Tuesday, August 28, 2012
respect I have for Ms. YEHARERWERK GASHAW. She has been the very great traditional Ethiopian women example who had followed their men in every battle field for national preservation. Her courage, commitments, motherly sincere concerns for the abused Ethiopians who gave their only life for national interest, is to say the least, consistent and endearing characteristics that shaped her person. In this age of information, Ms. YEHARERWERK GASHAW had carried the traditional Ethiopian women challenges to the frontiers of modernized battle fields of reshaping opinions, influencing thoughts and endeavor in the forming accommodative policies WHERE IT REALLY COUNTS."
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Council of Peace and Unity of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church's birth and its foundation began in Dallas,Texas in 2007
Alemu Hailemariam Atlanta, GA.
Reunion for peace of Ethiopian Orthodox Church leaders took place in Atlanta, on June 23,2007. The reunion was organized by a committee of three women two men. The purpose of the meeting was to bring peace amoung the church leaders in Atlanta in order to form a peace and unity committee to bring our church leaders (Pope Merkoriwos and Pope Pawulos) from the Diaspora and Ethiopia to negotiation table in order for them to resolve their differences. The reunion for peace organizing committee members are Yeharerwerk Gashaw from Dallas, Tsehaie Bekele, Dr. Tezera Tsegaye, Mrs. Ayelech and Dr. Siyum Gelaye from Atlanta, GA. Thanks to Kibrt Yeharerwerk Gashaw for taking the initative as well as helping with all expenses, Dr. Tezera Tsegaye and his wife community activist Kibrt Tsehaie Bekele for organizing the committee and the meeting, Dr. Siyum Gelaye and his wife Kibrt Ayelech for serving on the committee. "Council of Peace and Unity of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church's birth and foundation began in Dallas,Texas"
የኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋሕዶ ቤተ ክርስቲያን የሰላምና አንድነት ጉባኤ የተጠነሰሰው መሰረቱ ዳላስ ቴክሳስ ነው።
ሃሳቡም ጅምሩም የመጣው ከ ም እመናን በተለይ ከሴቶች እንደነበረ ከዚህ በታች የምታዩዋቸው ፎቶግራፎች ሕዝቡ አይትዋቸው የማያውቀው ጥሩና ትልቅ ምስክሮች ናቸው። ይሄንንም በደንብ ለመረዳት አንባቢው ሁሉ ይረዳው ዘንድ ከዚህ በላይ በኢትዮጵያ ሴቶች ለሰላምና ዴሞክራሲ አማካኝነት የተቀመጠውን የእርቁን ዝግጅት ወይም የቀኑ ፕሮግራም እንደምታዩት ትልቅ ማስረጃ ሲሆን ቀጥሎም ከዚህ በታች ያለው ገለጻ በግልጽ የጉባኤውን መነሻ ያስረዳል።
ጅምሩ እንዲዚህ ነው። ይሄውም ሃሳቡን ወጥነው ወደ አትላንታ እና ወደ ሌላም ቦታ ለዚህ ጉዳይ ይጠቅማሉ ብለው ላሰቡን ሁሉ እንድንተባበራቸው የጠየቁን ወይዘሮ የሐረርወርቅ ናቸው። እሳቸው ያነሳሳቸው ስጋታቸውን እና ምን ለማድረግ እንደተነሱና ስጋታቸው የሁላችንም ሰጋት ሊሆን እንደሚገባና ቁጭ ብለን የምናዬው ሳይሆን በተግባር የሰላም ቆስቃሾች መሆን አለብን በሚል ትብብር ጠየቁን የአትላንታ ንዋሪዎችን። ሕልሜና ምኞቴ ለኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋህዶ ቤተክርስቲያን በሚል ያስተላለፉት ጥሪና አላማው ከዚህ እንደሚከተለው ሲሆን በሶስት አስቀምጠውታል ይሄውም፡ አንዱና ዋንኛው ሁለቱን ፓትሪያርኮች ለማስታረቅ። ሁለቱም በኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋህዶ የሲኖዶስ ሕግ ብቻ በመመራት በመሃላቸው ሰላም እንዲፈጠር ። ሁለተኛ፡ በቁጥር አንድ የተቀመጠውን ግቡን እንዲመታ ለማድረግ መጀመሪያ አትላንታ ንዋሪ የሆኑትን የሃያማኖት አባቶች ማስታረቅ። አትላንታ የታረቁት የሃይማኖት አባቶች ፓትሪያርኮቹን የሚያስታርቅ አስታራቂ ጉባኤ ይመሰርታሉ ለዛ እንዲረዳ መጀመሪያ አስመራጭ ኮሚቲ ይመሰርታሉ። በዚህ መሃል የእኛ የመመናኑ ሚና ፈጽሞ በአስታራቂ በኮሚቲውስጥ በመግባት ሳይሆን ለሚደረገው የሰላም ጥሪና ሰብሰባ የስብሰባውን ስራ የሚሰራ ኮሚቲ በሃይማኖት አባቶች አማካኝነት በእነሱ ምርጫ የመሰረትና ስራው ላይ መተባበር ይሆናል የኛ ድርሻ። ይሄ የስራ ኮሚቲ ምን እንደሚሆን ወይም እንደሚመስል በተግባር ሲተሮገም ወደ ፊት በዝርዝር አቀርባለሁ በሚል በዚህ መልክ ነበር የኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ የሰላምና የእርቅ የንድነት ጉባኤ እንደፈጠር ወይዘሮ የሐረርወርቅ ወደ አትላንታ የመጡትና አይታረቅም የተባለውን ቄሳውስት ሁሉ አስታርቀው ወደ ዳላስ የተመለሱት።
