In televised speech 20 years ago this month (June 1991), Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi told a cheering audience that Ethiopia is an Arab country and that the new leader, Meles Zenawi, is a Yemeni:
Apart from the the royal family, and with the exception of a few black groups, all the rest of Ethiopians are Arabs. Zenawi, the leader of the current revolution in Ethiopia, said to me: I am Yemeni. I know myself to be a Yemeni. We are Yemenis. Apart from the royal family, the Ethiopians are Arabs. This Zenawi, the leader of the Ethiopian revolution (looks) Yemeni, and his name Is a Yemeni one…
No wonder Meles is selling Ethiopia’s land to Arab investors and gave away 1,500 sq. kms. of western Ethiopian land to Sudan, a self-proclaimed Arab country. What more evidence is necessary to prove that Ethiopia currently is under an occupation by a ravenous junta that is in the service of foreign interests.
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