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1. A brief and friendly letter to Meles Zenawi from Assta B. Gettu

   Mr. Prime minister of Ethiopia:

   I have never met you personally, but I know you, your beautiful wife, and your numerous political advisors only vicariously.

   You may have heard in one of your visits to the United States the two important words being hotly and openly discussed among the citizens of America. Correctly these two words are “term limits,” that is in America, today, a president, because of term limits, can hold his or her presidential office for four or eight years only. If, however, a president or a prime minister stays in office for too long, then the citizens of his country get very concerned that he may become a dictator or a despot over them, where then it would be almost impossible to bring him down without much blood shed.

   Predicting the tyrannical nature of a dictator, the hardship, the persecution and the indiscriminate killings that a dictator imposes upon his people, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome were the ones who prudently devised “term limits” to stifle the powers of their governments – to avoid the rules of dictators.

   Following the steps of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, Great Britain, France, Australia, and the United States continued to prosper because power is in the hands of the people, not in the hands of a dictator who enriches himself and his family and his cronies by robbing the wealth of his nation.

   In this evanescent world of ours, there are two types of dictators: pure dictators who do not pretend that they govern their people according to the rule of democracy, and those other dictators who claim their governments are based on democracy. Understandably, the latter ones are the worst than the former ones; hiding under the umbrella of democracy, some dictators, like the former President Saddam Hussein who ran for an election and got 99% of his people’s votes, can easily deceive their people and the whole world. The reason why Saddam ran for an election was to tell to the world that he was a democratically elected person, so not a dictator.

   I’m afraid; the same thing is true with you, Mr. Meles Zenawi. For example, in 2005, you perfectly knew you would not win the election so you rigged the vote, and in doing so you cheated not only the people of Ethiopia but your creator who gave you the power. After you falsified the vote, your dictatorial regime started to show its true color when you blindly ordered your unprofessional soldiers to shoot and to kill indiscriminately the peaceful demonstrators in day time, and the whole world was watching you when you committed such a genocide on your own people in the streets of Addis Ababa. You tried to hide the genocide you committed, but you have terribly failed because it is not only the living who are accusing you daily for the deaths of those innocent young Ethiopians, but it was the blood of those you slaughtered is accusing you before God and his Angels.

   Just recently, you proposed a new law that anathematizes any individual who contributes money to Kinijit, for you know very well a penniless political organization will never be able to win an election, but don’t fool yourself, God sometimes works miracles, and Kinijit may win in a land slide.

   We know you have amassed a large fortune, and that is why you have multitude of agents all over the world. You have armies with lethal weapons guarding you and your family day in and day out. You live in a palace prepared for kings, queens, princes, and princesses. Yet, nothing bothers you because you pay no electricity bills, no water bills, and no rent. You spend about $8, 571,428 U. S. A. dollars monthly just to fatten yourself and your family. No one dares to come to you to collect rent since every thing is free for you. While you are eating roasted meat, drinking whisky, wearing colorful dresses, driving brand new cars, and sleeping in a royal bed, your common people are eating gomen (cubage), drinking muddy water, wearing tattered clothes, driving their lean donkeys loaded with dead woods, and sleeping on a dusty floor or medeb respectively.

   Accustomed to living such a prosperous and glamorous life, no wonder, you have devised numerous political machines to destroy your political opponents so that you think you could remain in power forever. Don’t let you power and wealth fool you! Remember what God said to the Rich Fool: “You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?” (Luke 12:20) I advise you, Mr. Prime Minister, to notice that extra ordinary event that happened to the dictator Nicolace Ceausescu of Romania and to his wife in 1989! Mr. Prime Minister, you have become too wealthy and too powerful, and the people of Ethiopia have become too weak and too poor. Work hard for the prosperity of your people not just for your self and your wife Kedamawit Emebet Azeb, Queen of Mega.

   Sincerely,

   Assta B. Gettu

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