ለእርቁም ይሁን ለስብሰቡ እንዲረድዋቸው ወይዘሮ የሐረርወርቅ መጀመሪያ ያነጋገሩት ከአትላንታ ወይዘሮ ጸሃይ በቀለንና ባለቤታቸው ዶክተር ተዘራ ጸጋዬ ሲሆኑ እነዚህ ባልና ሚስቶች በአትላንታ በቤተክርስቲያንም ይሁን በመረዳጃ ማሕበራችን፡ በለንደን፡ በካናዳና ከዛም እዚህ አትላንታ ቤተክርስቲያን እንዲገዛ ግንባር ቀደም በመሆን ላደረጉት የኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ቤተክርቲያን ስታስታውሳቸው ትኖራለች። ዘአዘር ፌስ ኦፍ ኢትዮጵያ በሚለውም ትልቅ አስተዋስዎ ያደረጉ ናቸው ወይዘሮ ጸሃይ በቀለ በአትላንታ የኢትዮጵያ ቀንን በመመስረት?? ጭምር ለሕዝቡ ሲያገለግሉ የኖሩ ሲሆን ለኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋህዶ ቤተክርስቲያን ሰላም እንዲወርድ ወይዘሮ የሐረርወርቅ ጋሻው ያቀረቡት የተባበሩኝ ጥሪ በመቀበል እጎናቸው ከመጀመሪያው እስከመጨረሻው በመቆም በአትላንታ ለተደረገው ስብሰባ ሃላፊነቱን ውስደው የስብሰባውን ቦታ በማዘጋጀትና የወይዘሮ የሐረርወርቅን የሰላም ጥሪ በኦርቶዶክስ ተዋህዶ አባቶች መሃል እርቅ እንዲወርድ ጥረት ለቄሳውስቱ በማስረዳት ጭምር ትልቁን ሚና በአትላንታ የተጫወቱ ናቸው። በተጨማሪ ዶክተር ስዩም ገላዬና ባለቤታቸውንም በጉዳዩ በማሳመን አብረዋቸው እንዲሰለፉ በማድረጋቸው በስብሰባው እለት ከላይ በፕሮግራሙ እንደተቀመጠው ስብሰባውን የሚመራ ሊቀመንበር ሲመረጥ የሃይማኖት አባቶች በሙሉ በአንድ ድምጽ ሃሳቡን የጠነሰሰችው ከዳላስ መጥታ እዚህ እኛን ያሰባሰበችው ወየሐረርወርቅ መሆን አለባት ባሉት መሰረት ወይዘሮ የሐረርወርቅ ስብሰባውን በሊቀመንበርነት ሲመሩ ምክትል የተደረጉት ዶክተር ስዩም ገላዬ ነበሩ። በመጨረሻም የኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋሕዶ ቤተ ክርስቲያን የሰላምና አንድነት ጉባኤ የተጠነሰሰው መሰረቱ ዳላስ ቴክሳስ ነው። ያልንበትን እንግዲህ አንባቢያን እንደተረዳችሁ አልጠራጠርም። አድራሻውን አትላንታ ያደረገው የኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋሕዶ ቤተ ክርስቲያን የሰላምና የአንድነት ጉባኤን አርማውንም ልብ በሉ ከዚህ በታች።
ይሄንን ሪፓርት ለመን እንዳቀረብኩላችሁ በሚቀጥለው መጣጣፍ አቀርባለሁ።
አለሙ ሃይለማሪያም ከአትላንት ቸር ይግጠምን አሜን።
ይቀጥላል።
Dr. Tezera Tsegaye in a grey suit/Tsehbate Yemane Brhan Asrat in black and Ms. Ayelech.
Abune Selama,Melake Selam Efraim Kebede, Deacon Leaule Qale.
Tsebate Yemane Brhan Asrate speaking.
Abune Philipos, Abune Selama,Mlake Selam Efrem Kebede
YeEthiopiawerk (Yeharerwerk) seen here chairing the meeting.
YeEthiopiawerk speaking.
YeEthiopiawerk (Yeharerwerk) Gashaw with Pope Philpos, Pope Selama, Tsebate Yemane Brhan.
Mrs. Tsehaie (Tsehay) Bekele the organizer of the Atlanta meeting, seen here in a grey and white suit .
D. Leaule Qal seen here speaking to YeEthiopiawerk.
A gift to YeEthiopiawerk Gashaw by Pope Philipos/Pope Selama
Pope Philipos and Tsebate Yemane Brhan speaking.
Leaule Qal Sold out the Atlanta Ethiopian Community by giving cradit to Abune Paulos as the founder of Council of Peace and Unity of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church on his press release below.
Aug 17/2012
በሰሜን አሜሪካ የሚገኘው የኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋሕዶ ቤተ ክርስቲያን የሰላምና አንድነት ጉባኤ በአምስተኛው ፓትርያርክ በብፁዕ ወቅዱስ ዶ/ር አቡነ ጳውሎስ ፓትርያርክ፤ ርእሰ ሊቃነ ጳጳሳት ዘኢትዮጵያ፤ ሊቀ ጳጳስ ዘአኵስም፤ ወእጨጌ ዘመንበረ ተክለ ሃይማኖት፣ የዓለም አብያተ ክርስቲያናት ምክር ቤት ፕሬዝዳንትና የዓለም የሰላም አምባሳደር ድንገተኛ ዕረፍት ምክንያት የተሰማውን ከፍተኛና ትልቅ ኃዘን ይገልጻል። እንደሚታወቀው ቅዱስነታቸው ለቤተ ክርስቲያናችን ዕድገትና መሻሻል፣ መጠናከርና መስፋፋት የሚጠቅሙ በርካታ መንፈሳዊ ተግባራትን ያከናወኑ ታላቅ የቤተ ክርስቲያናችን አባትና የሥራ ሰው ነበሩ። በመሆኑም ቅዱስነታቸው በአገልግሎት ዘመናቸው ለቅድስት ቤተ ክርስቲያን ያከናወኗቸው ዘርፈ ብዙ ሐዋርያዊ ተግባራት ምን ጊዜም ሕያውነታቸውን ሲያስታውሱ ይኖራሉ። ቅዱስነታቸው ብሔራዊውን የአብነት ትምህርትና ዘመናዊውን ዕውቀት አገናዝበው የተማሩ ታላቅ ሊቅ ስለነበሩ ለቤተ ክርስቲያን እጅግ አስፈላጊ ቅዱስ አባት ነበሩ፤ ይልቁንም ባለንበት ዘመን ቤተ ክርስቲያናችንን በዓለም መድረክ ወክለው ባከናወኗቸው ብዙ ሥራዎች ዘወትር ሲታሰቡ ይኖራሉ። ኦርቶዶክሳዊት ተዋሕዶ ቤተ ክርስቲያናችን እኒህን ታላቅ አባት በድንገት በማጣቷ ልባዊ ኃዘናችንን በድጋሚ እንገልጻለን። በእውነቱ የቅዱስነታቸው ድንገተኛ ዜና ዕረፍት ለቤተ ክርስቲያን ትልቅ ኃዘን ነው። P. O. BOX 505, Stone Mountain, GA 30086 E-mail: copauoeotc@yahoo.com 2
