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OLF spokesman speaks out on Gen. Kemal Gelchu

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A spokesman for the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), Ato Lencho Bati, told Ethiopian Review that the report about Gen. Kemal Gelchu being under a virtual house arrest is incorrect and that the general can travel any where he wishes.

Ato Lencho has also said that OLF troops have not been immobilized and that his organization appreciates the Eritrean government for giving shelter to OLF members and supporters while Oromos are being mistreated and brutalized in Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan and other countries in the region.

Meanwhile, Ethiopian Review has been informed yesterday that another well-known Ethiopian patriot named Shambel Zewdu has disappeared over a week ago in Eritrea and his current whereabouts remain unknown. Shambel Zewdu was elected to parliament in Ethiopia from the Gonder region at the 2005 election but when Woyanne stole the vote, he decided to join the Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Front (EPPF). Earlier this year, he submitted his resignation after Col. Fitsum (the so-called Eritrean adviser to Ethiopian opposition groups) had tried to arrest him and for the past 11 months he had been living in Asmara as a refugee. Many of the rank-and-file members of EPPF looked upon Shambel Zewdu as a father figure. More details about him later.

In a radio broadcast to Ethiopia yesterday, the Asmara-based EPPF radio that is under the control of the rogue Eritrean colonel has blasted Ethiopian Review editor and 4 others as destructive individuals who are trying to hijack the organization. This is the same corrupt colonel who made EPPF his personal piggy-bank.

87 thoughts on “OLF spokesman speaks out on Gen. Kemal Gelchu”

  3. Thanks to mr.Lencho Bati about your information.So Elias think twice, if you really want do the right thing go and see in the ground and make sure what is going on like you do before.

  4. he has to say that cause ….but can they succeed?we will see.Ethiopians are shallow.we don’t plan a far.do you think that eritreans will think positive about the people of ethiopia?never!their hatred is a product of their long ‘struggle for indpendence’,which is infact a self sellout struggle for mercenaries like Egypt and the Arab world.the best ethiopia can do is take the eastern border lands from eritrea in broad daylight.anyway eritrea can’t do good for us.a country of bitches and bandas

  6. This makes one wonder as to who “Tikur Chaka” was? Doesn’t it. Abreha Belay’s website was printing smear propaganda against EPPF attributing its propaganda to an annonymous guy named “Tikur Chaka”. Now we are reading basically the lies re-written on Ethiopian Review.

    For anyone who can put two and two together it becomes clear that what Ethiopian Review is printing is identical words attributed to “Tikur Chaka” in Abreha Belay’s Ethiomedia.

  7. Mr Lencho,
    Are you benefiting in the expense of Kemal? “Siastebabilus Aytehal”. really We ashamed of you!where is OLF now? its already dead due to shaebia securities repressive command. you have to think twice before you spread a trash propaganda. Thank You Elias for updated info.

  8. Elias, any information about our only hope ( our opposition fighters) for freedom need to be told. This is what makes your site our window for the light in the end of the tunnel. Dont Hesitate to inform us and do what you do best. Keep up brother, you are brave man.
    Regards,
    Tesf

  9. ቫብያ ኦነግን የሚደግፈው ኦነግ እገነጠላለሁ ብሎ ስለሚታገል ብቻ ነው. EPPF ለኢትዮጵያ አንድነት ስለሚታገልና ሻብያ የኢትዮጵያ አንድነት ስለማይፈግ ብቻ ነው.Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me…they are Two Sides of One Coin….

  10. THE SHABIA AND O.L.F HAVE COMMON INTEREST = THEY WANT TO SEE ETHIOPIA DESTROYED COMPLETELY. THE E.P.P.F MEMBERS ARE DETAINED IN ERITREA BECAUSE THEY WANT TO LIBERATE AND RESTORE ETHIOPIA.

  12. Brother Elias,

    I wish you have asked Mr. Bati the reason behind the war his front is waging in Kenya.

