After being locked up in jail for 6 years by Woyanne dictator Meles Zenawi, Ato Siye Abraha is finally free and next month he will start a public meeting tour in the U.S. His first stop is Washington DC on January 5, 2008.
Ato Siye’s U.S.A. tour is being promoted by almost every Ethiopian media in the Diaspora. Some try to portray him as a national hero. Ethiopian Review is the exception. Our position is that before calling public meetings and ask people to pay $20 or $30 per person to attend his meetings, Ato Siye needs to explain, through a press conference or some other means, about the positions he had held and the actions he had carried out as the former military head of the Woyanne regime.
Let’s face the hard fact before getting excited about Siye’s visit. He has not made any public apology for the enormous death and destruction he had caused as one of the top Woyanne leaders.
During the 1998-2000 war with Eritrea, at least 70,000 fellow Ethiopians had perished — for nothing. The dead did not even get proper burial ceremony. Their families were not compensated. The injured were completely abandoned. There is no national holiday to honor those who died. As one of the major proponents of the war, indeed the leading advocate, Ato Siye has the blood of at least 70,000 poor young Ethiopians on his hand whom he callously sacrificed using an outdated military tactic known as human wave to overrun Eritrean trenches.
Just because Meles locked up Siye Abraha in jail for six years as a result of internal Woyanne power struggle, the crimes he committed do not go away. He must account for his horrible deeds.
It is shameful, to say the least, on the part of many in the media to try to portray Siye Abraha has a national hero. He is a person who swam in the blood of countless poor innocent Ethiopians.
203 thoughts on “Siye Abraha is NOT a national hero”
100% correct on your observation, Great job. This bloody coward should be boycotted. He is touring now just to get back to power and to bleed the Amahars and Oromos again. Wake up people, lets deny this murderer any chance. He deserved to be hanged. By the way all those people that perished in the humanwave were 99.9% Amhara, oromo, and all other tribes except the Tigrayans(Woyanes) and the masterminder was this bloody coward who was in charge at the time. Just because he does not get alone with the other woyanes does not give him any legitimacy.
I would be fooled once, twice but not more than twice. I would never ever be in a position to support that guy anymore.
I wish you had a critical look at every politician as you have done this time. I agree with your comments, but the luck of a critical evaluation of other politicians on your website makes me think that you may have done this because of your hatred for people of Tigray origin.
I think all Ethiopian politicians should be critically evaluated, mainly because that is the only way you can shape them.
I believe there were 60,000-70,000 people who died under his direction. I think some are saying lets just forget them. If you want to disregard their lives go see this bloody coward, more power to you. Let the Tigrayans go see him, give him money so he can go back to power and plunge us again to war with Eritrea.
This writer (ER) deserves credit for this notable observation. Ethiopoans should not be so naive to call a hero everyone that comes out of woyane jail. if that is how far ethiopians think, woyane can imprison some of his agents for some time and then release them to us so we can blindly embrace them as hero.
Elias,
You have a habit of hitting the truth straight on the head sometimes, even though I disagree with you on occasion. Well done.
Every anti-weyanye doesn’t mean works for our ETHIOPIA as elias mentioned. We got to know what he has for our country. This guy is a killer as bad as meles. He might try to look innocent to get accepted by the people, but as we know from his history, he was one of narrowminded guys of weyanye.
To ask a question,
Why would Meles and Siye use the ‘human wave’ tactic unless to achieve the casualty rates. Was this to weaken the army for the Agazi? I say this because when they finaly broke through, they called off the war.
Thanks Elias, I couldn´t agree more. Siye is a die-hard Weyanne, i.e a scrupulous murderer. Meles and Siye should be sentenced to death for causing the death of thousands upon thousands of Ethiopians. Thanks again for everything you´re doing for our country. Happy New year to all of you.
THE STORY OF SHABYA IS ALSO THE STORY OF Mr. Siye Abraha and many other colleagues of his. Ethiopians, let us see this too.
Although Shabya’s anti-Ethiopia activities were no secrets to Ethiopians, it achieved what it had wanted through the assistance of foreign powers of historically known enemies of Ethiopia such as Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan and other anti Ethiopia neighboring countries namely the Sudan, Somalia and Djibouti, and the internal enemies within Ethiopia that it had meticulously created and organized to accelerate in achieving the overall goal with the main objective of creating illegal Eritrea and a weakened Ethiopia.
