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Poll: Why is Woyanne still in power?

Posted on , Updated on by Elias Kifle

Woyanne is perhaps the most hated regime in the history of Ethiopia. In May 2005, the people of Ethiopia made it clear that they don’t want Woyanne to govern the country. Meles Zenawi & Co. responded by brutally attacking the opposition parties and their supporters. Two years later, this much hated group is still in power and continues to cause death and destruction upon the people of Ethiopia and neighboring countries. ER would like to ask the following:

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67 thoughts on “Poll: Why is Woyanne still in power?”

  1. I agree with #47 EthioRific
    All of you are wrong. The reason is because there is no strong armed movement to pressure meles to sit down and consider a peaceful movement.

    Lets fight woyane man to man

  2. You know what is the problem in our country?The problem is that the weyane junta has succeded some how to manipulate and cheat the International community while bringing our country to Brinkmanship.they use phrase” we are not perfect but we are introdusing elction”,”It is going to take us sometime”,”Rome was not built in one day”,we have leaders from other Ethnoc groups too,like deputy prime minister Addisu(while infact he has no power).they lure the international community and get away with it.they are good in cheating.So the money keep coming.They are snakes.

  3. Meles zenawi “the bucther of Addis” will face justice for the crimes he committed like his uncle saddam hussien in the near future.
    We can witness from history and nobody lives forever in our planet and zenawi “the butcher of addis”also not going to live forever. Therefore his crimes will be displayed when his body george bush leaves office.
    Death to the tryannt.

  4. The gangster regime of Meles Zenawi wouldn’t be able to survive one single month without the massive US support. You can’t help but noticing that the only one that wants to see the Weyane in power in Ethiopia today is the CIA, and the Americans will not stop at anything to get what they want, that is, a slave regime that does their bidding. I believe the Ethiopian freedom fighters are doing quite well considering that they’re fighting against the powerful CIA. Forget about the Weyane – the regime has been dead since 2000 when the TPLF Army’s most experienced soldiers perished in Eritrea . Today the Ethiopian freedom fighters are fighting against TPLF troops financed, trained and armed by the CIA (You could actually say they’re fighting against the US Army), and that’s not an easy task.

  5. ethiopia is better of with tplf than any opposition because they care about ethiopia since they came to power the change the life many ethiopians specially those who live in countryside in education,health and economy. tell me one thing what the opposition did to ethiopia actually nothing but a problem. have u guys see the farmers life now compare with derg and haileslase? so please think deep, it is easy to talk the talk but hard to walk the walk. so think for one ethiopia forget power now just build school and hospital then time change every thing.

  6. It seems to me that many of the comments about this poll show the cause of the strength of Woyanie is its foreign allies. This is a way of expression that Woyanie, by itself, is not that strong but its allies made it stronger. As to me, it doesn’t matter where its strength is coming from; it can still be stronger than the opposition with respect to the coercive machinery it controls unilaterally. To erode Woyanie’s strength, there is no question the country needs stronger organizations that can change the power equation. Surely, Woyanie doesn’t have strength in gaining the hearts and minds of the Ethiopian people. Don’t forget that it has a coercive machinery that doesn’t hesitate to kill even though the decision to kill might be unconstitutional. We don’t need to deny the fact that until such a time comes where the oppositions become stronger than Woyanie, the ruling class remains stronger, of course, relatively, and for the time being. In my last sentence, sorry for asserting that there are no stronger opposition parties currently; there is a possibility that there may not be alternative political parties that are principled, courageous, self confident, and willing to endure in order to fulfill the aspirations of the Ethiopian people. If you disagree with me, I understand, and there won’t be any problem. If I see much stronger and coherent opposition political parties any time soon, I would be very much delighted.

  7. My dear!!
    You are totally wrong for giving us those options none fit for the why woyanne is still in power! They are in powere 1.They were able to divide the people 2. They have controlled the millitary as thier own property to haras and opress the people 3.they have controlled all the economoc opportunity for thier ethnic groups with out any “YIUNGNTA”. Yetgre shimagle yelewum!!! 4.The press is under them to propagtae thier lies to wash the strugglle of oposition and the like. therfore none of the options justify the hanging of Woyyane in power.

