,

create local markets, better manage their water
resources, and increase
Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05781563
Date: 09/30/2015
the nutritional content of their own diets and
those of their children. This has enabled over
7.5 million Ethiopians to
withstand the worst effects of the current
drought. These families and communities are
NOT part of the 4.5 million
Ethiopians who require urgent humanitarian
aid.
These programs work. They were models for
Feed the Future, our current global program to
promote sustainable
agriculture, food security and nutrition. Its
how you end global hunger, M. Speaker. Its the
difference between
needing to help rescue 4 million people rather
than 14 million. Its also the difference between
investing $6.00 per
person each year so they become more food
secure and resilient to disasters or having to
invest $250 per person to
deliver emergency relief that only covers three
to four months.
Its the smart way to invest our development
resources. This is why Im so appalled by what
happened yesterday in the
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Mikael W. Assfaw Tessema, who

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To your education demonstrates

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You all the best.
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Mikael, received free scholarships

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Ottawa must speak out on Ethiopian crackdown

sive practices, afraid to risk their strategic
relationships for development, security,
peacekeeping and migration. They say they
engage in quiet diplomacy to push their
ally in the right direction. But this quiet
diplomacy has been an abysmal failure
in Ethiopia and has not prevented the dramatic downturn in the countrys human
rights record.
Mourners gather in a village in the Oromia region in December, 2015, after a protester was shot
and killed by Ethiopian forces. (ZACHARIAS ABUBEKER/AFP/Getty Images)
By Felix Horne*
In the past 10 months, Ethiopian security
forces have killed at least 500 protesters
and detained tens of thousands of people
during largely peaceful anti-government
demonstrations. In one August weekend
alone, security forces gunned down at least
100 protesters.
those connected to the ruling party in economic and political affairs.
A few days after that bloody weekend, Canadian officials, including Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, met with Ethiopian Prime
Minister Hailemariam Desalegn. A media
briefing included pledges from Mr. Sajjan
of commitments to future partnerships on
peacekeeping, trade and security. There
was no condemnation from Canada of
the killing of non-violent protesters, nor a
call on the Ethiopian government to allow
peaceful demonstrations.
In short, Ethiopia is in the middle of a political and human rights crisis that could
jeopardize Canadas long-term interests in
the Horn of Africa.
The protests began last November in Ethiopias largest region, Oromia, in response
to the governments approach to development. Demonstrations spread to the Amhara region and grievances began to focus
on long-standing discrimination, questions
of ethnic identity and the dominance of
There has been no sign that security forces intend to change their tactics or that the
government will offer meaningful concessions, and the protesters have vowed to
continue.
Ethiopian-Canadians have also been protesting in Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary and

Saskatoon, keen to challenge Canadas support for the repressive government. Ethiopia, with 85 million people, was the No. 3
recipient of Canadian aid dollars in 20142015.
Foreign agencies and development organizations understand that in exchange for
access to Ethiopia, they need to limit and
mute their public criticism of the government. As a result, Canada and other donor
countries have kept silent about the repres-
The current crisis is the outcome of years of

systematic attacks on basic freedoms that
have resulted in complete suppression of
the rights to peacefully express dissent, to
hold officials to account or to obtain redress
for abuses. There is widespread frustration
with the government, but the government
holds all of the seats in federal and regional
parliaments since the 2015 elections. The
government ensures loyalty by controlling
access to the benefits of development
jobs, training, fertilizers, seeds, food aid
which is an unfortunate byproduct of the
well-meaning aid from Canada and other
Western donors.
Ethiopias courts have shown little independence on politically sensitive cases. The
misuse of the countrys anti-terrorism law
is illustrated through the ongoing trials of
opposition leaders, activists and journalists. A Canadian citizen, Bashir Makhtal, is
serving a life sentence after being convicted
of belonging to a group the Ethiopian government considers a terrorist organization.
Tight restrictions on independent news
media and non-governmental organizations mean there is little scrutiny of Ethiopias abusive security forces. Anyone seen
as not supporting the government risks
harassment or arrest, with little hope of a
fair trial. The complete closing of political
space has created a perfect storm of repression.
But Ethiopias allies are slowly breaking

their silence. The African Commission on
Human and Peoples Rights and the European Parliament have expressed concern
about the killings of protesters. And the
United States has been stronger than usual
in condemning the use of excessive force
during the crackdown. Last month, the
UNs top human rights official, Zeid Raad
Al-Hussein, said an international investigation and accountability are needed for the
killings.
Canadas new Liberal government, which
has promised a new approach on Africa,
should start with Ethiopia before the current crisis descends into an even more dangerous and irreversible situation.
Canada should strongly and publicly
condemn the use of lethal force against
protesters, push for an international investigation into the killings, and explore ways
to hold the security forces to account for
their brutality.
Such a public call would send a powerful
message to the Ethiopian government that
its security forces cannot kill and jail peaceful protesters with impunity. It would also
send an important message to the victims
and families, including those of Ethiopian-Canadians, that Canada is not ignoring
their pleas for justice.
The world needs a strong, stable and prosperous Ethiopia, and at this critical juncture Canada should play a key role in making that happen.
The writer is an Ottawa resident, and the
senior Ethiopia researcher at Human
Rights Watch
Congressman urges US to reconsider aid to Ethiopia
ESAT News (September 14, 2016)
Michael Mike Coffman is the U.S. Representative for Colorados 6th congressional district,
The United States should use its leverage

to ensure that the Ethiopian regime respect the human rights of its people, Congressman Mike Coffman said on Monday.
In an exclusive interview with ESAT,
Congressman Coffman, who represents
district six of Colorado, where thousands

