By Abdisa Salvatore
I understand some of you might get confused with my name; I am an Ethiopian from Italian father and an Ethiopian mother.
I grew up and completed my high school education in Dessie and later at Menilik II comprehensive high school in Addis Ababa, before I left for Italy to complete my higher education. I speak a somewhat good Amharic and these few years I went to Ethiopia twice in the hope of returning something back to the country which gave me a lot. I traveled for the millennium celebration and again this year before the drought become headline news in Italy.
I am writing my eye witness account and relate it to the recent categorization of Ethiopia as a failed state, under ‘Failed States Index Scores 2008’ by The Mission of The Fund for Peace group.
I have interviewed many people and seen multiple places and based on my personal assessment, Ethiopia is a failed state only a single disaster away.
It is futile to compare Ethiopia with Zimbabwe or Eretria and try to present it in a fair light, but the fact of the matter is we Ethiopians do not enjoy the homogeneity that is prevalent in those countries. President Mugabe’s party may collapse next month but Zimbabwe will be available for its citizens after the dust settles.
Ethiopia is a unique country and if and when TPLF decides to call it a day and becomes an independent African state, Ethiopia, as we know it today, would struggle to exist. I do apologize for my conspiratorial claims but here are a few facts I have gathered in those two visits to the country.
EPRDF or TPLF is a party which has been working to weaken the rest of the country through various policies. If you pick the education policy alone, one cannot fail to notice the rest of the country has never produced a viable Economic force for the last two decades due to their insistence of higher emphasis to local languages, as a result of which, only students from Tigray region can speak English to qualify for any type of scholarship or have an opportunity to work in foreign legions and they are the ones welding power in every region in the name of ‘federal officers assisting the regional government’.
The local Universities are also designed to cripple the new generation by producing “PhDs and Masters” by quota system out of the thin air, in great disregard to the quality of a human work force, and it is a sad reality to see policy makers talking about meaningless statistics by comparing the number of PhDs before and after EPRDF. This coupled with contestant harassment of intellectuals, who are challenging these failed policies, into leaving the country is another way to the realization of a government force full of mediocre talents only guided by hate and greed.
I met a number of people with Ph.D. working for the government offices which has nothing to do with their field of studies. This failure is not by lack of manpower or understanding. It looks like it is by a careful design to weaken the next generation.
Before visiting Ethiopia, I always thought that, there got to be a misunderstanding somewhere and the government needed some logistical support to make things better. I myself with a company in Barri- Italy, volunteered for a water resource developing project in the central Amhara region. The drinking water, fetched from a mile away transported by the backs of women and small children, was a source of many bacterial contaminations, but it did not take us to know that no such efforts are needed anywhere unless we pass a rigorous test of bribes equal to Mafioso extortions. We left the country after being ransacked through endless bribery.
The other main issue is the TPLF total disregard to the rule of law and contempt to the Parliament members and the people in general. A case in point is the recent border treaty with Sudan. If there was an independent jury in that country, the Premier would have been impeached for such conduct and the whole cabinet would have been dissolved. But unfortunately the same people are prosecutors, jury and executioners in that country with no check and balance whatsoever. Besides, there has been too much admiration to some of these politicians who have shown particular skill in lying, so much so that, they have now institutionalized the destruction of public ethics, elevating deceit to a statecraft or a talent required to lead that country.
Tigray, which was once a land-locked state, now has extended its border to Sudan by taking some fertile land from Gondar, and according to some information, that is the contingency plan or the end goal if their days of glory comes to an end. It is believed to be a carefully crafted path to their next move after throwing flames to the rest of the country.
In this whole mischievous game, the innocent Tigray people are victims of few high-powered TPLF cadres. The case in point is Seye Abraha, who has never failed in pointing out the problem with the TPLF. He recently spoke heroically on the unilateral border deal with the government of Sudan sighting shortsightedness on the part of the prime minister. Again, he was talking to group of journalists a few days ago, on the importance of working with the coalition of opposition parties to council and save the country from a planned destruction by TPLF. If he survives the next two years, Seye Abraha would be the only chance for the Tigray population to live with the rest of Ethiopians in dignity.
