EPRP web sites have reported today that the discredited former chairman of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (Kinijit), Ato Hailu Shawel, held a meeting with Addis Ababa’s youth and women. It is reported that some 200 people attended the meeting on Sunday, June 15.
Where are the youth? Where are the women?
As the photo below shows, there were only one person under 60 years old and only three women in the meeting. [Photo is provided by mahder.com, an EPRP web site.]
More revealing as to how much of a joke Ato Hailu made out of himself is that while Woyanne police was dispersing UDJ meeting a short distance away on the same weekend, no body bothered to even notice that he was holding a public meeting. It is too obvious now that even the paranoid Woyanne is not taking Hailu Shawel seriously any more.
Meanwhile, some of those who are partly responsible for Ato Hailu’s downfall, including Ato Moges Brook of Los Angeles, have now turned their back on him. They find him useless, too, after he aligned himself with the EPRP reactionaries. The web site that was hijacked by Ato Moges, Kinijit.org, has stopped reporting any thing about him for several weeks. Currently, Hailu Shawel relies on trashy web sites that are run by retired communists (EPRP) to get his message out. Even among those repeat losers, many are abandoning him after observing that he has no more use to them.
The rise and sudden fall of Hailu Shawel must be carefully studied by all Ethiopian political leaders, so that they do not repeat the same mistake. It is a self-caused down-fall by a person whom we all once held in high esteem.
27 thoughts on “Hailu Shawel held meeting with women, youth in Addis”
Thanks eliase! Keep exposing those feaudals
what can I say, it reminds of of what Mr. Hall said in 1933 about a dominican dictator, “he may be a son of a bitch but he is our son of a bitch.” We should respect his old age any ways.
Why are we Ethiopians’ hate and love to extreme? I don’t agree with the path Eng. Hailu followed and continued to follow. But I don’t have the courage to insult a guy who had spent nearly two years in prison for what ever he bleive in. It is not a good way of jounalism. Don’t disrespect this website, which we all like, by being disrespectful.
Hailu Shawel became insignificant in Ethio politics. That’s why woyane is ignoring him. He is out of synch. He shouldn’t be covered by any media, including yours, Elias. Everybody should ignore him, IMO.
Ehapa morons provide photo that exposes Shawel qqqqqqqq this is hilarious. The old man made a mistake of a lifetime when he befriended those nitwits.
I’M NOT ALIGNING MYSELF WITH THE LOSER BUT THE MATTER OF THE FACT IS THAT THERE WERE FOUR WOMEN, NOT THREE, ATO ELIAS.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, ATO ELIAS.
i have forgoten Hailu shawl for long time now . i dont even
see him in my dream like i used to do when he was in prison
i disagree with elias that you should aim your gun on woyanne not hailu shawal,we reall don’t know what happened with oppostion leader these days,at least he is trying to get kinjet name back rather than rushing to form a new party.
hailu is a true ethiopia love and we always remeber him for life.he doesn’t need ur media or others cover.ethiopia loves hime….no more agobgacheeeeeeeeeeee
One thing Hailu shawel cant learn is that he still talking about the situations before six and several months ago while the Ethiopian people problem is escalating everyday and needs a prompt response from everyone. Hailu is just wasting time and money for nothing, I guarantee you no one would listen hailu’s old song while everyone in Ethiopia needs ultimate and quick solutions for the problem that they have now. Guess what? Hailu had given an interview on a so called press conference ( WEGU AYKIREBEGNE) and he didn’t even mention a word how to over come weyane, but he insults many of strong kinijit and ex-kinijit leaders. Weyane would love to provide anything for hailu to participate as an opposition. By the way hailu is a much outfitted person for weyane, because weyane wants oppositions that has no support from the public. So hailu is the one who is totally fulfilled weyane’s requirements to proceed his dancing in the name of oppostions. I heared that leditu says welcome to the club Hailu shawel. Now the thing that hailu shawel needs to understand is that what ever way he wants to struggle fro the Ethiopian people, the main thing he should mention is how to overcome the tplf mafia group, instead he still songs and dances with the music that was written and given by the so called hopeless EPRP members that are only attacking individuals by sitting on their chair for over 35 years. By the way I know the credit of EPRP previous members that I hared but does anyone knows EPRP as a party in Ethiopia.? I don’t think so. Anyway I have never seen a person who had been lost many times but still wants to gain poor popularity like moron hailu shawel and his denkoro advisor taye weyldesemayat. By the way Elias the so called EPRP controlled kinijit.org website has not been updated since May 5, 2008. so god knows when these website will be updated with a banch of articles that are full of character assassination of best opposition figures, as it’s team members debeteraw, ethiolion, mahder do. Shame on you hailu shawel and your supporting websites debeteraw, ethiolion, maheder.
