By Teshome Beyene
In defense of the fallen Heroes and Heroines
One might comment negatively for what happened over 35 years ago with the benefit of hindsight. EPRP members then believed fighting for a just cause and in doing so they died for it without the advantage of foresight. We lived and still live in a country where expression of ideas is alien. I or others did not see that fighting to redress gross injustices would be wrong. That is why so many selfless individuals joined EPRP. In the process many perished for the cause they really believed in. For many it was not power or wealth that prompted them to rise in arms, it was freedom, it was justice, and it was equality, as simple as that. Most knew they would not see the fruit that they fought for and yet they marched forward to die for it because they believed their fellow country men would enjoy the freedom they achieved with their blood. No one should be second guessing them; they have proven themselves beyond doubt by paying the ultimate price with their lives. One may argue that the sacrifice was not worth it, and that may be true, but I make no apology for their principled stand. They are not here to analyze the past; that is a luxury only for the living.
I cannot say the same to some of its leaders. Of course, some of them died along the rank and file. They did not have an inkling that they would die in vain. They would not know the party they died for would be controlled by a clique and would go down killing the hopes, dreams and aspiration of the Ethiopian youth of the time. Controlled by Iyasu Alemayehu and his late brother, EPRP was not to be what members and leaders alike thought to be. It became a personal fiefdom where the vassals paid tributes, a different form of feudalism.
It is sad that Iyasu’s clique gave bad name to our fallen heroes and heroines. It seems that the EPRP we cherished is being defined by today’s impersonators. Of course, some may be confused, but others had an axe to grind to start with and the Iyasu clique has given them great opportunity to do so.
EPRP as we knew it ended over 28 years ago when legitimate issues were raised by members, and leaders failed to address it. Some joined TPLF, others left the party altogether, and still others had a conference for about a month and eventually decided for a strategic retreat. The retreat was to call for a congress to address issues and also to elect new leaders. Little we knew that Iyasu and clique were laughing at this noble Idea of free expression of ones wills. At the time the brothers and few henchmen were in Sudan calling members as cowards. Imagine, he who never smelt gun powder talking about others’ state of mind in regards to courage. Iyasu remained a virtual remote control commander. He had no army to lead then, and he does not have any now.
Iyasu had not only the China connection, but he had control of the purse strings for the party. All money given by any group or country to EPRP was in his control. While the army was starving and bleeding, Iyasu was chasing girls in European cities. He never sweated, much less bleed for the cause he preached from the comfort of peaceful European cities with the money collected in the name of those gallant fighters. Those who died with their belief would turn in their graves if they knew what they called EPRP then is being used for personal gratification (he enjoys the role of a Grand Wizard; also the main reason for the current infighting) and economic means.
For a long time Iyasu has attempted to forge a kind of coalition that would create a forum and control for him. He began cooperating with what was its ardent foe, MEISON and even EDU. He tried to work with others as long as he was in control. Nothing materialized that could lead to something substantive. He cannot accept any organization in which he has no hands in it. The control freak could not have it any other way.
The marriage of convenience right now with Ato Hailu Shawel and the extremists serves Iyasu well. On one hand, he believes that fractured CUD will eventually wither out. On the other, with no strong organization in sight for the Ethiopian cause, Iyasu will continue to deceive his followers and the money will keep coming. What do you expect from a group who never worked in their lives but depended on others’ money?
However, what Ato Hailu sees in Iyasu’s mafia is beyond me. One cannot lean on some one who cannot support themselves. It is not only that they cannot support, they will drag one down. And that is the whole purpose: If not them no body is good enough, pure enough (Ethiopian), courageous enough to solve the Ethiopian problem. That is what you sense from what they do and say, but you should not discount the economic (dependency) side of it even for a minute.
