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Author: Elias Kifle

Woyanne Federal Police questions Birtukan Mideksa

The notorious Federal Police of Ethiopia (also known as Meles Zenawi’s death squad) has told the state-run Ethiopian Television (ETV) today that it is investigating Wzr. Birtukan Mideksa, chairperson of Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ).

The Woyanne Federal Police is apparently upset that Birtukan Mideksa had told Ethiopians in Sweden last month that she did not ask Meles Zenawi an apology as a condition for getting out of jail.

To make the point, ETV showed the apology letter that was signed by Ato Hailu Shawel, Wzr. Birtukan Mideksa and other leaders of the opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy (Kinijit).

Birtukan Mideksa and her party have completely submitted to the Woyanne tyranny by doing every thing Meles is demanding of them. It seems that the tribal junta will not be satisfied until Birtukan bends down and kisses Meles Zenawi’s feet. Today’s incident is a shame more on Birtukan that Meles and gang.

Joke of the Day: Woyanne celebrates Int’l Human Rights Day

EDITORS NOTE: Meles Zenawi’s dictatorship in Ethiopia that is committing massive human rights violations and war crimes in Ethiopia and Somalia participates in the International Human Rights Day, as reported below by the Walta Woyanne Information Center (WIC).

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (WIC)- The International Human Rights Day and the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by UN under the theme “Dignity and Justice for All of US” marked here today.

Speaking on an event organized to mark the day Commissioner of the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, Ambassador Dr. Kassa Gebrehiwot said the celebration of the day would enable the people to ensure their right that are enshrined in the international human rights declarations.

The commissioner said the international human rights declarations are instrumental to foster human rights, adding that various activities are being undertaken to ensure human rights in the country.

Ambassador Kassa also indicated that the commission since its inception has undertaken activities aimed at strengthening its capacity and to achieve its mission bestowed up on it.

The Commission has also carried out various activities to monitor violations of human rights happened in the country.

Vice president of the Federal Supreme Court Membere-Tsehay Tadesse on his part said that human rights are realized only when religious, ethnic, gender, color, economic and social equalities are ensured. Justice bodies should play a great role in this regard, he added.

He also pointed out that this year’s celebration would have a significant impact to Ethiopia, adding that government officials, institutions, international organizations and NGOs should make a concerted effort to realize the respect of human rights in the country.

The International Human Rights Day was observed with various activities including mass walk, circus and marsh-band musical performances, it was learnt.

EPPF London Chapter formed

The London Chapter of Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Front (EPPF) has been formed on Sunday, December 7, 2008, according to the Chapter’s press release. (Read more here)

EPPF is currently reorganizing itself around the world under the leadership of its International Committee. According to Ato Leul Qeskis, the Committee’s chairman, chapters will soon be formed and functional in several cities in Europe, the U.S., and Canada.

With the help of the International Committee, EPPF has recently acquired a new 4WD emergency vehicle that it uses to transport those who are injured in the field to hospitals. The payment for the vehicle is not fully paid yet, and the London Chapter and those that are being formed are expected to help raise the necessary funds for such purpose.

The EPPF-IC is also working on a plan to raise funds online from the Diaspora Ethiopians to provide humanitarian assistance to the families of fellow Ethiopians who are joining the resistance.

In Washington DC, a chapter organizing committee will hold its first meeting Sunday. The organizing committee can be reached at [email protected]

Teddy Afro to be sent to the notorious Ziway Prison

The Woyanne regime in Ethiopia is going to send Tewodros Kassahun (Teddy Afro) to the notorious Ziway prison camp that is located in a remote part of the country, a prison official told Awramba Times.

Ziway is a not just prison. It is a torture camp where sadistic Woyanne prison guards can do any thing they want with prisoners. On top of that, no one comes out of Ziway healthy because of extremely unsanitary conditions and malaria infestation. It is a hell on earth where the most hardened criminals are sent to die or be broken down.

Meanwhile, Ethiopians around the world are mobilizing to help free Teddy Afro. In Washington DC, Ethiopians and Ethiopian-Americans in the area are planning to block the Woyanne embassy any time between now and December 15. On Monday, December 15 there will be a protest rally in front of the Woyanne embassy starting at 10 AM.

Related posts:

* Ethiopians in Washington DC to blockade Woyanne embassy
* Kangaroo court in Ethiopia convicts Teddy Afro
* There Is No Justice In Ethiopia – The Teddy Afro show trial
* The Ballad of Teddy Afro
* Judge WoldeMikael Meshesha on Teddy Afro’s case
* Journalists reporting Teddy Afro’s trial in Ethiopia arrested
* Woyanne throws Teddy Afro in jail
* Woyanne court rules against Tedy Afro
* Teddy Afro’s lawyer arrested
* Teddy Afro – Another victim of Ethiopia’s ruthless dictator

Human Rights Watch Vs. Meles Zenawi’s regime

The Attempt to Whitewash Crime Against Humanity Inside the Ogaden Region of Ethiopia

By Fekade Shewakena

A recent propaganda piece by the Ethiopian authorities masquerading as a government investigative report issued to whitewash the crimes in the Ogaden Region would have been laughed all the way to the waste basket had the issue in question not been the tragedy and suffering of a mass of human beings. The 47 page propaganda piece entitled, “Flawed Methodology, Unsubstantiated Allegations: The Results of an Investigation by the Government of Ethiopia into allegations by Human Rights Watch on human rights in the Somali Regional State” [1] is full of manufactured outrage and meant to counter the meticulously researched findings and charges by Human Rights Watch (HRW), including crimes against humanity, the use of rape and starvation as weapons of war and the burning of villages and dislocation of people, compiled in a 138 page document.[2]

But if you carefully examine the so called investigation report by Mr. Zenawi’s government, it gives you a window to see the amount of crime and, in fact, speaks to the opposite of its intended use, in effect corroborating HRW’s charges. It actually reminded me of the story of the proverbial goat in Ethiopia that stole and ate the wheat reserved for ecclesiastical service at the church and was in the end driven to becoming laud more talkative to the level of almost telling that she was the thief. “Megeberia Yebelach fiyel Yaslefelifatal”, so goes the saying.

Apparently, some clever Woyane thought that it is smarter to set out by questioning the methodology of HRW rather than attacking its credibility directly. Or they must have been mindful of the fact that the credibility thing with regard to investigating itself is not the best suit of Meles Zenawi’s government. Many Ethiopians including the international community has not forgotten the fait of the investigation of the post election massacres in Addis Ababa where the investigators had to flee the country with the video and written transcript of the results of their investigation to tell the truth to the rest of the world. The whitewash of the genocide against the Agnuak ethnic group in Gambella is still fresh. They seem to understand that accusing an organization of stellar global respect as HRW for credibility would not fly. The less intelligent, shoot-from-the-hip TPLF puppies at Aigaforum (the people who wrote editorials recommending death penalty on members of the opposition for testifying at the US congress) did that crazy job already by throwing the kitchen sink at HRW moments after the report was published.

The Ethiopian authorities who wrote this so called investigation report, however, do not tell us how their methodology contrasts with that of HRW or how the witness interview method, one of multiple methods used by HRW researchers, yields less valid results than the interview method extensively and almost exclusively used by Meles Zenawi’s agents on a captive population in the Ogaden, a good number of whom are prisoners accused of being members of the ONLF (Ogaden National Liberation Movement). Some of the witnesses, we are told in the report, are former ONLF fighters living in the area. And Meles Zenawi and his cronies want people with heads on their shoulders, to believe the pile of crap they compiled by interviewing them.