    In regards to those who are now in incarceration in Asmara, I think their case should be investigated and obtain the real story behind such measures taken against them. All political movements peaceful or those involved in armed struggle go through conflicts among members and change of hearts by people positioned at higher echelons. Did Colonel Fitsum incarcerate those individuals after receiving hints of desertions? Also, I think the other groups who now function as the new leaders of EPPF should be given a platform on this website to clarify their positions on this new development. Otherwise, it will lead to a scenario of ‘me against them’. What do you think? I think it is the right thing to do.

  13. Well Elias

    It looks like they don’t want to any more. They stopped seeing a good thing about you. You have been rejected and they know you are full of tultula. Get over it and be a good looser. Kewedeku buhala meferaget lemelalat!!!

  14. PLEAS elias do not try cover your sin by taking the honest eritrea goverment that trying help ethiopian oppostion group for mutal benfiet stop your destruction.and i demand you to explain us why you wear basted from EPPF

  15. shabias have an uninterrupted access of defending their devil isayas afewerk on this site. mr kemal thanking shabia for not killing him can’t change who shabia is.
    yes, groups with a plan to see Ethiopia in pieces such as kemal of olf are in favor of isayas afwerki, however clueless isayas can’t even work with them since his brain is too slow to process such tactics.

  16. Here comes the bankrupt Elias!!! Nothing more than this come up to show how stupid you are. I am wondering how and where you studied political science. If I were you I would have gone in the hiding forever. You have been humiliated so many times for the naked lies and fabricated stories which turned out to be false. Please for the sake of justice and morality get the hell out of Ethiopian politics and mind your own personal business, if you have any. Who do u think trust you any more?

  17. It is a relief that at least we have Eritrea as a haven to fight Woyanne. It is good to know that the OLF fighters and the others could launch attacks from Eritrea which is the only place where opponents gather and regroup in this age of international coziness and the tightening of liberation movements. Lets not jump to conclusions either way and lets respect the right of Eritrea as a sovereign country to keep an eye of whoever is in their territory. imagine the people who are killed and tortured in Ethiopia where even citizens are not respected as even guests. There is a difference between a guest and a resident. People are being tortured at this minute in Mekod camp, Birr Sheleqo, Makelawi and the countless prisons in Ethiopia and citizens are being confiscated of their lands and houses and we complain if Eritrea is supervising alien guests. Ethiopians have lost the right of citizenship and tortured and land confiscated in their own country!

  20. Elias, there is not doubt that you are working very hard when it comes to fighting Weyane. I am sure all people have noticed that even Shabia itself. However, i feel like you are rushing a litle bit when it comes to issuing such a sensitive article regarding EPPF in Eritrea. I have a feeling that something is really going on in the EPPF circle, let us not underestimate weyane as they are verywhere working to demolish any strong opposition groups like EPPF, thus i have a suspect that some of the members may have been infiltrated by weyane. Remember, Shabia wants two things. On the one hand the national security of Eritrea and on the other hand they want weyane to be destroyed. Thus if we look this two Shabia’s strategic objectives, i have a doubt that they will play a distructive role for EPPF. They are very experienced when it comes to security, even their own Military officials are under the radar of Isayas’s intelligent officers, thus who ever it is weather EPPF or their own colonels, if they are playing with weyane they will nail it down, so lets wait patiently to understand what is going on inside EPPF as we will obstruct the future goal and strugle to overthrough weyane, in my opinion the EPPF in diaspora is the cause of all this crisis. The strugle should be led and directed by the one’s in the battle field, the diaspora should only be involved in fund raising and assisting. Elias, what you did recently through the few articles you published is just you made happy weyane, you actually gave them a christmas Gift. When you have issues with your alies, you should never make your critisism in public, what ever time it takes you should discuss it privately. Anyways, as always i love you Elias because i know your heart.