Shabya, used to have its agents spreading nearly all over the world including and mainly in Ethiopia to gather information, to propagate anti-Ethiopia activities, to collect funds and to organize all sorts of anti-Ethiopia activities in all levels.
Ethiopians: – see everything and anything that happened and is happening to Ethiopia in retrospect and ask the following primary questions: What were those thousands and thousands of individuals who were quietly living in Ethiopia while clandestinely assisting their vanguard anti-Ethiopia organization uniquely known to Ethiopians in the past and to this present day as EPLF-SHABYA under which they were well organized and carrying out their daily routine of nibbling Ethiopia to her ultimate gradual death?
After the combined anti-Ethiopia forces of SHABYA, TPLF, ONLF, and OLF fully controlled the entire Ethiopia, those anti-Ethiopia elements who lived the seemingly a quiet life openly and boldly came out of their cocoons and arrogantly celebrated their the soon-to-be transient victory over Ethiopia and Ethiopians
At the beginning, the enemies of Ethiopia, ELF and EPLF were born in the minds and hearts of historically known enemies of Ethiopia and were built from the ground up with dual nature of being invisible and visible with massive plan to lock up Ethiopia and Ethiopians in perpetual ethnic conflict so that Shabya would have the upper hand on the fragmented Ethiopia.
After ELF was destroyed with the collaboration of TPLF and EPLF, Shabya embarked on the next phase. Shabya knows that it would nearly be impossible to control Ethiopia and Ethiopians with military alone; therefore, thousands and thousands of shabya supporters and followers were dispatched into Ethiopia to start their stealthy and deadly work. The influx of these enemies into Ethiopia had actually begun in the 50s. They all were trained rigorously and in fact, did extremely well in their mission so that the result was phenomenal for them, but deadly for Ethiopia and Ethiopians?
Shabya, its followers, and supporters were successful because they built a robust security around themselves and their mission so that they were able to continue to nibble Ethiopia to her eventual death.
Ethiopians: keep asking yourself this question: – What were those the dispatched thousands, and thousands of shabya agents who were spread out all over Ethiopia, in Addis Ababa, in every village, in every kabale, towns, cities, public institutions, in Military Academy, Hospitals, Defense, in universities, Ministry of Educations, it is just countless, and you name it, ask what were they actually doing? What was their actual mission?
These spies and informers were there pretending to be Ethiopians on the surface and yet clandestinely were passing on absolutely crucial information to Shabya head quarters every second of their life. Most of all, inside Ethiopia, they were passing on ethnic virus through a mouth-to-mouth contact to every individual that they came into contact. This has been done for the past 50 and so years and it is continuously being done to this day. Isn’t it true?
The Weyanae crime family was the obvious by product of Shabya; it was created to reinforce the military power of Shabya and was designed, Organized, and built by anti-Ethiopia elements to disable Ethiopia.
Did Mr. Siye Abraha know that his tplf anti-Ethiopia Organization was used and was later abused?
They both had identical mission statements while they were gathered and organized under the umbrella of the main anti-Ethiopia organization specifically known to Ethiopians as Shabya. Shabya high level experts and spy masters secretly planted invisible elements into and among Tplf members, and guided their emotion and thoughts in the direction to what shabya planners directed and monitored, used, and lead them to a specific purpose that shabya and its followers and supporters wanted them to achieve for.
Clearly TPLF/Weyane was a deadly tool that Shabya technical experts designed, built and manufactured in Northern manufacturing facilities to be used and abate and help Shabya to bring Ethiopia to the current destructive situations.
In the South-Central and Eastern Ethiopia underground Manufacturing facilities, Shabya recruited anti-Ethiopia elements and built anti-Ethiopia organizations namely, OLF and ONLF for identical purpose that Shabya created Tplfweyane for.
All members of the above-mentioned anti-Ethiopia organizations were conceived around hate oriented and were having dual objectives and purposes: First, to create a chaotic Ethiopia, then to dismember Ethiopia so that shabya would have authoritative illegal ownership over a fragmented Ethiopia.
Meles Zinawi was the top pick as an agent to be assigned to a challenging situation and yet extremely destructive to Ethiopia and Ethiopians. His assignment was to represent Shabya and to totally clear the direction for looting and shipping out anything and everything that are available beneath and above the lands in Ethiopia to nourish and keep alive the parasitic existence of illegal Eritrea.