I have followed very interesting interviews on VOA regarding the border deal with Sudan, but there was no reaction from the Diaspora Ethiopians.
If it continues this on this path, the country would become another Yugoslavia. Currently the government of Ethiopia is in big trouble. Their dollar reserve is low, mainly because of unabated corruption and illegal export of wealth. The country is going down the path of abject poverty and the only people whom you see eating 3 times a day are those who have relatives in the west or those who are entitled to stealing from the public fund. They are currently trying to convert the draught into gaining some form of sympathy for themselves, but it did not work so far. There is no one in the world who has not been fooled by TPLF, at least twice. They have over used every card known in politics and now they have to hire a lobbyists abroad to defend themselves; which is a sign of desperation and inability to stand on their own.
I am also aware of a group in Italy who are currently tracking the country’s wealth in foreign banks under the assumed names/numbers of these corrupt individuals and it won’t be long before we hear a full disclosure on this matter.
It is only in Ethiopia you hear a theft of national gold reserve from a bank vault and it is treated as a normal ‘burglary’. If it was anywhere else in the world, you would have seen the whole cabinet dissolving through a vote of no-confidence. Not in Ethiopia.
It is only the government in the world, whose official delegations are still defecting. After being in power for two decades, it cannot convince anyone to stay aboard and work toward a common ideal. Because, there is no common ideal. Only the TPLF agenda served at all the embassies and foreign legions are filled with ailing and mentally decapitated ambassadors who cannot engage the Ethiopians in Diaspora, or bring a change on foreign relations other than serving the TPLF dignitaries and their royal followers to enrich themselves.
The regional elected officials, which are effectively hostages of TPLF cadres in those areas, have been crippled through blackmail and intimidation and do not have any choice but to turn a blind eye for organized robbery by TPLF cadres sitting in those regions as ‘federal officers’. This is what would be fueling the secession movements in every part of the country, in the coming years, which is, of course, seems a part of the end game for the EPRDF/TPLF.
During my last visit I met this loan officer from Ethiopian National Bank and he told me his frustration with the whole system. According to this Ethiopian, the TPLF cadres and their subordinates owe millions of dollars in debt and there is no end to their demand for additional loans and his strict obligation to approve which comes to his desk through certain channels, regardless of their defaults. There is no concern of inflation/deflation and above all there is no public accounting office to explain which wealth belongs to the country and which belongs to the party. TPLF, I learned, ordered confiscations of all vehicles, including type writers from the offices of the City Hall in Addis Ababa, when they lost the election in 2005.
This time, with the heroic engagement from such people like Seye, Berhanu, Negasso, Bertukan and the likes we have that rare chance in history to save that country from becoming a history. We should not fail these individuals or the people just by becoming spectators. There is too much at stake. It is not which party is ruling when, it is a matter of having a country for your children or not.
I want to tell those of you who advocate peaceful negations with the current TPLF rulers: They lived by the sword and they would rather die by the sword than working for a peaceful means. Unless you force them through various ways, including intensive campaigns in the Senates and Congress of these donor nations and keep on exposing their sham rules, it is futile to expect anything Ethiopians from them.
If you love your country like I do, let us march and support all campaigns and initiatives to remove these hateful and deceitful people from power. My father fought Mussolini and lived in Ethiopia until his death and there was nothing gratifying for him to have seen the defeat of Mussolini and fascism in his lifetime; and to me EPRDF/TPLF is no better than Mussolini and they deserve our unified efforts in exposing and removing their grip on Tigray and their planned destruction of Ethiopia as we know it today.
Ethiopia is a failed state and accepting its failed status is the first thing on our part, which would give us a clear vision to engage the real enemy. It also help us to understand the capacity and goal of these mediocre over-appraised tyrants who have been in power for two decades through deception and sheer luck of having a very fragmented opposition. From now on, it should not matter who rules Ethiopia next, as long as there is an Ethiopia!
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I have plans to visit some Italian-American congress members in New York area for this July 4th celebration and in the coming weeks and I will be passing my messages to all that I come in contact with. I want to show some of my materials to the U.S. Senators who are in the way of HR 2003 to bring them aboard. You can reach me at [email protected].
