Ethiopian dictator Meles Zenawi’s puppet in the Tigray Region, Abay Woldu, has sent bulldozers today to {www:demolish} 5,000 houses, displacing over 15,000 people, including women, children and the elderly.
Abay did not provide {www:shelter} for the people, and they are now homeless. Many of those who protested the demolition have been savagely beaten up and thrown in jail. The fascist regime has also ordered over 40,000 residents in the southern Ethiopian town of Awassa to vacate their homes. Read more about the Mekele {www:demolition} in Amharic here.
18 thoughts on “Tigray president started demolishing 5,000 houses in Mekele”
That is the problem when you have a situation where a government owns everything and anything. People just have no right even on the land they have lived for decades and years. The woyane say they are the boss over everything and they can force you out of your land and property anytime, demolish the house you and your family and children live in and they can get away with it, while you end up being beaten up and thrown in prison for protesting.
In Addis Abeba, this problem has been ongoing for as long as the Tigrei People Liberation Front(TPLF) have been in power. Arkebe Equbay, one of zenawi’s most trusted henchmen has been bulldozing houses in the center of Addis Abeba to make way for new buildings for TPLF businesses. The poor people who have been evicted were simply dumped on the outskirts of the capital to fend for themselves.
The TPLF court says the land was required by the government for developmemnt and the case was closed.
If you are a rival to a TPLF business in Addis Abeba and you occupy a prominent site they always find a reason to evict you and to force you out of business. As soon as they close your business and dumped you out of slight a new shop opens and you can guesss who is sitting inside.
In Gambella, Western and Southern Ethiopia, Zenawi is evicting millions of Ethiopians from their land to sell the land to Indians, Pakistanis, Arabs, Chinese business men for a price next to nothing to grow food for export. The Ethiopians who have been evicted provide the cheap labour, £1/day, for these foreign owners. People are being evicted and as if this is not enough they are also being made slaves to these foreigners.
Cry my beloved country! Cry my beloved country! Cry my beloved country
time to be organized and defeat woyanne
This is the only thing that the goon from Dedebit should be encouraged to keep doing. Right on frog face, right on! We should all rally behind him in this particular incidence and must egg him along to continue this particular mugging unabated. This is the price they are and will be paying for indifference and blind support they have been giving to their tortoise face child. They were not just indifferent but maniacally encouraging him in what he had done to children in Addis in 2005 and before. They are beginning to get the taste of what they have been cooking for him. I told this story to one of the naive knuckle heads from that province who I have known for almost 4 decades today. He told me that the story is being exaggerated and it was just a family affair. He likened it as squabble that can arise between brothers and cousins. Oh!!!! Therefore, I say let’s encourage him in this particular incidence. The chickens are coming straight home to roost!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These poor Ethiopians have been persecuted by these two governments of Woyane and shaebia shame on Meles Zenawi the woyane,those tefenakayoch are hard working people i have many friends residing in that Area ,they are hard working people men we know they have changed Mekelke in many aspects they are vital for the present development of the city <frankly they are polite,we know the Tigray people is suffering in many aspects there is no freedom of speech in Tigray as there is in Addis ,this cruel government is against the poor no one knows their problem,they have been Arrested in Eritrea by shaebia formerly ,now by their own government,this is amazing men Meles have invited Eritreans who where formerly deported from Ethiopia to live and get back their property even ye qebelye betoch ,but now he is persecuting Ethiopians deported from Eritrea in Mekele ,I am not her to oppose the Eritreans for getting their property ,they should get their property because they have similar case as those of Ethiopians deported from Eritrea but what about these Ethiopians who lost their property in Eritrea and know facing persecution and demolishing their homes who bulit it by working hardly,this PM Meles dont be agains the poor Ethiopians we know many corruption
I think the real story is in the Southern Ethiopia. The Mekele case is a camouflage. I will not be surprised if the Awassa residents are from certain ethnic groups.
#4 Samuel
1. Werada yeweshet Dr. fix your grammer before posted online. Yenga dotore…dotore…i hate wishetam sew. no body care you if you are docter, Mr. or leba.