of Ethiopians call it home, said that if the
Ethiopian government ignores the resolution by the US and also by the UN Human Rights Commission, then Congress
should find additional tools to use.
Certainly foreign aid is one to look at,
Representative Coffman further said.
He stressed that if the aid that was meant
to fight global terrorism is instead being
used to suppress the Ethiopian people,
then that aid should be brought into question. We have to exercise all the leverage
that we have, Coffman said.
The United States, the Congressman said,
need to support the request by the UN
Human Rights Commission that called for
an independent investigation into the violence and allow UN rapporteurs enter the
country to investigate the killings.
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As per his promise to the constituent Ethiopians in Colorado last month, Mr. Coffman met and expressed his concerns to
the Ethiopian ambassador to the US, Girma Biru regarding the deadly crackdowns
on protesters. The Congressman said he
made it clear to the ambassador that he
would support a resolution that condemns
human rights abuses and that seeks to implement the request by the UN Human
Rights Commission.
Unfortunately the Ethiopian government
is not the representative government we
would hope for, the Congressman said
and added I am still hopeful there would
be a government that would be representative of all the people of Ethiopia.
Mr. Coffman, who said the Ethiopian issue
is gaining momentum in Congress urged
all Ethiopian Americans to call their rep-
resentatives in Congress to take action.

U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced a resolution
with 11 other Senators in April condemning the lethal violence used by the government of Ethiopia against protestors,
journalists, and others in civil society for
exercising their rights under Ethiopias
constitution.
The resolution was expected to be tabled
to the house on Tuesday September 13,
2016.
US Congressman Mike Coffman maintains a close relationship with the Ethiopian Community in Colorado whom he
said represent the best of American values,
and a community that wants to realize the
American dream.
Trudeau: Discrimination Against Immigrants Is

Nothing New In Canada
The prime minister was taking part in a
day-long conference hosted by Canada
2020, which describes itself as a progressive
think-tank.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with London Mayor Sadiq Khan at the Global Progress
conference Thursday in Montreal. (Photo: Paul Chiasson/Canadian Press)
MONTREAL Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used the example of Italian

grandmothers in Montreal on Thursday
to explain why Canadians shouldnt be
overly impatient with the integration of
newcomers.
Being fearful of immigrants is nothing
new in Canada and around the world, he
said, explaining that Italians and Greeks
settling in Montreal in the 1950s faced similar kinds of discrimination as do Muslims
and other immigrants today.
The first generation is always going to have

challenges in integrating, Trudeau said
during a panel discussion with London
Mayor Sadiq Khan.
"There are districts (in Montreal) where
Italian grandmothers still pretty much
only speak Italian and don't speak that
much French or English. But their kids and
grandkids are seamlessly and completely
integrated into Montreal and the only difference is they tend to be trilingual and not
just bilingual."
Trudeau also referred to his time visiting

places of worship around the country such
as mosques and temples.
London mayor: Canada a 'beacon'
Asked by the panel moderator what can be

done to reduce fear of and discrimination
against newcomers, Trudeau replied that
what's happening in Canada and around
the world is "nothing new."
He was recently criticized online and

in some Canadian media for visiting a
mosque in Ottawa where women and men
were kept separate.
'This country didn't happen by accident'
The prime minister said Canadians should

engage with all communities.
Italians and Greeks who settled in the

northern part of Montreal and in other Canadian cities "faced tremendous discrimination, tremendous distrust."
"This country didn't happen by accident,"
Trudeau continued. "And it won't continue without effort. When we think about
integration and success we can't be overly
impatient."
He said citizens should "keep a solid pressure" to ensure human rights and the country's Charter of Rights and Freedoms are
respected by all Canadians.
"The question is, do you engage or participate or say 'I'm not going to talk to you
until you hit the norm or the perfect ideal
that we all aspire to'," he said. "I think (the
latter) is wrong."
Khan said Canada "has become a beacon
of how a civilized G7 country should treat
those who are vulnerable and need help."
He also praised Trudeau for his "progressive" politics and said the prime minister's
election in October 2015 inspired him.
ALSO ON HUFFPOST:
Ethiopia: Peddling Hate and Division: TPLFs Vocation

tion the groups legitimacy. People are being killed by forces loyal to the regime for
no other crime than belonging to a particular ethnic group. When ones identity becomes the prime justification and rationale
for being killed, it is no longer just unlawful
killing. It is a precursor to genocide, a violation of international law.
Abaye Tsehaye with a rotating official and Seymour Mesfin, TPLFs Ambassador to Peoples Republic of China,
By Alem Mamo
Monsters exist, but they are too few in
number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without
asking questions.
Hate, whether it is at the individual or
group level, is a serious and debilitating
illness. First it consumes the carriers emotional, psychological and spiritual being
before it is peddled into the other. The notion of the other is the primary root of this
dangerous and destructive illness. Through
deliberate and systemic construction of fictitious narratives, the other is portrayed as
a monster, devilish, and in an extreme case
sub-human. During the Rwandan genocide
Hutu extremist radio stations described
Tutsis as cockroaches, and it should be
exterminated. The radio station declared,
you have to kill the Tutsi; they are cockroaches. This hateful and monstrous narrative wasnt built overnight. It was carefully and meticulously laid brick by brick
and spewed with a tone of viciousness for
decades.
In Ethiopia, the dehumanization of the other is incorporated into the official and unofficial policies and narratives of the TPLF.
It is not surprising that the TPLF has a long
list of others which it hates and identifies
as enemies who the group believes must