As an Ethiopian who prides himself of the decency and goodness of the Ethiopian people, I want many of these damning reports by human rights groups and journalists including this by HRW about gruesome war crimes, collective punishment and the use of rape and starvation as a weapon of war by Meles Zenawi’s government to be false. I have two important reasons to want HRW’s report to be false.

First, I believe these kinds of extreme and gruesome crimes reported by human rights groups do not only tarnish the image of only the government or its leaders for which I care less, but unfortunately also speak badly of all of us as a people and distort the image of the country and the people we love. Disgraceful and shameful things that happen in a country, whoever the perpetrator and at whatever scale, often become broad paintbrushes that discolor the good and the bad together and create a bad single whole image of an entire country and people. Look how a handful of extremists in the Islamic world have tarnished the good religion of Islam. The crimes of the Nazi’s still shame many good Germans who were not even born at the time. Some years ago, I was chatting with a European friend when she asked me how I managed to survive and escape the famines in Ethiopia. She couldn’t believe me when I told her that there were millions of us, more than three fourths of the population at the time, who had enough food to eat. She couldn’t let go the image she formed of Ethiopia and kept on arguing with me until she got onto my nerves. But then again I myself also almost did the same thing to a Rwandan I met recently.

Even inside our long years of civil wars in the past, these kinds of systematic collective punishments of entire people and the use of rape as a weapon, as repeatedly reported by human rights groups and journalists as under Meles Zenawi in the Ogaden and earlier in Gambella, have never been heard of. Even Mengistu’s government, whose brutality is among the worst in our history, was transporting teff and other food items with cargo planes from central Ethiopia to Eritrea at the height of the civil war in the 1980s. This stands in huge contrast to Meles Zenawi’s blocking of relief organizations such as the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders from operating in the Ogaden and the closure of access roads to transport food to the area at a time when the region was in the middle of a grueling famine. At one time some of these humanitarian organizations were begging Zenawi’s government to let them save lives. This, in my vew, can happen only in a country that is capable of producing human beasts. I don’t want to believe this took place in Ethiopia.

Second, I find it hard to accept that some among our good, wonderful and decent people turned soldiers, are capable of doing what human rights groups and journalists tell us they do. Having been to literally every part of Ethiopia and knowing most ethnic groups, I find it hard to believe that there could be beasts among those wonderful people who are capable of raping elderly women the age of their mothers, strangle and burry human beings alive, and burn the villages of poor people. Most of you may remember the days in June 1991 when Mengistu’s government collapsed and nearly half a million soldiers and armed militia were dispersed around the country without any command and control. I have seen them with my own eyes when they beg for food with automatic machineguns hung on their shoulders and round after round of ammunition all over them. Nothing but only that heritage of common decency was between them and the rest of us to stop them from crossing the line. I remember it with pride. That was an “only in Ethiopia” moment. I don’t want to believe that these values and that longstanding fabric of our society and culture have changed in a decade and half. I don’t want to believe that the poison of hate Meles Zenawi sprays in Ethiopia has succeeded to such an extent. So, I only wish the HRW report or the scathing annual reports of the US State Department on Human Rights or the gruesome stories written about the Ogaden on the New York Times are wrong.

The Sadism, the lie and the pile of crap in the report

Reading this so-called investigation report of the Ethiopian authorities is a torture on two levels. First, a good part of the English is so difficult to understand. Sometimes you need to translate it into Amharic to understand it. The authorities who wrote, read, approved and issued this report seem to have shed any grain of sense of embarassment and shame. For heaven’s sakes, this is a government document that, for whatever it is worth, is expected to be read widely. How difficult is it for a government that hires lobbyists in the US with millions of dollars to hire an editor to at least check basic grammar and spelling? Consider the following I randomly picked as example:

“Its [HRW’s] inclusion of irrelevant and inappropriate satellite imagery seems to have
been included to add drama to its media communications”. (Page 5)

And this,

“HRW, however, merely chose to use the burning of Lasoole as another unjustified accusation against her ENDF”. (Page 24)

Or this,

“As far as I know there is nobody has been killed in our village” (Page 34)

I could have gone on and on had this been my main concern here. It is pathetic.

The second level of torture when reading this report is the sadism it is replete with. The government data was obtained almost exclusively through interviewing the local people who are traumatized by the savage war. A large number of these interviewees are prisoners. Many are women. Still many, we are told on the report, are former ONLF fighters. You can sense the terror they go through as they were trying to avoid the answers their questioners don’t want to hear. The video version of the report being spread by government media is particularly hard to watch. It is a mass manufacturing of lie. If you believe the results of this so-called investigation to be true, you should as well believe me when if tell you pigs can fly.

Here are some interesting highlights. You may remember the 23 year old Mohammed Abdi Wayd who HRW reported was strangled and killed by member of the Ethiopian Defense Forces for being one of many community members who refused to obey a deadline to vacate a village as ordered by the army. The person the government interviewers summoned to testify on this dead kid, we are told, is his next of kin. Read the following and see the sadism for yourselves. How many Ethiopians under normal circumstances do you think would say the death of their young relative is a punishment from God?

He is a close relative of mine. He died in the fighting between government forces and ONLF. This is the truth. He was a trouble-maker. He was a bandit. Upon Alah’s orders, he met his death fighting the Defence Forces. I didn’t record the exact date when he died. One day there was fighting between ONLF and the Defence Forces in the Wafdug area. In the Yuub area too. He died in that period. He robbed people of their belongings. He picked up a quarrel and attacked people. His death is a punishment fro (sic) all his wrongs.” (Page 32)

Does anybody in his right mind believe that in a traditional society where kinship means a lot more than blood relation, and of all places in the Ogaden, would say of this about his dead relative unless at a gun point? Obviously, the person must be trying his best to fend off any possible suspicion of supporting the ONLF like his dead kin. Anybody who has done research in rural Ethiopia using questionnaires knows that telling what the government wants to hear is one of many sophisticated survival mechanisms peasants and pastoralists have developed to fight the tyranny of their governments over the years. And Meles Zenawi and his cronies want us to believe the crap they collected through this bogus method and question the validity of HRW’s conclusions refined over long years of recording Human rights abuse around the world.

In its attempt to clean itself of HRWs charges of rape and sexual abuses the government report, believe it or not, says this,

“It [the investigation team] interviewed people from various sectors of society and a number of women prisoners from several different prisons. All completely rejected HRW’s allegations”. (Page 37).

Now listen to what female prisoner Asmal Isal Abdi tells the investigating team:

“I am in prison here for the crime I committed. I have never encountered any problem. In prison, I am receiving proper treatment.” (Page 37)

And hear from another female prisoner Ram Ali Huyida who is reported to even have gone further in speaking for all women prisoners:

“There is nothing like this that happened to me or to the other prisoners in this prison.” (Page 37)

Another female prisoner, Amina Usman, in the town of Jijiga has a more targeted “testimony” to which the interviewers seem to have direct her – to exonerate the soldier rapists cited in the HRW report:

“No prisoner, including myself, has suffered any ill treatment from Government soldiers.”
(Page 38)

It is not even clear from the report as to why another female prisoner, Faduma Abdu Haj, had to testify saying that there were no women who were burnt alive when she was not even asked. Listen to her:

“I have never seen or heard any information regarding the raping of any woman by Ethiopian soldiers. There is no woman who was raped or burnt alive.” (Page 38)

The report also has a cascade of responses from interviewees who say that no village has been burnt by the ENDF. All of them said that any village burnt was burnt by ONLF solders who were dressed in Ethiopian army uniforms and speaking the Amharic language to make it look the Ethiopian army did it. It gets more interesting, doesn’t it? The people are so in love with the Ethiopian army that the ONLF has to do this to have them hated, and by speaking the Amhaic language without a Somali accent? Huh!

