The exiled Holy Synod of Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOTC) has issued a strongly worded statement denouncing the May 23, 2010, elections in Ethiopia as fraudulent. The Holy Synod’s statement also called on the people of Ethiopia to reject the ruling Woyanne whom it called a terrorist junta. Click here to read the full text.
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it is good statement nothing to add.The ETHIOPIAN muslims should issue the same.Unity one ETHIOPIA should come first.
Proud to be Orthodox!!!!May God help Ethiopia!
Abba Melkesedek, Priest of God and Archbishop of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church, has recently sent, in the name of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church Holy Synod, a strong message to the election-cheater, tribal leader, money swindler, war monger, and chat chewer Meles Seitanawi (Zenawi).
In his well-crafted, logically constructed, and meticulously prepared Christian message, Abba Melkesedek, my old beloved director, counselor, instructor, and mentor for many years, depicts Ethiopia’s past horror history during the times of Gudit Judith, Gragn Muhammad, Mahdist, Dervish, and Fascist Italy, and compares it with today’s Ethiopia’s history: He firmly believes today’s Ethiopia’s history under Meles Seitanawi is by far the worst one in all the histories of Gudit Judith, Gragn Muhammad, Mahdist, Dervish, and Fascist Italy combined together. Is he kidding? Not at all! I completely agree with his understanding of the big problems the Ethiopian people are facing today; it is one of the worst problems they have never faced before.
In the old days, when the Ethiopians were faced with an enemy, such as Gudit Judith, Gragn Muhammad, Mussolini, they marched together, united as one country, and defeated all of their enemies. Today, however, Ethiopia is divided into Amhara Kilil, Tigre Kilil, Oromo Kilil, and many other Kilils, and the person who divided the country this way for his own political purpose is Meles Seitanawi. He has even divided the Church as the Amhara Church and the Tigray Church; he has sent the Amhara Church into exile, and the Tigray Church under the notorious Patriarch, Abba Paulos is enjoying life in Ethiopia by selling the artifacts of the Amhara Church and disparaging its priests, deacons, debteras, and all its laities.
When I hear and read about the daily sufferings of the Ethiopian people, I feel sorry for them: the wealth of the country is in the hands of the few; Ethiopian girls are dying every day in the Arab-Muslim countries; Ethiopian orphan children are being sold to foreign human traffickers, and most of the Ethiopian properties have been looted for many years, and the looting will continue for another five years. I was hoping the May 23, 2010 Election would bring them some kind of relief at least for few years, but, instead, it shattered their hearts, broke their bones, and sent them home sulky or gloomy.
Yes, Abba Melkesedek is absolutely right that the Woyanne leadership has put on Ethiopian history unforgettable and an incurable wound or stigma that cannot be easily cured or erased from the Ethiopian chronicles. Can we add such ignominious and corrupt history of the Woyanne government into our glorious past history? Can we just fold it in a paper, burn it, and then scatter its ashes into the Tekezie River? Can we deny it such history of infamy never happened in Ethiopia? A good mother will never abandon her deformed baby but accepts the deformed baby as her own baby. In the same way, we have to accept our deformed history, because it is our own history; it just happened to us because we were born at the wrong time to face such a monstrous leader – Meles Seitanawi.
Abba Melkesedek’s letter vividly exposes Woyanne to the world as a lawless government – a government that harasses, persecutes, and sends to jail his own citizens without any criminal charges. The letter denounces one of the evil schemes the Woyanne government has been using before and during the election time: “ሕይወትህን ወይም ፊርማህን” (Your life or your signature?) It was this kind of threat that gave Woyanne 99.6% of the electoral votes. The Ethiopian people were threatened to sign and carry the membership card and vote for the ruling party; if not, they will lose the donation food, the electric city, the water, their driving licenses, their jobs, their properties, and even their precious lives.
After examining very carefully all the crimes the Woyanne ruling leaders have perpetrated for almost twenty years and especially for the election fraud they have openly brought to the international communities and particularly to the people who love Ethiopia dearly and want the country to be free from such cruel, evil, and oppressive government, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church Holy Synod in exile here by anathematizes all the Woyanne bad actors who have been involved in an unjustified theft, deception, persecution, imprisonment, and murder in the affairs of the Ethiopian people who had been living before peacefully without fear, intimidation, and beating in their own country where their ancestors shed their blood to protect this beautiful country from foreign Muslim invaders.
Thus, Abba Melkesedek, fluent in Greek language, Geez language, Amharic language, and to some extent in English language, concludes his letter, asking the Ethiopian people to be firm in their faith in God, their creator, to believe in him with all their hearts and souls to the end, and to put their hopes on him because God is the only one who can take them out of the Woyanne decadent leaders.
Can the other denominations such as the Ethiopian Catholic Church, the Ethiopian Lutheran Church, the Ethiopian Evangelical Church, the Ethiopian Adventist Church, the Ethiopian Jewish people, and the Ethiopian Muslim communities send similar message to the Woyanne government? It is not enough to say “I am an Ethiopian Muslim; the majority of the Ethiopian people is Muslim.” Whether you are an Ethiopian Muslim or Catholic or protestant, put your action in practice as the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church in exile did. Then you can benefit the many advantages that will come when the sun shines in Ethiopia