I would like to express my sympathy to these Ethiopians who are suffering at the hands of the fascist Adwa regime. We all Ethiopians are now living as a second class citizens in our own country.
It me again the same comment.
Meles is created by Tigrayans.
Meles is supported by Tigrayans.
Meles is only for Tigrayans.
Meles will be REMOVED by ETHIOPIANS.
Tigrayans are true ETHIOPIANS let’s stop this GOVERMENT once for all.
BEKA, BEKA, BEKA,BEKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!FOR LAST TIME.
ONE ETHIOPIA
ONE PEOPLE
ONE NATION
ONE BEKA TOGATHER!
How did 15,000 be a headline news over 40,000? Just wondering.
Well, these are the very people who support him. Aren’t they? Well come to the real world people of Tigary. That’s what Midget Zenawi has been doing to the rest of Ethiopians the past 20 years. You have the options to join the rest of Ethiopian and say BEKA! Don’t believe your ethnicity will save you from Weyane.
#6 Adane, you try to insult Dr Samuel on #4 for his grammar, please go back to your own comment and see how you spelled “Doctor” and “grammar” itself, to write “Doctor” you wrote “dotore” and to write “grammar” you wrote “grammer”, please try to be humble and intelligent before you try to criticize somebody who might know zillions times way better than you. Eshi….:)
these woyanne beasts have no an iota of humanity
TO ADANE
I belive u can teach me on my mistakes,because as a human being i can made mistakes the main point is not that why don’t you write your feelings abou my oppnion instade of blaming on my grammer ,i am quit sure you are mad of about my oppinion and u cant find mistake on the truth ,instead u searched on the grammer ,this is truth don’t try to protect the evil PM you don’t know him the two tigriga speaking people where separated by this evil sprited uneconomical ruler Meles Zenawi who spent the life of tigreans to defend his rule and the mafia Issayas Aforki ,Meles who puts him self as a brilliant who made unthinkable mistakes separating Eritrea from Ethiopia and now he is working for separating Tigraens from Ethiopians,we tigrians dont ever belive meles
Meles Zenawi is from “Eritrea”. He cheated Tigrayan people by using tribalism. The same could be said about Issayas Afewerki. Issayas is from Ethiopia but tells Eritreans that he is from Eritrea. We should condemn both Meles and Issayas. We have to live together under one democratic government. Eritreans should overthrow Issayas and unite with Ethiopia. Issayas and Meles are mercnaries. who were helped to seize power by Arabs and Egypt. Countries like Italy, Germany, France were instrumental in landlocking Ethiopia. They revenged on Ethioppia, a country which vanquished European Colonialism by defeating Italy in 1896 in Adwa.
Eritrea is a sovereign territory of Ethiopia. The secession of Eritrea should be reversed. We should condemn Shaebya and Woyane. The inhuman actions in Tigray against the population in Mekelle indicates the fact that Meles Zenawi is against the people of Tigray. It should be also mentioned that Meles Zenawi is using Southern people and will kill them after they have handed him all their lands.
#4
Yes you are wright. These are the victms of both Shabia and Woyane regimes. Unless the Woyane regime is removed from power soon, these people will be in great difficulty. Meles and Isaias have an under the table agreement – not to topple each other, but to distablise the Ethiopian and Eritrean people.
i think people are not understanding how the government do his home work they simply hate him but with out the government we are going to be as Somalian people please lets help each other for our country Renaissance.
People accross the nation are forced to contributed in the current tight economy in the disguise of building the mega nile dam which is hypotetical and normal lies of the regime. All this contribution will directly be channeled to Tgray to flourish with rail road, asphalt theough out the territory of Tigray and to rebuilt Mekele in the international cities standard. That is the reality.
For the last 20 years:
In Tigray over 70 dams are built but none others like Wollo and others
Asphalt accross Tigray but none in Wollo and others
Over 10 Model-Universities built in Tigray but none in Wollo & others
Heavy Industries in Tigray but none in wollo and others
International air ports in Tigray and none in others
and now
They are now to build brand new rail way in Tigray
International standars Stadium
Internationaly compitent cities of Tigray let alone other cities in Ethiopia
Dr.Woyanne Samuel is trying to with draw attention from the topic.