On the other hand the “investigators” tell us that they have done all their interview and research in the Ogaden. Why the investigators thought it is important to interview people to testify as to whether villages were burnt or not if they themselves see the villages intact is a mystery. HRW has given the geographic coordinates for the satellite imageries of the villages in question by providing the latitudes and longitudes of each site. Why is it difficult to present another aerial photo or a photograph taken from a higher ground and debunk it if it is a lie? Interestingly, the team has provided us with horizontally taken ground photographs that cannot by any measure show the condition of a larger settlement. Some of the photographs show two or three houses from one side surrounded by scrubland. More importantly, unless you hire a “tenquay” there is no way to attest that the picture shows the real village in question. They give you no coordinates.

The goons who prepared Zenawi’s report also want us to believe that girl HRW reported was brutally killed by the Ethiopian forces was alive by showing us a photograph of a girl who they say has the same name. They have been parading her on their TV and other media as if it is an airtight evidence to show the real girl is not dead, as if you can’t find hundreds of Faduma Hassans in the Ogaden or as if you cannot name the picture of any girl Faduma Hassan.

The investigators, in their wisdom thought that they should throw us some bones to be believable and help them sell us their pile of crap. They say they have found one case of torture among female prisoners by an army Major named Kiros. (Don’t forget most women who testified are already reported to have said that no torture of woman has ever taken place). Read her testimony paying special attention to her last sentence:

“I was arrested for being ONLF member. During the time I was in prison, I was tortured by Major Kiros, Intelligence Officer of the Fik zone 7th Regiment. This was around September 2007. During the interrogation, he strangled my neck with cloth, forced me to take off my clothes and flogged my back and feet. He tortured me by saying, out with the truth. Of course, I was ONLF member. Apart from this I do not know any other problem. I have not suffered from any wrongdoing in this prison. I confirm this.” (Page 40) emphasis added

Why was the lady that went through so much torture forced to say she “has not suffered any wrong doing in this prison”? After having gone through that humanly unbearable torture how did she manage to say that? Or shall we say the Investigator Team added it to make it look like what she went though was a prank between friends. How sadistic is that? By the way, where is Major Kiros the torturer? Why is his last name withheld? Why wasn’t this criminal interviewed like the rest of the prisoners? What was the punishment he received? The investigators are mum on these. We know why. I suspect Major Kiros is walking the streets of Addis Ababa or Mekele or managing some property of EFFORT somewhere or on scholarship in the Netherlands. After all, the Agazi soldier who killed Wro Etesnesh in front of her children for asking to spare her husband lives in freedom with no questions asked. There is a lot of repugnant and sadistic material to go over in this whitewash. You can read it holding your nose, as I did.

Challenge:

Either out of ethnic identification or innocence or misinformation or any other reason, I believe there are many Ethiopians who want to give Meles Zenawi’s report the benefit of the doubt, as there are many who actively promote this lie. I challenge all of them and the blind supporters of the TPLF/EPRDF, including my good friend Ato Haimanot Lakew from Boston who made me laugh by referring to the crap as a “carefully researched and written report” [3] and some Molla Mitiku who tried to shamelessly fake an outrage and called the governments investigators “independent investigating team” [4], to ask the Ethiopian authorities to allow independent investigators including the UN and reexamine the case. Why fear if you are outraged that HRW manufactured its report? To ask anything less is to collaborate with the cover up of crime and injustice. Don’t forget that we will all have to answer for this crime on judgment day. I don think his day is too far.

(The writer can be reached at [email protected])

Can Obama help bring democracy to Ethiopia? (Amharic)

ተመራጭ ፕሬዝዳንት ኦባማ ዲሞክራሲ ለኢትዮጵያ ሊያመጡ ይችላሉን?

ከምሕረት ሰጠኝ

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ሚስተር ኦባማ የመጀመሪያው ጥቁር የአሜሪካ ፕሬዝዳንት ሆነው በመመረጣቸው ታላቅ ታሪክ ሰርተዋል። አሜሪካ ውስጥ ለዘመናት በጥቁሮች ዘር ላይ ከባርነት አንስቶ ከፍተኛ ጭቆና፣አድልዎና ንቀት እንዲሁም በርካታ ኢሰብአዊና ዘግናኝ በደሎች ሲፈጸሙባቸው የቆዩ መሆኑ ይታወቃል። በመሆኑም የጥቁሮች ዘር ያለው ሰው ፕሬዝዳንት ሆኖ ለመመረጥ መቻሉ አገሪቱ ውስጥ የነጭ የበላይነት እየተፋቀ በመሄድ ላይ መሆኑንና አገሪቱ ለሁሉም ዘሮች እኩል ዕድል የምትሰጥ መሆኗን የሚያመላክት ነው አየተባለ በመነገር ላይ ነው፡፡ ሌላው ቀርቶ ሚስተር ኦባማ የፕሬዝዳንት ክሊንተንን መረብ መበጣጠስ መቻላቸውና በአጭር ጊዜ ውስጥ በብሔራዊ ደረጃ ታዋቂነትን በማግኘት በዲሞክራቲኩ ፓርቲ ለፕሬዝዳንትነት መታጨት መቻላቸው ብቻ ትልቅ እንድምታ ያለውና ለወደፊቱም አሜሪካ ውስጥ ለሚኖሩ ጥቁሮችና ሌሎች “አናሳ” በመባል ለሚጠሩት ህዝቦች ፋና ወጊ እንደሚሆንላቸው መገንዘብ ይቻላል።

ተመራጭ ፕሬዝዳንት ኦባማ ለስምንት ዓመታት በፕሬዝዳንት ቡሽ መስተዳድር የወደቀውን የአገሪቱን ኢኮኖሚ ሊያሻሽሉ የሚችሉ እርምጃዎችን እንደሚወስዱና አገሪቱ በዓለም አቀፍ ግንኙነትዋ የደረሰባትን ጥላቻ ሊያስተካክሉ እንደሚችሉ ይጠበቃል። ሚስተር ኦባማ የውጭ ፖሊሲን በተመለከተ ግጭቶችን በውይይትና በድርድር እንዲፈቱ እንደሚያደርጉና አሜሪካ ከመፈራት ይልቅ በመወደድ ላይ የተመረካዘ የውጭ ፖሊሲ ይኖራታል በማለት በተደጋጋሚ ተናግረዋል። በመሆኑም በአሜሪካ የውጭ ግንኙነት አፈጻጸም ላይ ለውጥ ሊመጣ እንደሚችልና ፕሬዝዳንት ቡሽ ከአንዳንድ አገሮች ጋር የፈጠሩት አላስፈላጊ ውጥረት ሊረግብ እንደሚችልም ይጠበቃል።

