EDITOR’S NOTE: The U.S. ambassador tries to portray the Meles brutal dictatorship in Ethiopia as a role model even as the rubber-stamp parliament today passed a highly restrictive press law and just two weeks ago, human rights organizations provided evidences supported by satellite photos of incredible atrocities in the country. That’s why the U.S. State Department has no moral authority to talk about Zimbabwe and any other country. By continuing to defend the Meles dictatorship, the U.S. ambassador has turned himself into a collaborator in the crimes against humanity that are being committed by the regime against Ethiopians and people of the Horn of Africa. Hopefully, the new U.S. administration that is coming next year will clean up the mess in the State Department and dismiss its corrupt diplomats.
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US Envoy Describes Ethiopia’s Role as ‘Very Positive’
By Abdinasir Mohamed Guled
(Shabelle Media Network) — US ambassador to Ethiopia, Donald Yamamoto, says the United States recognizes Ethiopia’s Woyanne’s contribution in various peacekeeping operations in the region and other areas of conflict in Africa.
“Ethiopia Woyanne is right now, I think, the second largest troops contributing country in peacekeeping operations in Sub-Saharan Africa and probably has the most disciplined and qualified troops,” Yamamoto said.
[Yamamoto is a disgusting human being. He calls these murderers and rapists “disciplined and qualified troops.”]
Ethiopia Woyanne has been playing a very positive role in regional peace and security, Yamamoto said at a press briefing he gave on Tuesday [1 July] at the US embassy.
The US government is working closely with Ethiopia Woyanne and other countries with a view to helping enhance peace and security in the Horn of Africa, he said.
According to the ambassador, the US government looks at the peace and security situation in the region with due concern.
Yamamoto said the mandate of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in Somalia will expire and the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in Sudan will have to be fully implemented in 2009 and elections are to be held.
“The year 2009 is going to be a watershed, because we are going to have stability or instability or we are going to have directions towards regional security or not,” he said.
With regard to Somalia, the United States appreciates Ethiopia’s concerns. For Ethiopia, the issue in Somalia is particularly the security issue just as was the stability issue.
“If you don’t have stability in Somalia you never have stability in your borders.” He added.
[The stupid ambassador calls the destroying of a country and displacing most of its population “stability.”]
“On the other hand, it is also a regional issue, because we can see the influx of foreign fighters and other extremists coming to Somalia,” he said.
[There is no evidence of foreign fighters in Somalia, other than Woyannes.]
“And these are all concerns that affect not only Ethiopia but also Kenya, Tanzania, Djibouti and all the people who live in the region, he said.”So we need to work together with Ethiopia Woyanne and the neighbouring countries to carry out objectives on how to enhance security,” he said.
The shaky transitional government invited Ethiopian Woyanne forces into the country to help it battle Islamic insurgents. Somalia has been torn apart by years of violence between the militias of rival clan warlords.
The rights group said it had scores of reports of killings by Ethiopian troops. In one case, “a young child’s throat was slit by Ethiopian Woyanne soldiers in front of the child’s mother,” the report says.
Amnesty said about 6,000 civilians had been reported killed and more than 600,000 had been forced to flee their homes in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, last year.
“The people of Somalia are being killed, raped, and tortured. Looting is widespread and entire neighborhoods are being destroyed,” Michelle Kagari, the Amnesty deputy director for Africa, said in a statement from Nairobi that accompanied the report.
The report quotes testimony from 75 witnesses as well as scores of workers from nongovernmental organizations. People are identified only by first name to protect them from retaliation.
In one testimony, Haboon, 56, said her neighbor’s 17-year-old daughter had been raped by Ethiopian Woyanne troops. The girl’s brothers tried to defend their sister, but the soldiers beat them and gouged their eyes out with a bayonet, Haboon was quoted as telling Amnesty.
“The testimony we received strongly suggests that war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity have been committed by all parties to the conflict in Somalia and no one is being held accountable,” Kagari said.
Amnesty urged the United Nations, the African Union and other groups to halt the violence.
