The current visit to the U.S. by Ethiopia’s distinguished scholar and human rights activist Professor Mesfin Woldemariam has one mission: To preach to Ethiopians in the Diaspora NOT to support all-inclusive struggles to defeat the Meles fascist regime in Ethiopia and instead to start preparing for the 2010 elections. It is a mission to disarm the people of Ethiopia and make us all spineless people who do not stand up and defend ourselves.
What makes the professor’s mission potent is 1) he really believes in and is sincere about being passive in the face of extreme savagery of the fascist regime, and 2) he is respected by most Ethiopians and it is difficult to challenge him on the issues because of the much harmful idolatrous tendencies in our society toward individuals of his stature. Nevertheless, ER will once again be the lone wolf here. We will challenge Professor Mesfin that we appreciate your sincerity, but your way is against what made Ethiopia a proud nation — give me freedom or give me death. Your philosophy made 80 million Ethiopians slaves to a few thugs. Dear Professor, you are a great scholar in the field of geography. You are a respected human rights advocate. Please stick to those fields. Leave the politics to those who know the kind of language Woyanne thugs understand… more later >>>
112 thoughts on “Professor Mesfin’s dangerous mission to the U.S.”
Elias,
You better fight Melese Zenawi than Prof. Mesfin.
I have respect for you and i shared the same value how best we can chalange Woyane tigrea, but On the issue of Mesfin and Andnet’s stad I differ with you 360o and I also think as you already know it you are ALONE. Do your share in your own way and let them do theirs in the way they choose.
As far as i am concerned you are not member of G7 or ANDNET.
You can not dictate the day to day politics this way.Be member fight your idea with in and be the winer.
Kindly
Elias,do you know why professor support this kind of unacceptable agenda?because he fears to be jailed again by woyane,
Elias please post this article.
Illegal treaties and transactions that must be revoked by Ethiopians:
1. The Nile “treaty” between Egypt and Egypt that sanctions laughably Ethiopia from using its own Water resource.
2. The buying and selling of Djibouti between France and an Ethiopian individual who never had a legal representation from the central government hence the mandate to engage himself in such activities.
3. The illegal cessation of Eritrea from Ethiopia during a time that the country was under the siege of gorilla fighters who were directly revolting the constitution itself hence the sovereignty, the people and their interest. At the time, Meles Zenawi did not have a mandate from the people of Ethiopia hence never had the constitutional power or right to facilitate, authorize, and recognize the creation of Eritrea on behalf of Ethiopia. As a result, Ethiopia and Ethiopians should not and do not recognize the legitimacy of a state called Eritrea at its current geographical location.
What shall We do?
It is stark clear that the Woyane government under the leadership of a man mothered by an Eritrean woman and fathered by an Italian Dech’Azmach will never stand for the short and long term interests of Ethiopia. Thus, our first crucial step should be to unite and depose the treasonous man out of office. We have seen the power of peaceful struggle in 2005. We have shaken the foundation of the brutal Woyanes unlike never before while sitting at the very heart of the country. OLF never done that nor ONLF nor EPPF nor Shabea, Nothing else but Kinijit fueled by the people of Ethiopia themselves. I know where is Kinijit today, but it is nobody but us, the diaspora, to be blamed. We never was serious enough to pressure the ‘alagach’ politicians so that they would put Ethiopia before their personal glory. Instead, we were caught up with an ‘asresh michiw’ type gossip from shabean lover Elias Kifle and his purposeless ‘tifozowoch’. We failed our people and country. The good thing, it is still possible to make amends so that the heart broken Ethiopians at home could once again pledge their trust are rally behind a peaceful opposition party with a clear political plate forms that promote a united, free and strong Ethiopia. We shall stop listening and clapping for every group of individuals with costly, unrealistic and an already tested and failed political agendas. We shall fully support those home based political parties, because under the circumstances we are in today, that is the only viable and secure method to achieve a non-disintegrated Ethiopia. Most of all, keep in mind that Shabea is not an Enemy of Woyane but Ethiopia, and Meles is not an Enemy of Eritrea but Shabea with a dream of a permanently handicapped and disadvantaged Ethiopia that can be bullied, abused and exploited by tiny Eritrea. That leads us to a conclusion both meles and Shabea have the same disastrous dream to Ethiopia. Hence, any Ethiopian that opposes Shabea/Eritrea should oppose Meles unless legitimatizing a country called Eritrea and disintegrating Ethiopia is his/her primary agenda.