በዚህም መሠረት በአሜሪካ ውስጥ የተካሄደው የፕሬዝዳንት ምርጫ ውድድር የበርካታ ኢትዮጵያዊያንም ቀልብ ስቧል። የአሜሪካ ዜግነት የወሰዱ ኢትዮጵያዊያንም ሚስተር ኦባማ እንዲመረጡ የራሳቸውን አስተዋኦ እንዳበተከቱ ይነገራል። ለዚህም ዋናው ምክንያት ሚስተር ኦባማ ፕሬዝዳንት ሆነው ቢመረጡ፣ የአሜሪካ የውጭ ፖሊሲ ኢትዮጵያን በተመለከተ ሊለወጥ ይችል ይሆናል ከሚል እምነት የመነጨ ነው። ሆኖም የሚስተር ኦባማ የውጭ ፖሊሲ የአፍሪካ አህጉርና በተለይም ኢትዮጵያን በተመለከተ ያራምዱታል ተብሎ ሊገመት የሚችለውን በጥንቃቄ ብንመረምር የምናገኘው ውጤት ብዙዎች አገር ወዳድ ኢትዮጵያውያን በስሜትና በጉጉት ከምንጠብቀው ጋር የሚጣጣም አይመስልም። ይህንንም ከዚህ በታች በዝርዝር እንመልከት፤

(1) ሴናተር ኦባማም ሆኑ ከእርሳቸው ጋር አብረው ለምርጫ ዘመቻው የሚንቀሳቀሱት ባልደረቦቻቸው የውጭ ፖሊሲን በተመለከተ ከአፍሪካ ጋር ስለሚኖረው ግንኙነት ሊያመጡ ያቀዱትን ለውጥ በተጨባጭ ሁኔታ ይፋ አላደረጉትም። እንደውም እስከ አሁን ባለው መረጃ መሠረት የአፍሪካ አህጉርን በተመለከተ የዳርፉር ግጭትንና በደፈናው ድህነትን መቀነስና በሽታዎችን ማጥፋት ከሚል በስተቀር በፖሊሲ ደረጃ የተቀመጠ ከሚስተር ኦባማ አካባቢ የመጣ ምንም ዓይነት ፍንጭ የለም። ይህንንም ድረ-ገፃቸውን በመመልከት ለማረጋገጥ ይቻላል። ከዚህም በመነሳት ተመራጭ ፕሬዝዳንት ኦባማ ከበፊቶቹ ፕሬዝዳንቶች የተለየ ለአህጉሩ የሚጠቀም ተግባር ይፈጽማሉ ብሎ ለመገመት አይቻልም።

(2) ሴናተር ኦባማ ያቀዱትን የውጭ ፖሊሲ ብንመለከት ለምሳሌ ሽብር ፈጠራ መዋጋትን በተመለከተ የእርሳቸው መስተዳድር በአፍጋኒስታንና በሌሎች አገሮች ውስጥ በመካሄድ ላይ የሚገኘውን ዘመቻ በተጠናከረ ሁኔታ እንደሚቀጥሉበት አስታውቀዋል። በመሆኑም አሜሪካ በሽብር ፈጣሪዎች ላይ የከፈተችው ጦርነት ብቻዋን ተዋግታ ለማሸነፍ የምትችለው ዓይነት ጦርነት ስላይደለ፣ በአጋዥነት ከእርሷ ጋር የተሳተፉት ወዳጆቿ ጋር ያላትን ግንኙነትን ትቀጥልበታለች ማለት ነው። ስለሆነም በዚህ ጦርነት ላይ ከተሳተፉ አምባገነንና ፈላጭ ቆራጭ አገዛዞች ጋር ይካሄዱ የነበሩ ግንኙነቶችም ይቀጥላሉ ማለት ነው። ይህ ለጥቅም ሲባል ከአምባገነን አገሮች ጋር የሚካሄድ ወዳጅነት አሜሪካ ውስጥ የተለመደና በተደጋጋሚ በዲሞክራቲክም ሆነ በሪፐብሊካን መስተዳደሮች ተግባራዊ ሲሆን የኖረ ነው። ከቀዝቃዛው ጦርነት ፍፃሜ ወዲህ እንኳን በፕሬዝዳንት ክሊንተን የተሰራበት ሲሆን አሁንም በፕሬዝዳንት ቡሽ በስፋት እየተሰራበት ይገኛል።

አሜሪካ ከወያኔዎች የምትፈልገው ጥቅም እስካለ ድረስ ማንኛውም ዲሞክራቲክም ሆነ ሪፐብሊካን ፐሬዝዳንት ቢመረጥ ግንኙነቱ ሳይለወጥ መቀጠሉ አይቀርም። ይህንን በዲሞክራቲኩ ፕሬዝዳንት ክሊንተን ጊዜ እንዴት ይካሄድ እንደነበር ወደ ኋላ መለስ ብለን አንድ ምሳሌ አስመርኩዘን ብንቃኝ፣ ሚስተር ኦባማም ሊያካሄዱት ካቀዱት ጋር ያለውን መስተጋብር ሊያሳየን ይችላል። ፕሬዝዳንት ክሊንተን እንደ ፕሬዝዳንት ጆርጅ ቡሽ የውጭ ፖሊሲያቸው በፀረ ሽብር ፈጣሪነት ላይ ያነጣጠረም እንኳ ባይሆን፣ ለምሳሌ የሱዳንን መንግሥት ለመገልበጥ የአገሪቱን ገዥ ፓርቲ የሆነውን “ብሔራዊ እስላማዊ ግንባር” በሽብር ፈጣሪነት በመፈረጅ በተቀነባበረው ሴራ የሱዳን አጎራባች የሆኑና የራሳቸው የሆነ ችግር ከሱዳን ጋር የነበረባቸውን ሶስት ከወንበዴነት ወደ መንግሥታትነት የተሸጋገሩ የኢሳያስ፣የመለስና የሙሴቬኒ (ዩጋንዳ) አገዛዞችን በአንድ ቡድን ውስጥ አሰባስበው እርዳታ በመስጠት መልከ ጥፉን በስም ይደግፉ እንደሚባለው “የአዲስ ትውልድ መሪዎች“ (New Generation of Leaders) የሚል ስም በመስጠት ደፋ ቀና ይሉ እንደነበር አይዘነጋም። ይህ ቡድን ወያኔና ሻቢያ ሲዋጉ ፈርሷል። እንደውም ሻቢያና ወያኔ ሱዳንን በጦርነቱ እንድትረዳቸው በየፊናቸው መለማመጣቸው የፕሬዝዳንት ክሊንተን ፖሊሲ በአሳፋሪነት እንዲከሽፍና እንዲመክን አድርጎታል። የፕሬዝዳንት ክሊንተን መስተዳድር ምንም እንኳ ለወያኔና ሻቢያ ቀለብ ሰፋሪ የነበረ ቢሆንም እነዚህ ከዓለም በድህነት በአንደኛ ተርታ የሚገኙና ህዝባቸውን ለመመገብ እንኳ የተሳናቸው አገሮች ምክንያትና ዓላማ ለሌለው ጦርነት በርካታ ገንዘብ ሲያፈሱና የጦር መሳሪያ ከውጭ በገፍ ሲሸምቱ ጦርነቱ እንዳይጀመር ለማድረግና ከተጀመረም በኋላ በመቶ ሽህ የሚቆጠሩ ሰዎችን ሕይወት ሳይቀጥፍ ለማስቆም አልቻሉም ነበር። መለስና ኢሳያስም በዚሁ ጊዜ እርስ በርሳቸው በአምባገነንነት በመወጋገዝ ከአሜሪካ የበለጠ ተወዳጅነት ለማግኘት ሲወራጩ ነበር።