ይልቁንም የኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋሕዶ ቤተ ክርስቲያን የሰላምና አንድነት ጉባኤ በቅዱስነታቸው አባታዊ ቡራኬና በቅዱስነታቸው በሚመራው ቅዱስ ሲኖዶስ ምልዓተ ጉባኤ መልካም ፈቃድ ሦስተኛውን ዙር የሰላምና አንድነት ጉባኤ ለማካሄድ በዝግጅት ላይ ሳለ ይህንን ቤተ ክርስቲያንን አንድ የሚያደርግ ታሪካዊ ሒደት ለፍጻሜ ሳይበቃ የቅዱስነታቸው ዜና ዕረፍት መስማቱ ጉባኤውን በእጅጉ አሳዝኖታል፤ ሊያስከትል የሚችለው ውጣ ውረድም ከወዲሁ አሳስቦታል። ቅዱስነታቸው የጀመሩትን የቤተ ክርስቲያን ሰላምና አንድነት ጥረት የመጨረሻ ፍሬ ሳያዩ በድንገት በማለፋቸው ኃዘናችን ወሰን የለውም። የሰላምና አንድነት ጉባኤው በቅዱስነታቸው የቀብር ሥነ ሥርዓት ላይ ተገኝተው የጉባኤውን የኃዘን መግለጫ የሚያደርሱ ልዑካንን ሰይሞ ለመላክ በአንድነት ወስኗል።
የኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋሕዶ ቤተ ክርስቲያን የሰላምና አንድነት ጉባኤ ቤተ ክርስቲያንን አሁን ካለችበት አሳሳቢ የልዩነት ፈተና ይበልጥ ወደ ባሰና ወደ ከፋ ችግር እንዳትሄድ ቅዱስ ሲኖዶስ የቤተ ክርስቲያንን አንድነት ተቀዳሚ ሥራው በማድረግ ለዘመናት በአንድነቷ ጽንታ የኖረችውን ቤተ ክርስቲያን የቀድሞ ታሪኳን ለመመለስና ለማደስ ተገቢውን ሥራ በአንድነት እንዲሠራና እስካሁን ድረስ የቆየውን የልዩነት ምዕራፍ እንዲዘጋ፣ በቅዱስነታቸውና በቅዱስ ሲኖዶስ በጎ ፈቃድ የተጀመረውን የሰላምና አንድነት ሒደትም ለፍሬ ያበቃው ዘንድ ጉባኤው ከታላቅ አደራ ጋር ይማጸናል።
በመሆኑም የሰላምና አንድነት ጉባኤው ለቅዱስ ሲኖዶስና ለኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋሕዶ ቤተ ክርስቲያን መላው ካህናትና ምእመናን ወምእመናት ከዚህ የሚከተለውን መልእክት ያስተላልፋል።
1ኛ/ በቅዱስነታቸው ድንገተኛ ዕረፍት ምክንያት የተሰማንን ጽኑ ኃዘን እየገለጽን ከምንም በላይ በቅዱስ ሲኖዶስ ቅድሚያ ሊሰጠው የሚገባው ዋነኛውና አንገብጋቢው ጉዳይ ቤተ ክርስቲያንን አንድ ማድረግ መሆኑን በአጽንኦት እንገልጻለን፤ እንደሚታወቀው የኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋሕዶ ቤተ ክርስቲያን የሰላምና አንድነት ጉባኤ ባለፈው ሐምሌ ወር ሦስተኛውን ጉባኤ አበው ለማካሄድ ተገቢውን ቅድመ ዝግጅት በማድረግ ላይ ነበር። ይሁን እንጂ በግንቦቱ ቅዱስ ሲኖዶስ ጉባኤ የላክነው ደብዳቤና ባለ ሰባት ነጥብ የመፍትሔ ሐሳቦች ልከን በነበረበት ጊዜ በአገር ውስጥና በውጭው ዓለም የሚገኙት አባቶቻችን በዕርቀ ሰላም ውይይቱ ላይ ለመገኘት ሙሉ ፈቃዳቸው መሆኑን በጽሁፍ ገልጸውልን ነበር። ነገር ግን በአዲስ አበባ በኩል በሰላምና አንድነት ጉባኤው የቀረቡትን ሰባቱን የመፍትሔ ሐሳቦች አስመልክቶ ቅዱስ ሲኖዶስ በወርኃ ሐምሌ መግቢያ ላይ ተነገጋሮባቸው በአፋጣኝ መልስ እንደሚሰጠን በደብዳቤ ተገልጦልን ነበር። ያንን መልካም ዜና በጉጉት እየተጠባበቅን ሳለን ይህ ድንገተኛ ኃዘን ቤተ ክርስቲያንን ገጠማት፤ አሁንም የኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋሕዶ ቤተ ክርስቲያን የሰላምና አንድነት ጉባኤ ሦስተኛውን የዕርቀ ሰላም ውይይት በወርኃ ጥቅምት P. O. BOX 505, Stone Mountain, GA 30086 E-mail: copauoeotc@yahoo.com 3
ከሚካሔደው ዓመታዊው የቅዱስ ሲኖዶስ ምልዓተ ጉባኤ በፊት ለማካሔድ አስፈላጊውን ቅድመ ዝግጅት በማድረግ ላይ ነው። በመሆኑም በመላው ዓለም የተበተነችውን ቤተ ክርስቲያን አንድ ለማድረግ፣ በሀገር ውስጥና በሀገር ውጭ የሚገኙት አባቶችም በቅርቡ በሚዘጋጀው የሰላምና አንድነት መድረክ ተገናኝተው ስለ ቅድስት ቤተ ክርስቲያን ሰላምና አንድነት ተነጋግረው፣ ችግሩን በውይይት በመፍታት ቤተ ክርስቲያንን አንድ ያደርጓት ዘንድ ጥሪውን ያቀርባል።
2ኛ/ ቤተ ክርስቲያን ለወደፊቱ ተለያይታ እንዳትቀር በሀገር ውጭና ከሀገር ውስጥ ባሉት አባቶች መካከል ያለው ልዩነት በአንድነት ሳይፈታ ሌላ ፓትርያርክ የመተካቱን ጉዳይ ቅዱስ ሲኖዶስ ከወዲሁ በከፍተኛ አትኩሮት እንዲያስብበት፤ ይልቁንም የቤተ ክርስቲያንን ሰላምና አንድነት በማጽት የቀድሞውን የአንድነት ታሪክ ትመልሱት ዘንድ ጉባኤው በቤተ ክርስቲያን ስም ከልብ ይማጸናል።
3ኛ/ በዚህ አጋጣሚም የኢትዮጵያ ፌዴራላዊ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ሪፐብሊክ መንግሥትም ለቤተ ክርስቲያን አንድነት የሚጠበቅበትን የበኩሉን አስተዋጽኦ በአግባቡ እንዲያደርግ በአክብሮት እንጠይቃለን።
4ኛ/ በመላው ዓለም ያሉ የኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋሕዶ ቤተ ክርስቲያን እምነት ተከታዮች ሊቃነ ጳጳሳት፣ ማኅበረ ካህናትና ሕዝበ ክርስቲያን ሁሉ ቤተ ክርስቲያንን አንድ በማድረጉ ታሪካዊ ሒደት ላይ በጾም፣ በጸሎትና በሚያስፈልገው ማናቸውም ነገሮች ሁሉ ተገቢውን ድጋፍ በመስጠት ለቤተ ክርስቲያን አንድነት ይሠሩ ዘንድ በትሕትና እንማጸናለን።
በመጨረሻም አምላከ አበው እግዚአብሔር የቅዱስነታቸውን ነፍስ ከማኅበረ አበው ኄራን እንዲደምርልንና ለመላው የቅዱስ ሲኖዶስ አባላት፣ ለቅድስት ቤተ ክርስቲያናችን እንዲሁም ለቅዱስነታቸው ቤተ ሰቦች ሁሉ መጽናናትን እንዲሰጥልን ከልብ እንመኛለን።
የቅዱስነታቸው በረከት አይለየን።
የቤተ ክርስቲያንን ሰላምና አንድነት ያሳየን!
የኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋሕዶ ቤተ ክርስቲያን የሰላምና አንድነት ጉባኤ።
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
The political party that was running the country is TPLF. Not, EPRDF.
Posted by YeEthiopiawerk Gashaw (Yeharerwerk)
STEP OUT AND STEP UP THE LEADERSHIP
Background
Combine activist youths with the determined and ready political organizations, the Ethiopian revolution will be around the corner. The clock is ticking. The other formidable force lurking around the corner looking inside is the potential of military coup d’état. No one can control this unpredictable scenario, of which this individual is in favor. This is the right time to strike and finish the oppressive era of Meles’s regime. The culture of tardiness that crippled the Ethiopian political struggle so far must end here and now. This is a call to the Ethiopian youth particularly inside Ethiopia, and, the Ethiopian political organizations both inside and outside of Ethiopia to girdle up, for it appears that the ultimate arbiter is going to be uprising. On the other hand, if negotiations have to take place it must be all for the political, economic and social interests of the Ethiopian people.
Meles’s health status have sent shock wave throughout the opposition forces, at least to those in Diaspora. When one reads articles written about it and listens to the comments and analysis being made in different radio stations, one would sense an overwhelming panicky situation. After suffering for the last 21 years it should have been the time to cool down, soberly observe, and study critically the political and the social environment around us and around the Ethiopian people. It should be taken as a critical time, particularly for the opposition political organizations, to assess their positions in terms of their readiness to lead. Readiness, in the organizational strength, in the adequacy of the logistics to be needed, and readiness in the grounds to be covered. It is an opportune time to rekindle the fighting spirit hidden inside them. It should also be a critical time for concerned progressive and democratic individuals to soberly assess their stand in terms of being counted in this critical time. Right now, evaluation at every level the society becomes a function of the current political emergency requirements.
Ethiopia is endowed with capable and intelligent sons and daughters that would step out and assume leadership in time of crisis or emergency, as in the emergency situation we are witnessing now. I believe it is their second nature. One concrete example is what took place in 1974 Ethiopian Revolution. During the 1974 Ethiopian Revolution, when the foreigners both at the leadership and lower level positions left Ethiopia, they were replaced immediately and very smoothly. All the administrative, research, and educational activities they were involved in continued to function smoothly. Considering what took place during that political juncture this one would be more easily manageable. Why, because the people of Ethiopia has on its side politically mature and already established political organizations, hence leaders that would replace the existing regime and run it simultaneously tackling problematic political issues. So, cool down and think deeply as to how to utilize this fertile political opportunity effectively and efficiently. It is not the time to panic. But it is the time to be contemplative and decisive. I will start my discussion with one of my subtopics which is the following.
Let the Opposition Political Organizations be in Charge
At this critical time the people of Ethiopia is expecting the opposition political organizations to step out and assume the leadership and lead the transition. The transition period should not be left to amateur and inexperienced ones. This is not the time for running an experiment. It is an opening to immediately start working. The question is who is ready to start immediately? Of course the political organizations. I don’t think this statement is challengeable.
Unfortunately, observably disconcerting situation is the neglect that is being shown towards the opposition political organizations. They are being looked upon as if they do not exist. Unfortunately, particularly those of us in Diaspora have developed a culture of not building on what we have, that is, on an already cultivated and established concrete foundation. There is miserable tendency of jumping all over the places a reflection of total deficiency of focus.
We have political organizations well tested over time, both inside and outside of Ethiopia. Whether we accept it or not the people of Ethiopia have these political organizations to lead it. One cannot simply dismiss these political organizations armed with specifically detailed political programs. There is no measurable comparability of any kind in trying to replace them with any form of transitional council, or government in exile or shengo. It is political blunder, or, at least it is unintentionally sabotaging the ultimate political and economic interests of Ethiopian people. So, think about it.
The current move of lumping civic and political organizations together will definitely hinder the independent thinking and moves to be taken by the political organizations. It is a regressive political action. It is a prison for political organizations. The political organizations who are joining this kind of arrangement are either dead or in the process of dying. I am not against forming a front. Except, the right way to do it is to form two formidable fronts first, that is, the political organizations front and the civic organizations front and then form a super front. The two fronts will come to a table with their specific goals and objectives and how they implement them, and then coalesce without affecting the independent and specific moves of each fronts. In principle political organizations are the ones who run for power, based on their platform, that is, on their political program. They are publicly accredited political organizations, that is, their accreditation is signed by the public. For the political organizations, then, not pursuing this accountability earnestly abandoning the people of Ethiopia. If so, they should be ashamed of it.
We have political organizations well tested over time, both inside and outside of Ethiopia. Whether we accept it or not the people of Ethiopia have these political organizations to lead it. One cannot simply dismiss these political organizations armed with specifically detailed political programs. There is no measurable comparability of any kind in trying to replace them with any form of transitional council, or government in exile or shengo. It is political blunder, or, at least it is unintentionally sabotaging the ultimate political and economic interests of Ethiopian people. So, think about it.
The current move of lumping civic and political organizations together will definitely hinder the independent thinking and moves to be taken by the political organizations. It is a regressive political action. It is a prison for political organizations. The political organizations who are joining this kind of arrangement are either dead or in the process of dying. I am not against forming a front. Except, the right way to do it is to form two formidable fronts first, that is, the political organizations front and the civic organizations front and then form a super front. The two fronts will come to a table with their specific goals and objectives and how they implement them, and then coalesce without affecting the independent and specific moves of each fronts. In principle political organizations are the ones who run for power, based on their platform, that is, on their political program. They are publicly accredited political organizations, that is, their accreditation is signed by the public. For the political organizations, then, not pursuing this accountability earnestly abandoning the people of Ethiopia. If so, they should be ashamed of it.
