Statement from Tegbar.org
Lack of organization and the absence of competent and qualified political leaders who can organize and lead the struggle for freedom in Ethiopia have contributed to prolonging Woyanne’s rule. Today it is becoming more clear who is responsible for the multitude of political crises facing our country and who is capable of leading Ethiopians to freedom.
One of the main causes of lack of strong political organizations is the old-style politicians. These are individuals who like to be in the spotlights, who like to be seen on stages (usually embarrassing themselves), who claim to be highly educated, but in reality have the analytical skills and leadership abilities of a 1st grader. They even have shown themselves to be dumber than the Dedebit educated Woyannes.
The coward and reactionary wing of EPRPs, and the dumb and foolish remnants of the now defunct AEUP are good examples of old style politicians. These old clowns cannot and will not have a place in the future of Ethiopian politics. These individuals are stuck in the 1960-70s politics and now are rightfully called old-style politicians.
We Ethiopians should not let our hearts be troubled. We have a new generation of leadership that is replacing the failed and bankrupt old style organizations. EPPF, OLF, Genbot 7, ONLF and TPDM are emerging as potent forces that are capable of bringing change in Ethiopia.
When the world is against Ethiopia and supporting Woyanne, a new generation of leaders with clear goals and ideas are making Woyanne sleepless. Thanks to new strategies that are being deployed by these leaders, Woyanne, despite Western and Chinese backing, is today weaker than it has ever been.
Currently, Woyanne is fighting wars within Ethiopia from all corners. It is forced to go into Somalia to prove that it is a loyal servant of the U.S. It is giving away Ethiopian land just to stay in power. It is begging for mercy from Eritrea with its top officials openly saying that they will die for Eritrea before their own ‘beloved’ Tigray region.
In order to defeat the Woyanne regime and liberate our country, freedom fighters such as Ginbot 7, EPPF, OLF, TPDM, ONLF and others need to continue cleansing themselves from the old style politicians.
We at Tegbar for the first time in a long time are encouraged with the progress we are seeing in the fight for freedom in our country.
It is now clear who is who. Let us take a moment to reflect on the past and join the movement for freedom.
Out with the old and In with the New style of leadership
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13 thoughts on “New vs. old style of leadership in Ethiopian politics”
Wodefiit betegbar.
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Very interesting and an analysis that touched the core points of the past failed politics history in Ethiopia.
EPRP and AEUP are good examples of failed politicians as mentioned above.
For EPRP, nothing is more evident than the separation of ERRP -D and Reactionary-EPRP. They are all faailed politicans.
If you see AEUP and reactionary EPRP, they don’t have internal democracy at all, for this mantioning their the unchanged or life time long leaders of each parties is enough.
How on Earth, a party that lacks internal party democracy able bring Democracy for the more than 80 million people of Ethiopia?
I am really touched with the reality of the above article.
God Bless you Guys.
Mr. Elias
Can you explain to me and millions of Ethiopians about The OLF and ONLF. We are confused about their standings. Are they supporting 1 Ethiopia or do they want to break Oromia and Ogaden from Ethiopia. Please let us know! We are very confused on there standing. Thank you for dedication for ethiopianreview.
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As far as I know, they stand for a democratic Ethiopia – Elias
I am an ultranationalist. But I don’t fear ONLF or OLF. Ethiopia will survive only if we recognize the rights of all her peoples. OLF and ONLF are the byproducts of years of abuse of our people by successive governments. Still today our somali brothers and sisters are being raped and lynched, yet we talk about is if ONLF is going to break away our territory. Our territory will breakaway if we fail to stop the murder, rape, lynching of our peoples. Guess whatm woyane is giving away our land anyway. So, blaming OLF or ONLF about their ambitions of breaking away our territories at this point is simly invalid. Our land is up for grabs right now.
