TIME magazine writes about opposition leader Birtukan Mideksa’s release and questions whether it is for show. TIME also points about the West’s {www:implicit} approval of Meles Zenawi’s anti-human rights conducts by continuing to give him hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance every year. His regime has received over a billion dollars from the U.S. Gov’t alone in 2009.
Meles has come under little pressure to lead his country any other way — and his {www:semantics} come straight from his allies. A U.S. State Department briefing note on Ethiopia exemplifies Western {www:equivocation} by giving the impression that the country is moving forward. – TIME
The billions of dollars in assistance and military training the Meles brutal regime is receiving from the Obama Administration makes the Ethiopian people’s struggle for freedom extremely difficult.
Read the full text of TIME’s analysis here.
12 thoughts on “Meles semantics come from his Western allies – TIME”
I disagree with the Times reference that Meles is an Ethiopian. The half baboon and the half beast is from another planet. It the duty of all ethiopians to eliminate this alien together with his merecenaries..
Nik wadham of the Time may think his watered down anylisis and carefully chosen words, to reduce the level of the due urgency of the violations in woyane’s ethiopia, by appearing balanced reporter would fool no body. In similar vain, the US state dpt called the fraud election results of 99.6% simply “not to meet intl. standard” and not a “daylight robbery”. Now Mr Wadham tells us about an election “handily won” not completely “perverted” as should be called. The US knows its policy is bunkrupted in large swaths of east Africa. The Eritrians scorn it, the Sudanise Scorn it, the Somalis scorn it and except for their minority lap dog Meles regime the Ethiopians scorn it too. They may try to fool some people some time, but you can not fool all the people all the time!! USA’s policy is badly hemmoraging its legitmacy in east africa.
TIME magazine has become perceptive now a days.
Dear Elias,
I have read the Time article. I am pleased that an article from Ethiopian Review is quoted. The site is getting more recognition and thus, Ethiopian writers are being heard internationally. Keep up the good work!
The pimp Zenawi with his high hill shoes and his harlot pain-to-the-eyes wife have to go. Zenawi tries to sound smart, he comes out cheap. He tries to sound arrogant, he comes out cheap. He tries to sound brave, he comes out cheap. Jus because he can bully Birtukan, he thinks he is IT. Cheap SOB!
Do they (The West) know it’s Christmas?
From El Niño to Islamic Extremism (Fire) to Illegal Immigration (Deluge) to Financial/Economic/Societal meltdown that the West is undergoing is the result of blind and unfair support it is providing to Ethiopia’s wicked government.
If Ethiopians want to oust melese they could have done it long long time ago. It is not his military power, not even his western financial support that can keep him in power. If I have to name one single factor it is this.The unique indifference, of most Ethiopian intellectuals afforded ample
opportunity for a tyrannical rule of melese to flourish. Nevertheless, there were some who stand out among the croud and proved to be giants by standing in the face of the enemy-Birtukan is such a one.There are also those who tirelessly continue to do their part by exposing the regime.Over all though many remined in their hibernation for fear of losing social respectability. There will be due recompense for those who are deserters of public cause.
This despised regime is waiting for some brave Ethiopians to take it down, it is only fit for ruin.
Compromise and boot licking will lead no where but to humiliation only a dart aimed at the chest will be counted the most.
Janamora,
Brilliant analysis why Meles regime and TPLF are stil in power. So true, Western and Eastern money, military few minority will be crushed by the almighty power PEOPLE. I people say enough is enough then opression is over. This can only be achieved by unity. That is why as soon as TPLF took power, it decided to ethnically divide the people into region. As Abraham Lincoln said A HOUSE THAT IS DIVIDED WILL NOT STAND. Unfortunately the way we are raised, “not making a wave”, speak up, etc. the way we want to remain individualistic, the way we are not open to other fellow Ethiopians, they way we are opportunistic are all factors that Meles is able to be embezzle Ethiopia with its click and outsiders.
Most of all you can’t win with fear, you can’t bring true great change with fear. “The only thing to fear is fear itself” Roosevelt.