የፕሬዝዳንት ክሊንተን መስተዳድር እነዚህ ለአብነት ያህል እዚህ የተጠቀሱ የኢሳያስ፣የመለስና ሙሴቬኒ አምባገነን አገዛዞች ከረዥም ጊዜ ጦርነት በኋላ ሥልጣን ላይ እንደወጡና ጫካ በነበሩበት ጊዜ ለበርካታ የአገራቸው ንጹሃን ዜጎች ግድያ፣ሰቆቃ፣እልቂት፣ንብረት ዘረፋና ውድመት እንዲሁም ለሌሎች ከፍተኛ ወንጀሎች ተጠያቂ መሆናቸውና ሥልጣን ኮርቻ ላይ ከተፈናጠጡም በኋላ “ድመት መንኩሳ አመሏን አትረሳ” አንደሚባለው የዲሞክራሲ መብቶችን በመርገጥ፣የሰብዓዊ መብቶችን በማፈን ህዝባቸው ላይ ሳንጃ ወድረው የሚገዙ መሆናቸው በስፋት እየታወቀ ከሌሎች የተሻለ ሁኔታ ውስጥ ከሚገኙ አገሮች ተለይተው ለወጃጅነት ተመርጠዋል። ዲሞክራቱ ፕሬዝዳንት ክሊንተን ሲያወድሷቸው የነበሩት እነዚህ አገዛዞች ከበርካታ የአፍሪካ ገዥዎች በከፋ ሁኔታ አፋኝ፣ አምባገነንና ሰብዓዊ መብት ረጋጭ ቢሆኑም አገሮቹ ከሚሰጡት ጥቅም አኳያ ሁኔታው ተገልብጦ የአሜሪካ የጥብቅ ወዳጅ ሆነው የወታደራዊ፣ኢኮኖሚያዊና ፖለቲካዊና ሌሎችንም እርዳታ ከአሜሪካን ይጎርፍላቸው ነበር።

ከላይ የተመለከተው የአሜሪካ የውጭ ፖሊሲ አፈፃም የተለያየ አቀራረብና መልክ ቢኖረውም አዲስ ግን አይደለም። ይህ አሰራር “ብሔራዊ ጥቅም” በመባል ይታወቃል። የአሜሪካ ብሔራዊ ጥቅም ተብሎ በሌሎች አገሮች ላይ በተለያዩ ስልቶች ተፈፃሚ የሚሆኑ ፖሊሲዎች በዲሞክራቲክም ሆነ በሪፐብሊካን መስተዳድሮች ሲሰራባቸው የኖሩና ተቀባይነት ያገኙ አካሄዶች ናቸው።ማንኛውም አገር ትልቅም ሆነ ትንሽ የራሱ የሆነ ብሔራዊ ጥቅም አለው። ብሔራዊ ጥቅም በአገሮች መካከል ባለ ግንኙነት ውስጥ አብይ ቦታ የሚይዝ ነው። እያንዳንዱ አገር ብሔራዊ ጥቅሞቹን ለማስጠበቅ የሚያራምደው ፖሊሲ በወታደራዊ፣በንግድ፣በባህልና በሌሎችም መስኮች የሚጸባረቅ ነው። ዲሞክራሲያዊ የሆነ የመንግሥት አወቃር ያላቸው ለምሳሌ እንደ አሜሪካ፣ እንግሊዝ፣ካናዳ፣ ፈረንሳይ፣ህንድ የመሳሰሉትና እንዲሁም አምባገነን መንግስታት እንደ ቻይና፣ የመሳሰሉት ከሌሎች አገሮች ጋር ባላቸው ግንኙነት የራሳቸውን ብሔራዊ ጥቅም ለማስጠበቅ ጥረት ሲያደርጉ ይታያሉ። ስለሆነም ለብሔራዊ ጥቅማቸውን ለማሟላት አገሮች ከፍተኛ እንቅስቃሴና ጥረት ያደርጋሉ። አገሮች ብሔራዊ ጥቅማቸውን ለማስከበር በሚል ሽፋን በሌሎች አገሮች ላይ ኢሰብዓዊና ህገወጥ ድርጊቶችን ፈጽመዋል። ብሔራዊ ጥቅም ለማስጠበቅ በሚል ምክንያት በርካታ አገሮች ውስጥ በተለያዩ ጊዜዎች ህጋዊ መንግሥታት ተገልብጠዋል፣ በህዝብ የተመረጡ መሪዎች ተገድለዋል፣ንጽሃን ዜጎች ተጨፍጭፈዋል፣ምርጫዎች ተጭበርብረዋል፣ የኢኮኖሚ አሻጥሮች ተፈጽመዋል፣ የሰብዓዊ መብቶች ተገፈዋል እንዲሁም ሌሎች ተመሳሳይ ድርጊቶች ተደርገዋል።

በዓለም ላይ እንደ አገር ብሔራዊ ጥቅም የሌላት አገር ኢትዮጵያ ብቻ ነች። አንደሚታወቀው ኢትዮጵያ ውስጥ አሁን ያለው አገዛዝ የአገር ሉዓላዊነትና የግዛት አንድነትን የናደ እንዲሁም የህዝቡን አንድነትና ደህንነት የደመሰሰ በጠባብ የጎሳ ጥቅም ናላው የዞረ የቅጥረኞች ቡድን የሆነው ወያኔ ነው። ወያኔ በኢትዮጵያ አገራዊ ልዕልና ላይ አምጾ ነፍጥ በማንሳት ከፍተኛ ጉዳት በማድረስ ላይ የሚገኝ ከመሆኑም በላይ አገሪቱን በጎሳ ከፋፍሎ፣አዳክሞና በረሃብ እየቆላ በመግዛት ላይ ያለና ከሥልጣን በሚወገድ ጊዜ አገሪቱን በታትኖ ወደተነሳበት መንደር ለመወተፍ ዝግጅቱን አጠናቆ የመጨረሻውን ጊዜ በመጠበቅ ላይ የሚገኝው የትግራይ የገዥ መደብ ነው። ይህ የገዥ መደብ ለጠባብ የጎሳ ጥቅም ማስገኛና በሥልጣን ላይ ተፈናጦ ለመኖር የአገሪቱን ብሔራዊ ጥቅም ሥልጣን ላይ ከወጣበት ጊዜ ጀምሮ ለሌሎች አሳልፎ በመስጠት ላይ የሚገኝና ምንም ዓይነት ብሔራዊ ስሜት፣ተቆርቋሪነትና አመለካከት የሌለው የውጭ ቀጣሪዎቹን ጥቅም ለማስከበር የቆመ የነፍሰ ገዳዮች ጥርቅም ነው።