Meles Zinawi and Isyas Afework met at a tiny village and soon became friends and became members of the anti-Ethiopia organizations by assuming different roles at different time in a varieties of places where they sworn to their hearts and minds under the umbrella of shabya and began to dedicate the contents of their hearts and minds to those of their peers and to the foreign authorities above them. Meles Zinawi and Isyas Afework were inseparable until they bitterly disagreed on how to weaken and eventually disable Ethiopia and gravitates her to her eventual ceasing as a country.
Ethiopians, let’s hear the contents of Mr. Siye Abraham’s heart and mind in the context of the current situation of and the future of Ethiopia.
First, let’s ask Mr. Siye Abraha this: – Since Mr. Siye Abraha knew Isayas Afework and Meles Zinawi very, very well, what was he hopped for and expecting TPLF to achieve from the point of view of his and from the point of view of Ethiopians and Ethiopia considering what Tigraye and Ethiopia are in the current situation?
As Mr. Siye Abrah is well aware of the two fugitives’ armies are on battle standby to combat against each other with both sides amassing troops on both sides of the dividing line in the range of 100,000; so, if and of course, the victory goes to Isyas Afwork how would it impact Ethiopians and the unity of Ethiopia either positively or negatively?
May be we can say or pray God forbid, if Weyanetplf wins the upcoming battle what impact would it have either the future of Tigraye or Ethiopia or both?
As Mr. Siye Abraha and many other members of weyanaetplf and supporters and followers of shabya, as well knew it well, Shabya and woyanae planned, drafted, and later ratified, agreed upon, and signed to it and brought it to Alger’s agreement behind the back of Ethiopians. How many historical documents were stolen from the achive of Ethiopia, and were later forged to suit Shabya’s and woyanaetplf’s claim against the territory integrity of Ethiopia?
Who do you think is more enemy to Ethiopia and Ethiopians than the other, is it Isyas Afework, or Meles Zinawi? And Why? And Why not?
What is your estimation in terms of us dollar that Shabya and weyanae had stolen from Ethiopia?
Is there anything that he tells Ethiopians that we did know had happened and would happen in the past and in the future?
Last but not the least, how did Shabya and Tplf fooled Ethiopians and made them do the job for tplf and shabya? And what was the specific role of Egypt, the Sudan, Somalia, the West, and Arabs in playing with regard to bringing Ethiopia to be in the current situation?
What would have you done differently for Tigraye and Ethiopia or for Tigraye or Ethiopia or for both, if were the prime Minster of Ethiopia, currently?
I agree with Ethiopian review staff, we need to know what his current position is on the above mentioned points.
Selam all:
Ato Siye is an important person. He has constituencies and supporters. These days he is getting admirers also from those who used to be his critics.
I think it would be wise not to corner everyone because of the past. These days democratic forces need allies. We need to bring as many people as possible to the struggle for democracy.
Let alone Ato Siye who is no more a TPF member, even we have to bring to our side the current TPLF members to our side.Antagonizing everyone for nothing is not a good politics.
We need Ato Siye. If Ato Siye has abondonned the section of Article 39 that is opposed by Ethiopians (but still supported by some of his friends …Ato Gebru) and if he accept the Manifesto of Kinijit, he must be loored to join KINIJIT. KINIJIT will be much stronger with people like Siye being a member of it.
I agreewith you Elias
What new thing will he tell us that will be of use in the democratic process.Eseye dismantled the giant ethiopian military power.He made them homeless,hungry, their children went out in the street begging and made plastic huts in the streets of Addis.Families of victims, mothers had nothing to feed,some victims suicide, killed, hung themselves for not seeing all these misery
I wish what he would answer to this question(why he did that?) would he regret? I think this Jan 5 meeting should explain.
Good Job ER:
Seye’s only problem arose against Meles when a power struggle started among Weyannes. Seye has to respond what he had committed in Oromia, in the AA University, Ethiopian Airlines, Air Force as well as the resources he helped Weyanne to rape Ethiopia under the Weyanne mafia organization called EFFORT, the 70,000 poor Ethiopians used as minesweepers for Weyannes Agazee army.
Seye has to apologise first to the people of Ethiopia, the crimes he committed. Seye needs to get out of the closet first before he outs Meles.
Hi man I agree with u. At least this guy should ask an apology for what he did with the woyanee government. And i think he is still in the EPRDF camp. As it has been said his problem with Meles is personal and power it is not an issue of Ethiopia. What is his stand about Ethiopia in the past, in the present and in the future?
I think the Ethiopian people need to know these facta. The medias shouldn’t left to those opportunists like Tsiye.