The question is, if one accepted the same political organizations with their weaknesses and strengths, to run for Office when the elections in 2005 and 2010 were held, what would be the reason for not considering them now to potentially replace the current regime? Have we even contemplated the absolute overriding power, yes political power at that, that the opposition political parties inside Ethiopia have over the hoopla of the Diasporas? No Diaspora body can dictate what they can and cannot do. Learn from what happened in 2005’s prelude to election, between the Diaspora political organizations and the political organizations inside Ethiopia.
They have the potential of immediately assuming power when and if the opportunity arises. They are there in the field. They have their offices there. They have members there that they interact with, daily, or weekly or monthly. Do you see how concrete they are? So, how can one totally dismiss them? By the virtue of the fact that these political organizations exists inside the people of Ethiopia the formation of any transitional body outside of Ethiopia becomes invalid and irrelevant. It is out of place. However, in consultation, the formation of such transitional bodies can be of the objective to strictly augment the activities of the political organizations inside Ethiopia as well as those outside of Ethiopia, not to compete against them, or dictate to them.
Therefore, I argue that to talk about power vacuum to be created, or, for some it is already been created, in the midst of these potentially equipped opposition political organizations, both inside and outside of Ethiopia, is absolutely invalid and irrelevant. Further more, in the midst of this potential to talk about the existence or nonexistence of power vacuum is self defeating. Particularly when this type of submission comes from those who were in the leadership position is, to say the least, unacceptable.
Meles Zenawi is the Mouth and the Brain of TPLF
The political party that was running the country is TPLF. Not, EPRDF. I have argued that TPLF/EPRDF was and still is a fake combination. And, it was wrong to refer the ruling party as such. ANDM, Amara National Democratic Movement; OPDF, Oromo People’s Democratic Front; and SPDM, Southern People’s Democratic Movement were and are the arms of TPLF to protect and defend the political and economic interests of the TPLF party, particularly the political and economic interests of those elites in the leadership position.
But fortunately, most likely, this militaristic kind of loyalty line up is going to change when Meles Zenawi ceases to function. Meles Zenawi was the rope that tied and held these four together, whether they liked it or not. It is neither
philosophy nor ideology that held them together. Ultimately, it is most probable that the political struggle to be ANDM, OPDF and SPDM on one side and TPLF on the other side. The arm of these three ethnic political organizations extends into the military, the security, and the mass of their own sphere of influence. In fact there is the potential for these groups to form a front and have the upper hand to hold the power and administer the country. So, don’t run to count them out.
Coming back to the main issue, the non-existence of Meles Zenawi is the non-existence of TPLF as we know it. According to Seye Abrha, Meles is the law of the court. He could make his wishes the law of the land in a matter of hours. Without any doubt then, he was holding the executive, the legislative and the judicial branch of the government alone. No one tried to challenge him about it. When Meles reflects, and acted upon what he reflected, the political organizations called TPLF, forget EPRDF, does not exist in his mind. He did not care what his Ministers say nor did he bothered himself whether the parliament agrees with him or not. In the absence of Meles Zenawi one has to look into the leadership of TPLF as well as the Ministers and the Parliament, partly through the lenses I just tried to explain. Simply put, they were robots who were being maneuvered by Meles Zenawi. For this group to wake up and come to themselves has to deprogram themselves.
However, if and when the mouth and the brain of TPLF ceases functioning it is wrong to assume that the remaining TPLF individuals in the leadership position will change their political and economic positions and convert themselves to concerned Ethiopians to chart out what would be needed for the well being of Ethiopian people. These are sadistic individuals who reached to the economic and political power they are immersed in by murdering the people of the nationality they claim they represent. (My sources for the following are the two articles by Gebremedhin Araya and a book by Asrat Abrham, ke-a-ger bestejerba). Case in point is the massacre of young, old, pregnant women, women carrying their babies on their back, at Hausin market. It was not Mengistu Haile Mariam who did it. It was the result of a meticulously and well planned conspiracy made by the TPLF leadership, Meles Zenawi and Sebhat Nega being at its head.
The famine of 1974 is another humanly unimaginable point that should never be forgotten. One can boldly say that Meles Zenawi and his collaborators sold on a weighing scale, if you will, the flesh and blood of the dead and dying young, old and children Tigryans to the highest bidder. They used the blood money they amassed, a) to establish their Marxist organization. They were feasting and dancing for 15 days while people are dying in mass due to hunger and unbearable weather. Imagine this. It is only Meles and his collaborators will have the heart to feast and dance while corps are in side the house. It should have been the time to grief. But, since they are the murderers they were not affected. b) To buy and beef-up their weapons, and c) used it as seed money for the corporation they established, namely EFFORT. Their hands are drenched with the blood of Tigray people. They are walking criminals. There is no question bout it.
During the famine the leadership of TPLF forced the affected Tigryans to migrate to Sudan. Thousands of them flocked to Sudan. The sad thing is instead of guiding the mass to sleep during day time and walk in the evenings they were made to walk during day time so that they would be exposed and bombed from the air by Mengistu Haile Mariam. When Seyoum Mesfin the ex-foreign minister was coming from Sudan to Ethiopia to participate in the formation of the Marxist organization he counted about 15,000 dead bodies on the way.
80% of the murder committed during the Red Terror was by TPLF, again Meles Zenawi and Sebhat Nega at the wheel. It is amazing to see Meles Zenawi reaping what he sow.
Here, the bottom line of my argument is how would one expect from these blood thirsty murderers, who did not have an iota of sympathy for Tigray people, to reform and be concerned for the well being of Ethiopian people in general. One can easily read the extreme hatred they have for Ethiopian people, how they structured the military, the security, the bureaucracy, the social media, the educational system, the health system, and above all the economic development system. It was not the intention of these elites, from the outset, to build democratic and prosperous Ethiopia that would have benefited the Tigray people as well. Therefore the leadership of TPLF must be replaced. They should be challenged in court for all the crimes they committed.
Constitutional Crisis
Where functional constitution, a constitution that aught to have been, of, by, and for, the people does not exist, to talk about the constitutional crisis in Ethiopia, particularly in relation to who would replaces Meles Zenawi is laughable. Where corruption is well embedded in the political structure, top to bottom, where anything and everything at any level, inside any administrative structure can be done or changed in a spur of the moment without any regard of its consequences, to worry about who is going to replace Meles Zenawi is, to say the lease, really a waste of time. The leadership does not need constitution nor worry about who to replace Meles Zenawi. They can do whatever they want to do any time. When the leadership of TPL F talks about the implementation of the constitution as it is written, it is for public consumption. Don’t take them seriously. They very well know that they did not mean it.