    Best wishes to you for the coming NEW YEAR!

  21. Hi Elias: I like your patriotic attitude..you are a true ethiopian. Ethiopian unity is the core of everything. Isias afewerki fully supports the ethiopian disintegration and not ethiopian unity. so no wonder he supports OLF and is attacking EPPF. Isias ultimately wants a disintegrated ethiopia and wants to unite eritrea with his root region (his fatherland and motherland Tigrai) look to his ancestry.

    http://www.royalark.net/Ethiopia/tigray5.htm

    Long live Ethiopia

  22. Hey, “To err is human” said the good book! So let’s not get self righteous and demonize Elias. In my opinion, yes he did a disservice by jumping of accusing Eritrea before the fact were in. I also, can not help but notice either blind Weyane supporters and some disgruntled Eritreans against Isaias are having some field day about this rumor.
    As far as I know, Eritrea is the only country we need to work with, not only to get rid of Weyane – which is coming soon, but for long haul.

    I can live with land locked Ethiopia, but I can not live with a neighbor I could never trust. So, those of you who are crying zeraf, convince us that Eritrea means harm to us. Otherwise shut the f**k up and jeopardize our principled relationship with the Eritreans – God damn it!

  23. Poor Elias, it seems you have taken after the Eritrean blood of rushing to say something. I guess you have not heard when they say yerega wotet, ye wotawal kebe. So you need to relax man, you are way to emotional, in the process I think while you mean well, you could end up being a distructive force, by bringing unecssary informations that casts doubt over the ligtimate work of EPPF. I am sure you have some source that are feeding you something, and I guess you thinking you are doing true and pure jornalistic work, you are shooting your mouth before you have all the facts with you. I want to tell you the best thing you can do For EPPF, and all other interested Ethiopian people who want to see woyane gone is, and also for you own sanity, the best course of action for you is to sign up with one of the community colleges and take Jornalism 101, which I am sure will teach you, not only professional reporting, but, you are confusing what information to say when and to whom. You don’t just blap about every fart you hear, you need to be very very careful, you think if Woyane and Shabia during their strugles of 30 years, you think, their work and dirty laundry was accessisble to every one? if it was, their ability to make it as a strong force would have been diminshed becuase their supporters would have been furesterated, so please do cool it down a bit and when it comes to freedom fighters and their mechainsim of operandi, you need to know what you are doing. Plus if the EPPF said they are fine on their radio, who are you to keep creating problems that does not exist. are you with them? do you know all the details of what thies people are up to?? may be if you have the courage, instead of hiding behind a computer and eating burgers in DC, go to ERitrea and join EPPF and from the berha stay with them till they win and show your true jegna side, just like the one you want to get rid of, like Melese and company did, they didn’t stay in DC and achived greatness, instead they were in Chaka along with the people they were supporting, so please save the jegnent and work to the real men, you keeep reporting about the soccer match and weather or not Birtkuan is going to be invited or not, that is the kind of talks that suits you. Hope you take my sinceserst advice to heart. Happy holiday.

  24. I bet most of those commentators, those who are crying fool, are most likely not supporters of EPPF. I bet most of them really want EPPF to be disintegrated. And some of them are those who are deeply infatuated with Eritrea.

    አዲአ ገዲፋስ ሐትኒአ ተናፍቅ ዝተባህለ ከመዚ ምስተረክበ ኢዬ: ዎያነ ዘንገርገረኩም ምቃዋሞ ገዲፍኩም ሲ ናብ ዘፅለሎኩም ጠራዕራዕ:: ዘርጣጣት እም ኪዱ አብ ጫካ ኮንኩም ተቃለሱ እምበር ሻቢያ ድእሞ ደይ ተቃሊሱ ኢዬ ሀገር አምጺኡዋ: ምኢንቲ መጎጎ ቲሕሌፍ አንጭዋ ዝባሃል ነገር የለን: ንዎያነ ከኔጥፍእ ክኒብል እልፊ ጁጅ ማጁጅ ናይ ኤርትራ ሕማም ዘሎዎም ኪአትዉና አይንደልን ኢና