Thanks
Dear Elias, well Said. Let me put some words of my knowledge about weyannes:
I read the above 92 comments, very intersting comments, but almost all of the above comments forgot to mention that a woyanne is a woyanne and dies woyanne. These people are the most notorious and well knowing for lieing. Lier of the whole world. And yet, many Ethiopians are asking Siye to apologize. Is apology the only one you want from Siye or any ex-woyanne member, you will get it. They are not ashamed to lie to live another hour let alone lie for 10 years. If siye finds out that Ethiopians want to hear from him about Assab/Eritrea, he will say it. If you want him to apologize, he will apologize and might even kneel down and shed crocodile’s tears. Woyanne they do anything that will save them or take Ethiopian hearts, but not Power. They will never come down from ruling Ethiopia until they separate the Repulic of Tigray – their ONLY ultimate goal.
TPLF cried like a baby when EPLF said will not help them if their agenda of a republic of. So, to gain EPLF’s support they merged with some small Ethiopian parties and renamed their party EPRDF and hid their dream of bigger Tigray. All their logos, flag and other party symbols never showed the map of Ethiopia, infact, many Tigrenyans did not know how to draw the map of Ethiopia.
We Eritreans call any Woyanne current or exmember Chameleon. They are good at hiding their true colours only for short time, but even chameleons have are haunted by some animals.
And you know why they are asking for dialogue with the Government of Eritrea, because they wanted live ever happly after they Proclaim Republic of Tigray, but found out that they can not do it while they are in a fight with Eritrea.
To me siye’s touring US an Europe is fictious. It is a mutual benefit for meles and siye to survive. Siye does not want to see TPLF/EPRDF to vanish from the face of the book. TPLF is their common median and ground for fertility.
Long live the two nations Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Seye Abraha is another Weyane. To me he is neither a national hero nor he is an Ethiopian citizen. I wousl not have cared a bit if he had died in jail or killed by bullet fired by his nemesis Meles Zenawi. Seye Abraha is a criminal, he has only served 6 years in Weyane jail. In my opinion he should be held till DEATH in a solitary confinment! I agree with Elias 1000%. This guy is a criminal who used an old (19th century) military tactic to use young Ethiopians as cannon fodder for his name and rank. The reason he used all those Young Ethiopians as a cannon fodder was that he lost a $256 million stone crusher company in Badme during the first days of the military engagements. He was so obesessed with having to score on the Eritrean military generals who he accused having to steal his company. He wanted to use all means necessary to over run the Eritrean trenches to capture Badme, which by the way the court says it belongs to Eritrea. Knowingly, even some say Meles warned him that they might end up losing Badme thru legal means. Seye was very angry breathing fire told his TPLF CC that Meles was softy. Meles to prove his hard heart he approved the death of over 30,000 young Ethiopians to be used by Seye as a cannon fodder so Seye would have his revenge on the Eritrean comanders in that vicinity.
For Seye to avenge his company and anger he sacrificed 30,000 young Ethiopians lives. This is Honest God truth! He only did what he did to show that he is a tough guy. Today the same Ethiopians who have lost a loved brother would pay $30 to watch him tell them how he massacred their brothers??????
That is pathetic. I would seek his blood for my young cousin who has died during the Badme war to justify Seye’s anger over the Eritreans for his lose of $256 million company. The money did not come from anywhere, it came from poor Ethiopians who have been prevented to do business in their beloved country. Because all the senior TPLF-CC realized what went wrong they agreed that he be expelled. TPLF put him only for 6 years, he should have been still in jail and at the age of 65 he should be shot to retire him. I am ashamed of my Ethiopian identity for Seye to come to a tour and get my $30 in addition to my counsin’s life.
I AM SEEKING HIS BLOOD!!!!!!!!!!
As a matter of fact Siye is one of the criminals who should be brought to justice with Melese when the days of Woyanie come to an end.
He was one of the architects of this ethnic federalism and the deal for the cessation of Eritrea. He is responsible for all of the mascaras that took place in each and every corner of the country during his heydays. The truth of the matter is that he will never be exonerated from his criminal responsibility for the heinous crime he aggressively committed – even with whatever apology. It is like saying Hitler would be acquitted from his liability after apology. No way!!!!!!
Besides his criminal liability, he is also one of the corrupt Woyanie officials who will be held liable for embezzlement. He abused his illegitimately secured power and stole millions of Birr from the destitute. Do you think he is a millionaire because of his saving from his monthly salary or he got inheritance from his millionaire dad?