I am really confused of your role and what you are trying to say. your statement is mixed and looks like you are attacking EPRP and AEUP. I respect both parties because of their dedication to their aims in as much as I respect OLF and ONLF. I don’t think that people in both parties are old sytlish at all as you have said, the parties have strong supporters. Besides you shouldn’t forget that OLF and ONLF and their leaders and memebers are also as old as EPRP if not the 17 year old AEUP. As for OLF, ONLF one can see from their website that they have clear goals and ideas of establishing independet state, may be you are right when you say they have clear goals and ideas. I would be very much happy if they stand in unison for a Strong, better and prosperous Ethiopia to make famine and starvation history.
THE DAY LIGHT TRUTH. An old fashioned politicians like eyassu’s EPRP and all the dergists like hailu shawul, shaleqa admasse, shaleqa getachew mengiste, Abayihen Birhanu, And other derg’s loyalists are directly responsible for the crsis in kinijit.How could we believe EPRP under the leadership of eyassu, who is totaly against ethiopia’s interst from the beginning untill now. If we want to topple weyanes and their hidden cooperators like hailu shawul, standless and shameless taye and taye’s boss eyassu should be banned from ethiopia’s politics and other newly formed organizations like ginbot7 ,EPPF, OLF , ONLF and TPDM should create a speedy united force under an ethiopia’s unity. I hope that will happen sooner or later. The formation of such united force will be weyanes end.
Elias Kifile, Ante mafferia, Satiwoled Wuha huneh Bitiker Tirue Nuber. By the way, who do you think you are? You are everything but genuine Ethiopian.
Mafferia!
The people of Ethiopia should be grateful for Elias, people like him are the only ones who are true Ethiopian patriots, they understand the current history of failures in the governance of Ethiopia and are not blinded by hatred of others or chauvinism. Stay on couse Elias, you will enventually enlighten the majority of Ethiopians to stand for justice and true peace.
The majority of Ethiopians have no stake in division, chauvinism or false patriotism of people who are hardly affected by the successive dictators that Ethiopia has been ruled by in recent decades. It is high time that courageous individuals like Elias get their due place in Ethiopian political discourse and start replacing the bankrupt political views of the recent past in Ethiopia. The opponents of individuals like Elias are fighting hard because his views threaten their hold on political power, a political power that ran its course and failed miserably.
This reminds me of the early 1970s when a few freedom fighters started the then EPLF with few courageous individuals with a vision and truth on their side, against all odds, hunted from every corner and demonized by their opponents, they stood by their principles and in the end won the hearts and minds of the Eritrean people and won. Elias and people who support him will be questioned, demonized and even hunted because of their views, in the end truth wins and their ideas will win the hearts and minds of the Ethiopian people. It is not easy to take a strong and principled stand that Elias is taking and I applaud his courage and vision.
Dogs are barking when Camels are walking.Elias let Godu bark when the rest of us are walking.No body can stop the will of the people freedom comes BEHTEGBAR.
“out with the old and in with the new” ? And by the way you forgot to mention, let’s do it the old fashioned way. Join the fight and contribute financial support for jungle warfare. A jungle warfare that will bring in the new style of leadership and oust the old and dedebit leadership.
How do you make sense to yourself ? You sure are in lack of a critical understanding. However, confidence you do have. I think you need to disect the truth of the matter, if you seek to witness a final one Ethiopia.
I think your outlook supports the negative pictures Al-Jazeera co-piloting EriTv portray. Blaming the birth of retarded children in Ogaden on Woyane. Blaming the loss of their armed struggle on Woyane. Blaming all things on Woyane. Than you go on and say that the Woyane leadership is weak and however it can afford to go a distant and overthrow a weak system of Islamic rulers.
I think you need to think out your final conclusion on Ethiopian politics, today. Otherwise, congratulations on your success in America.
CONTROL YOUR BEHAVIOR AND YOUR WORDS, there are many scholars and respectful Ethiopians I have heard you demonize. I do not know them in general but knowing you urge me to say stay out of my country’s affairs. I do assure you that you are nowhere near a man of analytical talent let alone judge others intellect.
I am sure you do not know that you are exclusively using your so-called free website to say anything you and your cronies want to toss nonsenses but deny others like certain persons in certain power.