be eliminated: the Agaw, Amhara, Gambella, Oromo, Konso, Ogaden, Wolqaiet, Raya,
pro-democracy activists, human rights defenders, journalists, and the list goes on. At
the top of its hate and hit list, however, is
the Amhara people. The TPLFs hate for the
Amhara people is deeply entrenched and
viscous. The groups history, political program, and narrative is carved out of Amhara hate and Amhara dehumanization.
During the guerilla years its fighters sang
anti-Amhara songs, and the cadres psyche
up the foot soldiers by spewing anti-Amhara hate stories. As such the group launched
a calculated political, military, social, and
economic campaign against the Amhara,
including the annexation and occupation
of Amhara fertile land incorporating it into
Tigray territory.
As the TPLF began to consolidate power
at a national level, various groups began
to question its character, policy, and legitimacy. At the same time the groups hate
list also grew rapidly. Today, it is engaged
in a large scale military operation against
the entire population in four corners of the
country. Promising young men and women are murdered by the regimes snipers in
broad daylight. Villages are burnt, peaceful
protestors are summarily executed, prisons
are filled with any one who dares to ques-
division for more than quarter of a century

now, are evoking dark and painful memories of human suffering. Two of the highest priests of hate, Seyoum Mesfin, TPLFs
Ambassador to Peoples Republic of China,
and Abaye Tsehaye with a rotating official
and unofficial title, painted a bleak scenario relative to the Rwandan Genocide
and the Shoah, the extermination of six
million Jews by the Nazis. Their audacity
to lie is breathtaking. It is an open secret
that the current political, economic, and
social woes of the country have their roots
in the belligerence and violent behaviour
of the group itself. Instead of looking deep
into their own soul, they once again resort
to their hateful rhetoric and denial. There
is an Egyptian joke related to the recent
Revolution that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak. In this joke the archangel of
death appears before Mubarak and tells
him to bid farewell to the Egyptian people.
Mubarak asks, Why, where are they going?
During the Trojan War (in Greek mythology) the Amazonian queen, Penthesilea,
was killed by the Greek hero, Achilles. After killing her he removes her helmet and
sees her face and instantly falls in love with
her corpse. The solider Thersites who witnessed Achilles killing Penthesilea and his
romantic reaction accused him of necrophilia to which Achilles responded by killing Thersites. Necrophilia is pathological
romance with death. It is the dark emotional and psychological whole in which love is
replaced with death. The TPLF has been
dancing with death and destruction for a
very long time. It embraces everything that
is contrary to love, life and human decency.
It is this disturbing and twisted nature of At these challenging and trying times Ethithe group which makes a political solution opia desperately needs wise and even-tempered leadership. The country is at the
to the countrys problems more difficult.
edge of the abyss. It is the thoughtfulness
The demagogues, after preaching hate and and enlightened quality of the Ethiopian
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Ethiopia: The Time for Change is Now!

protesters, enforced disappearances,
and mass detentions by Ethiopian
forces. He reaffirmed his previous calls
for an independent, impartial, and international investigation.
By: Elizabeth Fraser

Last weekend on the eve of two large
celebrations in Ethiopiathe Ethiopian New Year and the beginning of
Eid al-Adha festivitiesthe Ethiopian
authorities pardoned approximately
1,000 people, 135 of whom had been
charged under the countrys draconian Anti-Terrorism Proclamation.
Amongst those released were leaders
of the Ethiopian Muslim community,
who have been in jail since July 2012
when they were detained for protesting
against governmental interference in
religious affairs.
Ethiopian army soldiers monitoring
Suri people during a festival in Kibish.
Credit: Oakland Institute.
Ethiopian army soldiers monitoring
Suri people during a festival in Kibish.
Credit: Oakland Institute.
While the release of these political
prisoners is welcome, we must not be
fooled by this supposedly generous
act. The Ethiopian government frequently issues pardons at times of international scrutiny. Before President
Obamas trip to Ethiopia in July 2015,
for instance, numerous high profile political prisoners were released, including Bekele Gerba,2 Reeyot Alemu, and
several of the Zone 9 Bloggers. Pardons
like these are strategic. They are meant
to make the Ethiopian government
look reasonable, with the hope that the
international community will be pacified and look the other way.
But the abuses continue, and cannot be
ignored.
Just two days after the pardons, it was
reported that two more Ethiopian opposition members had been arrested.
On September 3rd, at least 23 prisoners died under disputed circumstances when a fire broke out in Ethiopias
notorious Kilinto jail. Those jailed at
Kilinto include numerous Oromo protesters, former World Bank translator

Omot Agwa, and prominent Oromo
opposition politician, Bekele Gerba.
Local news reports allege that prison
guards opened fire on the detained
during the fire.
And let us not forget the thousands that
remain behind bars, having not been
included in what appears to have been
an arbitrary set of pardons.
Mounting Pressure
The Ethiopian government has good
reason to worry about the growing dissent in the country. The past months
have seen increased unity in the courageous fight for democracy and human
rights. Community members engaged
in the struggle told Oakland Institute
staff there will be no jubilation until
all political prisoners, regardless of religious or ethnicity, are released.
International pressure, too, has mounted. On September 12th, Rep. Chris
Smith introduced House Resolution
861, entitled Supporting human rights
and encouraging inclusive governance
in Ethiopia. The bill recounts the many
abuses taking place in Ethiopia from
the impact of the villagization program
on the Anuak in Gambella, to the numerous unlawful arrests made under
the Anti-Terrorism Proclamation; the
crackdown on civil society organizations under the Charities and Societies
Proclamation to the numerous extrajudicial killings that have taken place
during this past years protests and
calls for strong action, both by the US
and Ethiopian governments. One day
later, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed
deep concern in his opening remarks
before the Human Rights Council regarding the lethal use of force against
Solidarity actions are also taking root

in the US. On Friday September 16th,
the Oromo Renaissance Organization
will hold a peaceful rally in Oakland to
denounce the deadly crackdown on
peaceful protesters in Oromia and other regions of the country.3 Earlier this
week, Olympic silver medalist Feyisa
Lilesa held a high-profile press conference in Washington DC, bringing significant international media attention
to the plight of not just the Oromo people, but those in Amhara and Gambella
as well. Lilesa will hold another press
conference on September 18th in Min-
neapolis, hosted by the Oromo Community of Minnesota.4