Once we realized the fall of Meles/Woyane, implementing what i have stated at the beginning of this comment should be one of the would be government’s prior responsibility. It is East Africa and we got to play Tough!
Elias,
I believe one day you will regret what you are writing now about the prof, as you regreted what you had written about Hailu Shawel. Mark my words!
Dear Professor, With all due respect, I have a question for you.Due you still telling us that “peaceful” struggle is the only, and probably the most successful, way of trying to deal with the totalitarian Meles regime? Let’s open our eyes and look the political situation in Ethiopia. Do you think and progress can be achieved in the democratization process of the country. The 2010 election is coming with in 2 years time and Woyane is trying all its best to put every hurdles to close all the democratic ways of participating in election. Remember what has been done by woyane to force opposition parties to withdraw from the recent local and parliamentarian election. Don’t forget that EPRDF declared that it won almost 98% of the vote. Do not all these facts clearly testify the woyane’s determination to do whatever act, including killing, arresting rigging etc, to stay in power? Have you ever thought that nobody will commit him/herself to organize, observe etc, for opposition parties especially in the country sides because doing so would amount to pulling the trigger back against one self? If you really insist “peaceful” struggle through election is the only way to bring about change in Ethiopia, did you push Kinijit leaders to take their seats in the parliament in 2005? If not, why? If you did it, what makes you believe that participating in the coming will change things? was it not unwise decision to refuse to join the parliament in 2005 if you still think that election is the only way now? What is the position of UDJ to push for the 8 point issues to bring about democratic institutions? If you are planning to push for it, do you think woyane will negotiate in the situation where every opposition party already lost the negotiating power after 2005? So let us know your calculation before you criticize those who opt for collective struggle. Please Professor do not attack others for nothing your party will bring for oppressed Ethiopians.
Meylina-4
Eliase, this time i like your wording. I think this is the way to express disagreement in one’s opinion.
Eliase, i agree with your comment.
Professor always says, peaceful strugle is not yet started. what does that mean. was the previous election armed struggle? we have seen the result of peaceful struggle in ethiopia.we don’t be fooled every time by woyanne in the name of peaceful struggle. Here after the struggle should be all inclusive.Professor can struggle the way he thinks fruitful.others can also struggle the way they think it would be fruitful. Every body has to stop critisizing each other.
I am always wondering when I read your comment to peoples. Elias never and ever you come to the truth or realities. Because your mind and your body is full of hate and dislike the Tigray people. This is not new for you ,It comes from your Grand Grand parents. Assuming The Tigray People is Poor and uncleaned,But You have to Know one Thing Tigray is the center of development, Tigary is full of commited peoples.
Any ways when I come to Proffessor Mesfin idea regarding the current government of Ethiopia , He is 100 % correct and he knows about the ethiopian politics past and current situation more than me and you.
As he said we have to compite with Eprdf in the coming Election, Yes EPRDF is one of the strong party like Rupublican and others will come and they will take their site step by step may be after 40 or 50 years they gonna be the leader of the country.
Please please don’t assume EPRDF will be out of bussiness or out of politics. EPRDF is compased of Tigary ,Amhara, Oroma and others.