  25. “ETHIOPIAWI says:

    ቫብያ ኦነግን የሚደግፈው ኦነግ እገነጠላለሁ ብሎ ስለሚታገል ብቻ ነው. EPPF ለኢትዮጵያ አንድነት ስለሚታገልና ሻብያ የኢትዮጵያ አንድነት ስለማይፈግ ብቻ ነው.Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me…they are Two Sides of One Coin….”

    #9, You nailed it.

  26. TAHISAS ታህሳስ 29 (January 07) ገና

    IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND THE SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT, ONE GOD. AMEN.

    And on this day is celebrated the greatest of all festivals, the honorable, and great, and holy festival of the Birth of our Lord Christ, of the holy Virgin Mary. Now our fathers, the doctors of the Church, are at one in their opinion that the festival of the Holy Nativity should be celebrated on two days, for the Nativity took place in the last part of the night of the twenty-eighth day, and in the first part of the night of the twenty-ninth day. When Paguemen (i.e. the intercalary month) hath six [days], in that year the festival of the Nativity shall be on the eight and twentieth day; but if Paguemen hath five [days] the festival of the Nativity shall be on the nine and twentieth day. And the [doctors] have ordained and commanded that the festival of the Nativity shall be celebrated two days, for it is the chief of the holy festivals. And the Holy Gospel saith, “And our Lord Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod. And behold there came wise men from the country of the East, and they came into Jerusalem, saying, ‘Where is He who is born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star, and have come to worship Him’” (Matthew ii, 1,2). Now these wise men were of the family of Balaam, and they were diviners, and astrologers, and they watched the stars, and held converse with them. And it was written in their books and in the books of Balaam, that Christ, the King of the Jews, was to be born, for he saith, “A star shall rise from Jacob and a king from Israel” (Numbers xxiv, 17). And God in the operation of His wisdom made these diviners to understand, and he made those who were astrologers to believe in Him. And He showed them this star, and when they saw it they rejoiced, for its appearance was different in very many respects from that of the other stars. Now its appearance was this: That star had the form of a virgin embracing a child in her bosom, and it traveled from left to right, and it traveled by day, and disappeared by night. When the wise men traveled, the star traveled; and when they stood still it stood still. And it was visible to them in one place, and was hidden from them in another. When they came into Jerusalem it became hidden, and when it was hidden from them they were exceedingly sorry, and did not know what to do. And then they came into Jerusalem and asked for Him that had been born. And the number of those diviners was three thousand, and their kings were three, and each of them had one thousand and seventy horses. And when Herod heard about the diviners who had come to Jerusalem on account of the King Who had been born, he was dismayed and was afraid for his kingdom, for he heard from the Jews about him, that the Messiah would be born in the flesh. And he THE ETHIOPIAN SYNAXARIUM 242 gathered together all the chief priests, and the scribes of the people, and he said unto them, “Where is the Messiah to be born?” And they said unto him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for even thus is it written in the prophet: ‘And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Ephrata, thou shalt not be for ever the least important and smallest of the principalities of Judah, for in thee shall be born and go forth a king and a governor who shall supervise My people Israel’” (Matthew ii, 6). Then Herod summoned unto him the diviners by themselves in secret, and he enquired carefully of them the day when the star appeared unto them. And he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, “When ye have departed enquire carefully about the Child and where He is born, and when ye have found Him come back to me, and tell me so that I may come and worship Him.” Now these words came from him with deceit, for when the wise men had found Him, he determined to kill Him. And when the wise men heard these words from the king, they departed, and that star which they had seen in the East guided them until it brought them to the cave, and it stood over the cave where the Child was; and when they saw Him they rejoiced with great joy. And by the Will of God Joseph and Mary and the Child our Lord Jesus, went out that day to the cave, and at length the diviners found them, for our Lord Christ was reared only at Nazareth. And it was two years after He was born when the diviners came to Him, and when they entered the cave they found the Child with Mary His mother, and they fell down and worshipped Him, and they embraced Him, and they opened their treasures and brought and gave Him the gold which was His tribute, for He was a king, and