He is a Big time CRIMINAL and it is out of question to think he will have a political role in the newly coming democratic Ethiopia.
Justice must be served.
I do not care for a thief or his master. I wish Siyye died in jail. He has innocent blood on his hand. Many of the Tigres complaining at Meles should have known better, their hero called Siyye is a thief. Ha came from the jungle empty handed and in 5 years he was a millionaire. He built so many buildings in Mekele and Adwa. He stole money from many people, including many rich Eritreans and took it for himself. He is a killer he has killed several Ethiopians who he hates. He is also a criminal, to me I see Meles and Siyye just like two drug dealers having problem with each other. Meles is the bigger boss while Siyye is a smaller but dangerous drug lord, the fight between them is like a war between two druglords if one of them go to jail and come out, so what? I want him to go to jail for loger period of time so I can feel safe in the streets when I come home from my overtime work. Siyye is a criminal who has used many Ethiopians soldiers as human wave to coin his name in history at the expense of human lives.
I don’t belive what I am about to say, for the first time I have to agree with you. only because Siye has a beef with Meles does not make him a hero. Had he been a PM he would have make meles look like a pussy cat.
Can this monster tell Ethiopians where the money that helped built modern industries in Tigray came from…he was one of the main looters and he was over seeing the theft of this ethiopian resources…now Ethio-media is telling us that this vampire is a hero!! Come on no one was born yesterday! It is true, seye has Tigrayan agenda. He represents non-Adwa tigrayans and in his power strugle with Meles and other Adwa Tigrayns, he ended up in jail. He didn’t go to jail for ethiopian cause!! he started the war with eritrea, because he thought meles’ main power supply comes from Issaise of Shabia and he succeeded to severe that tie and when he manged to kill the meles and issaise relationship, he was ready to kick meles’ ass but meles was smart enought to take pre-emptive strike and arrest him under the cover of corruption. So seye’s agenda is Tigrayan and power agenda. He has nothing to do with our ethiopia.
Siye is more interested about Tigray than Ethiopia. He may be a Hero for TPLF and Tigrayans, but not For ETHIOPIANS! He can’t out smart Ethiopians with made in Mekele Tricks. He is buying time for survival and begging for second chance.Some one trush is a treasure for others. He was dumped in the power stragle which is not an issue to Ethiopians.No. Let’s focus about is evile deedes and intentions not the word Hero!
Elias
Good Job
You deserve praise for your outstanding acheivement in exposing the true nature of the crimnal gang Siye.
May God bless our country and people like you.
Ethiopia doesn’t need today the an eye for an eye things, our country is so overwhelmed by man made problems. Specially for the last 30 + years the so called civilized, modern, educated countrymen pushed the country over to extreme poverty and instability and we closing to some irreversible situation, unless Ethiopians who really freed them self from any form of greed and power hallucination join together to free their country.
Ato Seye have nothing to explain or to tell us about wayane Government that have proven him self time and again to be the enemy the country, we believe it or not we are under a new form of colonial rule even worse at a time.
Ato Seye founded and served this government as a key person until they throw him in jail, he served his time and freed.
No matter what he have to say, it will be hard to digest.
All said, I admire though his courage to come forward to help his country, but first he have genuinely bye peoples’ trust by admitting his mistakes without equivocates and telling the truth about his current motives for coming forward to serve and what he can bring to the table and what makes his involvement special.
Apropos the question of Hero, I believe even Mr. Seye hate the mention, today we don’t have no hero, please guys spear yourself from making this kind of gross mistakes our country agonizing because of our mistakes, is it healthy for someone to tell us so and so are heroes?
I abslutely agee with ER. Siye is actually the main architect of the TIGRAY/TIGRINGI dream team who does not care about ETHIOPIA. Thank God “beseferut kuna…” I am not surprized why the spin doctors in DC are promoting him. He is worst than Meles. The conspiracy he is trying to fabricate is also open in the air what really amazes me the collaboration of Berhanu Nega with this Tug worebela agame time will tell and the truth will come out and every spin in dc for ever will be barred from Ethiopian issues. Thank you Elias for telling the truth.
Yes Elias I apploud you this time. Great job. Though you do not like my opinions in the past, but with this one, you scored good. It is very important Siye does not take the opportunity of Kinijit’s differences and take all this effort by the diasspora to break our heart in two. Thanks again Elias
Dear Elias.
I have been many times a supporter of your views. This time, I am throwing the ball in your court. Do you believe, Asseb belongs to Ethiopia? If not why? I would from you an honest answer. Then after I will comment on the issue you presented.