thanks,
Dear Elias ,
No one listens to your hollow phrases. You better come to your senses.Be a man not a child who often guided by instincts. I often warn you although you are determined not to bublish any of my sincere criticisms. You are bold to try to teach Prof. Mesfin politics.How naive you are ,how bold you are. You are just an infant in the face of the professor. he is trying to teach a civilized way of politics, those who know definitely know him. It is a matter of time, No body will listen to you.Your website is well organized and feeds our community with varied information for which i am always grateful.you can support what ever group you believe right, that is your right. But dont agitate so that people will follow you. Birtukan and prof mesfin have a lot of support both at home and abroad. They are doing their own way fighting the dictators. I wonder what you are doing, are you a political organization or some what a jornalist trying to inform? Please Mr. elias i wish to talk to you but you are not doing well. You will soon come to insult the Dr. brhanu group you are in love(Passion) with for the time being. Please Mr. Elias try to look at your self, Sit down and ponder about the things in your mind ,sleep on them and ask your self what you are doing. I have no evidence to give you all kinds of names such as agent, a man of asmara and so on.But I believe you are on the wrong track, You are not on the civilized train although you live in the country of democracy.This is unacceptable. I always rated Ethipian Review, ethiomedia and Addis voice as the best sites serving our community.Now i believe the latter two do not support your ways and see how they are dealing with both groups ,with birhanu and birtukan as they both are working against the irrisponsible Meles regime.Because they believe to fight the repressive government in their own way so where is the sin? Who are you to judge these peopole who made a lot of sucrifice? it is easy to say what ever in your heart while in the comfort of the west.Elias dont trash this please, be a democrat,some times be couragious to publish those sorts trying to shape you.Accepting criticisms doesnt kill.
Good day!!
P.S. Most of all Esias afeworki can not liberate Ethiopia .Both Meles and him came from the same river ,they are the two faces of the same coin. dont be deceived. I can see your tendency to push to wards Eritrea, a country with much more problems.We need to fight both.
Dear Profesr Mesfen
With due respect, do you have another option to let woyane accept the will of Ethiopians rather than talking about election by which melese plays full we respected Ethiopians in the face of the world?
I might belive what you say if this cruel regime facilitates the environments for the establishment of free and fare civil servant systems. If not you can not deal with it, please do not prolong the pain of the citizens.
I realy do not know you from history by being instrument for harsh and devil rulers.God bless you and keep you well.
from Ethiopia
Elias
No one could state it better!!!!
The professor may choose whatever he thinks right, but his speech lack honesty. in addition to this he tried to insult others ironically. Did u notice what he tried to say about artist Debebe? you know what, I think he is getting older and lossing his memory. The main problem is he wants to be the only prominent figure in the history of Eth. but he cant. to tell the truth he did nothing more than a lot of Ethiopian heros.
The Ethiopian Review editor`s critical and investigative approach to the issues around Professor Mesfin and his andenet party is appropriate and timely. All their moves and signs indicate that the Andenet party is ging to ba another loyal or escorting opposition. The composition of the leadership of the party is such that it is filled mostly with soft and submissive persons who are ready to cooperate with the TPLF regime. For example ato Temesgen Zewdie is known for opportunism and can not be a reliable partner in the struggle against the TPLF. It is widely told that he has joined the Andenet party after having lost the competition for the favour of the TPLF to his former ally Ayele Chamiso. The party`s leaders like MS. Birtkun Midekassa and Dr. Yacob are pacifiers speaking about ethics, morality and the rule of law. By so doing they are trying to dampen the spirit of militancy and resistance some genuine opposition groups are spreading in the country. The struggle will not benefit any thing from their ethical or moral issues or teachings. Thus, Andenet will not be the kind of party which can rally Ethiopians and lead the struggle for democracy, freedom and sovereinty.
another im mature coment from cowboy media man.
You think you know about Politics and you are up critisizing the Professor. The professor believes that the way that he chose to fight woyanne is the best and he has the right to preach that to his followers. Those who think that other ways of fighting woyanne possible can go on their way and do their best on the side they chose. Please stop creating hatered and confusion on the diaspora. We had enough in the past from the likes of Ethiolion and Debteraw.
If you are criticizing the professor or the peaceful struggle as a whole, make it in a professional way (change yourself, I never seen you acting as a profesional anyway). Stop messing and leave the professor to accomplish his duty that the UDJ sent him for. You have no gut to criticise those who are in the fire, while you are sleeping and eating and living in ur luxury apartment in the US.
Selam wondm Elias,
Mesfin Woildemariam is more than a professor of Geography. He is one of the few people our country has produced that is not easy to replace. If you closely know him or you have even taken Geo 101 or other subjects under him, you would realise he is not only a geography teacher but also a philosopher, a politician, a sociologist and a far sighted visionary and a strategist.