29 thoughts on “Ethiopia is a failed state on purpose”
Abdisa Salvatore,
What a brilliant and timely patriotic article!
It doesn’t matter that your father happens to be from Italy.
What I understood from your story of your life is that you have spent quit a lot of your childhood in our mother land Ethiopia. To tell you the truth you are a true Ethiopian deep in your hart as any one of us who think we love our country. You know I have a wife of European origin and a lovely daughter who loves her father’s country (Ethiopia) and her mother’s country as well. It is a wonderful feeling to give love to tow different countries, after all we all come from one human mother LUCY or BIRKINESH.
Keep on with the great job brother.
YE ETHIOPIA AMLAK YITEBIKEH!
Ethiopia shall prevail!
Glad to read articles like this. I really enjoyed this one and learned alot. We the people truly need to take back our country before it’s too late. Many thanks to the author and good luck on your future endeavours.
Tank you Abdisa for telling the truth for those who are bran washed morons living abroad. It is more than many ethiopians understanding what this bands are doing to our country.Anyway,the time is approaching for the worest to come. It will be too late to cry for our country, relatives , friends etc. and then what are they ging to say those who are working with woyane directly and indirectly.
God bless Ethiopia
I am admiring your insightfulness and thoughtfully written article. I am personally expecting to hear more from you and appreciate your contribution to the country we love.
best regard
“This time, with the heroic engagement from such people like Seye, Berhanu, Negasso, Bertukan and the likes we have that rare chance in history to save that country from becoming a history.”
I lost you on the above paragraph. Your suggestion would have been timely if it were writen about 3 years ago, when the people you mentioned above were assumed to be Ethiopians for Ethiopians. Except Ato Seye Abrha.
And you said, “Seye Abraha would be the only chance for the Tigray population to live with the rest of Ethiopians in dignity”.
The main guy of TPLF who orders million dollars worth property moved from Bole Airport to Tigray where it is collecting dusts in the basement Mekelle Air port. How Ethiopian is that, not to mention the broad day light robbery and corruption. Knowing TPLF, and their mischievous nature, i don’t think Ato seye left TPLF, he is still TPLF. He didn’t go to jail defending Ethiopia.
Secondly, the people of Tigray know what they are doing. If they are suffering like the rest of Ethiopians, we would have seen it. They have the means in their hands to make it better, but they don’t care. Those who do care have picked up a gun to be by the side of Ethiopians . Thank you for your concern, but we are on different phase now.
Regards,
mr salvator ,i thank you for your service to your country. we have heard such kind of analysis about ethiopian political,economy and social dilemma before and we will hear the same kind of stories in the future.according to analysis after analysis we already knew that we ethiopian havn’t been blessd in leadership departement .the question is then what could be done to change these problems.in my opinion,i don’t think most of us understand the concept about change because revolution after revolution ethiopian society havn’t benifitted any postive effects from them rather they have been experiencing further misery ,injustice and poverty. the lack of better terms that ethiopian gov past and present have been devil worshiper for centuries,thus we shouldn’t relay on gov to solve our fundamental problems. we must organize properly with clear understanding about our visions and goals to defeat our social,political and economic sickness.keep in mind that we can creat many organizations we want,but organizations without purpose and goal have no value.
Dearest Abdisa Salvatoe,
Several people have extensively written interesting articles and comments on this well-respected ER, but I am witnessing that your article is the best in substance, facts, sincerity, and purity of language; as I was reading it, I was full of emotion and anger about the futurity of our country that your father fought hard for and saved it from being destroyed by Alberto Mussolini. In fact, Mussolini was much, much better than Meles Seitanawi (Zenawi), for Mussolini had done many good things for Ethiopia and never tried to divide the country on ethnic lines.
God saved Ethiopia from Fascist through your father’s heroic action, and who knows, through his son, Abdisa, God may save Ethiopia from Meles Seitanawi, the worst enemy of Ethiopia.
Thank you for your great effort to convince some, if not all, Italian Americans to understand the hidden problems from them that the Ethiopian people, your people and mine, are facing today under a Dictator Meles Seitanawi, who could have been left power long time ago if the West, particularly the United States, could have stopped helping him financially in the name of his support for the war against terrorism.