incense because He was God, and myrrh, which was a symbol of His life-giving death. And [the angel] appeared unto them again and told them in a dream not to go back to Herod, but to depart by another road and journey to their own country. And they departed and became preachers and announcers of the appearance of God in the flesh. Concerning this day Isaiah the prophet prophesied, saying, “Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and she shall call his name Emmanuel which is, being interpreted, God with us” (Isaiah vii, 14). And concerning this virgin the prophet Ezekiel prophesied, saying, “I saw the door of the East. And God said unto me: This shall be a means of exit. None shall enter through it, and none besides the Lord God of Israel shall go out there from” (Ezekiel x, 19). And concerning this virgin Daniel the prophet saith, “I saw as it were the Son of man, and a cloud came until it reached the Ancient of Days. And it drew nigh unto Him and ascribed to Him dominion, and sovereignty, and honor, and it made all the people and all he nations worship Him, and His dominion was an everlasting dominion, and there was no end to His kingdom” (Daniel vii). And Isaiah the prophet also saith, “God appeared unto me from Zion, having covered Himself with a covering of flesh like unto myself, and He said unto me, Behold the flesh which I will take from the seed of David, the son of Jesse.” And Isaiah the prophet also saith, “Behold, I will assuredly make a new heaven and a new earth, and I will dwell in them with those I love, and they shall rejoice for ever.” And also, “God will make a rod from the root of Jesse to bud, and He will put wisdom, and knowledge, and power therein, and he shall do justice to the poor, and he shall smite the earth with the word of his mouth, and he shall slay the perverse with the spirit of his lips.” And Isaiah the prophet also saith, “I will set my son to be a sign for the nations, and he shall rule over them, and they shall believe on Him and put their trust in Him, and He shall be for rest and glory, and the earth shall be full of the knowledge of God.” And Isaiah also saith, “For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given. His dominion shall be upon His swathing, and His name shall be called, Great, Counselor, Almighty God, Governor, King of Peace, Everlasting Father who shall come.” And Jeremiah the prophet saith, “Thus saith the Lord: In those days great light shall rise up for David, and he shall set judgment and integrity in the earth. And God THE ETHIOPIAN SYNAXARIUM 243 shall deliver those who believe on Him, from Judah and Israel.” And Elisa the prophet saith, “God shall come down from heaven, and shall walk about in the market-places of the children of Israel, and He shall teach the people righteousness, and all nations shall be in submission unto Him, except the nation of the alien sons of Abraham.” And Nehemiah prophesied, saying, “God shall come in my own appearance, and His raiment shall be as is my raiment.” And Joel the prophet prophesied, saying, “I see the virgin daughter of the tribe of Judah and of the seed of David become a seat for God, and she shall burn like fire. And I asked the Cherubim concerning her, and I said unto him, ‘Who is this [virgin]?’ And he said unto me, ‘This is the virgin, the seat of God, chosen from among the sons of Adam, and by her He shall redeem the abominable nations, and she shall be a helper and a support of him that shall believe on her.’” And David saith in the Psalms, “The Great God said unto me: Thou art My Son, this day have I begotten Thee. Ask Me, I will give Thee the nations for an inheritance, and Thy rule shall be to the ends of the earth. Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron, and like the vessel of the potter Thou shalt smash them. And now, O kings, get ye understanding, and be admonished all ye who judge the earth. Serve ye God with fear, and rejoice in Him with trembling; strengthen wisdom so that God may not be wroth, and that ye may not perish from the way of righteousness. Blessed be all those who put their trust in Him” (Psalm 2). And the prophet also saith in the 110th Psalm, “I begot Thee in the womb before the Morning Star. God hath sworn, and He will not repent. Thou art a priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedek” (Psalm 110:3&4). As he revealed unto Abraham a ram in the thicket, and as water poured out of the rock in the desert, and as the dry rod of Aaron sprouted and blossomed, and as the ass of Balaam spoke, and as water poured out from the jawbone of an ass into the hands of Samson the giant, and water and honey from the bones of a lion, and as the fire burned in the bush before Moses, and the bush was not consumed, even so did our Lady, the holy Virgin Mary, bring froth our Lord Jesus Christ. And the fire of His Godhead did not consume the Virgin Mary. Salutation to Thy Birth, O Lamp of the darkness. –Ethiopian Synaxarium

