Ethiopia’s beggar dictator Meles Zenawi thought by forcing opposition leader Birtukan Mideksa to sign an apology letter he can {www:humiliate} her and her supporters. But when you look at the interview she was forced to give today on the Woyanne-controlled ETV and the apology letter itself, it is glaringly clear that she was made to give the apology under extreme {www:duress}, having been subjected to mental torture, including {www:solitary} confinement, for the past 21 months. More than any thing, the forced {www:apology} letter and the ETV interview prove how miserable, cowardly thugs Meles and Woyannes are. Had Birtukan been in their place, she would never do such an inhumane thing against a peaceful, defenseless person. Birtukan’s words in the video below is an indictment against the Meles barbaric regime. — Elias Kifle
77 thoughts on “Birtukan’s “apology” an indictment against the Meles regime”
That is a very accurate assessment. That tyrant has a truly sadistic nature. He is very hell bent on humiliating others. Psychologists of the world are going to have a field day analysing this one. A really demented sadistic tyrant is what we have in Ethiopia.
Well said, Elias.
Anybody watching that video would immediately empathize with her. A poor, defenceless woman apologizing to a strong government and an entire nation!! So farcical.
Meles will suffer forever knowing that he Birtukan will always be his moral foil, his moral opposite.
This is sicker than I thought. These are a bunch of criminals, we need to get rid of.
There is no other option!!
Well said Elias,
Though Birtukan said so due to torturing jail experience, what we felt is anger and unity to fight this murderer and generational enemy of Ethiopia- Meles.
Divided we fail!
Waching the drama made me puke. Burtukan apologizing child killers and the Ethiopian people who ador her? For how long we have to seat and watch such disgusting act of Eritrean thugs? I am embarrassed but mor than ever determined to do my very best to see a democratic Ethiopia on a grave of TPLF thugs. Meles and his crminal thugs wrongly think that they can command respect by humulating our people but they are strengthing our resolve to continue to fight the parasites.
death to woyane thugs.
I absolutely agree with that. The Ethiopian people know the truth and this incident gave me the push I personally needed to fight this barbaric regime. History is on the side of freedom! A word of advise to all of us, let us not even talk about Birtukans apology as the thugs want us to do. By doing that we defeat there latest propaganda.
The truth is going to come out eventually. this man is so sadistic and cruel. he thought he is humiliating her and true Ethiopians by forcing her to sign a letter he probably has written himself and say things he wants her to say. Even his own cohorts will not believe that it is Birtukan’s own apology. she looks frightened. God knows what has happened to her in that dungeon . These people are bunch of rapists and killers. He probably thinks he has silenced the people of Ethiopia by silencing her. I do not blame him. He is getting delusional day by day. At least, she is a free person both mentally and physically. he is the one who has been in prison for the last 20 years. He can not even mingle with his own people. he is tucked in arat kilo dungeon guarded twenty four hours a day by his hound dogs.
One more time evel Meles proved himself to the world and the international community how cheap and low he is. MELES PROVED TO THE WORLD HOW HE IS CHEAP VERY CHEAP AND LOW
Ato Elias,
On many occasions I disagree/d with your views or approaches. I’m with you on this one. The way they did this is just disgusting and does not serve any purpose. I dont know who they’re trying to fool. What matters now is that she’s out for her kid and mother.
Dear Elias,
I guess u have given a very good assessment. Meles got her alone. No body helped her including the diaspora, Forget the international community-whose interest is to keeping their own interest.
Good coverage this time though.
THanks
On one side I am relieved for the sake of her daughter. I hope and pray that she has not been permanently traumatized by her mother’s ordeal. On the other hand, who is in his or her right mind to really believe that Birtukan signed the document without being subjected under unconscionable duress? Even the ghoulish creature who crawled out from under some cactus trees himself won’t believe it. Solitary confinement, the heart-melting question she has been getting from her daughter every time she comes to visit her in jail. That little angel and her aging mother need her out. She is their future. I strongly support her if she shied out of politics henceforth . Now it others turn to pick up the pieces from where she left and sustain the struggle. She has left a permanent footmark on the path to democracy. Let’s leave her alone and move on.
meles zenawi, u can be a theater director when u get retire.
