Statement by Boycott TPLF Task Force
Don’t hand over your hard-earned dollars, euros, any foreign currency to them! And save your own money in the process!
Meles Zenawi is either dead, or if he is not actually clinically dead, he is as good as dead in terms of his physical and mental condition and well-being. Here is a critical question: What can every Ethiopian, especially Ethiopians living across the world, do to make it as difficult as possible for Woyanne to continue to rule the country with an iron fist without missing a beat, now that Meles is out of the picture?
One of the greatest powers we all have is the power of our money. Especially at this time of uncertainty, foreign exchange is one of the most important resources TPLF will try to hold on to and continue to amass. They are desperate for forex in order to be able to buy the necessary military and police hardware to put down any uprisings or opposition attacks against them. Perhaps more importantly: Foreign exchange is also needed to keep the military elites happy and well-taken care of—now more urgent than ever for TPLF, because some senior military officials may start getting restive in light of the death (or as-good-as-death) of their patron-saint, Meles.
One of the major sources of foreign exchange for woyanne are revenues they extract from Ethiopian Airlines, predominantly from ticket purchases by Ethiopians residing abroad. Starve the beast by stopping to hand over your money to Woyanne through Ethiopian Airlines (EAL). Moreover, EAL prices are likely to increase, in part because of inefficiencies in management—now likely to get worse since they recently removed a respected chief executive and put one of their own, a true-blue Woyanne, at the helm of EAL. Therefore, in fact EAL is more often than not more expensive than other airlines. So by quitting EAL and taking other airlines instead, you are not only depriving TPLF of foreign exchange that they need now more desperately than ever; you are also being wiser in managing your own finances.
Here is just one of many examples (see on the right) where flying EAL is more expensive than flying other airlines (screenshots from Expedia.com). For a randomly picked roundtrip flight from Washington DC to Addis and back, Lufthansa is the cheapest flight with $1,194, while EAL costs $1,382.
It’s has been 43 days since Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi disappeared.
The international news media finally has started to ask questions. The Economist writes that the dictator’s absence is causing jitters in the ruling party.
A member of European Parliament, which is based in Brussels, has informed Ethiopian Review sources that Meles Zenawi’s death has been confirmed. However, the regime still insists that he is alive and well.
Today is the 42nd day since Ethiopia’s dictator Meles Zenawi has disappeared. This morning, Ethiopian Review has received an unconfirmed, but credible, report that his body has arrived in Addis Ababa from Belgium.
Power struggle in the ruling party TPLF intensifies. Tigray President Abay Woldu is emerging as a serious contender to replace Meles. One sign of his growing influence is that there is more security around him than an of the other TPLF leaders. During the past few days he has been observed traveling with an army of bodyguards, according to Ethiopian Review sources.
It has been 41 days since Ethiopia’s khat-addicted dictator Meles Zenawi disappeared. Today, Woyanne propaganda chief Bereket Simon told BBC that Meles is in “a good condition and recuperating,” but declined to give details on his whereabouts.
His wife Azeb Mesfin has also disappeared from public view for the past 11 days. It was reported on July 20 that she went to Italy. She has not been seen since then, and she is not attending the TPLF central committee meeting that is underway in Addis Ababa, even though she is a high-ranking member.
This picture was taken today in Addis Ababa near Bole MedhaneAlem Church. It shows Meles Zenawi’s Federal Police in Ethiopia rounding up and terrorizing children as young as 12. The police round up such children, take them to prison and savagely beat them up. It is this terrorist regime that the Obama Administration is financing to the tune of $1 billion per year.
A whisper campaign against Meles Zenawi, who disappeared 40 days ago, has started among members of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF/Woyanne) as many of them became convinced that he is dead or permanently incapacitated.
Yesterday and today, the whisper among Woyannes targeted Meles Zenawi and his close associates as traitors who are agents of the Eritrean government. This is causing concern in the Eritrean government. According to Ethiopian Review sources in Asmara, there is a heightened security alert in areas bordering Tigray just in case Woyanne launches a diversionary military attack. The Eritrean government is also handing out weapons to the people in some strategic towns, Ethiopian Review sources reported.
With Azeb Mesfin’s absence from the TPLF meetings, anti-Meles forces in the ruling party seem to be gaining ground despite the fact that Meles recruits control most of the security apparatus. The problem for the Meles camp is that he had surrounded himself with yes-men who lack leadership capacity and experience, and although they have all the guns they need, they do not have the financial wherewithal to sustain themselves for long without Meles the master beggar in charge.
Sensing a problem, neighborhood Woyanne spies have already started to disappear from bars and internet cafes, Ethiopian Review sources reported today.