If at all, the constitution in Ethiopia is a one articled constitution. That is article 39. I think, how the regime benefited from this one articled constitution is quite obvious. The major and the functioning constitution in Ethiopia is the political program of TPLF, called, “Revolutionary Democracy.“ What TPLF does and does not do is in there. Therefore it is appropriate to think about a completely new constitution, with some adoption, when and if TPLF is replaced by non other than the political
organizations who have the experience and the political program as their blue prints. I argue that the only organized body, mentally and physically prepared, at least at this emergency period, capable of assuming leadership immediately are the political organizations that are present inside and outside of Ethiopia.
Can the Extremists Take Advantage of the Situation?
They would try. No, question about it. The current joint press release of OLF, ONLF and SLF is an example to be taken very seriously. The fundamental question is can they penetrate the mass and form into a formidable force that would threaten the unity of Ethiopian people. In my opinion the answer is no. For two fundamental reasons. The first one is that for the few extremists to have an inroad into the mass and build up, the opposition political organizations including the Oromo political organizations such as Oromo People’s Congress (OPC), the progressive and democratic individuals, and activist civic organizations must be sleeping. I strongly believe that the few extremists cannot overcome such formidable forces. The second one, which is an extremely important one is the Ethiopian nationalism, as opposed to ethnic nationalism, have reached to the level where such extremists cannot affect it very easily. It appears Meles Zenawi’s era that indefatigably struggled to erode the Ethiopian nationalism is coming to an end. I will provide three concrete cases to show the development of Ethiopian nationalism.
1. The Restoration Endeavor of Menelik II.
Menilik died on December 1913. He died about 25 years after completing the campaign of formally uniting the informally united Ethiopia. In the absence of the individual who brought them together, twenty five years was insufficient time frame for Ethiopian people to stay together and form a body of people, if you will, and continue living the manner they used to live. Had it not been for this informal unity that developed through time, trade, culture and religion being the catalysts, people would have rebelled against the central administration established by Menilik, immediately after hearing the death of Menilik. Regional insurrection would have taken place. But it did not happen. That was almost 100 years ago. Yugoslavia was broken into seven separate states after Tito’s death. Czarist Russian Empire when Soviet Union collapses seventeen new states were created. But when Menilik died, mind you after only 25 years of the completion of the campaign, Ethiopia did not experience what these two countries experienced. One can boldly argue then, that the inherently deep-rooted sense of unity existed then and still exists and thriving now. That is why Meles and his regime miserably failed to dismantle Ethiopia. That is why the prophesy of Isayas did not hold. Isayas gave Ethiopia ten years to exist. And, that is what the secessionists, particularly the OLF leadership was unable to factor in, this historical, social and economic interactions and come to a reasonable objective for the people of Oromo, which should have been the democratization of Ethiopia for all nationalities that includes the Oromo people, but not to secede. For the question of Oromo people is neither a colony nor a question of freedom. It is a question of democracy.
(OLF’s Inconsistencies, Lies and Fabrications of History, Aug. 17, 2011). This social situation clearly shows that the history of Ethiopia is not only 100 years and the stability so created proves the development of Ethiopian nationalism.
2. The 1991 Entrance of TPLF in Addis Ababa.
After the political blunder made by the United States Government, particularly by the Executive Branch, TPLF and OLF, both ethnic liberation fronts, both of them with the motive to secede in the back of their mind, were allowed to enter Addis Ababa in May of 1991. Poverty stricken insignificant Ethiopia became expendable. I will come back to this US political blunder in another subtopic below.
One can boldly say that 1991 was a year where there was no government in Ethiopia. It took time for TPLF to stretch it’s security and administrative structure through out the provinces. During this space, a) had OLF confident enough in the Oromo people that it would follow it, it would have declared its independence overriding TPLF. b) The people of Ethiopia, amazingly, continued its social activities, fulfilled its commitments, and its routine daily activities. Farmers were farming, traders were trading as if nothing happened in Addis Ababa the seat of the central government. I argue that these stable social activities within the different ethnic groups and among an ethnic group itself show the strength of the level of the development of Ethiopian nationalism.
3. The Election of May 15, 2005
I argue that this election of May 15, 2005 was the final arbiter for the level of the development of Ethiopian nationalism. Over 26 million Ethiopians came to the ballot box and voted for the multi-national opposition political organizations. It is of historic significant indicator of the level of the development of Ethiopian nationalism. It is of historic significant because the people of Ethiopia came out literally against a regime that consistently campaigned, by using different available means, article 39 being the major one, to break apart the unity of Ethiopian people with one-articled-constitution behind it, that is article 39.
In my opinion the people of Ethiopia, in the election of May 15, 2005, totally rejected ethnic nationalism and upheld Ethiopian nationalism. The then ethnic political organizations including the opposition ones were not even able to garner seats that would enable them to form a coalition government with the multinational opposition parties. The Tigry community in Addis Ababa rejected EPRDF of which TPLF is a part and voted for the multinational political organizations.
Suggestion to the US Government
No, it is not suggestion. Particularly at this time of political emergency situation, it is a demand with no pre-condition from the people of Ethiopia. It is a demand to tell the US Government, particularly the Executive Branch, who is clearly aware of the Ethiopian social, political and economic miseries, to stay out of the internal political activities of the Ethiopian people. Let the seasoned indigenous political organizations who lived and breathed the social, political and economic miseries of the people to sort it out and solve it. Long term stability is guaranteed only when the local people are handling their problems without outside interference. The major concern of outside interference is to, at any cost, come up with temporary solution for its personal interest and immediate administrative accomplishment.
What you did, particularly in May 1991 tells that you were not sincerely interested in the permanent stability and economic development of Ethiopia. You fully understand particularly in the case of Ethiopia, the need of stability for economic development to eradicate poverty, to improve public health, and to progressively develop education at all levels. What you did in May 1991 is what Ethiopian people inherited from your deed that caused it persistent sufferings up to today, August 2012. The Executive Branch of US government cannot be trusted. To say that there will be or there is already leadership vacuum at the time Meles Zenawi ceases to function when there are well experienced political organizations hence leaders both inside and outside Ethiopia is pretext to interfere in the internal affairs of a sovereign country. So, stay out of Ethiopia’s internal political activities. Let Ethiopians solve it.
Here is what the US Executive Branch did in May 1991. It brought together exclusively ethnic liberation fronts, namely, EPLF, TPLF and OLF, with clear understanding of their objectives and their organizational structures to implement their objectives. It did this by completely excluding the existing multinational political organizations, which clearly showed that its concern for Ethiopia as a country and Ethiopians as a people was superficial.