A Critical Moment for Ethiopia
This is a critical moment for Ethiopia.
The US Government, United Nations
leaders, and the international media
are all paying attention to the abuses
taking place, and finally giving these
atrocities the attention they deserve.
Now, more than ever, the international community needs to follow through
on its responsibility. We must not accept the introduction of a bill or the
pardoning of 1,000 as enough. Instead,
we must continue to call for universal
human rights, democracy, and justice
across Ethiopia.
The time for change in Ethiopia is now!
Source:-oaklandinstitute.org
Continued from page 15

people that has kept relative peace in the
country, so far. If it was left to the TPLFs
hate peddling and campaign of division,
this ancient and proud nation would have
descended into a catastrophic chaos. It is
imperative that this culture of coexistence,
mutual respect, peace, and harmony must
continue, in spite of TPLFs divisive and
hateful policy.
The ethnic hegemony that the TPLF has
imposed on the Ethiopian people for the
last twenty-five years is unravelling. At the
same time, the unwavering commitment of
the people to establish a free, democratic,
and just political order in the country is be-
ing pronounced daily in city streets, towns,

and villages. While the demand of the people remains the building of a democratic
society, the TPLFs hate mongers are still
resorting to their old and tired mantra of
revolutionary democracy. Authoritarian
demagogues, wherever they are, whatever
culture they come from, are all cut from
the same cloth. They dont see what is coming. They dont distinguish the difference
between military might and people power.
There is no a page in the history book that
confirms peoples uprising being quashed
with military might forever. In the end, it
never stops the forces of freedom, truth
and justice from their triumphant march.
In a related news, Congressman Mike

Coffman has also held discussions with
Neamin Zeleke, a longtime advocate of
human rights and democracy in Ethiopia,
who also ceased the opportunity to highlight the killings, torture, mass incarceration and gross violations of human rights
in Ethiopia. Neamin who recalled the violence and massacre in Ogaden, Gambella,
Amhara and South Ethiopia regions said
there was no individual held accountable
for the crimes.
Neamin on the occasion thanked the Con-
gressman for working to promote Ethiopias cause and urged other Congressmen
to follow suit and take a firm stand against
the gross violations of human rights in
Ethiopia. Lest, he cautioned, the country
and the region as a whole could slide into
chaos and possibly civil war.
The congressman on his part encouraged
Ethiopian Americans to call their representatives in Congress to take action and
also work in tandem with their representatives to realize their goal of bringing freedom and democracy to their country.
Ethiopias Killings Fields and Silent Genocide

By Aklog Birara (Dr)
fighting back. It is to incapacitate
of this song. It takes a world view
them for the rest of their lives. Imagthat embraces everyones humanine the enormous social, economic,
ity, identity and dignity. Above all,
psychological and other costs to
it takes a government leadership
their parents, spouses, brothers, sisthat values human life over materiters and other relatives. Imagine the
al possession, greed and an insatiacost to Ethiopia as a country! Imagble preoccupation to steal, plunder
ine too the intent to decapitalize the
and remove all human obstacles in
Amhara and the Oromo nationality.
achieving and maintaining these
The TPLF builds prisons as if they
privileges.
are factories!
Ethiopias Killings
Fields and Silent
Genocide
...Read more page17
The UN International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
(ICPPED) was singed on December 2006 and became effective on
December 23, 2010. This important legal instrument is part of the
body of international human rights
laws that mitigate state initiated and
state-sponsored actors from abusing
peaceful citizens. The International Convention for the Protection of
All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPPED) is an international human rights instrument of
the United Nations and intended to
prevent forced disappearance defined in international law, crimes
against humanity. As of the end of
July 2016, 96 states have signed the
convention and 52 have ratified it.
What is the content of this convention? Article 2 states the purpose
clearly. For the purposes of this
Convention enforced disappearance is considered to be the arrest,
detention, abduction or any other
form of deprivation of liberty by
agents of the State or by persons or
groups of persons acting with the
authorization, support or acquiescence of the State, followed by a
refusal to acknowledge the deprivation of liberty or by concealment of
the fate or whereabouts of the disappeared person, which place such
a person outside the protection of
the law.
The purpose of this article is to argue