Tyrant time is counting and the worst political miscalculation. He thinks, will get him more money from the West. Remember, Saddam Husseine, Iraq found in a rat hole.
What a Barbaric thing to make her sign in addition to imprisoning our beloved hero,leaving her infant or baby daughter with out a mother for this long time.
“Tarik Yeferdewal”
Elias this video is making me so sick TPLF WOYANE AGAZI understands and respects only GUNS guys lets not fool our self MELES AGAZI needs guns not demonstration
WUUUU i am going crazy with this WOYANE NEWS BULLSHIT
By Hunde Dhugassa
The widely protested case of Birtukan Midheksa’s fabricated imprisonment started, supported and finalized with wide media coverage from both the government and the opposition side. Clearly, Birtukan has suffered unfairly and her freedom is a relief for the majority and success for the campaigners. Her second imprisonment plus his 20 years of human right record hunted Meles Zenawi in all his oversees trip and a served as a uniting factor for the Diasporas activists and politicians. As any peace and freedom loving citizen of that country, I am also happy to witness the freedom of Birtukan from the languishing prison of Kalitti. She deserves a hero’s welcome.
But after reading all the news and watching the news related to this fact I started to think thousand of other Ethiopians who have got neither high profiles nor such big campaign but enduring much more hardship and tortures in the same prison she left a day ago. My mind quickly remembered a civil engineer of Addis Ababa University Mr. Mesfin Abebe, who was kidnapped from Kenya and sentenced to death penalty and his friend Tesfawun Chemeda, also a civil engineer from Addis Ababa University and sentenced to life in presentment in the same history line. In the same day the kangaroo court sentenced other 13 individuals of diverse background including COE, Lawyers, students, Business men, public servants and students to long term prison sentences. They are tagged OLF supporters or conspirators. The government of Meles Zenawi is excellent in tagging and fabricated charges. In fact they act in total disregard of the constitution they themselves wrote and the basic democratic principles in which they trade in the face of western donors.
Dozens of Ginbot-7 tagged individuals of different background were seen on TV screen sentenced to death and life imprisonment, some of them in absentia. It is very sad to see 80 year old person with coup plotting and much unrelated hate twisted charges and the predetermined sentences of Life imprisonment.
Even if the Oromo’s represent the lion’s share of the Kalitti Prison as witnessed by Siye Abraha and Dr. Birhanu Negga, almost Ethiopians from all corners are languishing in different prison and concentration camps; specially in Kalitti and Ma’ikelawi. Some of them have not seen sun light for years and some have to endure torture every day. They all deserve freedom. They are there for so long and so painfully in a very unfair manner. Most of them are imprisoned for years before they have been brought to court with false and fabricated evidences, some of them have never been tried before the existing court.
We should take this moment not only to celebrate the freedom of Birtukan but also to think and work for the freedom of thousands, these who we have never heard of their names or histories and millions of Ethiopians who became second class citizens on their own land. Tonight Birtukan is at home with her little but dozens of thousands are passing the night with tears, wounds and anguish.
How long the night is, the day is sure to come!!!
Together we can
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I wonder who is fooling who in these days of my Ethiopia; for example, they say that fake pardon was requested by some oppressed citizens and fake pardon was granted by one Tyrant KILLER who just won a fake election by 99.6%.
Who is fooling this frog looking Tyrant Zenew? He better must be fooling his mother!!!
What about many political prisoners who are in Kality ??????????????????
I don’t know about you guys but I am tired of dying here on the cyberspace.
Even from the distance we are dying by each injustices evil news up on our people.
Even though I’m not, politically, supporter of Birtukan, what she did is grate! und can be catagorized as Mandela group.
In Ethiopia,those who think non-violence or peaceful struggle is possible, they should revise again their ideology. Meles is an illegitimate ruler. After this he only understands one language!, i.e., gun!!!!