20 thoughts on “U.S. ambassador says Woyanne plays a positive role”
The american ambassador in Ethiopia must be a second rate human being who completely failed his great nation. Of course diplomats lie. But Yamamoto took it to a different level when he testified that the proven rapists and mass murderers are disciplined. it is staggering to say the list. and I don’t think he understood how many of us he insulted. We have to seek a formal apology from this creature. Disgusted.
“……Woyanne is right now, I think, the second largest troops contributing country in peacekeeping operations in Sub-Saharan Africa and probably has the most disciplined and qualified troops,” Yamamoto said.”
The US civil war was all about owning slaves. Do you think US will give up on well disciplined voluntary slaves. They invested too much on TPLF. At this moment TPLF has the upper hand over USA. If TPLF is gone , everything US did in Horn Africa will collapse in their face, even Kenyan politics is not safe. They will ignore abuse and killing.
Now, you heard it from the horse’s mouth. Don’t count on westerners. They want slaves not partners.
Regards,
Meles Zenawi and his henchmen would have long been toppled a la Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu without America’s life giving support to the regime. Let’s face it, the USA is Ethiopia’s biggest enemy, not the pitiful and useless weyanne.
Go and hung a thousand times!
Well a time is coming when Weyane’s “yes sir Yamammato” be over. I wonder which Ethiopian leader will bend over to let them do what our for fathers refused to do. I hope and pray a Strong young Ethiopian will rise with in Ethiopia to bring this monsters to an end and run all weyane and supporters to their grave
Comment #3 above
I agree with Hailu, and it is very sad to see many Ethiopians making excuse after excuse for the Americans who have been nurturing the war machine in our part of the world for more than 50 years! I don’t believe there would have been as many conflicts as ethnic bias if the US wasn’t aggravating it by supporting dictatorial regimes. It makes me sick to my stomach when US policy makers, many of them not even having the slightest idea of the psychological make up of our people, pretend to know it all and that it is only them that have the solution. If only they would know how much the world despises them! So, I am surprised at the despicable statements Yamamoto is making under Jendayi Frazer’s watch, for he is not suffering under the Meles regime as the Ethiopian and other Horn people are. Why should he care? The only this inept State Department morons would care if the people of the Horn oppose them in unison. To do that, we need to build a strong union between all the Ethiopian oppositions and Eritrea to start with and anyone should be free to join such, what I call “movement of survival”. Then and only then will the US led western powers begin to appreciate they could not have a free hand in continuing the crimes they have been committing against our innocent people in the name of “Security”, “Terrorism” and “Good” governance. Good governance – my foot!
The biggest imperialist greedy, rapacious,and immrorale state of the world,washington, had never been and ever be true friend of ethiopia and ethiopians. This imperialist state has stubbed us twice in past by assisting our foes. somalias and eritreans before. They left noting unturnned to disstablise ethiopia.so, the current yamamato’s speech of Woyannes appreciation is noting rather than a continuation of decades washington’s wicked policy towards ethiopia. The american state department has everything about woyanne and they knew that this regime is brtual, state sponserd terrist ganagestes tplf group, discrediteed and hated government by the people of ethiopia but at the same time which runs the interests of donators.
However, what the so called us amassador has forgotted is that this kind of unfriendly relationship will not long live. As everybody knows it government may come government may go but state and peoples will remain ethernal. This is the rule of this world. Be it good or bad ever governments passed in time. so, as a civilized nation it was expected to play a civilized polics and diplomay. that is working on the longterm inerest of the two peoples. the failure of your policies in Iraq, afghanistan and somalia,are avivid indications of your diplomatic and political backwardness of your called civilized nation. The cold war has gone with the disintegration of the former soviet government in 1991, but still even after the post russia disintegration, the us policies of forien relations is a backward colonial and cold war era policies. Your unfair support and partenership with dictators and chovinstic state leaers like meles is resulting popular unrest and hate towards the united states and its people. so please consider your poicies towards dictatorial governemts like meles and be a true supporter of democracy and justice to everywhere.If persist your fake support for these bllod thristy dictators be sure tommorow washington will not escape from the fait os Iraq and somalia.
down to imperialists and WOYANE
Ethiopia will prevail again!!!!