አሜሪካ “በሽብር” ላይ የከፈተችው ጦርነት በቀላሉና በተወሰነ ጊዜ ያልቃል ተብሎ ሊገመት የሚችል ስላይደለና እንደነ መለስ ዜናዊ ዓይነት እራሳቸውን እንደ ሸቀጥ ለሽያጭ ያቀረቡና “ሳይጠሯቸው አቤት፣ ሳይልኳቸው ወዴት” የሚሉ ሰው ሆነው ተፈጥረው እነሱ ግን በውሻነት ጌቶቻቸውን ለማስደሰት ጭራቸውን የሚቆሉ፣ ህዝባቸውን በጠላትነት ፈርጀው ከባዕዳን እርጥባን በመቃረም በስልጣን ኮርቻ ላይ ተፈናጠው ለመቆየት የሚቅበዘበዙ ነፈሰ በላዎች እስካሉ ድረስና “ዲሞክራሲያዊ” የሚባሉ አገሮች አሜሪካንን ጭምር እንደነዚህ ዓይነት ታዛዦች መኖራቸውን ስለሚፈለጉና እንዲኖሩም ስለሚያደርጉ፤ ሚስተር ኦባማም ከዚህ ለዘመናት ሲሰራበት ከቆየ አሰራር ውጭ ይወጣሉ ብሎ ለመገመት አይቻልም። ሚስተር ኦባማ በሽብር ላይ በመካሄድ ላይ ባለው ጦርነት ከእነ መለስ ዜናዊ ዓይነት ነፈሰ ገዳዮች የሚቀርብላቸውን የትብብር ጥሪ በደስታ የሚቀበሉ እንጅ የእነሱን ማንነት ከግምት ውስጥ በማስገባት ከአምባገነኖች ጋር አብሬ አልሰራም በማለት እነመለስ ዜናዊን ፊት ይነሳሉ ማለት ከእውነታ ውጭ መሆን ነው።

እ.አ.አ. በኦክቶቨር 2008 “የሰብዓዊ መብት ተመልካች” (Human Rights Watch) የተባለው የሰብዓዊ መብት ተካራካሪ ድርጅት ባወጣው ሪፖርት ከዩናይትድ ስቴትስ፣እንግሊዝና ካናዳ ጨምሮ ከ18 አገሮች የመጡ ቁጥራቸው 150 የሚሆኑ እስረኞች ለሁለት ዓመታት ለፍርድ ሳይቀርቡ ኢትዮጵያ ውስጥ በእስር ሲማቅቁ የቆዩ መሆናቸውን አስታውቋል። እነዚህ እስረኞች ከአሜሪካ በመጡ መርማሪዎች ምርመራ የተደረገባቸው መሆኑንና ሰቆቃም የተፈጸማባቸው እንደሚገኙና ከነዚህም ሌላ ቁጥራቸው 22 የሚሆን የደረሱበት ያልታወቀ መሆናቸውን ገልጿል። መለስ ዜናዊ ከቡሽ መስተዳድር ጋር በማበር “የአፍሪካ ጓንታናሞ” በመክፈት ታማኝነቱን ለአሳዳሪዎቹ አሳይቷል። ይህንንም በማድረግ እሱ የሚፈጽመው ወንጀል ሳያንሰው ሌሎች አገሪቷ ውስጥ ወንጀል እንዲፈጽሙ በማድረግ ኢትዩጵያ በጥቁር መዝገብ ላይ ስሟ እንዲሰፍር አድርጓል። በመሆኑም እንደዚህ ዓይነት “ሲጭኑበት አነሰኝ ጨምሩልኝ” የሚል ታማኝ አጋሰስ እያለላቸው በሌላ በምንም ዓይነት እንዲተካ አያደርጉም። እንደዚህ ዓይነቱን ወንጀልና ኢሰብዓዊ ድርጊትስ መለስ ካልሰራላቸው ማን ሊሰራላቸው ይችላል?

በእርግጥ ሚስተር ኦባማ ለምሳሌ “የቀድሞ የፓኪስታን ፕሬዝዳንት ከነበሩት ከሙሻረፍ መሰሎች ጋር አብሬ አልሰራም ህዝቡን፣ መያዝ አለብን” የመሳሰሉ ሃሳቦችን ሰንዝረዋል። ነገር ግን ይሄ ለምርጫ ውድድር ከሚነገር ጉንጭ አልፋ የቅስቀሳ ዘዴ ያለፈ ስለማይሆንና በተግባርም ላይ ለማዋል የሚቻል ስላይደለ በዙ ሊባልበት አይገባም። ስለሆነም በሽብር ፈጠራ ላይ የሚካሄደው ጦርነት ላይ “በወዶ ገብነት” (Coalition of the Willing) የተሰለፉት እንደነመለስ ዜናዊ ያሉ ፈላጭ ቆራጮች በሚገዙት አገር ውስጥ ምርጫ ሰርቀውና አጭበርብረው በጉልበትና በማናለብኝነት ንፅሃን ዜጎችን እየፈጁና በረሃብ እየጨረሱ ስልጣን ላይ ቢቆዩ የሚስተር ኦባማ መስተዳድር “እናንተ እጃችሁ በደም የተጨማለቀ አራጆች ጋር አብሬ አልቆምም፣ የናንተንም ትብብር አልፈልግም” የሚል ወኔ ይኖራቸዋል ብሎ መገመት በአገሮች መካካል ያሉ ግንኙነቶችን ካለመረዳት የሚመጣ ነው የሚሆነው።

እንደውም ሚስተር ኦባማ በብሔራዊ ደህንነት ጉዳዮች ላይ ለዝብተኛ ናቸው፤ አገሪቱንም ከጥቃት ለመከላከል ልምዱና ብቃቱ የላቸውም፤ ተብለው በተደጋጋሚ የተተቹበትን ወቀሳ ለማስቀየር እንደሚፈልጉ ስለሚታመንና እንዲሁም ከአራት ዓመታት በኋላም ለድጋሚ ምርጫ መወዳደራቸው ስለማይቀር እራሳቸውን የአሜሪካ ብሔራዊ ድህንነት አስከባሪነታቸው ለማሳየት እነመለስን ተሸክመው ከመሄድ ሌላ አማራጭ የላቸውም። ለዚህም አንዱ ማስረጃ ሊሆን የሚችለው ሚስተር ኦባማ ለኢራቅ ጦርነት መታወጅ ከፍተኛ ሚና ከተጫወቱት አንዱ ከነበሩት ሪፐብሊካኑ ጄኔራል ኮሊን ፓወል ጋር የእርሳቸው መስተዳድር አብሮ እንደሚሰራ ማሳወቃቸውና የፕሬዝዳንት ቡሽን የመከላከያ ሚኒስቴር የቦኑትን ሚስተር ሮበርት ጌትስን የስራ ዘመን ማራዘማቸው ነው።