  27. There is a lot of heart breaking , lots of misuse and abuse going on in Ethiopia and the country is always struggling to feed its 80 million, there is always corruption weather it is Meles, Brehanu, Merara, Hailu or EPPF. But expecting a help from Eritrea is a clear violation of brain thinking. Did you forget that Eritrea was once Africa’s coffee exporter, Did you forget that upon the arrival of ERPRDF that Eriterians have virtuall free access for loans and trades than the Amhars or Oromos, what did they miss, what do they want, basic Grade four math understand and do your home work right if you want next year to be in Grade five PERIOD (.) other wise forget your crap that Eritrea is a peace loving country wants to HELP ETHIOPIA. Eriteria’s total export is 14 million. look out of the some 60 flower exporters it is ten of them export and have this much as an export revenue. that is what Isays dream to have not your liberty not your Ethiopian freedom, not Ethiopian unity.

  28. The Person that can’t get freedom to live in his country; how could he live in others freely, esp, in non-democratic countries like African and Asian count. Opperased people of Non-demo. contries like ETH (the most non-demo)should try their best and bring the one that they wish. Other wise, may be they have to wait for the end of z world. Pls let us the principle of democracy which is,”Majority rule minority right” in ETH this is opposite i.e. Minority rules and the right of majority is zero which shows the stupidity, at least they have to give the majority tha right to live in their country. Till the people get this no talk of Democracy.
    10Q

  29. The fact OLF is still well and alive in Eritrea says a lot. OLF is a narrow minded Ethnic focused group. That fits Shabia’s future dream for Ethiopia.Divide and weaken! On the contrary EPPF is all inclusive and one nation under God freedom to all group. Shabia does not, will not like Ethiopian progress and strength. Thus the imprisonment, killing and disappearance will continue. Get the Hell out of Eritrea!!

  30. Remember the Eritrean people are different than the people of Tigray and Amhara. The Eritrean Kebesa Tigrigna are linked to Tigre and Beja of their Eritrean cousins in Eritrean and Eastern Sudan. The Beja Kingdom! While the Tigrayans of Tigray, Raya Azebo and Amhara are Agaws means their origin is Agew. All Amhara – the fake story tellers —- remember you guys are Agewes.

  31. Lencho bati has made his ever fatal mistake to anounce that General kemal gelchu is free. it is more than two month since kemal was denied access to his soldiers, now it is hard fact that kemal is under house arrest. history is gonna judge those who say such reckless things at the cost of others lives…

  32. This is an issue between Elias and EPPF and not Shabia. Why is EPPF against Elias? What happened? Please answer this and let col. Fitsum out of this game.

    Elias was rejected by EPPF, why? Why they don´t want you anymore?

  35. I read Eritreans/shaebians posting on this article,as big advisers. They portray themselves as important players. You curse and insult Elias for reporting what he knows. He is not a cofident of issyas, he is a jouranlist.
    All Eritreans that visit this forum do the following.

    1. Stop pretending you guys are big time players, you guys are not.

    2. Steal some stones, and even better big rock from badme and give it to isyas. This will make him happy.
    3. Give isyas a calling card, in case the woyannes go after him.