I believe the majority of you are not aware of how the US foreing policy makers make a living; if not I would be glad to educate you and reeducate session begins now: in order to make millions of dollars after they leave politics they must create or recreate something and the quickiest way to be rich and famouse are: A-SUPPORT A DICTOR TO KILL HIS OWN PEOPLE AND HIS NEIGHBORS, B- IF HE STARTS ACTING AGAINST THE U.S INTEREST THEN TOPPLE THE SAME DICTATOR, C- BRAIN DRAIN THE CREAM-CROP OF THE SAME COUNTRY (POLITICAL ASYLUM), D- BACK TO POINT A, AND E- WRITE A 400 PAGE BOOK SAYING IT SHOUD HAVE BEEN THIS WAY OR THAT WAY AND APPEAR OF ALL MAJOR NEWS MEDIA FOR PROMOTIONAL REASONS. Now if Yamamoto appears as weyane lover just watch soon how quick he is to accuse the same thugs he is promoting; THEN WE CALL IT A TYPICAL AMERICA POLITICS AS THE EXPENSE OF MANY INNOCENT LIVES OF THE 3RD WORLD.
We all know that US ambassadors in third world countries act like lords of their own fiefdom. They are treated very well by african dictators and therefore have to be nice to the dictators. Didn’t the previous ambassodor abandon her job to be fascist zenawi’s advisor? Besides these second rate diplomats (the best don’t set foot in Africa) go around with an air of self-importance. In fact in some ways they think they run the country they are a guest of. If you ask me they will act the same way (just like the dictators themselves) if given the chance.
However, the time of reckoning is fast approaching. I hope Obama will get rid of these worthless parasites off the important office they now occupy. They are not ashanmed that theier useless utterances gives dictators like zenawi a license to kill a few thousand more. I hope accountablity comes soon.
My fellow Ethiopians,
We should not be concerned too much about Mr. Donald Yamamoto, United States ambassador to Ethiopia, because the days of his master, George W. Bush, and the days of his top State department employees and the days of their agent, Meles Zenawi, are numbered. It is this type of American ambassador’s false reports about the evil government of Woyanne that has been destroying our country, Ethiopia, and the entire continent of Africa,
We are talking here about the famine-, disease-, and war-victims of the millions of the Ethiopian people and their children, and here the honorable Ambassador Mr.Yamamoto is talking about security and peace, but he has failed to understand the main cause of insecurity and regional conflict in the Horn of Africa has been the presence of the United States army in Djibouti and the endless of American support to the Dictator Meles Zenawi to kill and maim his own people in Ogaden and in a neighboring country, Somalia. America, a great nation,a nation that has never been disgraced in its all human history, has been disgraced by the unconfident leader George W. Bush and his liar ambassador to Ethiopia. The whole world knows that George W. Bush must be impeached for misleading the American people by telling them that Iraq has developed a nuclear weapon, and in the same way his agent, Meles Zenawi must be stripped of his power for deceiving the Ethiopian parliament about his land deal with the Sudanese government secretly.
We have to wait patiently until America will have a real president and an intelligent and impartial ambassador to Ethiopia – an ambassador that reports the depth and width of the real problems of the Ethiopian people and help solve their problems. By any means, Ethiopia does not need an ambassador like Mr. Donald Yamamoto, who cooperates with the criminal and Dictator Meles Zenawi to break down the spirits of the Ethiopian people by covering up the atrocities of the Dictator Meles Zenawi and prolonging his oppressive regime by financing him to buy sophisticated weapons to kill his own people. Ethiopia will never forget what George W. Bush has done to its starving children for sending them weapons instead of food and medicine and for appointing unqualified ambassador purposely to support the Dictator Meles Zenawi and his political gangs – all of them venal and ruthless criminals. However, the American people will know the truth about the present conditions of the Ethiopian people after George W. Bush lives the White House with all his State Department cabinets who have been misleading the American people by ignoring the facts about the Dictator Meles Zenawi that he has been a killer, a thief, a liar, a discriminator, and a divider, despite Mr. Yamamoto’ damaging report to the Ethiopian people and encouraging one to the Dictator Meles to continue his cooperation with the domestically and internationally failed policy of George W. Bush.