that the TPLF is culpable (liable) not
only for killings, maiming, torture
and imprisonment of thousands; it
is equally accountable for the enforced disappearances of thousands of Amhara, Oromo, Annuak,
Somali, Konso and other Ethiopians. I have argued numerous times
that enforced disappearances constitute the largest segment of ethnic
cleansing and silent genocide. Ask
yourself why the TPLF Agazi and its
agents go house to house and arrest
thousands of young people? Where
does the TPLF take these people and
what does it do with them? When a
mother in the Amhara region asked
the whereabouts of her only child,
she was told by Agazi personnel
they did not know. She was told
to ask the local authorities. It is
this kind of trickery the TPLF uses
in all disappearance cases. They
used the same trickery when asked
about ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Amhara in the 1990s
when the distinguished Professor
and renowned physician Dr. Asrat Woldeyes responded and saved
the lives of hundreds of thousands
of Amhara. In Gambella, authorities rejected accountability for the
massacre of more than 400 Annuak.
History recalls that Meles and his
cronies blamed the CUPD for the
massacres, arrests and disappearances following the flawed elections
in 2005. Most recently, they refused
to acknowledge that 5,000 Oromo
were arrested and or enforced to
disappear. To date, 11,000 Amhara
youth have been arrested and their
whereabouts is unknown. Denial is
the DNA of the TPLF and its supporters.
In Bahir Dar, where the TPLF is

on a witch hunt, its agents hauled
thousands of young people; and
when asked told parents that they
were being sent to military and education camps. Forget rehabilitation
and education camps. The TPLF
leadership is incapable of learning
Welcoming the Ethiopian New Year, and changing itself and its cohorts
one of the holiest seasons for Ethio- let alone teaching anyone anything
pians the artist Yehunie Belay sang worthwhile. It is alleged that many
a moving, thrilling and patriotic young people arrested in Bahir Dar
song, Seken Bel (literally be serene were subjected to injections. Are
and thoughtful) calling for the end these injections to calm young peoof brothers killing brothers. It ple as if they are lions or Rhino betakes sane, collected and thoughtful ing sent to the zoo? No, it is to make
people to recognize the importance them incapable of thinking and
extracting billions of dollars to enrich the few while the vast majority
of Ethiopians starve; and hundreds
of thousands leave their homes in
search of opportunities abroad. The
regime is not only greedy; it is also
inhumane. The regime or its agents
burn prisons such as Kilinto and
kill political prisoners trying to save
their lives. How more cruel can a regime be? A guard at the scene said
he saw wholesale massacre. This is
crime against humanity.
Systemic Displacement and enforced disappearances are institutionalized

The regime believes that it can
solve social, political and economThe TPLF is systematic and de- ic crimes by killing victims rathliberate in its targeted program er than by overhauling the entire
of displacement, marginalization system that is the root cause of the
and disappearances. For the Am- problem.
hara population, it is a matter of
survival. Research shows before It is time to ask them why victims would
and after it took power, the TPLF allow this suffocating environment to
killed, maimed, imprisoned and persist! The notion that the TPLF is
enforced disappearances in the capable of subjugating, killing, maiming, arresting and causing to enforce
Wolkait-Tegede and other areas of
the disappearances of an estimated 40
the Gondar region. It reconfigured million Amhara (throughout Ethiopia)
Gojjam diminishing its size and en- and Oromo whose numbers are greater
abling the expanded Tigrean state than the Amhara population is absurd.
to envelope and strangulate Gond- It is impossible. Equally, unless the
ar and Gojjam. Its primary objec- Oromo and Amhara choose to remain
tive was and still is to displace and divided, suspicious of one another and
annex lands and incorporate them perceive one another as inimical rathinto Greater Tigray extending its er than amical, it is no longer feasible
border to the Sudan. At this pace of for the TPLF to govern Ethiopia. One
annexation, there wont be sufficient cannot govern people who refuse to
be governed regardless of the military
land for the Amhara population.
might one can deploy. Ethiopia is too
Nor will there be a robust succeed- big for that! The Ethiopian people are
ing generation. This is among the fiercely independent for that!
root causes of the current popular
resistance. The annexation of lands As I have suggested before numerous
around Adds Ababa follows the times, the best option is a political transame model. It displaces Oromo sition that involves all stake-holders.
farmers to make room for the newly The TPLF must recognize that it has
rich Tigrean elite and its cohort of placed the entire Tigrean population at
risk. Equally, Tigreans must come out
supporters.
Land grab is a new and aggressive
wave of subjugating powerless Amhara, Oromo and others and ensuring the supremacy and longevity of
the Tigrean elite. Forget the faade
of equality of nations, nationalities
and peoples. The decimation of the
indigenous people of the Omo valley is illustrative of greed gone mad.
According to the Voice of America,
TPLF forces attacked the indigenous
population of the Konso, recognized
by UNESCO as unique. The lands
belong to them. For the past 5 days,
the TPLFs Special Forces, including
the notorious Agazi, killed many
people, burned several homes and
entire villages, displaced thousands
and enforced unknown numbers
of disappearances. Young men
fled the scene due to fear of being
killed, arrested and tortured. There
is no argument that the TPLF and
its champions place a premium on
physical property and diminished
worth on human life. For the past
25 years, the TPLF and its cohorts
used Ethiopia as their private ATM,
of their cocoons and join their Oromo,

Konso, Annuak, Somali, Amhara and
other sisters and brothers as they struggle for freedom, justice, genuine equality and democracy.
In summary, the TPLF leadership is

legally responsible and accountable for
enforced disappearances. It behooves
this clan to heed to Yehunie Belays incredible song that calls for serenity,
composure and statesmanship rather
than a display of the arrogance of power and of brinkmanship. Killing innocent people and enforcing disappearances of thousands of youth is a losing
proposition!!!
Long Live Ethiopia! Long Live Unity in
Diversity!
Dr. Aklog
5. Tanzania 144
But others point out that nearly half a billion
mark-up of the State/Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill. Development, humanitarian,
and disaster aid programs
were all brutally cut. These cuts come on top of
the Agricultural Appropriations Bill that devastated our emergency food
But the UK is expected to stop direct aid to 16

countries, including Russia, China, Vietnam,
Serbia
aid programs.
Others are judged to be adequately served by