Olbemo
i completely agree to this he is not a national hero. I remember his words when he was defence Minister.
“ENQUAN TORNET MASHENEF, TORINET MESRAT ENCHILALEN” when he was bosting of winning OLF army.
“KETESHENEFE TOR GAR ENDET ENISERALEN” when he was asked whether EPRDF was willing to accomodate formet Ethiopian soldiers. He is an arogant, hipocrat and a person dedicated to single ethnic group. I was wondering what gut drove him to call all Ethiopian for a meeting. Two hyenas could fight on a domestic animal and one could win, the loser can not be be a domestic animal, still it remains to be hyena.
Dear Olbemo
Elias is an ordinanry citizen. Regardless his answer to you may make you feel good or bad about Asseb. You should ask and expect to hear from Hourse mouth rather than Elias .
Now, I am throwing you the ball on your Kanagaro court?
You support his views many times, cant’t you swallow one view that you did not agree?
Let us know his motive. Was he concerned for the poor people or to build another TPLF like his friend Gebru Asrat? It is better to listen him. I think he learned a great lesson from the jugdement of Birtukan Midekssa. I agree he is not a hero, his previous history is well known how much he destruct three generation and our motherland.
I appreciate your comment. Ethiopian CNN
God bless your job.
always stand for the poor
seye, shouldn’t walk freely any where in this world. He is a liar, murderer.
I agree. He is not a national hero.
Hi Elias
I agree with you. He is the one real zeregna.
I was in Addis, When TPLF took power, and I can still recall and vividly remember behind the back of my eyes, what I had watched on the Ethiopian television then, how TPLFites like Siye and the former TPLF prime minister, Tamirat Layne were acting and the hate they had towards Ethiopanism and the Ethiopian People. Siye Abraha had never been seen or heard saying or doing anything against his boss Meles, at least formally, until he was incarcerated by the butcher. I do not want to go to in detail. It will suffice to say he was part and parcel of Meles, not only following orders but also giving orders to destruct Ethiopia. It goes with out saying, “Thief’s turn against ones other throats not when they are stealing but when they share the stolen goods” (phrasing mine). I believe that is what had happened between the Meles and the Siye group. The more shrewd thief became suspicious of the lesser shrewd thief and put the him in prison, because he thought he will face that fate if he did not react swift and first.
Then Siye and co., through their family and supporters that shared the stolen wealth, started to talk about the difference that Siye has with Meles. They tried to tell us the cause for his detention was because he has stood for his motherland against Meles. Nonetheless, our question is, where was Siye when assab was taken from Ethiopia and given as a reward to Isayeyas Afeworki against the cries of the natives, the Afar people. Was he not part of the group that approved the cessation of Eritrea without the consent of the Ethiopian people? Was he not laughing with the devil Meles when the latter called our green, yellow and red flag a piece of rag? Was he not beside his Master Meles, when he the devil Meles said the Axum Obelisk has nothing to do with the southern Ethiopian people? Was he not there when Meles said Ethiopian history is only 100 year old? Please do not tell us to cover our eyes and be fooled by you, and please no more tell us that Siye is an Ethiopian hero. Syie had never been our hero, even in his wildest dreams. We might give you our ears if you Start telling us the truth, as he was one of the master TPLFites that played the Major role in the clandestine operation to destruct Ethiopia, that he was not less corrupted than Meles, Tamirat, Mesfin Seyoum, Sibhat Nega, and all the rest dirties which I do not even want to write their names.
Let him first accept and confess to the crimes he was part of, and tell us in no uncertain terms what his role was, with out any reservation, then and then we might give him a chance to go to rehabilitation and after he is out of his rehab with success and after a careful investigation if he passes all the tests as an Ethiopian then he might be given a part for reconciliation. Until then, Siye’s followers and his cohorts, please we would be appreciating it if you do not underestimate our intelligence and also shut up you foul mouth.
Elias: The rantings of the likes of #110 is a diversionary tactic from the issue at hand i.e. Siye the criminal – Most Ethiopians have expressed a positive engagement with Eritrea and encouraged the opposition to work with Eritrea to destroy Woyane and the murderous Adwa thugs.
AFD, OLF, ONLF, CDU, and EPPF will grow stronger and wipe out Woyane and all chuvinists from our beloved Ethiopia and build a democratic republic of Ethiopia on their grave.