I am of the opinion that any fight in any form does help to strengthen and amalgamated forces of democracy and freedom in Ethiopian Empire. I would like to say that it would be great if we do not categorize people and organizations by style or ages. When you say old how older is the old style and how young is the younger style? Shall I say it would be better to see things in continuum than tidy bits of time. If I were you I would stress on the mistakes that were made in the past few decades to gain a true democracy in Ethiopia rather than the current style. I would also appreciate the people who had done so much for the country to bring it to such great hope for new future and hope. I have personally seen Birtukan Medaksa as great Oromo patriot with a new face who stood up for democracy and equality of all nation. Hers is a story of ground breaking gallantry in the history of Oromo women that had rocketed to spot light of national and international media. I wood admire Daratu Tulu of Ormia but I would admire more and adore Burtukan Medaksa for great marathons of modern politics from small section of Kabana village in north East Addis Ababa. She is young and well versed legalist may be her leadership gives the movement more endurances
To champion victory for democracy for Oromo people and the Empire.
I want to strongly stress that the struggle against the old system was led by what you may be terming the old style. And they have preserved and continued the banners of freedom and democracy with their blood and lives to let the country and the people reach where we are to day in difficult journey of our struggle to gain a true democratic and equitable society for our people at any comer of our country for men, women, nations and nationalities. The goals that were set in long time ago have not been reached we need to put great efforts and struggle to maximize our future political results. I would even opt to say that we have to appreciate what the people of Tigray contributed in advancing the struggle of the people of the Ethiopian Empire if we are genuinely truthful to own selves. I am not appreciating a Tigrayan or an Oromo dictator but I would like to note for me that I said people of any nation in the country had done so much to create the current political atmosphere in the county.
The struggle against Megistu’s government was a protracted one and every body fought to bring in the down fall of a dictator. Some fought him silently some fought him personally and led him to his down fall.
It is unfortunate that victory always suffers when it falls on the laps of wrong leaders and organizations. We all fought unreservedly but the glory went to individuals in the Horn of Africa. The people and armies who made their ascent to the new thrones were discredited and thrown out to backgrounds That should have not happened, they chose to neglect their promise and promise to the people of Horn Of Africa. They fought a dictator to become a dictator. That we must oppose very strongly. Even the old people who were fighting Italian invasion of 1939 were fighting the government of Mengistu along side the new generation of the left and democratic forces. They all made great contribution as much as they were old or new during that time. Towards the end of the life of Mengistu’s régime people of all walks participated in kicking his government leaking to the death of the horrible era of one man dictatorship. In deed it was historic but who gave credit a militia man who fought his way from Eritrea and Tigrayan highlands all the way across the vast lands bounded by Takeze and Abay rivers. They were standing for Mengistu but when they understood that their leader was an evil man they agreed to give their lives and services to the well being of the fellow country farmers and their families. Some were martyred some went all the way to the center of Addis Ababa to victorious occasions. But they never ripped the benefit of victory they were let go and never recovered from misery of mind and spirit. Ask who is a poor man today; it is the Mengistu militia men who fought for the victory of the TPLF. They are the waifs of their old home towns or criminals running around major Ethiopian cities pick pocketing or living of ransom from their fellow citizens. They know how to work the modern machine guns and ammunitions; they are feared and respected by country peasants.
I am saying about those individuals because they were not sure about what styles to follow but tell them and make them understand about justice, freedom and equalities they will follow you. TPLF won the battles and wars of mind then and even won the fiercest enemies towards sides. Should we do that than bearing on old and new styles. By the way if you read the American colonial war history or hear anything about it; there were those learned people who wrote and declared the independence of America from British colonialism; if I am not mistaken besides scientists, engineers and inventors like Benjamin Franklin, there were more than twenty legalists who really understood the nature of the British colonialism and they put their legalist minds together and fought for independence of America. Wise and old men during national struggle do not hurt a movement they rather infuse it with wisdom and vision. Their wisdom lasted very long and the day before yesterday the cities and villages of America lauded their thank you on July 4th.
I am not sure if you are equating styles with strategies. Strategies always change and styles if you mean tactics have more fluidity than strategies.