Open letter to the WHO: Purge Dr.

Tedros
Adhanom out or Face the Shame!
by Muluken Gebeyew

On the 23rd May 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) elected Dr
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (the former politburo member of Tigray
People’s Liberation Front ) as its Director- General, despite an alarming
oppositions from Ethiopians who have been suppressed by the regime he
served as one of chief architect of TPLF/ EPRDF led dictatorial regime in
Ethiopia. Several individuals and Ethiopian organizations wrote open letter
(see references) and organised demonstrations outside UN office in Geneva
including a voice from an Ethiopian diasporas activist in the meeting hall to
alarm his unsuitability to lead the noble organization. WHO members
ignored the worrying opposition and dismissed it as losers and detractors.
It hasn’t taken 2 years for the truth to be revealed what was happening in
Tedros’s Ethiopia. Please read and watch the news coming these days from
Ethiopia. The TPLF led regime where Tedros served as one of the top nine
people (politburo member) who decide on the fate of 100 millions people
ruled the country for 27 years under bitter iron fist is back tracking and losing
the central power. The peaceful opposition of Ethiopians specifically the youth
(who have been killed, tortured and imprisoned) resulted in uprooting the
oppressors from state power though few are hiding in International
Organisation. Ethiopia is now becoming a country of hope and there is smell
of freedom as the regime itself decided to listen to the public demand and
reform. The newly elected progressive leaders led by Dr. Abiy Ahmed have
made a bold promise and action facilitating peaceful political transition
towards democratic governance.

In the last 8 months, more than 80 000 people, who were imprisoned for
having different political opinion are released from prisons and gulags run
by a regime Tedros served as top diplomat as its foreign minster.
Dr.Adhanom used to declare publicly there was no single political prisoner
in Ethiopia.

The sad news we hear recently from released political prisoners in Ethiopia at
the official State media are so saddening and terrifying. Ethiopian political
prisoners were subjected to unimaginable form of torture, rape, sodomy,
water boarding, genital mutilation, immersing a prisoner in manure hole,
clipping genitalia with metal pincher, chaining with wild animal, throwing a
prisoner naked at night in deep forest and all form of severe human abuse.
This was principally orchestrated by people by ethnic members from TPLF
party where Dr. Tedros Adhanom hails from. Hundred thousands of
Ethiopians subjected to be homeless, displaced, dispossessed, killed, tortured,
deprived of economic opportunity and forced to leave their country.
Members of TPLF party where Tedros served as top man have looted billions
worth of Ethiopian state and public projects. On the 12th November 2018, the
Current Attorney General of Ethiopia gave press conference stating these
corruption and inhuman abuse by the regime. They exercised nepotism,
mismanagement and ethnic favouritism in every economic and social field
they control.

On 18th June 2018, the current prime minster of Ethiopia Dr.Abiy Ahmed
admitted the Tedros served government was a terrorist state. The Prime
Minster apologised at parliamentary session to Ethiopian people on the
behalf of the corrupt regime where Dr.Tedros served as its top diplomat as
Minster of Foreign Affair and Health minster. Ethiopians tried to inform
WHO the role Dr.Tedros Adhanom played with in the regime against
Ethiopians during his election campaign to be the Director General though it
falls on deaf ear. The individual accounts of Dr. Adhanom against the
Ethiopians people or humanity will be revealed in due time.
It is time the WHO to clean its office as soon as possible. It is time to purge

Dr. Tedros Adhanom out before WHO face detailed horrendous account that
will tarnish its good name and noble objective. Dr. Tedros Adhanom has to do
honourable duty by resigning as soon as possible before the full shame
comes out and tarnish WHO.

References.
http://www.africanews.com/2018/06/19/ethiopia-pm-says-era-of-state-
sanctioned-torture-is-over//
https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/06/26/torture-and-ethiopias-culture-
impunity
http://ethioforum.org/ethiopias-attorney-general-alleges-vast-corruption-at-
military-run-metec/
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/abiy-ahmed-transforming-
ethiopia-face-adversity-180622112645741.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/08/abiy-ahmed-upending-
ethiopian-politics
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-46221238