Hailu shawel, a man who have been marked by his fudalistic stance and arrogance hurt our greater involvement in the democratic process going on, and he is one of these guys who do not wish to let the young ones take the leading role, he also feels too nepotist who doesn’t need any one outside of his circle; do not forget what he did for the formidable Lidetu Ayalew.
Hailu in every possible way failed and he is out of the center of the modern politics going on in Ethiopia.
It is much better for him to stay away from the political movement.
Engineer Hailu Shawul is with the people. Do you want to fight against our nation like TPLF? Try it!!
ER:
Even though I believe he should retire from politics, he has a damen right to hold a meeting with any group…..
Didn’t we all say democracy matters? If yes, why we are still obsessed with Zero-sum game….
ER liberate yourself…from old style politics…..
I hope you heard or felt the WIND OF CHANGE…..
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I agree with Gulit.
Whether you agree or disagree with Hailu, address him with respect. The man has far more experience about Ethiopian politics than you, Elias. What is more, he ones earned a universal respect for his stand against the dictator. No one is perfect, neither you Elias. I wish you knew how Generally you are mocked and dissmissed by many Ethiopians.
Please restrain yourself.
May be they mean youth relatively to Hailu’s age. lol
ER,
Get a life! Keep reporting on the hopeless UDJ going no where but to the den of TPLF. And keep reporting on General Andy & Nega.
Leave Hailu Shawel alone. In 3 months from now both the UDJ and G7 will be history. We will re-group and defeat the Woyannie while you are eating each other. We have been there before.
Thanks Eliase.expose those nonusefulleyassu and taye group.now we accept D_EPRP.Eyassu is aperson.alreadyhe isn’t a true EPRP member.we support D-EPRP.
Hi ER,
Sorry to read your post today, kind of child game. I believe you don’t want to lose your credit as a good, reliable informer.
You insulted us, the readers of your website by
1. Insulting Eng. Hailu just 2 years ago a leader of the undevided CUD but now still leader of one of the devided CUD for a reason that we don’t know. I suggest you give credit to age and what they did and what they are doing now.
2. You showed us a photo, tell us all except 1 are above the age of 50. Do you have a problem with age? Can you tell us the ages of people in UDJ and G-7? are you undermining us?
3. Only 3 women? again you are insulting us(visitors of your site)
I guess your site is meant to be informative,correct and unbiased. More over I want to see website full of Ethiopian Culture SPECIALLY RESPECT TO ELDERS FOR WE HAVE A LOT TO LEARN FROM THEM. This is not what I am observing from ER recently, it is rather out of the Ethiopian Culture and some times shocking word from the Editor.
I would also suggest that you post a note that Ethiopian visitor might find unsutible content like insulting and others should you wish to continue like this. Otherwise you keep well tuned to our culture and social values even in politics. There are other websites I visited but makes me sick because they even insult based on their ehnic background hope they are not Ethiopians, these are anti-ethiopians with their own agendas of making the people divide using what ever means. Lets fight with ideas regardless of our background of what ever.
IF WE REALLY CARE FOR ETHIOPIA, WE ALSO CARE THE VALUES WE HAVE NOT ONLY FOR OUR TERITORIAL INTEGRETY,REEDOM AND DEMOCRACY.
Ato Hailu Shawl has a resemblance to Robert Mugabe who wants to cling to power from cradle to grave.It looks these old guys don’t hand over power to the younger generation.But alas,their days are over.Hailu has been taken over for good by the beloved, foresighted and modern leader, Dr Berhanu Nega.It is pure lamentation now being made by Ato Hailu and his few supportets.Let’s solidify our support to Ginbot7,the popular Movement for Justice, Freedom and Democracy.The others are detracors!
Forget about the news from Mahder and Ethio lion websites as they are always full of lies. And the web site is also working only and only against Dr Brihanu Nega.
Fukk ethiopian review, why you always write bad about Hailu? He is trying to beat woyanne with what he thinks is right…. he may be wrong or maybe right but he got the determination to do it. You gotta give him props for that.
The Point Elias wanted te address, if I am not mistaken was this:
Is this a real meeting or just a Propaganda style photo oops made by some Old timer EPRPs?
The Photos and the Title of the meeting, IE, Youth and Women, do not jibe. That is a FACT. Elias pointed that FACT. Therefore the onus should be on the meeting organizers and some web sites to explain these inaccuracies. They could truthfully could have titled it: Hailu Shawel having a meeting and it would have been accurate.
But their aim was to show Hailu Shawel as an invigorated fighter addressing the Young Anbesoch.kkk It did not work for the propagandist.