EPRP as we knew it is no longer in existence. What you see and hear is Iyasu’s phantom organization using a popular name. Again, there is NO EPRP as we knew it. Wright or wrong, those who fought for freedom for their fellow country men are either dead or they have left the organization many years ago. Those who call themselves EPRP are in essence few leftovers that seem to make a living by using the name EPRP. They are not fighters, but war mongers. It is clear to everybody that they preach war but cannot fight.
Solution for Ethiopian body politics means demise for this group, and therefore they have to spoil anything they think that might lead to solution for our problems. They cannot tolerate any organization in which they do not have a hand in it. Remember, their survival as a group for the last 30 years was dependent on the lack of strong organization in Ethiopia. Therefore the unholy alliance against CUD is because it is a direct threat to their very survival and that they will do and say anything to undermine the people’s choice. But it cannot be in the name of those martyrs who gave their live for a better Ethiopia. That EPRP has been long gone.
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Teshome Beyene can be reached at [email protected]
26 thoughts on “EPRP as we knew it is no longer in existence”
Very well said !
Quiet interesting. Now we know that EPRP is a one man organization.
Hear, hear!!
Let’s just say it is a story of two relics of the past Hailu and Eyasu making their last stand.
Don’t worry daddy Girma Woldegiorgis is taking care of all his finances from the woyane coffers. Hama Tuma with wife Genet Girma is the woyane mole inside EPRP. The order to sabotage Kinijit came directly from Arat Kilo.
Elias,
You have chosen a wonderful article that sums up the shameful role of todays EPRP in undermining our struggle to democratize our country for earnest.
Ato Teshome is absolutely right about the fact that the EPRP of today is nowhere near the one we know 30 years ago. I know this personally and I have lost a lot of brilliant and genius friends. One of them used to complete two grades in one year. During the real EPRP days, he could give you a detailed analysis of Marx’s das capital. He could cite poems one hour long. He finally was killed at his home refusing arrest at his residence. There were numerous members of EPRP like this friend of mine. I felt a lot of gulit and shame being a survivor for a long time. And I still do to some extent today. The passage of time still did not heal me.
I feel more depressed when I see what the today members of EPRP are doing. Instead of standing on their own merit, their survival depends on undermining a party that most Ethiopians appear to support. In this case Kinijjit. They were supposed to creat an alliance with the intact Kinijit istead of fueling the turmoil in the party hoping for the power balance to tip to their side.
I think once again todays EPRP has taken a shameful and destructive move that will finally, for once and for all, take it to its doom. After this foolish measure taken by Iyasu and his clique, I doubt its survival.
I think todays EPRP is finished and it is time to disband and join the winners. But I still remember with great sadness all my friends who gave their lives in the name of the old EPRP and the principle we agreed to fight for.
For all those punks who call themselves EPRP today I give them an advice which they should take with a grain of salt.
Learn from Dr. Berhanu Nega and learn from him and follow his example. If you ask how, read his book, ” Yenetsanet Goh siked” and observe where he started and where he is now.
Your tall story does not give a sense. You sound like a broken record. EPRP has never been controlled by individuals, it was a party of the Ethiopian people and will remain like that.
I know you are repeating the false storys to make belive us; however, most Ethiopians are aware what is going on right now. we know who is Berhanu Nega and his clique. They are running for power and privilage in the name of democracy and individual freedom and you sound one of their deciple.
Please stop your fiasco and do not bastardize our struggle.
I appologize for what I have been saying about EPRP. Our brothers and sisters who died then didn’t die in vain. The problems are those who are trying to use their name while killing the hope of many Ethiopians. Good article!
Teshome, you nailed it. These merchants of death and misery will not refrain from sabotaging the peoples’ strugle for freedom and democracy. Iyasu Alemayehu a.k.a Hamma Tuma and his comrade-in-robbery, Mersha Yoseph are criminals that would, one day, be held accountable for reckless slaughter and mayhem they caused the myriads of Ethiopian youth in their quest for power.Meanwhile, they should not be allowed to take Kinijit hostage and deprive our people of its hope for a better tomorrow.Good thing, the people have no need or interest in people or party that think they are above the wish and aspiration of the masses.