SODOM Meles Zenew,
As you designed it, we have a fake constitution. We also have a sham election. Our parliament is bogus. You are a counterfeited Ethiopian who became our sham PM. Your pardons and the request to your pardons are nothing but phony.
SODOM Zenew you need a nose job so why don’t you use the money you have been looting from us and get new nose.
By the way, you like a gloomy sodom Frog.
We have to be happy for her release from notorious jail, as every body agrees knows that she shouldn’t be jailed in the first place. Obviously it is Woyane drama as predicted, woyane jailed her to clear the way to the 99.6% “ unexpected by them overwhelming majority “.
I t was yesterday when the tyranny said that “her release is out of question it the legal issue ..” then today he released her ….so he can arrest whom ever he thinks treat to his power and release when he feels “secure..” he is the judge/court he is the government he is the constitution .. he is every thing….
As I motioned in the beginning every body, let alone Ethiopian, any right full human being has to be happy for her release , how ever the strugglewas not till her release it to the prevail of democracy, rule of low , good governance by removing the dictatorial junta from power these are what she was for and hopefully will be . Don’t for get for a second that there are southlands of Birtukans in the woyane notorious jail and the whole country taken hostage by tribal junta.
God bless Birtukan.I dont expect any thing from invaiders(TPLF)Meles is the son of banda and half tigreans how on earth you expect him to be Ethiopian.He is doing his job Humiliating and disintegrating our mather land.What he did to Birtukan is a tip of the iceberg.Remember how many ordinary Ethiopians are killed by agazi every day specially out side addis Abeba.No body belive in this video. Every Ethiopian knows how evel they are many ethiopians even do not wish to live together with them,if we are not going to do some thing with invaiders soon the revolution will change its face for the worest.God bless Ethiopia our mather land death to Agazi(TPLF)and there murderer leader the black HITLER:I sleep well because i allwayes support For organization(Party)who are working to get read of TPLF if there is any one who are not helping they have to atleast support for(ESAT)who are trying to tell the truth for the peopel who never told the truth for generation.Long live ethiopia and G7.death to TPLF:
WHO SHOULD APOLOGIZE?
THIS IS’ ZEMENE GIRIMBIT’
She did the right thing. By apologizing, she humiliated them infront of the world even though they thought she humiliated herself on national media controlled by the hammerhead bandas. Election is over so they think they have played their game but wait and see how the woyannes will be misearbly humiliated when they will be held accountable of all the crimes they committed infront of the people who helped them oust the derg, the untouchable derg whose officials are rotting in prison but we humans tend to forget that history repeats itself and that karma is for real,
May God the Almighty Bless Ethiopia by removing these lowlife parasites.
… Brutkan is free but Ethiopia is in prison.
Birtukan’s words shows how cruel is the gangster weyane junta. I have presonally decided that these thugs have to be removed. This is very embarrasing to us.
For those of you who have been saying peaceful struggle does not bear fruit this should be a lesson. With a creative actions like what Birtukan did just now Ethiopians can burry meles further deep.
She made him draw the bad card. And he is more exposed than ever. Bravo Birtukan.
Bertukan’s so-called “confession and apology” exposes Meles as a real crook, sadistic and a heartless jerk. The so-called “apology” from Bertukan is the last straw and only deepened the gulf between him and the Ethiopian people.
That fool would have made a good impression with the Ethiopian people both at home and abroad if he had simply said that the government erred and apologizes to Bertikan for wrongly imprisoning her and that she was entitled to be free. But he missed the opportunity and instead made himself the most hated person in Ethiopia.
He can be sure that nobody, including his hodam supporters, believes that Bertukan wrote that letter of apology. It is clear that the dictator himself wrote it and forced her to sign it.
I can imagine his jealousy when he sees the picture of Bertukan surrounded by her loving and adoring supporters after she was released from prison yesterday. That is a popularity he would never taste in his life. As someone has mentioned he has been in prison at the Arat Kilo palace for the past 20 years and is surrounded only by his guards.