Very good point Janamora
If there is a lesson to be learned from the TIME article is that western powers have no qualms supporting tyrants and making them look “democratic” at any cost.
The sooner Ethiopians in the diaspora identify their true friends and enemies, the sooner the tyrant Melles will be defeated. Westerners ONLY CARE about their interests, in fact, their interests are ONLY safeguarded by tyrants like Melles who live to obey their orders. All the democracy crap that comes out of the west is nothing but a self serving propaganda. In fact western powers hate a government that responds to its people, they call those kinds of governemtn all kinds of names only because they work for the interests of their people.
My Ethiopian brothers and sisters, this is high time to unite and fight Woyanne tyranny before it is too late. I promise you that as soon as the western powers figure out Melles is in trouble they will do all they can to make Ethiopia ungovernable like Somalia as soon as they can. Wise up soon and save your country before it is too late.
Why the West does support Mulese?
– melese is a weak, an isolated individual who can easily be manipulated
– As he did in Somalia, melese will be complicit in the break up of Sudan
– with help of melese, eritrea will be dismantle into ethnic enclaves as Ethiopia does
– finally, he will be forced to seek support from China deliberately to get an excuse giving support for libation fronts- Ethiopia cease to exist at that point
Great dynasties of the world: The Ethiopian royal family
A clan that began with King Solomon
Ian Sansom The Guardian, Saturday 9 October 2010 Article history
Series: Great dynasties of the world
The Ethiopian royal family base their right to rule on a dynastic line stretching back to King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, though Bahru Zewde in A History of Modern Ethiopia: 1855-1974, says the association between Solomon – king of Israel, son of David, builder of the First Temple in Jerusalem, and husband of 700 wives and 300 concubines – and the Queen of Sheba, fabled monarch of the ancient kingdom of what is now Yemen, has “scarcely any scientific basis”.
Scientific basis or not, the story of Solomon and Sheba has given us the great legend of the Solomonic dynasty.
It begins around the 10th century BC. In the Bible, she arrives at the court of King Solomon to test his renowned wisdom with “hard questions”. So impressed is she with Solomon’s good judgment and justice that she gives him fine spices and gold, and in return, “King Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty.”
In the 14th century Ethiopian compilation of legends, the Kebra Nagast (“The Glory of Kings”), Solomon’s granting of royal bounty to Sheba is interpreted to mean sexual relations. According to the Kebra Nagast, Sheba subsequently gave birth to a son who became Menelik, King of Axum. And if legend is to be believed, Menelik became the founder of the ruling Ethiopian dynasty.
Haile Selassie – born Tafari Mekonnen – became emperor in 1930. In Ethiopian tradition, succession to the throne could be claimed by any male blood relative of the emperor. Selassie claimed distant descent through his father. He believed he was called to be king. In his autobiography, My Life and Ethiopia’s Progress 1892-1937, written in Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia, Selassie set out his claim to nobility. “Thus We Ourselves, by virtue of Our descent from the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon, ever since We accepted in trust … first the regency of the Ethiopian realm and later the Imperial dignity, right up to the present, We have set out to the best of Our ability to improve, gradually, internal administration by introducing into the country western modes of civilisation through which Our people may attain a higher level; hence Our conscience does not rebuke Us.” He wrote the book while living in England, in Bath, in exile – Mussolini had invaded Ethiopia in 1935.
Haile Selassie’s reign is extraordinary for many reasons, not least because it was claimed during his lifetime that he was an incarnation of Jesus. He is worshipped to this day by Rastafarians, who take their name from “Ras”, meaning “head” or “duke”, and “Tafari”, being Selassie’s original family name.
Selassie’s reign is bookended by two great works exploring the meaning of royalty. In 1931, Evelyn Waugh published Remote People, an account of Selassie’s coronation. And in 1978 the Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski published The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat, detailing the last days of his reign as “the whole court – though slowly and with dignity – was sliding toward the edge of the cliff”. Selassie was deposed in 1974. He died in prison, in mysterious circumstances, in 1975.
janabora,i agreed with you for sure.