TPDM is big and getting bigger mainly due to two factors: self-reliance and patience, both the hallmarks of Eritrean struggle.
TPDM self-reliance is exhibited in its choice to focus on its people inside Ethiopia for its day to day activities, never sees funds from the diaspora as its primary means, and its leadership is exclusively composed of people within. No Paltalk room politician has the right or the opportunity to question TPDM way of struggle. This is exactly the opposite to what EPPF had opted for. EPPF partly shot itself when the organization was made too dependent on the diaspora. People wanted to dictate how EPPF conducts its business from far away, which ultimately resulted to its “demise”. Besides self-reliance, TPDM also possesses the needed patience to wage a meaningful struggle. It is quite confident it will have the necessary leverage in a very near future to be able to influence Ethiopian politics, either militarily or politically.
In short, TPDM follows the advice it gets from Eritrean war veterans and politicians alike. Slowly but surely, it is marching towards its goal. But TPDM alone cannot bring the desired nationwide change. The ideal scenario is the following:
TPDM, ONLF, ARDUF, OLF and hopefully EPPF merge to form a military and political front. There are people who say things have changed now in that one cannot topple TPLF using orthodox military fashion. May be. But, TPLF will never handover power as long as it does not foresee any potential confrontation. Unless TPLF finds there is enough leverage from the opposition camp, there is no reason for it to go. After all, TPLF has committed incalculable crimes to which it will always feel the danger of being held accountable.

I am puzzeled here.
1.Why do these fronts call themselves by their ethnicity if their ultimate goal is to free and unite ethiopia? TPDM is Tigray, OLF is Oromo, ARDUF is Afar and I do not even know what the hell is ONLF.
Can't they learn what TPLF (again tigray) became to be?
2. If the woyane's constitution of article 39 is for real that any province has the right to seperate from the union and become an independent country, why do not they conduct referendom and solve it for once?
Or does that article only reserved for the TPLF if and only if the opportune times comes to do so?

There are a lot of lies in your thread. If EPPF was too dependent of the Diaspora people why in the hell you killed Colonial Fessaha a Tigrayan ex fighter who left Woyane and Shaebia brought him from Kenya but ended up assassinated by Shaebia cadres???

Was colonial Fessaha a Diaspora dependent and has to be removed???

How come you say TPDM is self-sufficient???

Where do they get their arms, food supplies since they do not engage battle against the Ethiopian armies and get their supplies from their enemies???

TPDM is Issayas Afewerki special armies who are going to protect his kingdom and the Tigray ethnic of Eritrea against any uprising by the other ethnic Eritreans in the future. TPDM is the bullet proof or jacket of Eritrean Sawa trained soldiers in the events of war against Eritrea.

Yes TPDM is going to antagonize the Adwa and Axum lead cadres of Meles and Azeb and at the end of the day the war is going to be division of Awraja clans as Issayas is recruiting from Tigray Awrajas who are disfranchise by Meles lead Adwa and Axum and Meles is helping oppositions from Seraye Awraja/Assenna.com Seraye clans to unseat the Hamassien people lead by Issayas. If this trend continue, we will see in the near future that Raya, Wolkiat, Tembein, Enderta and some or all Shire against Axum and Adwa supported by Hamassien clans lead by Issayas and Axum and Adwa lead by Meles supporting Seraye against Hamassine clans lead by Issayas and his sons.

Yes TPDM is growing and will grow more as Tigrayan youths do not see the opportunities from Meles lead Woyane and there is discrimination among Tigrayans the Woyane leadership is financing Adwa and Axum people while the rest of Tigrayans are watching and there will be uprising against the Axum and Adwa very soon.

To be effective TPDM they have to cross to Tigray some of the Awrajas who will be their sympathizers to their cause and people will support them and will join them against Meles leadership. TPDM has to go to Tembein, Wolkiat, Enderta and Raya then the Amhara youth will join them in masses and they will be self reliance and formidable fighters to oust Meles quickly. TPDM has to reach Abergele, Seharti, Samre, Ambera Tselemti, Wojerat, Mokoni, and Chercher. Those people are fear fighters and they are not happy what is going on with Woyane leadership. TPDM should understand to segregate between Woyane and its leaderships than insulting Woyane as a whole. The Woyane leadership is very much despised by all Tigrayans but the organization still has huge support among Tigrayans.