United Nations agencies.
With the worst drought in 60 years hitting the

Horn of Africa, these cuts amount to the U.S.
turning its back on its own
strategic interests and walking away from our
international commitments.
Instead, we need to increase our emergency response to the current crisis, ensure we have the
resources to invest in
long-term development, and continue our
global leadership in ending hunger and famine
once and for all.
We need to do better, M. Speaker.
Email 6
UK PLANS TO HALT DEVELOPMENT AID
TO 16 COUNTRIES
and Iraq. Some, such as Vietnam and Bosnia,

are seen to have graduated out of poverty.
The government says it wants greater transparency and accountability in aid spending,
with an
emphasis on funding programmes that deliver
greater results and which, specifically, help girls
and
women.
Angola Bosnia
Burundi Cameroon
Cambodia China
Gambia Indonesia
Iraq Kosovo
Lesotho Moldova
From: Jake Sullivan

To: Hillary Clinton
Date: 2011-03-01 02:46
Subject: UK PLANS TO HALT DEVELOPMENT AID TO 16 COUNTRIES
Niger Russia
Serbia Vietnam

Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05778151
Date: 09/30/2015
Mr Mitchell told BBC Radio 4s Today programme: Were ending a culture which has
seen large
sums of money thrown at problems, and focusing on the results that the British taxpayer can
buy.
RELEASE IN PART
B6
From: Sullivan, Jacob J <sullivanjj@>tate.gov
Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 201110:46 PM
To:
Subject: Fw: UK plans to halt development aid
to 16 countries
DFID is getting real about selectivity.
From: Nazanin Ash
To:Sullivan, Jacob 3; Ash, Nazanin S
Sent:Tue Mar 01 22:17:33 2011
Subject:UK plans to halt development aid to 16
countries
hey, have done a terrible job of following her
budget testimony (hope it went well today), but
if you havent
already heard DFID announced these plans todayshe may get questions and/or she may find
it a helpful
reference
1 March 2011 Last updated at 06:53 ET
Aid budget will be better
focused, say ministers
Andrew Mitchell said it is morally right and
also in our national interest to help the
poorest people in the world
The government is to outline plans to stop direct development aid to 16 countries and freeze
the level of assistance given to India.
But there will be more for Bangladesh, Nigeria
and Pakistan as aid is better focused on the
poorest
Source: Dept for Int Development document

seen by BBC 1
9. Congo (Dem Rep) 109

10.Ghana 190
Source: Dept for Int Development
Mr Mitchell was asked on BBC Breakfast about
his decision to maintain overseas aid while
some
charities were suffering funding cuts in the UK.
He said: We are dealing with a scale of poverty around the world of a completely different
order.
And we do it because its morally right, its
about our values as a country and as a government, and
also because its in our national interest.
. India is currently one of the biggest recipients
of UK development aid, and there have been
media
campaigns in the UK suggesting an economy
growing at nearly 10% a year simply does not
need
British assistance.

Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05778151
Date: 09/30/2015
On Saturday, it emerged that the UK is threatening to switch funding away from the UN
Food and
Agriculture Organization which focuses on
longer-term projects, such as providing seeds
and tools
for agriculture unless its performance improves.
Instead, more funding could go to the World
Food Programme, which deals with emergency
food aid
around the globe. Source: Https://wikileaks.
org/clinton-emails/
Source Zehabesha
Democratic Republic of Congo and Pakistan.

By 2014, 30% of UK aid is expected to go to
war-torn and unstable countries.
Shadow international development secretary
Harriet Harman told the BBC Labour welcomed the
governments decision to stick with the commitment of spending 0.7% of national income
on
overseas aid.
National interest
Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05778151
Date: 09/30/2015
Obviously its right, as things change, that you
review who you give overseas aid money to and
how
you give it so I think thats right to do as well.
So broadly we think the government are on the
right
track.
I know its difficult when people are feeling the
pinch here at home, but we have to remember
that

Case No. F-2014-20439 Doc No. C05778151
Date: 09/30/2015
David Loyn, the BBCs international development correspondent, said: The government is
keenly
Labour said they believed government policy

was on the right track.
aware of its political vulnerability in ring-fencing the international development budget while
cutting
spending everywhere else except for health, and
it wants to ensure that it is getting value for
money.
measures.
The government says the new approach will be

more effective in cutting poverty, and assist in
reaching the Millennium Development Goals
by the target date of 2015.
Five countries will have their budgets increased

substantially Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Nigeria,
the
with just a very small amount of money we can

save lives in the developing world.
The departments overall 7.8bn budget has

been unaffected by the governments deficit
cutting
7. Afghanistan 133
8. Nigeria 114
This is about value for money, its about ensuring for every pound we take off hard-pressed
taxpayers we really do deliver 100 pence of development value.
people.
International Development Secretary Andrew

Mitchell said aid was being protected from
spending
cuts because it was in the UKs national interest.
people in India more than in any other country in the

world are still desperately poor.
6. Pakistan 140
1. India 295
2. Ethiopia 214
3. Bangladesh 149 .
4. Sudan 146
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down from his perch and humiliated. The

