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Can we have political civility when dealing with liars?

Posted on , Updated on by Elias Kifle

By Yared Nerayo

Having been inundated by the political civility, ‘shimgelena’, ‘mechachal’, etc. propaganda in the last few weeks, I was grudgingly looking for positive things to appreciate about the minority regime in Addis. My search has accidentally revealed a discouraging lie or propaganda by the Millenium committee in Addis. For those who are trying to be as tolerant as I am trying to be and read Ben’s page, Ethiopia first, you may have come across this news.

This group claims that they have succeeded in planting 470, 000, 000 tree seedlings over the last two months in Ethiopia. I was so exited by this news that I did some arithmetic and found that if you allow for one square meter per tree, you would cover 40% of Ethiopia’s 1,104,300,000 meters square area. If you are optimistic about the future size of these seedlings and allow for two square meters per tree seedling you would cover almost the entire country’s area including the lakes and rivers. It would be very helpful for our civility to give us an idea of the miraculous logistical work that went behind this monumental achievement.

Until then, as the saying goes ‘Yemaymesel werae le mistih atingerat.’ Is there anyone that is taking pride with the real figures that the minority regime has accummulated.
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Yared Nerayo can be reached at [email protected]

5 thoughts on “Can we have political civility when dealing with liars?”

  1. Do your calculations!
    The area of Ethiopia is about 1,112,000 square kilometres, which is equal to 1,112,000,000,000 meter sqare area. You are missing three zeros in the figure. This shows that you are dump in everything…

  2. Assuming Nerayo’s data is correct, the area covered by by the seedlings (assuming 1 seedling in 2 sq m) is

    (470,000,000)/2 = 235,000,000.

    Let this be x percentage of the total area (in sq meter) of Ethiopia. Then,

    235, 000, 000 = X*1, 104, 300, 000

    or,

    x= 21.3%

    Although Nerayo’s claim that “you would cover 40% of the country” is wrong (you can cover only 21 %), his conclusion that Seyoum Bereded’s statement is a lie is still valied.

  3. Actually Nerayo is wrong as you (Guru) are too …both of you are missing 3 zeros. So in percentage, assuming 1 seedling per 2 sqm will give about 0.021 %.
    => perhaps it is true…

  4. The irony of the fact is, while all of you commentators think your all wrong…including the author, point is, you are all right!!

    WHO’S WRONG THEN?: BEN (ETHOFIRST) & MILLENIUM COMMTEE!

    *I thought it was proven by now that Ben of EthiopiaFirst is not only a Woyane sympethizer but one of them, there was some docs provided in an article people!! Read sometimes BEFORE you conclude everything in EMOTIONAL RANTINGS. Peace!

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