    4. Your big generals who are now harrasing Etiopians inside Eritrea were hiding inside the trenches, and their only arsenal was fart. your col. Fitsum is a survivor of woyane war.

    5. Read news, and shutup do not give any comments. You are not expert at anything. Just go steal some stontes from Badme.

  36. Dear readers who suffer “cleptomania” Ye_ijj amel malete new. I am sorry to tell you that very few of you know what politics is. I don’t doubt about what Elias wrote if you do, You suffer too much from Lack of information. Shabia as well as woyane is the enemy of both Eritreans an Ethiopians. You can buy them for a cent but they sell you for a Dollar. Those innocent “freedom fighters are so desperate to look for shelte under Shabia. Sorry believe it or not Mr. Lencho lies, not for bad but only to protrct his and my brothers in eritrea. If you are not very new to the story, we repeatedly heard too much from fighters who sought shelter under shabia. We only get the solution if both woyane and shabia get eradicated.

    may God put mercy up on us!

  37. Dear Elias,
    The Spokesman of OLF denied your report and the messages coming in from Asmara-based EPPF radio also indicates that your report was unfounded. For whatever intention or reason you dis-informed (at best misinformed) your readers. This is incomprehensible. But Ethiopians are intelligent enough and would not be mislead by such disinformation.

    Is this only due to wrong information received and or due to hasty conclusions? Or you have a problem with the ongoing shakeup of EPPF to transform itself to become a decisive force. In any case you compromised your professional ethics.

    By now it is very clear to all Ethiopians that Eritrea and its leadership have a firm stand and they stick to their principles. At present Eritrea is the only neighbor country that welcomes and helps Ethiopian refugees. Our Eritrean brothers and sisters are on our side in this difficult time. It should however be clear that it is only we Ethiopians who can solve our problem. It is high time for all liberation movements and all Ethiopians to work in unison to bring a change in our home country. For how long can our liberation movements be sitting ducks?

  39. I am from oromo ethnic. Elias is right. He told the truth. OLF spokesman and others are liers. I appreciate Elias for telling us the truth. Eriteria wants to rule Ethiopia indirectly, after downfall of Weyane. that is why they hijack all ethiopian fronts

  40. Dear commentators,

    if you want a clear answer please refer to comment no.20 (dagmawi) very convincing and brilliant way of presenting the prevailing truth in the ground let us wait to see what is going to happen,

    mussie

  41. At least we are able to see how shrewd and crook our Northern Brothers are. It is not difficult to understand what these people are dreaming. I have been questioning the border-conflict, the behaviour of Esays in the aftermath of the 2005 election (he did big favours by diverting the attention of the world from the atrocities being committed by Meles at the time). Now everything is making sense. Shabias and Woyanes, keep dreaming, you will never achieve the shity desires you bore in your wicked heart.

  42. Guys why do not you leave OLF and Oromo alone? We had nothing, we have nothing and will have nothing with Habasha at ALL, NEVER! Do not you know the broken class; you will never mend it. Oromo and Habashas are broken apart in a manner can not mend. Some individuals tried failed, some politicians tried, failed again. Yo know why the crime habasha committed to Oromos hurt everbody living or dead. I can feel it myself, I can see, hear and I am still looking at the wound in my live and my paprents live. You are still wounding us, late alone to apolozise. I can I stand beside a person/people who woud not only my phsical oerson but my innermost person. Me and my children NEVER do it. So PEASE PLEASE GIVEUP. FINISH.