This episode has put more shame and disgrace into the coffins of EPRP, as many think its better dead than alive.
Fortunately, the organization is stunted and has no potential to grow or attract more members because of its criminal and mischivious history, as the most doctrainers and most uneducated clowns members or cadres die of old of age or just fatige of their conspiracy history.
While it is understable to blame the likes of Hailu Shawl for seeking power because they think it is their god given right to rule Ethiopia whether qualified or not, but for EPRP to stir the pot with such reactionary forces is a mystery only EPRP can understand becasue some of their actions either working with EPLF, TPLF or supporting Somalia invasion of Ethiopia are unexplainable.
Now, EPRP like Hailu Shawl has dug its grave and Ethiopians should celebrate its slow death. Iyasu may have his radio station and more pocket money than ever, but his standing in Ethiopia and in the Diaspora is gone, he may as well think of what he used to do while the fools were dying in the field fighting for EPLF, start chasing women in Europe.
A short time ago, EPRP uncharacteristically was villifying Hailu Shawl becaue he bolted the 15 members union, as he clearly stated that EPRP is a vulcher like Woyane and you are better of being as far away as you can from it because they EPRP muzzle and stiffle you. Of course, the Shaleqa group until recently were also merciless towards EPRP, as they have blamed every problem including the action of Berhanu Mewa on EPRP.
So what made these two fools join to destroy CUD. It is baffling and mysterious. For Hailu Shawl it may be arrogance and his feudal mind set, but for EPRP has to be some other again conspiratorial design against the interest of the Ethiopian people.
As the writer mentioned, they want power, so they have to create a vacuum, and they think a strong CUD may be in their way. So destroy it to give some room in order to get their terrorist and other network to get in motion, but again to be defeated becasue they have no public support, as the public will never choose EPRP over Meles, because both are made of the same ideology, which is contrary to the long term interest of the Ethiopian pepole.
EPRP like Woyane is a curse on Ethiopia and until a strong organization emerges to disloge both curses, unfortuantely Ethiopia will suffer in the hands of EPRP and Woyane.
Dawit Hailu
Elias
EPRP today is a big business company that has made politics a huge and permanent source of income. It is just like TPLF that held the state power in 1991 by arms and still refused to handover power to the people for no other reason other than to continue building its business empire.
The socalled freedom fighters have become millionaires. And today some leaders of the pro-democracy movement are showing signs of corruption. And this is what we have to fight against without a stop. This must be our priority. We have to say no to corruption and no to making business out of the blood of our brothers and sisters!
EPRDF – GIRMA = EYASU + [taye + shaleka – haylu ] = Eprp well doon Brothers,is this realy mathmatics ? LONG LIVE ETHIOPIA
The article said it all very well; but, for those of us who thinks our beloved ones who lost their lifes in the name of EPRP is in vain, is not logical; because, they did not die for the name EPRP they died for the democratic Ethiopia which we are still fighting to realize it. That is why it is important to support Kinijit to realize our beloved ones dream.
I was in EPRP in my younger days. I have never been ashamed to say that until now. Thanks to Teshome for distinguishing the fallen heroes and heroines from the dividers of today betraying democracy.
The organization I loved and my friends died for is not the same any more. My days of being loyal to an organization is gone I’m now supporting the principles Kinijit stood for mainly personal freedom. It’s childish to follow individuals, for that matter even organization. Anyone or any organization that stood against democracy won’t have my support.
Thank you
There is nothing wrong with the professor’s interview. But there is everything wrong with us- being frustrated with all the current hocus-pocus, hoping that the “prince” (Mesfin) would come to our rescue, tell us what we never heard before, and come up with a certain remedy. Well, Professor Mesfin is not a Mesfin from the heavens. May be it has to do with our culture that people are talking about.