ምናልባት የኦባማ አስተዳደር አንዳንድ ከዚህ በፊት የነበሩ መስተዳድሮች የተጠቀሙባቸውን የተሰለቹና የተነቃባቸውን ማስመሰያዎች መጠቀም ሊያቆሙ ይችላሉ። ለምሳሌ እ.አ.አ. በ1997 ኢትዮጵያ ውስጥ በተካሄደው ብሔራዊ ምርጫ ጊዜ እንደታየው ትጥቅ ያልያዙና በሰላም ህገመንግስታዊ መብታቸውን ተጠቅመው “ምርጫ ተጭበረበረ፣ ድምፃችን ተሰረቀ” በማለት ተቃውሟቸውን የግለፁ በርካታ ቁጥር ያላቸው ንፁሃን ላይ የአጋዚ ጦር በአልሞ ተኳሾች እየለቀመ በመፍጀት አገሪቱን የደም አውድማ ሲያደርጋት፤ የፕሬዝዳንት ቡሽ እስቴት ዲፓርትመንት ወያኔን ጭፍጨፋውን እንዲያቆምና የሕዝቡን ውሳኔ እንዲያከብር በማድረግ ፈንታ በመገደልና በመሞት ላያ ያሉት ንፁሃን ላያ በማላገጥ “ሁሉም ወገኖች ማለትም በመገደል ላይ ያለው ህዝብ ጭምርና ወያኔ ሊታቀቡ ይገባል” የሚል እጅግ አሳዛኝ፣ የነሱንም ማንነት ያጋለጠ ለይስሙላ የተነገረ ፍሪቢስ መልዕክት ያስተላልፉ እንደነበር እናስታውሳለን። እንደዚህ ዓይነቱ ጭፍንና እርቃኑን የቀረ ማደናገሪያ በግላጭ መስጠት በሚስተር ኦባማ መሥተዳድር ሊቀር ይችል ይሆናል።

(3) ሌላው እዚህ ላይ መጠቀስ ያለበት አብይ ጉዳይ ከሚስተር ኦባማ የምርጫ ቡድን ጋር በቅርብ በመንቀሳቀስ ላይ የሚገኙትን የዲሞክራቲክ ፓርቲው ከፍተኛ አባላት በተለይም በውጭ ፖሊሲ ቀረጻ ላይ የተሳተፉትን ሰዎች ብንመለከት ብዙዎቹ ከዚህ በፊት በፕሬዝዳንት ክሊንተን መስተዳድር ጊዜ በከፍተኛ ሥልጣን ላይ የነበሩና ኢትዮጵያን በተመለከተ የተዛባና የተወላገደ አመለካከት ያላቸውና ለወያኔም ጭፍን ድጋፍ ሲሰጡ የነበሩም ይገኙበታል። ሚስተር ኦባማ አዲስ ፖሊሲ ይዣለሁ ቢሉም የፖሊሲው ቀራፆች ያው የበፊቶቹ ሲሆኑ የፖሊሲው አስፈፃሚዎችም እነዚሁ ሰዎች እንደሚሆኑ ይጠበቃል። በተለይም ሚስ ሂላሪ ክሊንተንን የውጭ ጉዳይ ሚኒስቴር (Secretary of State) አድርገው መሾማቸው፣የኢትዮጵያ ጉዳይ ላይ ለውጥ ሊመጣ እንደማይችል አመልካች ነው ለማለት ይቻላል። ሚስተር ኦባማ ከከበቧቸው አማካሪዎቻቸው መካካል አንድም እንኳ ከሰብዓዊ መብት ተከራካሪ ድርጅቶች ወይም መንሥታዊ ካልሆኑ ድርጅቶች የመጣ ሰው አልተመለከትንም። ከዚህም በተጨማሪ ሴናተር ኦባማ የዲሞክራቲኩን ፓርቲ እጩነታቸውን በተቀበሉብት ጊዜ ባደረጉት ንግግር “አንድን ተግባር ተመሳሳይ ሰዎች በተደጋጋሚ እየሰሩት የተለየ ለውጥ መጠበቅ ዘበት ነው” ብለው ከተናገሩትም ጋር አሁን በማድረግ ላይ ያሉት የሚጣጣም አይደለም። ከሁሉም በላይ ሚስ ሂላሪ ክሊንተንን የውጭ ጉዳይ ሚኒስቴር አድርገው መሾማቸው የአሜሪካን የውጭ ፖሊሲ ከተለመደው ምህዋር ውጭ ሊሽከረከር የማይችል መሆኑኡ የሚያመላክት ነው።

እ.አ.አ. ኦገስት 28 ቀን 2008 የዲሞክራቲክ ፓርቲው የፕሬዝዳንት እጩውን በሚሰይምበት ጊዜ “የውጭ ፖሊሲ በኦባማ መስተዳድር” (Foreign Policy in an Obama Administration) በሚል ርዕስ በዴንቬር፣ኮሎራዶ ውስጥ የተካሄደው ጉባዔ ላይ የነበረውን ሁኔታ ብንመረምር የሚስተር ኦባማን የውጭ ፖሊሲ አፈጻጸም በሚገባ ያመለክታል። በዚህ ጉባዔ ላይ ከተሳተፉት ስድስት ግለሰቦች መካከል ሶስቱ በፕሬዝዳንት ክሊንተን መስተዳድር ጊዜ በከፍተኛ ሥልጣን ላይ የነበሩ ሲሆን እነሱም ሚስተር አንቶኒ ሌክ የብሔራዊ ድህንነት ምክር ቤት ዋና ኃላፊ የነበሩ፣ሚስ ሱዛን ራይስ ረዳት የእስቴት ዲፓርትመንት የአፍሪካ ጉዳይ ኃላፊ የነበሩ፣እንዲሁም ሚስ ጌል ስሚዝ የብሔራዊ ደህንነት ምክር ቤት ከፍተኛ አማካሪ የነበሩ ናቸው። ፕሬዝዳንት ክሊንተን ለስምንት ዓመታት በሥልጣን ላይ በነበሩበት እ.አ.አ. ከ1993 እስከ 2001 ድረስ ባለው ጊዜ ውስጥ ወያኔ ኢትዮጵያ ውስጥ ይፈጽም የነበረውን የሰብዓዊ መብቶች ረገጣ፣ የዲሞክራሲ መብቶች አፈና በተለይም የንፁሃን ዜጎች ጭፍጨፋና ሌሎች በርካታ ኢሰብዓዊ ድርጊቶች በመቃወም፤ ለወያኔ ከአሜሪካ የሚሰጠው እርዳታ እንዲቆም በአሜሪካ ውስጥ በተለያየ ከተሞች ውስጥ በርካታ ትዕይንተ ሕዝቦች፣ሰላማዊ ሰልፎችና ሌሎችም አግባብነት ያላቸው ወያኔን የማጋለጥ እንቅስቃሴዎች በተደጋጋሚ የተካሄዱ መሆናቸው ይታወሳል።

ሆኖም የስቴት ዲፓርትመንት ኃላፊዎች ይሰጡ የነበረው ምላሽ ሲጠቃለል የኢትዮጵያ መንግሥት የብሔር ፌዴራላዊ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ሙከራ በማድረግ ላይ ስለሚገኝ፣ ሙከራው ስለመስራቱና አለመስራቱ ለማወቅ ጊዜ ሊሰጣቸው ይገባል በማለት በህዝባችን ላይ በወያኔ የደረሰውን ፍጅትና እልቂት እንዲሁም ረሃብ፣እርዛትና ስደት ሳይቆረቁራቸው በላቦራቶሪ ውስጥ እንዳለ አይጥ ሙከራ ሲካሄድብን ሆዳቸው እያወቀ ዝም ብለው ከመመልከት አልፈው ከፍተኛ ዕርዳታ ለወያኔ ማጉረፋቸውን ቀጠሉበት። በወያኔ “ቤተሙከራ” ንፅሃን ኢትዮጵያውያንን ለእልቂትና ለሰቆቃ መዳረጋቸውና የወያኔ “የክልል አስተዳደር” ብዙዎችን ለከፍተኛ መፈናቀል የኢኮኖም ኪሳራ እንደዳረጋቸው በሚነገራቸው ጊዜ ሁኔታው ከደርግ ጋር ሲነጻጸር የተሻለ ነው እያሉ ሲያሾፉብን እንደነበር ያታወሳል። ይህም ሁኔታ እ.አ.አ. በ1991 ወያኔ አዲስ አበባን በወረረበት ጊዜ መርቀው ካስገቡት ከሚስተር ኽርማን ኮኽን ፖሊሲ ጋር የሚመሳሰልና “ዲሞክራሲ ከሌለ እርዳታ አይሰጥም” የሚለውን ለኢትዮጵያ ህዝብ የተገባውን ቃል አጥፈው በጭፍንና በማንአለብኝነት ለወያኔ ከአሜሪካን የሚጎርፈው እርዳታ መቀጠሉ ሆን ተብሎ የተደረገ የፖለቲካ ውሳኔ መሆኑን መገንዘብ ይገባል።