Please, also, continue tracking the wealth of your country, Ethiopia, stolen by Meles Seitanawi, his wife, Azeb Mesfin, and all his political gangs; these criminals have also stolen indispensable Church artifacts, and many historical documents. It has also been rumored that they have sold that famous Ethiopian Lucy or Dinkinesh to the West. You see, you have so many things to do ahead of you, and God willing, you can do it. I think, Salvatoe means salvation, and Ethiopia is expecting you to save her from her worst enemy – Meles Zenawi.
Dear Writer,
This is very knowledgeable, wel-researched, and fact-based article. Again, I thank you so much for writing the facts, fears, that I and many Ethiopians have in mind.
Most of all, what grips my mind is the following statment:
“… President Mugabe’s party may collapse next month but Zimbabwe will be available for its citizens after the dust settles… .”
TPLF (Meles and company)are working in a way that the dust would never settle in Ethiopia again.
We have to act very quickly, systematically, in masses, and with no other priority. We have to save out country. We cant stay as a spectators. We have to act in every possible way to save our country.
Thank you Abdisa,
Thank you
Abdisa Salvatore,I have no words to say thank you.What a wonderfull article,woo!
Thank you Mr. Salvatore.
Yes, that is what TPLF is doing and that is what we have to do.
I wish you success in your US visit.
Thank you my brother you have done more than your share. You have pin pointed in order to keep our people together and all us to remain as an Ethiopian.I am very proud we have a brother like you.This great assessment should be read by every Ethiopian.Please keep it up.Thank you again for this great job.
It is a great article. I am very impressed with the indepth analysis of the situation in our country. We need to stand behind those leaders before it is too late to save our country from the TPLF gangs. It is not an option to keep silent and our country disintrgrate. The bandits must go!.
GREAT ARTICLE
Dear Abdisa.
You are brilliant and patriotic Italian- Ethiopian gentleman. Your observetion is correct. Ethiopia is the most blessed country with all the natural resources and abundant rain and rivers yet it has been the poorest country in the world through out its hsitory. Does it mean that its people are not hard working. Absolutely not. Infact to the contrary they are the most hard working people I have everseen. Here in US they work one full time and one part time and yet they get time to go to school. If they are not lazy here they can not be lazy in their oun country.The only reason as you stated in your article is they are not blessed with honest leaders from the feudal era through the dark communist time and now through the darkest EPRDF regime. You may wonder why I address the Ethiopians as”they”. It is because I am not an Ethiopian but I have lived long time there and I know it and its people well.I love it too dearly too. Knowing the land scape of Ethiopia it is unbelievable to hear that it is starving. But its leaders are always failing it down. After the defeat of the Facist Italy the patriots who where fighting from the bushes were naglected by the Emperor and most posts were given to the traitors and bandas so the country plunged int bribery and corruption. That is why the poor patriot were singing like this: “Enate Ityopia mogne nesh telala yemotelsh kerto yegedelesh bella:I know you know the meaning. I lived in Wollo like you Stressing the amharic letter “D” dien iyatebku now yenorkut.
God bless you Abdisa Salvatore. You have witnessed facts and truth so many others failed to see. The slow and painfull death prescription given to us by TPLF for the last 17 years is very noticable for people who haven’t spent that much time in Ethiopia. Most Ethiopians particularly the diaspora may not feel the situation we are. and your timely observation is a good warning for so many who are either slept or didn’t care about their Country, Ethiopia.
I see your burning Ethiopianess and the pride you have for that country as i have things in common with you coming from a half Ethiopian half Arabic heritage. My dissapointment with TPLF has long turned to Anger long time ago. God knows pretty soon, the anger i have will turn to revenge as the collateral damage created by TPLF towards the Ethiopian society could be irreversable. Thanks to people like you and Elias, most Ethiopians are being equiped with the fact they need that will help them to take the pill they don’t want to take. As you said it TPLF can only go by sword and wasting time to negotiate with it is the foolish of all thing one can expect.