Another show of deceit by the web site Mahder is this: The best journalists or PR people show the Meeting Speaker and the attendees in one photo montage. Here we see Hailu Shawel holding a Microphone, but addressing who? It is not shown. The next three photos show the crowd, which is neither young and women. As far as anyone knows it could be a crowd of people gathered to hear the Kebelle chief. There is no one photo that joins the Speaker and the crowd. Lousy job by Hailu Shawel PR people and Mahder.com.
That is the essential problem of Hailu Shawel. He is surrounded by incompetent people, and he will be part of Ethiopian history as someone who has sunk so low , so fast.
Elias mentioned Eng Brook and http://www.kinijit.org. Yes. That site has stopped reporting on May 5, 2008. http://www.andenet.com, run by the same people and an old AEUP site has already closed shop. The list of people who have abandoned Hailu Shawel is long:
Ato Solomon Bekele, Dr Almaz, Dr Seyom, Shaleqa Yosef Gizachew, Dr Getachew Haile, all the DC AEUP crowd and more. Oh, where is Miss Negest Honda anyone? Well, she is happily waiting for her Asylum case.kkkk Bedru Adem ofcourse is in Addis dissing Hailu Shawel to anyone who could listen.
What a sad case, this Hailu Shawel !!
ER, Elias, I believe you are smart than I think. You could write better than trashing Hailu Shawel who has been tested by the Durg machine and Woyanie Prison. At least he has not run away to collect treasure in the name of Ethiopian people. He went back to fight and stay put in the same KiniJit you and I were supporting. What to Kinijit you love. You must be traitor. I think and I understand the Ethiopian people respect Hailu. EPRP have done a lot and many have sacriced their life. Age is wisdom, especially in politics. See John McCaine, he is 71 and running for the highest office in the land of Freedom. Learn something from this. No body curse him for his age, of course, I am a Demo and I make sure he loose. You, Elias and your FaFa Generation group, amazes me all the time. Do’t say anything good about old Ethiopians and do not have the culture or the wisdom of Old Ethiopians. Your Oldies are the ones who kept Your Ethiopia and Mine intact in one peice and freedom and left Her for us. Remember that. Say good things about people wheher they are bad or good, young and old. If they did wrong, history will judge them, their deeds and action will expose them in due time. Like many commentators have said please have respect for eledrs. Do not compare Hailu with Mugabie, He is to old. Once you become 75-80, get out of politics.
By the way we live in a capitalistic society, who endelges in Tabloyed entertaiment, and you are smart, you reaping the benefit of that kind of controversey. You are right my brother, if you do not write “frie kersiki” who could have read ER. Keep-up informing and feeding us these filsey alubalta and frenzy attacks. Thanks.
Now things are clear that hailu and melese are working hand in hand not only their desructive politics ,but also their business. Do we have any wittness that all those who participated in the meeting are arrogant and power monger hailu’s supporters? I am sure melese collected all these people from the street and asked them to join his close friend’s meeting.the former derg’s minister hailu shawul has clearly shown that he is not capable of giving the right leadership. Melese knows very well hailu shawul is the weakest link and 80% sense organs are out of function. he is almost dead. what is very intersting for me, hailu has losat all his long time friends in diaspora like moges brook, yosef yazew, solomon bekele and others, and join EPRP’S CAMP which wa totally againsy AAPO and later Another his close friend shaneless and hodam taye has got married to his former girl friend [ nigist honda]. they have already started to live together. tnx to kinijit’s money those alubaletgnas are njoying them selves
I agree with GULIT comment.I think Eng. Hailu is a true Ethiopian of his generation. I also beleive he disrespect his friends by being a little bit dictator.
However,I don’t trust this website. This website used the word “Donkoro” to Dr.Taye and others. I am not a fan of this man, but, you as a ‘Journalist’ used this word make me irritating.
Zobel
I am sure this is not real picture of Hailu meeting.Those people on the picture are resident of one woreda residents. I am quit sure this picture taken from Kebele meeting and posted fackely on EPRP web site.
SURPRISE… UDJ has got a permission to hold a meeting in Addis. Hey, wait a moment is that because now they become friendly with EFDRE or because they are found ye woyanne buchla; non of’m wright! Ha Ha Ha…
Shame on you Mr. Commentators on Engineer Hailu Shawul’meeting.
I wonder where we got this belief that a single person can or cann’t be the saviour.We are seeing individuals that try to change Ethiopia whether in politics , business even farming being blamed for our misery.I think this is the false teaching of Haileselassie saying O I Am the one and the only.What we have to realize in this scary time is I have to be carefull of my every move so I ensure fairness and justice to the whole.So many of us have been and still are unknowingly cuting our own throats by acting without thinking twice.I say let’s think 10 times before we act.Not thrust anybody.I expect everybody whether kids , females , elderly to be conscious and not fall for Woyane’s devilish traps. Then and only then we may see a bright tommorow.