በዚሁ በዴንቬር ከተማ በተካሄደው ጉባዔ በቀጥታ ከወያኔ ጋር ግንኙነት ያላቸው እንደውም የወያኔ ድርጅት አባል ናቸው ተብለው የሚታሙት ሚስ ጌል ስሚዝ፣ ከሚስተር ኦባማ ዋና የውጭ ፖሊሲ አማካሪዎች አንዷ መሆናቸው የአሜሪካ ፖሊሲ ኢትዮጵያን በተመለከተ ፈቀቅ እንደማይል የሚያመላክት ነው። ወያኔ በእነዚህ ግለሰቦች እየተጠቀመና አግባቢዎችና ደላሎች (ሎቢስቶች) ከረሃብተኛ ኢትዮጵያዊያን እየቀማ በከፍተና ዋጋ በመቅጠር በሥልጣን ላይ ተንፈላንሶ ለመቀጠል መንደፋደፉን ይቀጥልበታል። የስቴት ዲፓርትመንት የአፍሪካ ጉዳይ ረዳት ኃላፊ የነበሩት ሚስ ሱዛን ራይስም ባልሥልጣን ላይ በነበሩበት ጊዜ የዲሞክራሲ ሥርዓት መስፈንና የሰብዓዊ መብት መከበር ረዥም ጊዜ የሚፈጅ ሂደት ነው በማለት ኢትዮጵያዊያን ለወያኔ ዘመን አሜን ብለውና ተስፋ ቆርጠው እንዲገዙ የተቃዋሚዎችን እጅ ሲጠመዝዙ እንደነበር አይዘነጋም።

ሚስተር ኦባማ እንደነዚህ ዓይነት አፍቃሪ ወያኔና አማካሪዎቻቸውን ይዘው ምን ዓይነት ለውጥ ለኢትዮጵያ ሊያመጡ ይችላሉ? እነዚህ አማካሪዎቻቸው ወያኔ በሥልጣን ላይ እንዲቆይላቸው እንጅ ሌላ ብሔራዊና ዲሞክራሲያዊ፣እንዲሁም ተጠሪነቱ ለኢትዮጵያዊያን የሆነ መንግሥት እንዲመሠረት ይፈልጋሉ ብሎ መገመት ከእባብ እንቁላል የእርግብ ጫጩት የመጠበቅ ያህል ነው። እነዚህ ባዕዳን “ሰዶ ማሳደድ ያማረው ዶሮውን በቆቅ ይለውጣል” የሚለው እንዲደርስባቸው የሚፈልጉ አይደሉም። እንደልባቸው የፈለጉትን ማስደረግና በር ተከፍቶላቸው መፈትፈት ለምደው በሌሎች ለእነሱ ሸከም ትከሻ በሌላቸው እንዲተኩ አያደርጉም። የጥቅም ጉዳይ ነውና።

ኢትዮጵያዊያን የምናካሂደው ትግል፣ የብሔራዊ የአርነት ትግል እንደሆነ ልንገነዘብ ይገባል። ኢትዮጵያ በታሪካዊ ጠላቶቿ ብዙ እንደተዶለተባትና እንደተሴረባት መገንዘብና እንዲሁም ትግላችን ከባድና ውስብስብ እንደሆነም መረዳት ይኖርብናል።ትግላችን የአገራችን ባለቤት የመሆንና የነፃነት እንጅ የሌላ እንዳልሆነ ብዥታ ሊኖርብን አይገባም። የዲሞክራሲ መስፈን፣የሰብዓዊ መብት መከበርና የፍትህ ሥርዓት ሊዘረጋ የሚችለው በመጀመሪያ ደረጃ ነፃነት ባለውና አገርና እራሱን በራሱ በአገሩ ተወላጅ በሚያስተዳድር ሕዝብ ነው። ከፈረሱ ጋሪው መቅደም የለበትም። ወያኔና ሻቢያ ኢትዮጵያን ወረው ከያዙበት ጊዜ አንስቶ ኢትዮጵያዊያን ተቀበልነውም፣ አልተቀበልነውም መራራው ሃቅ የአገራችንን ባለቤትነት ተነጥቀናል። ወያኔዎች ከዚህ በፊት እንደነበሩት እንደ ንጉሰ ነገስቱና እንደ ደርግ መንግሥታት ተራ አምባገነኖች ብቻ ሳይሆኑ በኢትዮጵያ ሉዓላዊነትና የህዝብ አንድነት ላይ ጦርነት ከፍተው በታሪካዊ ጠላቶቻችን በመታገዝ በቅኝ ገዥነት የተንሰራፉብን ጠላቶቻችን በመሆናቸውም ጭምር ነው።

በመጨረሻም ለችግራችን መፍትሄ የሚሆነው በውጭ አገር ሰዎችና በባዕዳን ላይ ተስፋ ማድረግ ሳይሆን፣ እራሳችን ኢትዮጵያውያን ተባብረን፣ በራሳችን ተማምነንና እራሳችንን አጠናክረን ያሉንን ጥቃቅን ልዩነቶቻችንን አቻችለን የወያኔን ፋሽስታዊ የቅኝ ገዥ ቡድን ለማስወገድ በትጋት ከመስራት ሌላ ምንም አማራጭ የለንም። የውጭ አገር ሰዎችና ባዕዳን የእኛን ሥራ ሊሰሩልን አይችሉም። ባዕድ ሁል ጊዜ ባዕድ ነው። ከባዕዳን ጋር ለመዛመድ ብዙ ጊዜ በከንቱ አጥፍተናል። ባዕዳን ችግራችን ችግራቸው፣ ስቃያችን ስቃያቸው ሊሆን አይችልም። ባዕዳን የራሳቸውን ጥቅም ለማስጠበቅ እንጅ ለእኛ ለኢትዮጵያዊያን ጥቅም ይቆሙሉናል ብሎ ማመን ከፍተኛ ስህተት መሆኑን ካለፉት አስራ ሰባት ዓመታት መገንዘብ ይቻላል። ዘላቂ ጥቅማችንን አውቀን፣ ካለፈው ስህተታችን ተምረንና በአንድነት ከሰራን ባዕዳን ወደ እኛ የሚመጡና የሚያከብሩን እንጅ እኛ እነሱን የምንለማመጥና ደጅ የምንጠና አንሆንም።

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