What Professor Mesfin is saying in relation to forming a viable political party is that, it is not a good idea to raise arms and kill each other. If we do that we will be falling in the traps that is laid for us.
Please remember the recent history of Ethiopia, namely the 70’s and 80’s. EPRP raised arms against a government that was equipped to its nose with Russian arms and we know that after sacrificing irreplaceable young peopl, EPRP failed badly. What the distinguished professor is implying here is that it is not TPLF or/and EPLF per se that brought down the government of Mengistu Hailemariam and replaced it with the current regime. TPLF or EPLF would have never succeeded removing Mengistu in a thousand years, had it not been for the support tplf/eplf received from the British and the Americans. Obviously Mengistu was the most vicious dictator our country ever had but the West hated him not because of what he did to our people but for humiliating them on many occasions.
I thank you for your patient.
Yibeltal.
Let us give a chance to individuals and political parties and civic societies the right to express their views, we have a lot of difference as a human being and we better come together for the common goal to estabilish democracy in Ethiopia, we shuld not be always negative if some one brings new ideas from our views to the surface.
Dear Elias,
bado ayafrim sibal alsemahim?
Kentu shabiya neh!! Le Ethiopia andnet yeminesa sew atiwedim.
Ene bich awqI MALET BITAqOM MIN ALEBET.
KELETAM ATEHUN.Remain Respected.
Elyas Please grow up!
I am tired of u r nonsense! U have no capacity to challange the knowldge and wisdom of such a person like Prof Mesfin!
Have you heard the expression “Gedlo Madan”? That is exactly what you are engaged in currently. You keep saying ER will be the lone wolf and challenge professor Mesfin and his ways. Well sir, your reality so far has been character assassination and distortion of facts and the reasons for this are pretty obvious.
1. Your understanding of the concept of peaceful resistance is very limited.
2. You are so blinded by hate to the point that you have lost any sense of rationality.
3. You and your type are more comfortable hiding behind the keyboard to spread their venom. It takes spine and intelligence to stand up and debate issues in public. In other words, to use your own expression, you are spineless. Your writings to date speak to the latter.
Wake up and smell the coffee
Elias keep it up we shouldn’t allowed Professor Mesfin to kill the movement, peaceful struggle is a joke with TPLF.
I think Professor Mesfin have beef with Dr.Berhanu it’s shame to see a respected scholar with full of ego with out facts.Professor Mesfin was advocated peaceful struggle with facist TPLF the last 17 years and we are loosing our country Ethiopia.
The professor knows Ethiopians weakness we listen Professor,Dr. or Engineer even if they are leading us to hell please please not at this time we are loosing our country if we keep listening professor Mesfin Addiss Ababa will be Sudan border very soon.
My friend I share your idea,I advise pro Mesfin to retire and join the shemagle group.If goes against ethiopian people and sold facts like this he could just lose his pristage no body is going to listen to him.we have no more brothers to die for his peacefull means
Elias Kifle, are you still crazy? discuss events and ideas not individuals,of course little minds discuss people like you.So professor Mesfin is hero he is the true son of Ethiopia,\….you are trying to agitate people because if you are sponsered by Shabia,
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Elias, I think you’re the one who supposed to leave poltics and keep yourself in insulting people on the streets. How the hell you tell this respected person to follow your (Donkoro) Astesasebe. Pls man you better wake up, cause you’re comming more useless.
Prof. Mesfin is now the newly appointed messenger of the Woyane government to prepare the Ethiopian people and the Diaspora for the next drama:2010 Election. One thing is clear: this time the Woyane government decided to use his best and last weapon: Mesfin Woldemariam. What I don’t understand is how our academics at the end of the road decide to serve the enemy who has been imprisoning them, humiliating them for long. Perhaps they are suffering from a psychatric state of mind known as the “Stockholm Syndrome”(i.e. emotional bond with an abuser). Prof. Mesfin is telling us not to hate Woyane, not to call woyane as an enemy,etc. (1)Woyane is selling our land behind our back, (2) woyane killed many innocent demonstrators in the 2005 election, (3)woyane imprisoned more than 50,000 Ethiopians simply because they elected a legal party, CUD (4) Woyane robbed our national bank and replaced the gold bars with iron bars (5) woyane deliberately starved our people to death (6) woyane even blocked the famine affected people from humanitarian assistance etc. In light of all these facts,Prof. Mesfin is “instructing” us not to consider woyane as an enemy. If Woyane is not an anemy after doing all these things to us, then we can not call Graziani as enemy of Ethiopia! What is the difference between Lidetu and Prof. Mesfin now? Woyane will continue sending his respected emissaries as long as he fools us.