What kind of life is that? The only way he can get out from that hell-hole he calls his “palace” is either through an apology to the Ethiopian people for the crimes he committed against them in the last 20 years or by violence.
The choice is his.
Thank you Elias for your introductory comment.
This is really disgusting! Meles is still a child and a kid! He is bragging by torturing and humiliating a defenseless woman. What a moron! I’ve never hated Meles and Woyanes like I do now. Hell with them! They should be removed by any means. This Doma Ras ToTas!!!
Let us bring tyrant Meles down to his knees by all means at our disposal.
God bless Lady Liberty
Belaye Getu (#16) is right. Birtukan has suffered what tens of thousands continue to suffer with hardly anybody advocating for them(amnesty, HRW, etc….)
the target audience for weyane’s sickening propaganda reels are not Ethiopians but his handlers and financiers in the west. The west and their media corps are gonna make an icon of their loyal puppet, meles chiraQu, after ignoring the plight of the the genuine icon, Birtukan. it’s clever to say whatever the weyane gangs force her to say in their immoral media as one can only play kukulu(hide &seek) with one’s friends, not with real chiraQoch unless you wanted to get gobbled up at the first sight of them in the game. Best thing is to avoid these inhuman chiraQs for the sake of her little daughter.
Can one imagine such a loving, beautiful and honest person in prison when the Jart-looking Meles in a palace. Beauty & the Beast.
A documentary of some sort has got to be made about Birtukan and distributed by YouTube, Twitter, DVD, and whatever to the wider people of the world to raise awareness. Elias is in the best position to fit the job and the public will fit the bill. Raise the game a notch up.
God bless your struggle for justice.
From Zero chance of being released prior to the election to the so called pardon now shows us how scared the Meles regime was one her chances of wining the election.
What a shame to lock up a person for 28 months for no reason!
Well said Mr.Elias.It made me sick to the stomac when she had to apologize to the people of Ethiopia. I can only say cowards.
By forcing her to confess and releasing her Meles Zenawi made sure that she will not say anything to challenge him. In short she is free but has no freedom of speech.
elias,
thank you so much bro! you described it properly how the TPLF tigreans racist, terrorist and criminal groups are not only cruel but also thier cruelity comes from a lack of selfesteem and too much coward ness in thier mind.tplf elements are even worse than Nazi of Germany, as a result TPLF criminal groups are not only killing and harassing Ethiopians but also they play out of human beings by giving the worst tourcher ever in the histroy of human…..but it wont be long that all the criminal and racist elements of tplf will be draged to justice and receive thier death penalities for the crimes that they have committed against humanity for the last 20 years
She is free at last that is all matters, Glory to be to God. We all Ethiopian live our life and forget about our heros if they defeated. It is easy for us to judge or to condemen. She only knows in what conditions she passed. Now the Weyanes think they fulled us!!!! hahahaha
we inferred that this contemporary buchers are trying to humiliate and touch the ego of innocent civilians. look how this drama is orchestrated.
anyone can understand birtukan’s indictment but woyannes futile attempt is to to convince his cadres only.oh ! God ! please ! please ! save my country ethiopia from such aramuchaa hodam woyannes!!!! one day might be the moribund of this ruthless racist regime.
let us raise to liberate ethiopia and unite !
Thank you Elisase,
I cannot agree more with your assessment of such coward act from a dictator. We all know the truth; it won’t surprise me if they think this video will make us respect Bertukan any less because they are getting dumber by each election season.
Meles: we won’t fear you more that you fear us, more than you fear Bertukan and more than you fear the power of Ethiopians aspiration for democracy. Don’t you see it? We are almost there
This is truly disgustiung. All up right standing Ethiopians reject this. Such humiliation of a respected political leader does not occur in any country that considers itself democratic. Meles through this action is insulting the intelligence of the Ethiopian citizenry, and the irony is that there is nothing he gains from this shameless act.
Thank you very much Elias for following this expected tyrant cunning fox clown’s arts and crafts.