The Israeli Mossad hunted all Nazi operators from all over the world and brought them to justice. I wish Shabia, OLF, ONLF, CUD, EPPF and AFD do the same to criminals like those of SIYE and all other Woyane thugs running around.
As an Oromo and proud Ethiopian, I will neither forgive nor forget the blood shed and the injustice our people are subjected to by Siye and the rest of Woyane criminals!!!
Why bother listening to what he has to say now when his past criminal actions speak louder. As someone whose arrogance and pride has been badly wounded and is at odds with his former buddies and is aware that his crimes have not been forgotten, the only obvious choice for him is to deceptively sound apologetic and reconciler.
The guy is not less criminal than Meles. In fact given the opportunity, he could have been far more worse and butchered more innocent people.
The right course of action is to take him to a proper court of law and try him according to his wrongdoings to the state and people of Ethiopia rather than of the power struggle within the TPLF junta for which he was jailed.
It’s really shame to call Siye, one of the worst enemies of Ethiopia, a hero. He had tortured and killed hundred of thousands innocent Ethiopians when he was in power.He is a crimnal who should brought before court. Ethiopians in Diaspora should condemn him in public. Ethiopians are supposed to like what they did to Ato Addisu Legesse. Crimianls should not be a political leader. It’s another insulting to invite people for meeting. Shame on those who participate his meeting
I am sure most of us will remember when Negasso gidada asked (actually it is better if i say begged) for forgiveness of the oromo people in Minnesota, he accepted his share of responsibility of the governments action when he was president, saying that he could have done much better. we need to hear siye saying the same thing. otherwise he is just like the other butchers.
Please, Is there any who can suggest a mathematical illustration that would balance the costs of 70,000 innocent Ethiopians who lost their life triggered by one the most dictators like Mr. Sieye. How could Mr. Sieye is going to be given a second chance what so ever he has a good agenda after all? I don’t think there is a way to replace even one person’s
life with what ever you call it…”Seiye has brought a Unity Package Program”.
No one should be called a hero from these weyane clique and their running dogs. These idiots are murderers. Must pay time in jail for the rest of their life. Those 70,000 innocent young kids gave their life because of these arrogant criminals. The mothers of those who lost their beloved one’s are crying for justice.
I absolutely agree with Elias and thank u for reminding me great Job. I hope Siye can ask apology. He doesnot have any problem with that if ethiopians get satisfied with that. But I am really very much concerned about his political position. Where is he standing at this particular time? What is his position regarding individual right vs ethnic right which he has been promoting for his entire life. He did not tell us about his position. He simply came here to collect money.No more than that.
If we are going to receive Siye Abraha as a national hero,then there must be something wrong with us or we do not pay deep attention for what we are doing .We(the diaspora) are underquestion mark.
let us answer the follong question befor we run fast to take action.
-what is a national hero?who is/are bational hero/s we have to find out.
No doubt, Siye has inflicted a lot of damage to Ethiopia both directly and as an accomplice. Yes, he is responsible to lost lives of tens of thousands. I say, give the bastard a chance to talk and let us comfront him with the truth. Let us judge him by the content of his present words and his stance without forgetting his deeds in the past. This would give us a better picture than what we have of him as the then political elite. But, I have reservations regarding suggestions to rush him into parties like CUD.
To my fellow Ethiopians, Thanks to Elias for bringign the issue! Some might say Siye a woyane juntaa , others may call him a war criminal and still others call him a hero. As touched in the blogs, is he still a woyane advocate? Ethio-Ertiyan war criminal or the latest hero? As to me he is none of the above. Why? Because, when he was in the same ideology with the woyane he served the motto. So the people of Ethiopia didn’t worry about what he did while he is the woyane leader. The reason the Ethiopian people prefered to respect him was that at the crucial point of respecting the interests and benefits of Ethiopia during the Ethio-Eritryan war he stepped to stand for Ethiopia, while the other group with Meles wanted to take a measure hiddenly to harm the Ethiopian interest. This information I shared with U is the best information we have as the ‘KeAbbay Mado’ Ethiopians. As many commented Siye has the citizenship obligation to tell us the truth (on his political positions on the turmoil times and why Meles was so serious on him),so that we take the right position. Anyway; we have to listen to everyone who wants to talk to us even if we pay for it. I agree with many, Siye has to answer ,serious questions on how he sees his past, what his position is now and his future for Ethiopia. Blessed New Year for all Ethiopians and Africans!