People still want all knowing “Mesfins”… but thats not right and this attitude, has brought many damages to Ethiopia. That’s how our culture made dictators out of many honest nationalists… Teferi, the moderate prince from Harar, who loved his country and would be the last person to become a dictator given that he has seen the bitterness of Dictatorship in his early age, was made a dictator by the Mehal Sefaris…. with all the “Edme Le’teferi- letalaku Meri” songs. Mengistu, an elected chairman of the Dergue- a committee organized to voice the issue of Salary raise and benefits for the army, was made a dictator by people chanting “Viva Mengistu- Viva Castro”… I can go on and on… but I have to return to the subject.
Professor Mesfin has been my hero and he still is- actually, my college admission Essay was about him. I respect everything he did for EHRCo and honor his love for his country. That, however, doesn’t mean that he is always right and I always agree with him. To use EZ’s words, when he speaks, I [always] listen- but with what he says, I don’t always agree. He has made some mistakes in the past, he can make some mistake at the moment, and he will continue making mistakes in the future- “Mesfin” is just a name given by his mother.
Having said this, I agree with what somebody mentioned in here about him playing the “wise shimagile”. Obviously, he would lose all the grounds of being a shimagile had he sided with one of the “groups” and said something bad about the other. So, “he had to throw everybody into the same basket.” Is that typical of Professor Mesfin? Yes. (I can provide examples… read his perspectives about the struggle b/t EPRP and MEISON)… but saying that Birhanu and Hailu are the same is just what he said to strengthen his point that there is no ideological difference between the two- I don’t think he meant anything more than that.
People know a lot about his relationship with Birhanu but know less about his relationship with AEUP…
AEUP and the good Professor:
There has been a very harsh relationship between Mesfin and AEUP right after his claim “there is no such ethnic group as Amhara- Amhara means Christian.” (With very strong evidences BTW)… Hard core AEUPs like Tadios Tantu (one of the heros of the Diaspora paltalk room, and a columnist for Minilik and Askual newspaper) and Eskindir Nega (Editor and owner of Minilik, Askual, and Satenaw newspapers who later left the party) has bashed his name by continuous articles. Those two people can be a very good sample of AEUP extremists. According to Lidetu, the founders of Kinijit (Dr. Birhanu and Mesfin) didn’t have a positive outlook towards AEUP.
His credibility:
The “nationalists” (I put that in quotation because EPRP is in there ) that “support” Hailu has been very critical of Prof. Mesfin and I don’t think his comments matter that much for them. As far as they are concerned, he is not influencial at all. On the moderate side of kinijit, however, he is well respected and verrry influencial. But, I believe that, they will use their moderate approach to evaluate what Prof. Mesfin said and take it moderately.
Should Dr. Birhanu speak out now?
No, at least not yet. I think he should speak only to the general assembly, if there is going to be one, and do his internal politics up to then (play it like Meles during the TPLF sanctions) … Things are complicated at this moment and his comments might make things even worse. People in Ethiopia, the people that matter most, wedednim telanim, hear Dr. Birhanu more than anybody at this moment. So, all he needs to do is give one interview on Addis Admass after things are settled.
Does Dr. Birhanu want to come to power? Is there really a struggle b/n Hailu Shawel and him?
Probably- and there is nothing wrong with that. There are two ways to look at this: the first is taking the allegation that Dr. Birhanu wants to come to power is true; and the second is that Dr. Birhanu wants Hailu to be replaced by somebody other than him. (I personally think he wants to get rid of Hailu and put somebody capable of doing the job in his place). but assuming that Dr. Birhanu wants to become the chairman or the point person of CUD, here is how I would understand the issue….Birhanu didn’t want to be the chairman when kinijit was formed. Even his said to be “power rival” Lidetu (I don’t agree with that judgment of Prof. Mesfin, BTW)… wanted him to be the chairman. So why, on earth, wouldn’t he accept that offer then and crave for it now? Well, there are two possible explanations: one is what the professor said- “Ye’hizbu chibcheba chinkulatu laay sileweta” and the other is because he knows that he will do better if he was the chairman. Professor Mesfin chose to believe the first one (without providing any evidence, that is) and we have the right to go with the second one.