The fake “giant” looking with a clay feet dictator couldn’t even stand the nominal free and honest expression of a single women out of some 80 million Ethiopians, but PANIC! and jail her, physically and psychologically abuse and torture her, forcing her to LIE BIG just like he himself has been routinely LYING BIG both to the world and the Ethiopian people in whose name he commits endless crimes against humanity and human rights.
Under the extreme circumstance, she has no choice but fall in line with the master liars and sign the fabricated poisonous pill confessions written by the cunning dictator fox dressed in sheep skin and forced down her throat. The occasion is is not at all surprising.
As a realist, in fact I would have been 100% surprised if she would have been released with out totally and completely embracing the ruthless dictator’s ruthless self serving MOTHER OF ALL LIES.
Folks: What is this case in the scale of comparison if you soberly compare the entire 100% silence of the entire Ethiopian opposition when being robbed by the same ONE MAN dictator in broad day light all of its votes and left the Wayane parliament without lifting its small fingers?
Add to this again the entire opposition’s total apathy and complete helplessness even to directly and or indirectly join the recent case of the dynamic proactive diaspora who got together in unity within diversity, effectively and rightly challenging the dictator’s usual propaganda campaign visit to the disgraced University of Columbia.
Some may say,”Why fight when you can’t win?” But what is winning?
Winning is: hundred battles and hundred defeats, one more battle and one victory. That is called winning the war based on the experiences of the hundred loses that led to the ONE VICTORY.
“The people who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.”~Lloyd Jones has to state
No empire is brought down abiding by its rules! Birtukan should leave the country and join the struggle here!
As President Isias one’s remarked “the TPLF can not survive for one night in power had it not been to the support lent to it by the US!” The US is the main enabler of this dog faced butt. Let the people at the state department brag about their complicity in forcing a defenceless mother to their “up to the nose” armed and pumpered servant “Kedami” after availing himself of 99.6% votes.
keep up you guns.its time!!!
Elias-
Your article is right on the point! These are cruel and inhumane peoples. Their barbaric and sadistic acts are counter productive. They turn millions and millions to their enemies. We will never stop our struggle before seeing the prime monster before the international criminal court. Unlike what he did to Birtukan and millions others, he will have his day in an open and fair court. His acts are dfenseless and i sure hope will get him the maximum penalty – death by electrocution!!!!!!!!!!
Long live Ethiopia!!!!!
#20 Join us,
Come on and come back to your senses for God’s sake.
A young woman who have already suffered more than her share, is a single mother with an under aged child as well as an elderly mother needs to come out and liberate 80 million Ethiopians? Hmm…
What role will then be left for all the the diaspora population as well as all the Ethiopian opposition guards?
Her leaving the country and getting out of touch with the people at home will only benefit the already scared dictator. So, please leave her alone and concentrate on the right thing of forming unity within diversity in order to replace BAD GOVERNANCE with GOOD GOVERNANCE and true justice for all.
WHE MUST STOP THIS MAN BEFORE IS TO LATE,LOOK WHAT HE DID TO OUR COUNTRY. HE DIVIDED US.
Oh My God Meles are you out of your mind? What are you doing? You are supposed to a leader not an entertainer. A little respect I have for you is lost forever now. Do you think anyone who has a brain in mind would believe she has written that letter? The letter and the TV apology have hurt you and your cabinet more than words can express. I am ashamed of my country and all the educated people who are serving you in your joke governance. Now I know very well how everything is done in Ethiopia. Shame, Shame on all of you!Who are involved in this. Meskia !
Elias,
There several things I don’t agree with you . This time I am 100% with you. You can even tell from her facial expression that she is under significant pressure. I hope the end of TPLF will come soon. Birtukan a heroin without a doubt. God bless her.
People who have low self-esteem always try to look big by humilating others. Meles and Woyanies in general will go to their graves doing all kinds of outlandish things trying to look big, but always looking even smaller, more cowardly and more despicable.
I couldn’t sleep after watching that video interview, and the content of the letter Burtukan was forced to sign.