Thanks again
Mr Salvatore. Really you are a man of salvation. I am sure with the help of people like you Ethiopia would get her salvation too. Amen.
I have been reading your article two times and in tears. I never knew I was so weak.
TPLF is the worst kind not only for Ethiopia but for the whole continent of Africa. We have to be aware of the true enemy as you said it.
The only thing I did not agree with you is on the assertion that they would become an Independent state. The Eritreans would never sleep to destroy them. They will be like the palastines in Africa, dispised and rejected. Amen to that to too. I do not understand why they pass this vengence to their children?
They are over appraised mediocre tyrants who can work on purposfuly destroying the fibric of society just for personal gain! you said it better.
Thank you Mr. Salvatore and may god help you in your endevours and thank you Elias for such a wonderful forum. Ameseginalehu.
D.
Abdisa Salvatore thank God you are Ethiopian.Like you said we have to work together to remove this tugs and the hodam pigs who help them stay on power.
may God bless you and your family
Mister Abdisa our brother, I have know enough words to express my gratitude for you I just would like to say thank you brother, may god give you long life and health so you can continue to be the voice of the voiceless. By the way after I read your best article I think you look like to me you might be a nightmare to Meles the bone head.
I’m an ex ethiopian soldier and i admired ur thought
Is that really true?The Ethiopian people should read this article.Wow!It is an intentional destruction of the generation.I am thinking that a single tribe is colonizing the whole country.Folks,If what Salvatore says is true,woyanne is the most worst government and should be hated.Woyanne really creates a generation gap and after some time the literate,the wealthy people,the businnes men and women,the doctors and engineers,the lawyers,the politicians,the managers etc…will be recruited from a single tribe THAT IS THE TIGRAY PEOPLE.I am so scared and pissed off.Except for praying for the poor and the abandoned people,I have no other immediate solution!
Dear Abdisa,
I am not clear how you define Tigray? To me, all those whose Mother tounge is Tirgigna should naturally belong to Tigray state, not to Amhara’s Gonder or Wollo. And believe it or not, I cannot see the difference between the Tigre’s of Tigray and the Tigre’s of Ertra. I donot have to tell how and when these homogenoius people are divided, just for the grip of power a century ago.The Tigray you know is what was artificially designed by the Amharas.
While I ca see some truths, your article appears flawed, one sided and prepared for the interest of some parties.
Apologies for the previous e-mail.
One could only jump into such conclusion when comes across with phrases like “EPRDF or TPLF is a party which has been working to weaken the rest of the country through various policies.” In my opinion, the rest implies Ethiopia minus Tigrai. Or statements like, “…only students from Tigray region can speak English to qualify for any type of scholarship or have an opportunity to work in foreign legions and they are the ones welding power in every region in the name of ‘federal officers assisting the regional government’”
Living in Ethiopia, it’s hardly possible to avoid time without taking part in political debates. Recently, I asked a friend what could possibly be missing in Ethiopia as regards to democracy. He said that there were not enough papers, enough private radio, tv. Etc. It was all about not having enough of them.
One can never dispute with this fact at all. I wish I could ask you the same question. We have a little of everything even our democracy. People from all walks of life in Ethiopia would tell you same thing. None is fully satisfied with that. On the other hand, except a handful, Ethiopians are satisfied as regards to peace, stability, the way things are moving in term of infrastructure, commerce, urban development and the likes. Nobody’s child is conscripted forcefully and thrown into war. As I said it above, we have very little of everything which needs to be multiplied and intensified through time by Ethiopians themselves. If people like you came and helped, it would make a dent. (I note that you came to help but left after you relinquished your money for bribery)
You have also talked lots about the education system. One of the things we have witnessed as a tremendous achievement in this country is education. The number of universities has reached 21. Unlike to what you described them as local universities, they are federal universities. They accept students from all over the country. They lack quality though. Same is true with the AAU, where I went. This is not to mention the private once.
With regard to the education in mother tongue at the primary level, it’s very technical and academic to dwell on. People have unequivocally agreed that this way of educating pupils is very successful. So, the government has preferred to pursue this. Even then, if the policy doesn’t work it can only be a mistake. It can, by no means, be bad intended; as you said, to intentionally weaken Ethiopia. This kind of statement can only emanate from those who spend their time declaring one is an Ethiopian and the other is not; those who grant and revoke citizenship.