Ye’netsanet Goh SiQed?
Though his tone was negative, I think he is right. Even Dr. Birhanu said that he would wait for historians to come up with the unbiased and true story of Kinijit in the future. He also said that one of the purposes of his book was to initiate others to write and/or speak their perspectives about Kinijit- what went wrong and right, what should have been done and not minamin. It was obviously his perspective… he didn’t say that it is a research paper. He even the fact that he started with his own story with EPRP is a clear proof for that. Is that relevant to the title? Yes, it is to him. Can somebody read the book and have a better understanding of what to do for future democratic Ethiopia? Yes, I have learnt a lot. In fact, I read Professor Mesfin’s recent book, Ye’Kihidet Kulkulet, and I have also recommended it for many friends of mine to read it but I have learnt more from Yenetsanet Goh siQed. Is it the complete history of Kinijit? No and it was not intended to be.
Is Birtukan the way to go?
They say that a good shimagile will tell the husband that he is wrong when he talks to him and say the same thing for the wife when he talks to her… but since he knows who the real Tifategna is deep inside, he will propose a solution that sides the tebeday… For me, criticizing both Birhanu and hailu and endorsing Birtukan, while she is a partaker in every allegation he mentioned (chifra Masebaseb, ignoring the ones that were not imprisoned, not giving priorities to the legalization of Kinijit…) is playing it like the wise shimagile. But I don’t think not only Birtukan but also Eyoel are the ways to go at this time… the one and only reason being their religion and Kinijit losing its strong base. (Try to figure out how more vulnerable for attacks by “chauvinists” they are than anybody… Debteraw has already started to play the game)…. I guess the professor didn’t give much though about it… or he did and decided that she can make a good transition.
Dear freinds,
I have read the article and the comments, if one blindly blame some body or blindly support some body there could be some problem with his thinking.
As to me if we always say Mr. Eyasu, Dr. Taye,Dr.Birhanu, Mr. Meles, Mr. lidetu, Mr. Lencho, Dr. Negasso…. did nothing for this country we are wrong.
We africans do inherently faces leadership problem. why is that? so many probable answers…..
let me know yours…I will forward mine in a related issue
Cheers
etal from Addis Ababa
Is there any organisation that remained as we knew it 28 years a go? If it does the organization that remained as it was 28 years a go is a dead organisation. All organisations that we knew 28 years a go have changed some are totally out of politics , some are in palace and some are still hanging around . So change happens and EPRP had no choice but change. It can not stop neither time nor change. Even Ethiopia that we knew 28 years a go is now ETHIOPIA MINUS ERITREA.
I’m not defending EPRP! I know they are able to do it in any term but just wondering if the author can give us his evidence for the involvement of EPRP in the current crisis in KINJIT.
All EPRP members both the living and the deceased are replica of Jesus christ. Both leaders and ordinary members showed what a worthy thing is to sacrifice flesh and sole for the freedom of man kind. They died novel death torched and suffered for the cause of freedom not to accumulating wealth as some contemperary political leaders of new political organisations are doing.
Eyasu is one of those Heros he is one of the Jesuses you should be ashamed of writing this comment on him. He is a legend
Believe it or not there was and will not be a political organisation full of dedicated, visionary and selfless people as EPRP, for sure on planet Earth.
I have heard a lot lately about EPRP that the author told us is dead. How come a dead organisation can demolish a huge organisation like KINJIT? How come Eyasu and few cliques that the author told us can put KINJIT in such a mess? We have to accept that EPRP is alive and kicking and has the ability to act the way it think is correct so a power to reckon with or stop blaming EPRP and conclude its dead. As the author said there is no good in blaming the dead including the “DEAD EPRP” Mut weqash atihunu!