Ethiopian people saw the kind of individuals
that were in charge and rejected them overwhelmingly.
Abay Tsehaye Minister of Federal Affairs of Ethiopia warns Rwanda type genocide in Ethiopia
By Yilma Bekele
The TPLF Party that is in charge of Ethiopia
but that mostly parades around as EPRDF
is currently on an apology mode and no
resource is spared in spreading the well-rehearsed lie. They have activated former leaders from retirement. Old trusted and reliable
Cadres are brought out to prove their worthiness in this time of crisis for the mafia group
and bloggers and social media activists are
on double time.
Their task is very easy in Ethiopia. There are
no dissenting voices left to tell a different
version to our people. Twenty-five years of
systematic attack on the free press has decimated the independent media and made the
country a TPLF echo chamber.
The regime controls TV, Radio, Internet and
both mobile and landline phone service.
Print paper is state controlled and the few
allowed are Woyane approved supposedly
independent papers and magazines run by
cadres of the party. Even Social Media is such
a threat it is constantly blocked or attempts
made to incite hate by Party controlled hacks.
So today Woyane is using Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation, Fana Broadcasting,
Zami FM, Walta, The Reporter, Awramba
Times, Bloggers and many more clone outlets to tell the Mamo Kilo story they have
decided would work on our people. It is easy
to see Woyane has decided to project their
entire approach to politics and power onto
all their opponents. The Ethiopian people are
watching with complete puzzlement because
the whole argument does not make sense unless one is willing to suspend reality.
Lets go over the Ethiopian reality to be able
to relate to Woyane logic. For twenty-five
years the TPLF Party that created the satellite organizations under the umbrella EPRDF
has been in charge of all aspects of our country. The Prime Minister has always been a Tigrai. The current one who is from the Wolaita
region is considered a figurehead with no political base or power. His Deputy Debretsion;
a TPLF Politburo member is the man behind
the throne.
All the important political, economic, military positions are held by the Tigrai ethnic
group. Deputy PM, Communication and
Information Minister Debretsion Gebremariam (Tigrai), Defense- General Samora
Yunis (Tigrai), Foreign Minister Dr. Tedros
(Tigrai), National Bank Newaye Christos
Gebreab (Tigrai), Security Getachew Assefa (Tigrai), EFFORT Berhane Kidane
Mariam Yihdego (Tigrai), Ethiopian Airlines
Tewelde Gebremariam (Tigrai) Federal
Affairs Minister Abbay Tsehaye (Tigrai),
Orthodox Church Patriarch Abune Matias
(Tigrai). All the above offices are the nations
bloodlines. The power of the TPLF flows
from this arrangement. Nothing happens
in Ethiopia without the TPLF participation,
leadership and ownership.
This is the reality our leaders gloss over and
try to deflect our attention away from the
core question our people are currently asking at the risk of being killed. The Party that
controls all of our countrys vital systems
based on its ethnic origin is now complaining about wrongly being perceived to be very
narrow and cliquish by the rest of Ethiopia.
They are also leveling the charge of ethnic
cleansing act against the Amharas.
This time Minister Seyoum Mesfin raised

a very interesting point. He said let us look
at the Military and Security where the Narrow Tebab (OLF) and the Temketgna (PG7)
have declared war on claiming they are under
the Tigrai group and want to get rid of them.
Notice Woyane always have to put label on
individuals and organizations to make it easy
for their cadres to identify. Why are the two
declared anti-peace and anti-Ethiopian
groups united on smashing the two Woyane Organizations he asked and answered
by showing puzzlement because it is in the
Military and Security where all the different
Ethiopians are actually given an opportunity
and are participating fully.
The Woyane party is playing victim for a variety of reasons. They want to justify their
trigger-happy solutions since they came to
power. This last year alone close to one thousand Ethiopians have been murdered by their
own government. They want to claim they
are the victims for being forced to kill our
family member. They are trying to convince
the world that their group is in jeopardy to
justify their violent response all over Ethiopia.
Minster Mesfin forgot to mention that making the Military and Security all Tigrean
would have been too obvious and not sustainable. Of course he forgot to mention all
the top Generals and most officers are of
Tigrean origin and the Public Security is the
domain of TPLF with its own private jails.
Now why do you think they need to diversify? Well the military needs foot soldiers
as fodder and the security needs an ear in
every household. He was most gracious with
the internal security forces. It is understandable. It is a Gestapo style ruthless outfit that
routinely kidnaps people from their homes
and workplaces and some disappear forever.
I am not being an alarmist but all Ethiopians
know it to be a fact of life in Woyanes land.
Listening to Abay Tsehaye and Seyoum Mesfin is an out of this world experience. One is
forced to ask do these clowns really believe
what they are saying? They are sitting at Fana
Broadcasting studio that is owned or controlled by their group and the two individuals moronic and insane opinions are being
entertained as logical and rational. They are
being asked questions fit for two years old
and of course they have all the time to respond since it is their private media.
In any free public forum both gentle men

would be laughed off the stage. They do not
seem to grasp the mere fact that what made
it possible for them to sit there and lecture to
us as if we have no intelligence, memory and
common sense is solely due to the fact that
their ethnic group is in charge and they can
do whatever they damn well want. It is called
Tigrean privilege or ye zemenu sew by the
locals. It is the reason we are condemned to
listen to the two midget dinosaurs.
It has become a good exercise figuring out

how the different TPLF officials and their
designated cadres approach the current mess
and offer solutions. It is a mix of some remorse, stern warnings, predictions of what
is to come in their absence and their willingness to correct all that has gone wrong by
sacrificing few individuals from their EPRDF
stable. This of course ensures blame goes to
the satellite organizations and heads will roll
while TPLF lives another day to kill.
From their non-Tigrean enablers, apologists

and cheerleaders Dr. Kassu Ilala is my favorite. He will make the late great leader proud. I
am grateful to the Politburo for including him
to show us how low we have sunk. A mother
was forced to sit on the dead body of her son
by Agazi solders and it was reported all over
our independent media. Those that serve
the fascist system and apologize for Woyane
crimes against humanity are dancing on the
dead body of thousands of our people. It is a
strong charge but well deserved.
Abay Tsehaye is a weird character that falls