By the way, that is why I like the programs of EPRDF. I see them philosophically. They say [EPRDF] how is it possible there could be a better and less Ethiopian? It’s impossible in the current and future Ethiopia. That is why some, I think including you, fear that the country would disintegrate some time in the future. I don’t think it would. But again it cannot be discounted at all this wouldn’t happen. It won’t happen as long as there is no as such assimilation in practice and God forbid it will definitely happen if otherwise.
Everyone’s language is fit enough to be medium of instruction. None is better than others. I say, if there is any practical attempt to reverse this, I can assure you doomsday of our beloved country becomes imminent. This is how the new Ethiopia is established.
Here, it come the myth that Tigrai as the most beneficiary. This never happened and no true Tigrean wishes to happen. The rural area of Tigrai has never been different from other rural areas of Ethiopia, if not worse. What happened was some urban towns including Mekele, registered a remarkable growth because of the relative peace and their proximity to the port. This continued up until the war with Eritrea. Eritreas used these towns as transit and as a result investment and commerce boomed. This very positive trend was seen by others as exploitation; but was a sheer misunderstanding. From 1998 onwards, the development has been not as fast as it was previously. Cities like Bahidar, Nazareth, Diredawa are, now a days, livelier and more developed as the main business route is via these areas to Djibouti.
With regard to the accusations, I may say, most lack evidence and credibility. For instance there is no as such a loan officer in the National Bank; it’s a regulatory body. There is no land transfer to Sudan; no demarcation has been made yet to say anything of that sort. And lots of these kind.
Not to take lot of your time, I will conclude by saying, by any standard Ethiopia is now stronger than ever (at least in the last one hundred years). The way it’s set up is that there wouldn’t be any better or less Ethiopian, meaning, none grants or cancels citizenship of Tigreans, Afaris, Somalis, Oromos, including Meles Zenawi’s. He could be a bad person to some but none is entitled to revoke his citizenry. Had it been possible, there could have been people under scrutiny who fought along Shaebia against mother land.
Dear, Abdisa, I’d like to say that I dearly esteem our constitution and EPRDF’s program. I am by no mean a member of EPRDF. Just one question, what if EPRDF is ousted and Ethiopia becomes “very democratic”, would you allow me to run for office with the same EPRDF program?
Regards,
Etsegenet that is the problem of ethiopians. You dont even know your enemies. which planet are you living on? it is too let before you recognize your enemies.what is the piont cring now? where were you all this time?
Incredible. you cleared the cloud of doubt in my mind. now i have changed my mind. the mafia must be defeated by any means. you also explained my frustration with so called ethiopian/eritrean phds. you are brilliant. GOD BLESS YOU. Ethiopia will prevail.
Sahle Bedane (with a fake made up name):
I can clearly see through you as a typical TPLF demagogue. And the arguments presented to be equally typical of TPLF operatives’ who run around cyberspace and in every corner of the Diaspora to dispel facts and spread falsehoods. Their MO is all the same. And that is, deny everything at all costs, make excuses, or rationalize with the hope anything written against the TPLF is somehow is ‘neutralized’. The good news is that no one in his/her right mind is going to buy these arguments anymore. No amount of lie and deception either by Meles or his henchmen is going to wipe out 17 years of blunder and mismanagement by a gang of bandits.
Sahle Bedane,
Your propaganda is a total fiasco, and convinces not a single Ethiopian in the diaspora; we already know where you are coming from, and what your missions are.
The true Ethiopian, Mr. Abdisa, has vividly exposed to the world your propensity to destroy our country, Ethiopia, and your satanic mission authorized by your master, Meles Seitanawi (Zenawi) and financed by your master’s master, Al Amoudi, will never work here in the United States or somewhere else because your propaganda is full of lies just like Meles’ propaganda to get some donation from the American people so that he could stay in power. You may have been paid millions of dollars to spread good news for the sake of the bloodsuckers – Azeb Mesfin and her second husband Meles Zenawi. It will not be for a long time that the bad news you are spreading all over the world will be turned against you; you are one of those people whom the Prophet Isaiah said: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter” (5:20). We know Meles is an evil person, but you are telling us he is an angel; we know the Ethiopian people are living in total darkness, but you are telling us they are living in a bright day light; we know millions of the Ethiopian children are getting hungry and sick, but you are telling us no Ethiopian child has ever been hungry and sick; you are telling us there is a free election in Ethiopia, but we know the opposition party has been bared even from registering people to vote.