But I completely agree with the author’s following point “One might comment negatively for what happened over 35 years ago with the benefit of hindsight. EPRP members then believed fighting for a just cause and in doing so they died for it without the advantage of foresight. We lived and still live in a country where expression of ideas is alien. I or others did not see that fighting to redress gross injustices would be wrong. That is why so many selfless individuals joined EPRP. In the process many perished for the cause they really believed in. For many it was not power or wealth that prompted them to rise in arms, it was freedom, it was justice, and it was equality, as simple as that. Most knew they would not see the fruit that they fought for and yet they marched forward to die for it because they believed their fellow country men would enjoy the freedom they achieved with their blood. No one should be second guessing them; they have proven themselves beyond doubt by paying the ultimate price with their lives. One may argue that the sacrifice was not worth it, and that may be true, but I make no apology for their principled stand. They are not here to analyze the past; that is a luxury only for the living.” The author is mad with EPRP for some reason but has failed to show his point by linking EPRP to the current crisis in KINJIT with any substance. SO I DISAGREE COMPLETELY WITH THE REST OF HIS POINTS
Kudos to Teshome Beyene for unveiling the EPRP clique’s agenda. Eyasu Alemayehu lives in the Welfare checks that he collects in Paris and the funds that he receives from the defunct EPRP members.
Why is Eyasu demeaning great leaders in the likes of Berhnau Nega and Bertukan Mideksa?
EPRP is a cancer within that one needs a panacea.
I don’t know- this subject makes me emotional.
I adored EPRP for I adored my teenage friends who perished in the name of EPRP. I still have fresh memories of the songs I heard being sung from my prison cell by the brave comrades who were being taken away handcuffed by the death squads to their immediate execution and to be thrown into that mass grave dug in the prison compound by prison inmates who were considered apolitical and loyal to undertake the task of dumping bodies.
My tears still choke me for I still miss those selfless souls of my generation, my peers!!
The Kinijit debacle and the role that is being played by the so called EPRP elements residing in North America opens this old wound. For the first time in my life I pened my eyes I reluctantly began to see evil in to day’s EPRP.
It is unbelievable for me to see them allying with despot Hailu Shawel. It takes me back to the 70’s when I read the defamation, the smear campaign by the tottering EPRPs. I sincerely feel, for the first time, how my childhood friends who sacrified their lives as a youth vangaurd and members of EPRYL (ehaweli)that their sacrifiece was indeed in vain. Sad but true. I see no future for the EPRP left overs whose ideology and approach to politics is still stuck in the 70’s.
The so called EPRP’s if you still aspire to be relevant to the Ethiopian society, please stop cursing and trashing everyone. Do not cheer up one against the other. Look at yourselves in the mirror and try to take yourself as simply a dot that may add up to the big picture of Ethiopia.
“Death to X long live Y” is archaic political sloganeering and approach. This is a different era, not the era of “Communist International”. Try to be useful by supporting those who try to make a difference. You may point out the weaknesses of others, but not through ‘shumux’ or cursing and I knwo it all type of arrogance. Do not claim entitlement simply for staying around for long as a loser organization or a bunch of people who have infatuation to one another and to their past.
It is true that EPRP is dead but that is not news to anybody. The feudal EDU and the communists EPRP, MESON and all those left wing organization of lunatics have been dead as well for many years. For Ethiopia it is only good riddance that they are all dead organizations. The fact they sacrificed their lives does not make their cause worthy. Good intentions don’t make up for the lives lost on all sides. Certainly they were responsible for their death but what was cruel is that they were also responsible for the death of many young people that they duped. The silver lining is that the failure of all the communist groups was the best thing that Ethiopia salvaged from that period. I don’t support Hailu Shawel at all, but to accuse him of being an ally of EPRP is out of line again. He is just an upper middle class who aspires to be on top of Ethiopia without having any agenda worthy of debate. If the writer supports the Birhanu faction, it is fine but Hailu is no EPRP and smearing him does not add value to any discussion.
in most part I agree with Seblewengel, What I don’t understand is why some are blaming EPRP for problem in KINJIT, What did they do? Even this guy (the author) didn’t come with hard evidence what EPRP is currently doing excet gossip. If really EPRP stands to water down the struggle in Ethiopia why Woyane hate (more than anyone) EPRP? I guess people we are cuddling with ourselves than join the movement in ever direction.