Shaebia cadre should not put heavy handed on TPDM in order to void the appearance of Shaebia mercenaries in the eyes of all Tigrayans and they have to open a corridor from Shire to cross to other part of Tigray who can support them and join them in mass specifically Tembein, Enderta, Wolkait and Raya and then Wollo and Gonder eventually.

Redsea,
U have posed two important questions. First, as u said, these opposition groups are mainly ethnic based. But u have to put that to the context of Ethiopian political history. Ethiopia knew for a very long time class society with extreme feudalistic approach. In the fourteenth century, Emperor Amda Siyon made a serious effort at expansion, annexing territories and consolidating these into an Ethiopia which more or less conformed to the boundaries of today. To do so, he suppressed ethnic movements and firmly established Ethiopia as an Amharic and Christian nation. He granted a form of autonomy to regional rulers as his feudal vassals with authority over gults, or fiefs. These were mostly puppets who never bothered to serve their consistencies. It is only during the Derg;s revolution, things have changed, at least on paper. This long history of ethnic oppression and marginalization has left a scar on the Ethiopian society. Today, the degree of trust among various ethnic groups is extremely low. No leader has so far succeeded to rule Ethiopia without using a gun barrel. The fact that all opposition groups now are ethnic based reflects this unfortunate historical reality. Nonetheless, once all organization grew up in their separate ways, it is easier for them to merge. At the end of the day, they all want to see a nation where equality of all is genuinely respected.
As to ur second question on article 39, the answer is easy. TPLF had always the dream of creating Abay Tigray, by chopping off territories from here and there. In TPLF crab mentality, Tigray will never sustain as a ruler of the rest of Ethiopia. They think they know deep inside they cannot rule Ethiopia for long, being as a minority regime (even if all Tigrayans support TPLF, they all constitute 5% of the population). So they had to come up with alternative plan in case things go ugly. To secede from the rest of Ethiopia legally. Article 39 is included in the constitution only for this purpose. To invoke the right embodied under that article, u need the approval of 3/4th of the parliament. Now, look at the composition of the Ethiopian parliament and tell me if the Afars can in fact successfully invoke Article 39 to secede from Ethiopia?

Two things they are doing right for the plight of Tigray:
1. They became the watch dog of "Sereqti Kab Maeteqo Adetat Tigray".
2. The flag they have is the right flag for the new Abysinia.

Ethiopia allots 4 million hct. of land for investors
Thursday, May 10, 2012 @ 01:05 AM ed
William Davidson
(Bloomberg) Ethiopia has made more than 4 million hectares (9.9 million acres) of “fertile and unutilized” land available for agriculture companies that meet government requirements, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said.
About 300,000 hectares has been leased for commercial farming so far, he said at an Ethiopian investment forum today in the capital, Addis Ababa.
“There has been a significant flow into large-scale state- type commercial farming in our country and we seek even more in the future,” he said
Investors in Ethiopian land include Bangalore-based Karuturi Global Ltd. (KARG), the world’s largest rose grower, which is developing 100,000 hectares in Ethiopia’s southwestern Gambella region. The farm will have its first harvest in October, Managing Director Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi told the forum today.

http://addisvoice.com/2012/05/ethiopia- ... investors/

Wake up Ethiopians before the entire Ethiopia sold out to the higher bidder to the Ugly Indians and Bastard Arabs - VIVA ABEBE GELAW!

50,000 thousands!

I am puzzeled here.
1.Why do these fronts call themselves by their ethnicity if their ultimate goal is to free and unite ethiopia? TPDM is Tigray, OLF is Oromo, ARDUF is Afar and I do not even know what the hell is ONLF.
Can't they learn what TPLF (again tigray) became to be?
2. If the woyane's constitution of article 39 is for real that any province has the right to seperate from the union and become an independent country, why do not they conduct referendom and solve it for once?
Or does that article only reserved for the TPLF if and only if the opportune times comes to do so?

That is every Ethiopian question who believes in a united Ethiopia. TPDM is no different than TPLF in the eyes Ethiopians.

Ghirmay is doing for TPDM what his forefathers did for TPLF which is propagating Tigrigna speaking Ethiopians are the saviors of Ethiopia. If, by some miracle, TPDM gets into Minelik Palace, it'll say faak you to hgdef mendef the same way TPLF did. hgdef is hgdef because it is INCAPABLE OF LEARNING FROM PAST.

Eden,

TPDM will get into Menelik Palace sooner or later. Mark my words!!!!

Amantu

TPDM will dump you after coming to power just like TPLF did, mark mine!