asleep in his own press conference. That is
what he did while sitting at his spitting brand
new Studio of Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation that displays nightclub lighting
designed to make the dead look cute. He
blamed it all on OLF, Ginbot 7 and Shabia.
He even claimed the two groups have never
won in contested elections. What country he
was talking about is not clear. He predicted
the Oromo and Amhara organizations are
bound to fight dividing the spoils after they
win over TPLF. He actually described his
enemies as blinded by their thirst for power and money. You understand why I said
Woyane is projecting itself. Woyanes brain
is incapable of understanding sacrifice to do
the right thing. Woyanes philosophy is based
on personal gain as the final prize. The last
twenty-two years have proved both points to
be true.
Seyoum Mesfin is one character we are familiar with. He is the one that came from
Algiers with the fake agreement. He had no
qualms lying to the Ethiopian people about
something that could not stay hidden. The
Ethiopian people first real encounter with
the honorable Minister was during the 2005
debate where Dr. Yacob had him at his mercy. The then Foreign Minister was brought
The good doctor said the days where one

ethnic group dominated others is long gone.
We are over it he swore with a smile on his
face. He condemned the current talk of Tigrai domination as useless and not true at all.
Tigreans have not received any special treatment in their Kilil; furthermore he opined
the Tigreans have suffered the most under
the Derg and today even send their children
to die in Gambella, South Omo and Somalia.
It is not clear if service in the name of the
Party is the same as service for Ethiopia. The
Mention of Gambella and South Omo is not
a slip.
I knew he will gravitate towards a central
theme and he did not disappoint us. Looks
like the bosses are worried about the situation in the Military because like Seyoum
Mesfin he was eager to mention the diversity
of the security forces. He did not bother to
tell us what happened to diversity when it
comes to vital sectors of the economy. I am
sure the Doctor will print a retraction after
he is given the diversity figures in Ethiopian
Airlines, Communications and the media
and all Federal offices. Of course as the intellectual among the group he went on his
rent collector rant that Berket dismissed as
nonsense. Dear Dr. Kassu the premier rent

seeker in Ethiopia is the ruling TPLF party
that uses its monopoly of power to pass laws
favoring the few, restricts competition, create
barriers and earns income without producing anything. It all boils down to the rule of
law, level playing field and fair justice.
The Woyane TPLF party is beating the drums
of war against non Tigrean Ethiopians. The
Mafia group is hiding behind the Tigrai people that are victims as the rest of us. The last
thirty years they have been fed very hateful
information regarding their own cousins.
Like it or not unlike the rest of Ethiopia Tigrai is a closed society. Interaction with other
Ethiopians has not been well developed. It
makes evil Woyanes job easy in raising fear
and doubt in the population. Until the advent of TPLF the Tigrai people have moved
all over Ethiopia freely and lived in peace
with others. TPLF brought this division and
unhealthy competition for meager resources.
Today TPLF is cornered due to the failure of
its policies. It is that failure it is trying to rescue by setting our people against each other.
Ethiopians warn Woyane about this loose
talk about ethnic cleansing. The rest of Ethiopians ask their Tigrean cousins to speak out
against this crazy policy of creating a wedge
between the Amhara and Tigrai. A few Woyane bred cadres are convinced the sky will
fall without Woyane. That cannot be helped.
Stupidity is no excuse for recklessness.
No matter what the policy of divide and rule
is laid to rest. It is nice to see in our lifetime
that the spirit of being an Ethiopian is a quality we have inherit and no amount of hate
and ugly talk will find a lasting audience. As
I wrote earlier Woyane is projecting. Because
they hate they do not understand the meaning of love. Because they steal they they do
not grasp the concept of selfless act. Because
they emerged from a harsh and violent past
being brutal is their preferred response to
any threat real or imagined.
It is sad that Woyane leaders do not try to
know us the rest of their cousins. The leadership of the organization including Meles and
Abay went to the University in Addis. It is sad
they did not use that opportunity to appreciate the rainbow nature of our country. Instead of building on that and making it more
harmonious and beautiful they wasted over
thirty years tearing it apart. Today they look
at their work and I am sure they wonder what
went wrong. No matter what they say officially there is no escaping the hateful stare,
the fear permeating every place they are, the
lack of close friend and the knowledge that it
can all fall apart without notice.
We have a problem in Ethiopia. The regime
is not the kind to appreciate peace. Our people today are showing what they are made of
with their death defying determination to
be free. The economic boycott is the latest
effective tool. A government cannot survive
without income. If the economic activity
continues revenues will dry up. Our people
have found Woyanes Achilles heel.
We in the outside have to follow their example
and do our share for national salvation. Boycott
of all good and products from Ethiopia is a noble
idea. Remember nothing happens without Woyane getting even a penny. We should resolve to
deny him even a penny. We in the outside have
to find ways of forcing our Ethiopian businesses
not to deal with Woyane. We have to find a way
of publicizing those businesses that do not deal
with Woyane. We should have a hall of fame for
those that stood for Freedom and Democracy.
We should get our activists to go to the Airport
and take video and pictures of those standing
on line at Ethiopian (Woyane) Airlines and post
it on our independent websites and Facebook.
This is what peaceful struggle is all about and
it is taking shape in Ethiopia. Let us contribute
our share and make our fighters job a little bit
easier. Let us come up with simple effective creative ways to drive Woyane out of our life.
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