Any way, thank you for telling us that you support the rotten regime of Meles Seitanawi, and you call it sweet while it is bitter as the Prophet says; it may be indeed sweet or sweeter than honey for you, but it is bitter than the Ethiopian Koso or Eriet for most of the Ethiopian people.
Assta, do you know that everyone is entitled for his/her view ? I doubt it. If you criminalize one for his/her conviction and politial opinion that would be dictatorship. You could have challenged Sahle with facts and figures that can prove his arguments wrong. In stead you ‘insulted’ him with all possible bad words you could find — even you qouted the Bible. I personally do not believe that this type of exchange would allow any constructive debate to take place — for learning or sharing information.
Comrade Shummy,I was on Mars and recently arrived to the Earth.You are trying to help me out how to identify my enemies.Thank you.
Kebalebetu Yawoke….Still I want to have a double standard on Salvatore’s article.This time I invite Shummy to explain me with more evidences.
Dear Tassew,
Indeed, every body in a democratic country, but in Ethiopia, is entitled to his/her opinion; however, when someone’s opinion is totally wrong, one has to stand up and disprove that misleading opinion. For example, Mr. Sahle said: “There is no land transfer to Sudan….” In fact, there were some Ethiopian farmers who were taken by force to Sudan jail for resisting to giving up their farmlands to the Sudanese people. There have been demonstrations by many Ethiopians in the diaspora against this land deal by Meles Zenawi without informing the Ethiopian Parliament. Here Mr. Sahle, perhaps, representing the Meles corrupt regime defends the mendacity of his master Meles Zenawi. I wonder why you are defending such misleading opinions by Mr. Sahle.
Idiot Sahle Bedane I can not think what you muscle head Tigrean people think. I wander some times if you people are the first in the histry of human kind to throw all types of human dignity and reasoning. What happen to your god given brain, as well as feeling shame when you do wrong, where is the feeling of I have done wrong so I will do my best to compensate others for your past wrong to correct. When your people and their Mafia are going to ask the Ethiopian people to be forgiven to get a chance, nothing? it is hard to people like me to think if you are born right, I am sure there a new finding if someone takes the time to study what makes you this much ugly there might be a genetic defect in your bloody blood. If that was not the reason you would not even attempt to defend your mountain size faults because by trying to defend yourself you expose more other people to hate you. Instead of defending your indefensible nature just be atleast brave enough and say it you have no shame. If people take you serious or not you just throw your unthinkable reasoning to fill the missing gap between the Ethiopian people and yours. Please you idiot people atleast feel shame for your action so you can have few people with you. Look even the Ethiopian orthodox church and your Mafia government influence on the church for you people there is no backing from anything because of shame if you can jump on it if you think there slight benefit you will do it with no shame come on you idiots. Whatever you do in your 18 years annexation of Ethiopia you are not successful even in god’s worshipping place if anyone can not see the church differently from the government there has to be something wrong in your nature. You want to own everything you are so greedy people I am sure if their was roomer of shortage of air I am sure nobody would survive in Ethiopia for a second you would suck the remaining air even from dead people as well as from babies yet to be born, as you bought all the grain from all corners of Ethiopia and took to your Tigrea to benefit you for future starvation, anyway why you need to keep the grain in Tigrea while children are starving to death. I just have this endless hate to you people I can not wait to see your end I personally will do anything to bring you down. Please you Mafia society stop your deception and madness because later you will regret for centuries to come. I do not know any society who does wrong purposely in order to harm other people. Were you born wrong just to do harm on humanity? you better use your given time until it finishes its full circle then be ready to take when the time comes the judgement you deserve from the Ethiopian people.