Dear Elias,
I’ve lost total respect for you after having read your article on “Ethiopians in Washington DC say no to dictatorship”. Not becuase I agree or diagree with Eng Hailu, or agree or disagree for the fracture in the fracture in Kinijit Unity (which is embarassing) but with your writing of events. It is clear you have sucumb to one of Ethio’s inherent weakness. Stuburnness, Rigidity, unwilingness to accept responsibility when erred and brinksmanship politics. This is why we are where we are. There can never be a win/win outcome for ethiopians of all stripes, and for the country. This is the trait of woyane, and amature-politicians and reporters. You are doing more deciervice to the Ethiopia.
Ethiopia needs us, we need to creat a siutation where all of us contribute while not agreeing on EVERY item.
Elias, I don’t question your motive or your desire for betterment of Ethiopia. You are just an example of another person in the right place, at the right time, but with WRONG cpability. whach what you write.
Asku
Dear Teshome,
Most of us who are still in EPRP know all this, and even worse than this. The reasons why we kept quiet are two:
– We did not want to give Woyane the satisfaction
– We were hoping that one day the members and supporters of the party would come to their senses and change the party from within.
It turns out that the leaders use our silence as a weak point.
The “new EPRP” leaders’ tactic is to say that whoever leaves them or critisizes them is Woyane or DERG. In thhat way they stop people from telling the truth.
As has been said above, leaving “EPRP” is not betraying the ones who once gave their lives. The only aim “EPRP” has got left is to secure the power of the leaders with their few footsoldiers.
We have three options now:
-Either for the silent majority in “EPRP” who have been dominated by Iyasu for decades to come forward, take over the leadership and transform the party to a genuine organisation, or
-to expose and leave “EPRP” and join a movement of their choice to continue the struggle.
-Third option is to create a pension fund for the leaders who need the party for their survival, so that there is no longer a need for them to stay in power.
Wondu:
How are you – Let me remind you a couple of points why EpRp inject itself in the middle of this crises. Take a look at Assimba, Debteraw and other EpRp friendly website. I will go further by saying EpRp is the root cause of the crises because Taye is recruited by Eyasu and they have to damage Kinijit (whether it is lead by Hailu or Bertukan). Apparently, Bertukan group is the focus of EpRp partly they are bright, smart, humorous and amusing. The public attracted to them in massive number. My friend, what common interest EpRp and All Amhara Organization have? In the past, they were staunch enemy. There are no bases or substance to alien Hailu and Eyasu.
EPRP BEFORE AND EPRP NOW IS A STAUNCH FIGHTER FOR DEMOCRACY. That was its goal and still is,it will fight with tooth and nail till the Ethiopian people liberate themselves from Woyane and the likes. EPRP has never been a one man party, it cannot be. If EPRP had died and ceased to exit ,why are we afraid of it this much to mention it in every sentence we speaak or write. I can dare say, EPRP hunts those who massacred the youth during the derg regime
and now of course IT IS A NIGHTMARE to those who are begging Woyanne to join it and to those who are unprincipled and ready to sell our country to the highest bidder. As for KINIJIT, please solve your own problems and dont drag other organizations in your mess, but when it comes to our country,let alone EPRP, we Ethiopians will not let hodams sell our country behing the peoples back. LET THIS BE KNOWN.
EPRP’S and all great sons dream for better Ethiopia will surely prevail.