The US Executive Branch knew the intentions of these fronts, from the outset, which was to secede from Ethiopia. All of them. Simply put, your hand is in it, that is, to break apart Ethiopia and at the same time to make it landlocked. With these facts out there in the open you went ahead and dealt with them at the expense of Ethiopian long term stability. Political expediency. A very poor, insignificant Ethiopia, stuck at the corner of the Horn of Africa, became dispensable. You allowed EPLF to make Ethiopia a land locked country. Isn’t this a fact? TPLF and OLF, mind you two liberation fronts with the ultimate intention to secede were allowed to enter Ethiopia and do whatever they wished to do. I don’t think you can deny this fact.
Therefore, the signature of your hand is: a) in the division of Ethiopia along ethnic and language lines, b) in the erosion of the unity of Ethiopian people, and c) in the creation of state capitalism which is fascism. You created a fascist regime in Ethiopia. So, these are concrete facts that the record shows about Executive Branch of the US government did to Ethiopian people‘s economic and political interests. The every year of human rights violation report, up to 2012, by the United States Department of States is the report of your own handiwork. If Meles and his collaborators take 50% of the blame why not you take 50% of the blame. Or, why not you taking 100% of the blame for the regime is undeniably your creation? I think it makes sense.
It is an understandable fact, a concrete one at that, that you do all these to protect and defend the economic and security interests of this great nation, the United States of America of which this individual is part of and in fact at the core of it. Therefore, the protection and the defense of the economic and the security interests of the people of the United States of America is the protection and the defense of the economic and security interests of this individual too. No question about it. The terrorist attack of Sept. 11, 2001 killed people of different nationalities from different parts of the world. I could have been one of the victims. So, this individual clearly, unambiguously understands what the protection and defense of the
economic and security interests of the United States of America meant. It meant for him too.
But, my argument, in the form of a protest is that the US Government, particularly the Executive Branch, could have done it in a balanced and in a logical manner, where both the United States of America and, relatively, Ethiopia could have reaped the benefit. Unfortunately it was done in a one sided manner as it was and still being manifested in the field which was and still is against the interests of Ethiopia as a country and its people. It was wrong and it is still wrong to side with a butcher, blood sucking, treasonous regime at the total expense of the interests of the Ethiopian people and its unity. It is treasonous, mind you in a country where over eighty nationalities are existing, to divide the country along its ethnic and language line and expose it for division. It is treasonous to construct a constitution that intentionally encourages ethnic division and separation.
In addition, can you tell the Ethiopian people that you did not know the regime’s meticulously planned, well incorporated economic system of its own, for its benefit, within the economic system of the country, if such economic system of the country exists at all?
The people of Ethiopia demands the US government to stay out of its internal political activities unless and only when it committed itself that it would do it in a balanced manner, relatively, relatively because of the needs and demand differences, that is, in the economic and security interests of both the people of the United states of America and the people of Ethiopia. Both need each other.
Mankelklot Haile Selassie (PhD)
August 10, 2012
Friday, August 17, 2012
Suspect identified in murder of Ethiopian couple in Dallas
Suspect identified in murder of Ethiopian couple in Dallas
DALLAS, TEXAS (FOX) — Dallas police have identified a murder suspect in the shooting deaths of a Dallas couple.
Investigators said Abey Belette Girma followed Yayehyirad Lemma and Yenenesh Desta home from their restaurant, the Desta Ethiopian Restaurant on northern Greenville Avenue, Wednesday night. He allegedly shot them because they had disrespected him.
The couple died on the door step of their M Street home just after midnight.
Neighbors who heard gunfire called police to the home in the 5700 block of Marquita Street. Inside, a relative was caring for the couple’s 1-year-old son.
Earlier on Thursday, Oak Farms Dairy offered $10,000 to whoever had information leading to the arrest and indictment of any suspects. However, a few hours later, Dallas police announced the reward offer had been retracted and that “detectives are working on potential information.”
The suspect, Abey Belete Girma, has not yet been arrested.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Dr. Fesseha Eshetu was the messenger of Meles Zenawi to kill the Ethiopian Youth National Movement.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Also, for more information on the article in Amharic on Dr. Fessha below.
visit: http://www.zehabesha.com/?p=9382
Also, for more information on the article in Amharic on Dr. Fessha below.
visit: http://www.zehabesha.com/?p=9382
What Happened to Ethiopian Youth National Movement?
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| Dr. Fesseha Eshetu |
What Happened to Ethiopian Youth National Movement?
Mankelklot Haile Selassie (PhD)
(June 29, 2012)From the outset, the prompt response to this question is, it is sold out. To show the full picture in the building process of the Ethiopian Youth National Movement and now the Ethiopian National Transitional Council (ENTC), I am going to discuss, in my opinion, this very important and timely issue under four subtopics, namely: 1) The Formation of Ethiopian Youth National Movement, 2) The lay out of its organizational structure particularly for Addis Ababa, 3) Is the Ethiopian National Transitional Council needed now? and finally, 4) How Meles Zenawi killed the Diaspora Youth Movement.
1. The formation of Ethiopian Youth National Movement.
It is the product of the “Global Civic Movement for Change in Ethiopia.” This Civic Movement was a very promising one to which I was a part at the beginning until I was deliberately pushed out. Then, I pushed for the decentralization of the activities, that is to let the civic groups that make up the umbrella organization spread all over the world, to act and plan independently when needed and as they see it fit, and, for the Civic Movement to focus on uprising. Certain individuals affiliated with certain political organizations did not like it. Unfortunately, through time the Civic Movement became the stepping and the recruiting platform for the so called political organizations. This promising Civic Organization was hijacked by certain political organizations and the movement finally fizzled out.
Coming back to the Youth Movement, at the beginning the intention was to organize the youth as part of the Global Civic Movement for Change in Ethiopia. An individual who volunteered to handle it took the responsibility to work around the Ethiopian youth. Before it separated itself and started to act independently, it was reporting it’s activities directly to the Global Civic Movement for Change in Ethiopia. For example to point out at least three of them: April 2, 2011, May 10, 2011 and May 17, 2011.
After certain period of time the individual who took the responsibility to organize the youth around the Civic Movement slowly started to separate and form an independent youth organization. It began the process of separation by declaring that it has its own logo, a modified logo of the Global Civic Movement for Change in Ethiopia. Further along it changed the name the Ethiopian Youth Movement to Ethiopian Youth National Movement (EYNM).