ሰላም ውድ ኢትዮጵያውያን ወንድሞች እና እህቶች በእኔ ግምት እሰየ አብርሃ በመጀመርያ ከእራሳቸው ጋር መታረቅ ከሚሹ አንዳንድ የወቅቱ እና የወያኔ ፖለተከኞች አንዱ ሰው ይመስለኛል ::
አቶ እሰየ አብርሃ ብሔራዊ ጀግና የሚያስኝ ስራቸው ለኔ አይታየኝም ምናልባት ግን ጠባብ ብሔርተኛው ጀግና ግን ለመባል ግን የሚያበቃቸውን ስራ ፈጽመው ይሆናል:: ብሔራዊ (አገራዊ) ሕልም አሁንም የጎደላቸው ይመስለኛል ከብዙ መግለጫቸው እንደተረዳሁት ::ስለዚህ ወገኖቼ ለመጣው ሁሉ ለማጨብጨብ ባንቸኩል ጥሩ የመስለኛል ::
It is about time these ethno-fascists are held accountable made to pay for the wrongs they have done. Siye, as one of the leading ethno-fascists of Abay Tigray has overseen the the killings, torture and sufferings of millions of Ethiopians for sake of his own ethno-centric ideologue. His quarrel with his boss is not an excuse to dilute the hard fact- his hands are soaked with blood of millions.
This is not a rocket science. Siye was a wyane whose dream was to destroy Ethiopian Army and he did that even after he started to rule ethiopia: He disbaned the entire armed forces of Ethiopia after what was left of his killing drive into Addis.
I personally accomodate both pro and against opinions about Ato Seye. It is through this dialogue that we can come up with the truth.
However, you guys in America did not really understand what we (those in Ethiopia) are looking for. We need someone who can unite us and bring us peace, stability, good governance, and prosperity. We Ethiopians are known when it comes to forgiveness. And forgiveness is the best medicine for political healing. The bottom line is that as far as Ato Seye is able to bring those parameters that I explained earlier, I beleive most Ethiopians who live in Ethiopia will forgive him and are looking forward to working with him. To your surprize if Ato Meles reqeusts forgiveness for the mistake he had committed so far and hand over power to the public, most Ethiopians (including family members of those who lost their loved ones)are ready to forgive. This is the reality and the truth. And truth is the only path to follow. If we advocate hatered, we will not achieve anything. So, I believe that you have to listen to what Ato Seye is saying and what he wants to achieve and with whom he wants to achieve it before accusing him for what he has done in the past. He may tell the truth and request forgiveness which is most likely accommodated by most Ethiopians.
I read somone’s comment like “Let tigreans help him, let them attend his meeting”. It is very shameful to write like this. These kind of people are guided by emotions. Ato Melese or Ato Seye can not represent the majority of tigrean people who love their country and people, and who lost their life for Ethiopia. Please let us think before we speak.
Dear All,
Ato Elias Kifle has raised many interesting points regarding Seye Abraha. I am grateful for that. However, there is a missing link in Elias’ commentary:
1: Due process of Law
No matter what we make or think of a person’s politics and background, we should have the capacity to wish/accord a due process of law even for our tormentors.
Seye did not get one by Zenawi’s Kangaroo courts.
Injustice against Seye is the same as injustice against any and every Ethiopian. When Meles and co. go, our ability to replace their ethno-fascist dictatorship with a pluralist democratic system must be based on justice even for those we disapprove of. That is the only way we can establish a legal and legitimate system. Otherwise, we will continue to perpetuate barbarity as Meles and co. do right now!
Within this process lies the right to a freedom of expression that Seye is entitled to. Let’s go and ask and challenge him.
2: Freedom of expression and of availability for challenges
Since his release, Seye’s comments reflect of ‘a man who saw the wrong of his ways’? We have to ask him to elaborate on them and to say how the TPLF that he still commands a strong presence/respect in would move away from Zenawi’s singular campaign of destruction.
Therefore, although Seye is not a hero at all,nevertheless we will need to listen to what he has to say and to what he commits himself to do at the present! In that context, a platform for Seye to speak is the right thing to do!! I think nobody is under any illusions as to Seye Abraha’s infamous past records. Granting him a forum to express his reflections and intentions is simply a respect everyone is entitled to in a democratic society.
That was why I had forwarded the information regarding Seye’s schedule speech on the 5th January 2008. I hope someone attends and reports on the proceeding.
Dear Ato Elias,
I have a lot of respect for what you do so ably. However, your argument about Seye Abraha’s planned talk is not well-balanced.
A happy new year to al!
Regards
Biri