The days are approaching when the world will never see George W. Bush again in the White House and the honorable American Ambassador to Ethiopia. Ethiopia under this Ambassador, Mr. Donald Yamamoto, in particular, and the world in general under George W. Bush have suffered too much and will never recover for a long time because the damage George W. Bush has brought to the world and especially to Ethiopia is beyond human comprehension, but nothing is impossible to the American resilient spirit and to the indomitable courage of the Ethiopian people to come back again and put their houses in order.
May God bless America and Ethiopia!
We demand that Yamamoto return to USA for incompetence to represent America. Simu endemiamelekitew ya yemote sew kersu min yetebekal?
That is why Gasha Kelemu explained it very well in his article that the anglo-americans are racists when it come to Africa. the people woyanie is killing are oke be it somalis or ethiopians because they are black unworthy of human life. shame, shame. humanizing our killers and demonizing the innocent shame to the west. but ethiopia will prevail with her strong children, the demise of woyanie is coming fast.
Yamato you got your position by licking and kissing your white masters ass. If it wasn’t for that your funny looking mix japanse-china look wouldn’t take you anywhere not alone to be an ambassodor.
As for the wayane military regime, it will be history soon.
What a shame Mr. Yamamato. He takes part in crime against Humanity. he doesn’t care about the innocent blood of Ethiopians and Somalis. He dosen’t care about the children who are dying in thousends every day because of the faild policy of his darling Meles Zenawi. He doesn’t care about those who are languishing in Woyane prison.
The americans are not paying taxes to put this type of ambassadors in Afrika to ruin the continent. disgusting
i think american ambassador is right. Because he is looking all around him he is in Ethiopia. Some Ethiopians only hate EPRDF . but the majority embrassed EPRDF at this moment other political parties are just name not action.
yassin from
Sharjah
Elias …oh dont get surprised dont you know that Yamamato has been working for weyane dipolmacy rather than the US. Yamamto has sometimes working as a spokes person for weyane since some of the weyane cadres dont speak english very well. So I wouldnt surprised about yamamato, while we have too many internal other enemies that has been dragged the struggle for so many years that are concerntrated at the eprp retirment center and currently backed by the moron Hailu shwel and its dummy advisor Gudu Taye….ofcourse they also have major medias including ethiolion, debeteraw, and others. so how many things that the ethiopian people fight at a time….the main weyane elements, the weyane hodam caders, the US, and the eprp parasite group……i mean it is messed up man….anyway …lets be very strong so that all the remainants of weyane can be eliminated when we first strongly fight the major weyane destractive elements.
He is a messenger. He does not care who die. may be he get money under table like DLA. Nobody knows. their are free solders who are dieing for small money. so does yamato care. he must appreciate what is Woyane doing. so do be surprised.
Yammamato is a well known maffia who is operating like DLA PIPER, He has got millions of dollars from weyanes for his mis-information for the whole world . This narrow minded, selfish and narrow eyes man has committed CRIME AGAINST HUMANUTY iN AN ENTIRE EAST AFRICA. HE IS THE RIGHT HAND OF MELESE . HE IS NOT ACTING AS IF AN AMBASSADOR, BUT AS ONE WEYANE;S CADRE. USA and Uk are shouting above the roof about zimbabwe as if they have good heart to africans, but the center of their shouting is Africa’s hereo mugabe refused to be one of their dogs, he has taken the land from british feudals and distributed to the Zimbabawe’s farmers.That made USA and UK crazy. But we, ethiopians will accomplish our job successfully and if we will get yammamato and his co where he is now he will face justice for his crime against our ppl.
ambassador yamamoto do u know what”positive roll” is?killing people,starve them to death,no freedom of speach etc.are all these considered a positive role?it looks like u giving this unelected gov. of ethioia a green light to kill as long as he is along with u.as we all know u have sources to hear what is going on in that country,but for the sake of ur advantage, u left the truth behind and talking about lies,we heard this from the gov.for years every day,but we didn’t expect from u.s. ambassador such untrue statement.