Under its article “The Revolution Just Started,” April 2, 2011 it specifically pointed out its vision, mission, and objectives for the youths inside Ethiopia and in Diaspora. Here are what it declared in this article:
Vision
To be a leading galvanizing movement for the Ethiopian youth struggle to topple the TPLF tyranny and be a catalyst for the establishment of democratic society in Ethiopia .
Mission
To serve as a facilitating platform in bringing the Ethiopian youth together to network and build solidarity, brainstorm ideas, strategize long term and short term plans to shape the political, social and economic future of Ethiopia .
Goals and Objectives
Goal 1: Organize the leading change agents
Objectives:
a) Formulate long-term strategy plan on how to sustain democratic change in Ethiopia
b) Recruit change agents from across all groups of the Ethiopian youth. Create ad-hoc network structures for the change agents
c) Train change agents on the practical applications of non-violent engagement
Goal 2: Organize and mobilize the Ethiopian youth
Objectives
a) Use the available technology to allow youth to interact, converse relevant issues, build solidarity identify initiatives and mobilize action
b) Provide practical training on nonviolent engagement
c) Create online advocacy kits to assist youth in the methods of nonviolent struggle
d) Create global alliances
e) Build advocacy campaigns to reach private, non-profit and
government entities in support of democracy
f) Expand and strengthen the leadership structure of youth through forming chapters
g) Mobilize the Ethiopian youth for goal-oriented action on the TPLF regime
Goal 3: Transform the movement as a civil society organization in the post-TPLF Ethiopia
Objective
a) Formulate long-term strategic plan on how to sustain democratic change in Ethiopia
2. The layout of its specific organizational structure particularly for Addis Ababa.
The setup of the organizational structure for the activities of the Youth Movement inside Ethiopia, particularly in Addis Ababa was divided into three sub-cities with their own liaison officers. Arada, Kirkos and Gullele as one group; group two included Kolfe keranyo, Akaki -kaliti and Nefas Silk -Lafto, and group three included Lideta, Bole, Addis Ketema and Yeka. Link these sub-city divisions with the above vision, mission, and objectives and notice the comprehensiveness of the layout.
Whether this lay out did have a well organized body behind it and therefore could have worked or not is an argument to be made. But what one could have surmised from the face value of the above is that had this organizational lay out followed through with commitment and dedication one can clearly see the impact the Diaspora youth would have achieved. I argue that this potential threat was well observed by Meles and his regime therefore Meles has to take an effective and efficient action to cripple and finally kill this Ethiopian Youth National Movement.
The decreeing a law to criminalize independent telecom use, CPJ/IFEX, June 18, 2012, partly could be to block the free communication between the youths inside Ethiopia and in Diaspora. It appears that the regime did realize that the Ethiopian youth movement to have the potential threat to the throne of Meles Zenawi and therefore has to deal with it immediately, by any means necessary, effectively and efficiently.
3. Is the Ethiopian national Transitional Council (ENTC) needed now?
The leader of the Youth Movement and myself have discussed this same issue perhaps a couple of times before Dr. Fesseha Eshetu came to the United States. Then I stressed that it is not the right time to do it now. My argument was based on the lack of strength of the activities in general, the lack of strength of the communication between the Diaspora Youth movement and the Youth inside Ethiopia, and above all on the lack of strength of the relationship between the Ethiopian Youths in Diaspora and that of the Youths inside Ethiopia. It was not ripe then to call for ENTC nor it is ripe now given the above reasoning. However, it became clear that one of the thrusts of the argument for pushing for the formation of ENTC is to divert and inhibit the independent activities of the Ethiopian Youth National Movement tantamount to letting it die its natural death. The organizers of this Formation Conference know that it is so. It is a blatant insult to the Ethiopian community in general and the Ethiopian youth in particular to pretend that it is not so.
When I visited the newly opened office by the invitation of Masresha Tilahun, this same issue became the core of our discussion. Three of us, Dr. Fesseha Eshetu, Masresha Tilahun and myself argued about it very strongly.
There was a fourth individual almost as an observer who did not utter a word. Then I argued that the timing is not right to form ENTC. My reasoning was based, as it was between Masresha and myself long time ago as pointed out earlier, on the importance first to organize the youth inside Ethiopia and let them confirm whether the political situation is ripe or not. That is whether particularly the people of Addis Ababa was ready for an uprising or not. If the information became positive, then it will be logical and of course essential to form the Transitional Council. Or one can call it transitional government. Of course the urgency of the time will determine the composition of the body to be formed.
4. How did Meles Zenawi killed the Diaspora Youth Movement?
What I am going to discuss under this topic is exactly what I discussed with Masresha Tilahun, here after the leader, privately, in two very open and blunt conversations the two of us have had. One of the conversations was face to face after he invited me to see their new office. The second one was telephone conversation.
The crippling and then the killing of the Ethiopian Youth National Movement was initiated when the leader was contacted by Dr. Fesseha Eshetu. After he was personally contacted by Dr. Fesseha Eshetu the two of them started to initiate the formation of Ethiopian National Transitional Council (ENTC) obviously on the grave of Ethiopian Youth National Movement. Dr. Fesseha Eshetu was the messenger of Meles Zenawi to kill the Ethiopian Youth National Movement. This was what I told the leader in our face to face over dinner conversation on the day I visited their office. Later on, during our telephone conversation I told him to stop this Ethiopian National Transitional Council thing, get rid Dr. Fesseha Eshetu and concentrate on the Youth Movement. At no time did he try to challenge what I said.
Calling for press conference on June 24, 2012 about the Ethiopian Youth National Movement is the mother of all dishonesty and very cheap political propaganda, which was being done while stabbing the Youth Movement in the back. Above all it is an insult to the intelligence of those particularly watching, reading, and listening to every move made and information disseminated by the leadership of the Youth Movement.
Believing that the Ethiopian Youth National Movement will follow through it’s kind of blueprint I copied above, based on its organizational structure and based on very serious discussions we have had between its leader and myself, I contributed $1800.00 within a period of seven months. At the beginning one thousand dollars as seed money, then $500.00 and later $300.00. My proposal and our agreement was strictly to be used for the activities of the Youth Movement inside Ethiopia. Do I regret it now that the Youth Movement is sold out? Absolutely not!!! I did what my conscious told me to do and took risk. In my opinion, sometimes, one has to take risk in politics too.
It is the responsibility of the Ethiopian National Movement in Diaspora to work with its existing contacts very carefully and clandestinely, to encourage, in fact must insist, the formation of the collective leadership immediately. When there is a well organized and disciplined body that is capable of providing continuous, constructive and farsighted leadership, it is inevitable those who do the grassroots level of activities will be disciplined and very vigorous in their day to day activities because they have full confidence in the leadership.
Mankelklot Haile Selassie (PhD)
June 29, 2012
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