  43. I would like to give you guys a few pointers that I have noticed. First and for most armed strugle is not an easy task by any means. Becuase one has to give his/her life to a cause. It is not like any of us here, who seat behind this computer and take a jab at each other. And during an armed strugle just like any political party there are deserters and those who would change sides, so you have to always be careful and have an internal audit if every one is marching to the same rathym. Now, I have to say, the people of Shabia have proven to the world, their ability and sophistication when it comes to gurrleia warfare, and have done it to no other to the biggest army of AFRICA (AKA Mengistu’s Derg army) which they not only skawsh but made the commander in chief run for his life in zimbwabe, this was quite a great achivment. Inorder to do this, they had to recurit and train the TPLF group. And becuase TPLF were good listeners and students, they took, what the Shabia adminsteration told them and were able to get to where they are now. Even with in TPLF, Shabia had his hands in making some necessary political changes for instance, the good for nothing, Dr. Aregawi Berhe who was the leader of TPLF, had to be sucked down and Melese Zenawi was brought in, that was done by the hand picking of ISSAYS Afewereki, that was becuase he saw the great potentials in MELESE, and with melese leadership the TPLF transformed it self to a better organizations and with much and great help of Shabia they marched to addis ababa. Now in the same way, the leadership of EPPF might needed some shaking up, becuase SHABIA knows, a leader that is capable from one that is good for nothing like Dr. Aregawi Berhe, that need to be brought down and bring a better robbust leader. What is important is you want leaders that will get the job done, not just talk crap and achive nothing. I have been following EPPF for the past many many years, i have yet to see any meaningful result. SO I SAY it is time the ERitrean GOvernement setp up to the plate and make the necessary changes to get this organizations some skills and the leadership qualities they need. So all you girls here instead of crying and complaning about how things are done, you have two options, really and letterally, You can go and join the front and make your self usefull and bring your bright ideas to the FRONT and may be if your ideas are good, you might even change the course of EPPF according to your liking, but if you choose to be like a sissy girls and hide behind computer and cry and complaning and call names and insults over the great men/woman that are serving EPPF and the Great leadership of Eritrean Governement who is helping them to achive their goal, you just shut up and watch when the masters are working. Shabia is about to paint their final master piece very soon, so just relax and enjoy the show.

  44. Elias;

    It is good to see many Eritrean freely airing their views on your site. However, I’m surprised that the great number of them are not differentiating their governments from their country. They tend to blindly support their government irrespective of the mishaps and weaknesses. Is it a misguided patriotism? That kind of approach is counter productive.

    I wish they get matured enough to admit “our government has mistaken on X, Y or Z issue”. In this regard, we Ethiopians have gone extra mile in doing so.

    Cheers

  45. It is time for Elias to say enough for isayas the beast and his blind supporters here. we know shabia’s destructive nature from it’s incentives. We have been clapping with one hand for quite a long time hoping that shabia will be able to make use of this big opportunity to reform itself for the 21st century leadership and work for lasting mutual relashinship with Ethiopoans.

    However, Iam convinced that it is an imposible mission especially for isolated and sanctioned isayas not being able to respond to Elias, the only person who have been supporting the dictator and who openly voiced against the recent UN sanction on shabia.
    Let’s not waste any more time for nothing or worst to create another chao to the the horn. We know that a significant number of eritreans are in search of peace for themselves and working to connect the broken dots between Ethiopia and
    Eritrea and it’s time start working with them to explain and pressure their dictator.

    From what we have seen so far, one can conclude that shabia is a blind organization with no vision who don’t even know what it needs for it’s own
    self. Based on some of it’s weird behaviors, shabia resembles to one of the many fake organizations created by TPLF to serve it’s purpose.

  47. Elias may be hyper and make mistakes but I bet you this time he is right. Lench Bati … is lying as usual. He is trying to protect Shabia… Unless the Eritrean government takes action to take care of its rogue colonel Fitsum, it is proving that it has become a failed state that is infested with mad dogs. We will see. For those of you who criticize Elias, hold your horses and wait for the more juicy news. Though I have never had any hope that the struggle in Eritrea will come to fruition I did give it the benefit of dought but thanks to elias for the paradime shift.

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