Woyane is the father of blackmailing. Who knows even Prof. Mesfin might be his latest victim of woyane blackmail! We don’t expect Prof. Mesfin to tell us this. But we have the right to deduce by taking his infamous assignment to pacify the Diaspora in to consideration.
This old man is the most arrogant ever left among hebashas.
FYI: Correction
Prof. Mesfine is a political-Geographer (not just a Geographer)
i am realy surprised pro mesfin to be critisized by you.are you going to fight or to give orders from the macdonalds front washington
Both of Ginbot 7’s alternative struggle and Professor Mesfin’s peaceful struggle ideas can work hand in hand. Let UDJ wage the internal struggle and let Ginbot 7 wage the other struggle. Woyane should be shown both the carrot (UDJ) and the stick (Ginbot 7 and other struggles) to come to terms and surrender power to an elected government. Otherwise, it will either fight to the end like the donkey or relax and make fun of the people like what happened to us after May 2005. Just let’s learn to live with both, since both types of struggle lend support to each other.
elias
ante mehayim leba yeleba zer. minim btdekim ertra ethiopiam mahenef atchilim.
kentu dkem siolih new
Dear Elias U are the only who have the gut to challenge this old “nutty Profesor”. This has been his character through out his life. Those of us who were part of the student movement back in the 70s know him very well. In the first place he is megalomanic and needs to be worshipped. Fuck professor Mesfin
I am really surprised you comments on the political stand of Hon. Professor Mesfin. For me his stand is matured and civilized one.Of course, it is individual freedom and stand to choose other hell options. But who are you after all to certify that you are a good politician so go ahead and you are not better to be this and that.
Elias, please, please just try to think at least the minimum that a person thinks just for being human. For me currently you are becoming a senseless wild animal.
Elias I want to remind you that writing some senseless thing on the cyber world is different from being in the actual war. I know that you will not be to the war front against Woyane as you know them no one can defeat them in a war. Of course, possible to defeat them in a peaceful struggle like what Hon Professor has chosen.
Long live Ethiopia!
your idiocy is becoming too much to be ignored when it comes to your big mouth against our icons like proffessor mesfin and his likes.it is likr a rat trying to wrestle with cat untill it is eaten up like a piece of meat.do not try to pick the weight you can not lift only to perish if you try so.but we need the spoilers like you to be thrown to the antiquities or dust bin.
y u afraid Mesfin? bcos he is a wise man? and u know ur stupidity?
Hay! Mr Elias do not rush to critize as you Know all answers and act as the Doctor of Medecine of Ethiopians ills and agony .There are two forms of struggle armed and peacful one is complementry to other. the choise is your intelect and experience and awarness of the consequence it entails .
I am very disapointed by Pro/Mesfin remarks time to time this days, he sound like supporting WAYANNE or i can say he become wayanne servent, what hapen Pro/Mesfin i don’t think you live for long, so either tell the truth or keep quite you are not helping Ethiopian people, you became one of Wayanne FLIP FLIPER BANDA. Ethiopian people will do fine with out you go to hell old man.
ONE ETHIOPIA
ONE PEOPLE
ONE NATION
Sometime the proffesor’s role is blown out of proportion: this man is infact apportunist ins ense that when the derg was slaughtering many shcolars, he was working with the derg and he never been touched by the brutal dergsits! he quitly lived during the emperior now in his few remaining years , he is doing the same thing living under the weyanes! His survival method is to please people at the top! Haven’t you read the article he wrote in prison given a tigrigna title saying that Tigray is the centere of ethiopian hsitory and all that jazz..yes Tigray is a histrotical place and it is an epicentere of ethiopian history however his motive to write that article titled”may Neakeb-somthing in that line explaining the fact that tigryans are more ethiopian than other or they more role sort of say- all these historical claims were designed to pleas the people at the top. Now his lethal mission starts to reducle Dr. Berhanu because dr. refused to say eshi geteya to him!! So Genbot 7 memebrs and sympathiasers have to organize and challenge this man for his actions. he is more concerned for hsi Zena than the overall cause! enoguht is enough, Prof. Leave the politics to the kurte ken lejoch!!