  8. the opposition party is too dishonest. what i mean by that is TPLF’s power lies not in military, or western support but the so called opposition party is not fully addressing the Ethiopia’s problem . the opposition party is still based on ethnicity dominated by Ahmars. while i had great hope when Kinjit started they went to ethiopia without the support of the majority Ethiopians (Oromos and southern people). although they did talk but they did not take any genuine step to understand the ethiopian people need, until we do TPLF will stay in power. Honesty and truebelieve in democracy is needed.

  9. The Weyanie have a military and political organization that the otherss cannot match.
    – It controls Ethiopia’s resources and uses it to crush any opposition that emerges.
    – It uses puppet regimes to control the various “ethnic” groups.
    – There is no national-level power that is organized enough to challenge it, for the time being. The Amhara have been in power for so long that they don’t know how to fight and get it back when they lose it. Besides, their exposure is limited to running the government and not how to conduct an insurrection and overthrow a working government. The Derg’s “creeping coup” and the numerous failed coupt’detat attempts are proof of Ethioia’s weakness in overthrowing an established order. Aba Wiqaw’s theatrical and Quixotic attempt to seize power without proper preparation and the stomach to take it to its end is on constant re-run.
    – The Oromos will take time to develop the organization and drive that the job demands.
    – The Weyanie have used their unscrupulous methods to dupe ignorat people like Jendayi and have the U.S. on their side for the time being.
    – Watch the Weyanie debacle in Somalia and Ogaden. Beware of the East! Change is going to come with the rising sun. But the conflagration can be too devastating and may consume Ethiopia.
    – The Weyanie, having amassed huge wealth and gold reserves, control of Tigrayanized air force, most military hardware in Tigray, access to Djibout and Port Sudan, will declare independence and leave the rest of Ethiopia too weak to stop them from achieving their goal.

    This is what is going on.

    Don’t blame the Ethiopian people. The situation is beyond their power, at least for the time being. They need to be mobilized. Kinjit was effervescent, and non-existent organization. It was the will of the people that swept the elections.

    There are two possibilities:
    – Elections – similar to what happened in Pakistan and to some extent is happening in Zimbabwe.
    – Mutiny by the military – in one day, the Weyanie will leave the country, faster than Mengistu. EPRP did a credible agitprop work on the Derg militias in the 70s. Sometimes, it is not bad to repeat history – the successful part. Penetrate the military …. In the meantime, the people should get organized… EPRP did it during the most horrendous Derg era.

  10. I voted “none of above” too.Meles himself had said again and again that he came on power by fighting 30 years if not longer.Meles’s where he’s b/c he worked hard to be where he’s today.For those of that said Meles is finced by CIA bal bal bal….hey YOU tell me how in the world CIA can control any human beings 24/7 at anytime? What I am trying to say is if you are a man and have what it takes to go out shoot out with TPLF and take out Meles nobody can stop you.Are you in jail today? No.Are you being control right now? No.You’r a free man.You can catch the next fight back home today nobody is stoping you.Yes nobody not Meles,TPLF,or CIA.

  12. ja: What is wrong with you? when did the opposition take power to talk about what they did? But their programs, strategies and principles were accepted by most of the citizens. Any tyranny even Fascist regime constructs roads, bridges,etc. But the people is still in much more poverity and above all in need of democracy and justice.

  14. What you have to think first is that how did woyane defeat Derge?Read the history of woyane.

    Don’t forget the 17 year bitter struggle….You need to be courageous,committed,patience.

    It is not a kind of A,B,C,D……..’LIB YIFELEGAL’ there is no CHOMA,KITFO,’SET’ to undertake armed struggle like woyane

  15. I agree with those who says the TPLF regime is able to stay in power only because the USA is supporting the regime. I doubt the TPLF regime would be able to remain in power in Ethiopia without U.S. support, let alone wage costly wars against its neighbours. The USA is the root cause of all problems in the Horn of Africa. Thanks.

  16. you are right ABE

    What you have to think first is that how did woyane defeat Derge?Read the history of woyane.

    Don’t forget the 17 year bitter struggle….You need to be courageous,committed,patience.

    It is not a kind of A,B,C,D……..’LIB YIFELEGAL’ there is no CHOMA,KITFO,’SET’ to undertake armed struggle like woyane

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