Elias:
This time i agree with you.
Let him talk about his (their) own way of struggle. We should NOT give him a chance to influence us!
I have a message for him:
Mr. Woldemariam, thanks for all your contribution in old good days.
But now, with all due respects…please leave us alone.
Hi Elias,
I was in ETH during the election; I remember he is not a man of politics. He was making a lot of mistakes on TV debates which made CUD vulnerable to Woyane counter attack.
I recommend Pro. Mesfin should be an advisor to other fields. on the other hand keep it on: we need any info about for whoever is. All belongs to ETH equally.
Finally pls remove your pop-up ads from your website: I hate websites with pop-ups due to security threats.
Thanks
Why don’t you leave him and UDJ alone…we can support both if we want and this is the effective way…G7 may force weyane to come to the table with a strong UDJ and that way, we will get our country back without bloodshed and economic distraction…So, you stu** bi** please stop messing up things. We know what you are after…You know what? You are good for nothing and you don’t know this too…
I just can’t understand as to why we Ethiopians are reduced to kissing the hard and harsh dirty ground infront of some types of self serving big and small opportunists who are not where they are to improve the lives of the Ethiopian people starving to death?
Is it due to the past feudal domination that imposed fatalism and passiveness infront of the small and big feudal robbers? Hmm…
Elias, you are such an idiot. But keep writing such a nonsense, “my way is the only way” approach. Although, I donot support the ideas of the narrow minded, so called professor Mesfin, unlike you, I believe he has a right to preach and advance his beliefs, for regardless of his contributions to the racist MAHD movement in the past, he is still an Ethiopian.
You sicken me Elias, and yet I still contribute to your wealth by browsing your web page, for this is the only way you can keep making money, to feed your kids and family.
Plaese let’s try to get out of this kind of seriously sickness of blackmailing and insulting people such as Professor Mesifin who are trying to do whtat they can do to their country.
Prof Mesfen is a confused old man came to America to get
tretment for his chronic disease.
Elias what is your field? Please stop from creating another division. You more inclined to work with EPLF, the professor tried to create a peaceful democratic transition by negotiation with TPLF. Both TPLF and EPLF are Ethiopia enemies; if you choose to work with EPLF to solve our problem go ahead. But do not say my way is always right and anyone who does not follow me should be blamed. Please, please …stop from creating another division because of the outlook difference. Nothing good will be happened from EPLF and did not happen.
Elias;
you rock Elias. Yes with due respect the prof. should not damage the struggle what Ethiopians are already doing it ; what Ethiopians are spilling their blood for their country.
Some Ethiopians think the prof. is the ultimate man to look for their guidance of the method of the struggle. It is their right to follow him but leave most Ethiopians who believe in all kinds of struggle form whom they follow. Meanwhile woyane is fanning the different methods to make a division within Ethiopians. That is what the good prof and some of his blind followers miss. To give freedom for others to fight woyane the way they wish and the way woyane understand. I think it is a fundamental right for many to fight back woyane they think it fits the extreme urgency of the country.
I salute you for telling “jonya is jonya”
wey gud
Hahahahaahaha,
Elias,
You are a beautiful monkey!!!
Let’s focus on our enemy !!!
Stop fighting EACH OTHER !!!
Unite all opposition group (Andnet, Ginbot 7, OLF, Hibret and etc. !!!
Yes for Unity !!!
No for fighting each other !!!
Yes for HR-2003 !!!
Elias,
This time around I think you are a little bit over your head! Who do yo tink you are to insult prof. Mesfin like he is a child? Don’t you know that Prof. Mesfin can make your kinds out of a pure mud? Please try to understand your limits before you open your big mouth. Maferia neh.