Ethiopia in her long history has been a victim of
repeated naked aggression, subversion, and
foreign-instigated terrorism. The international
community seldom expressed its cursory condemnation of
these atrocities. The aim of this writing is to point
out some of the injustices done to Ethiopia over the
years and to remind my fellow Ethiopians that we have
only our God and ourselves to define, pursue, and
protect our legitimate national interests, which will
include a principled policy against any form of
aggression or terrorism. It is only fair to demand
that Western powers in particular reciprocate in a
manner that is more than lip service by discarding
multiple standards by which they judge human rights
violations. These powers are morally bound to condemn
state-sponsored violence occurring outside their
boarders such as in Ethiopia and cease dealing with
dictators like the traitor Meles Zenawi.

I sincerely and strongly deplore the abortive bombing
of London transport system on the 21st of July 2005,
following the first devastating attack (on 07 July
2005) on the system that sadly claimed 56 lives and
caused injuries to hundreds of innocent people. It is
morally right that both terrorist attacks drew a
chorus of condemnation from the international
community.

The London Police were understandably overwhelmed by
the seriousness of these criminal acts and were
engaged in their frantic hunt to catch the culprits.
In the heat of the arduous task of pursuing the
criminals, an innocent Brazilian was shot dead with
eight bullets at close range, ostensibly ‘mistaking’
him for a terrorist because his figure and brown color
fit the Police profile of a person of Asian origin.
The incident caused public uproar, and the government
issued a swift apology saying: “ The British
Government is very, very sorry about the shooting”.
The British government has already set up an
independent enquiry to investigate the tragic event,
which has evoked a serious debate in the United
Kingdom.

The apology and the drive for an independent inquiry
is a laudable civilized behavior that one would expect
from the British government, or any other Western
government for that matter. The sad thing however is
that this Western standard of civil rights seldom
applies, if at all, to the genuine plight of Africans
under despotic rulers – unless the activities of those
rulers run counter to Western interests.

The position taken by the British government over the
shooting of the Brazilian is in sharp contrast to the
red carpet treatment at the G8 Summit accorded to
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who has ordered the
execution of 40 innocent civilians in cold blood,
thrown thousands into jail under harsh conditions, and
made many to suffer mental and physical tortures.
Meles the butcher, has neither apologized to the
families of the bereaved and the Ethiopian people nor
instituted his promised ‘investigation’ into the
heinous crime attributed to state-sponsored violence
orchestrated by the very few innermost clique of
Stalinists in his TPLF regime. I do not know whether
Prime Minister Tony Blair has even privately regretted
for inviting the tyrant Meles to the G8 Summit where
the killer basked in the lavish functions of powerful
world leaders exchanging smiles and champaign toasts
even as atrocities in Ethiopia were taking their
tolls. I doubt whether the British Prime Minister
would help end tyranny in Ethiopia.

It is agonizingly disheartening to see that help is
coming from some quarters in the West to alter the
tainted image of the tyrant despite overwhelming
international condemnation of the atrocities committed
by Meles Zenawi and his cohorts. The following are but
a few vexing recent examples meant to improve the
image of the traitor:

Red carpet treatment was accorded to the tyrant at the
G8 Summit against the backdrop of the massacre of
forty (40) Ethiopians and numerous monstrous
state-sponsored atrocities committed by the security
forces under the direct command of Meles.
Incidentally, it was on the very same date of 08 June
2005 when Meles was throwing a lavish graduation party
for his daughter at the Sheraton Hotel (owned by his
close friend and ardent supporter, Sheikh Alamoudin)
that the said massacre and other atrocities were being
committed;
Visit by General John Abizaid of the US Central
Command and intimate discussion with the despotic
ruler. The General at his news conference hailed the
US-Ethiopian relations as excellent and promised that
military aid to Ethiopia will increase;
Surprising silence of President Bush, despite his
rhetoric that democratic changes in every country can
count on the support of the United States, to make a
public comment on the genuinely democratic election of
15 May 2005 and the despicable state-sponsored
violence in its aftermath;
Announcement of US$ 200,000 prize by a Norwegian
Fertilizer Company to be awarded by Professor Jeffery
Sachs to Meles in recognition of ‘his contribution to
improved food security and nutrition’ in Ethiopia.
This futile and cheap attempt to save the image of the
murderer has effectively been exposed by knowledgeable
patriotic Ethiopians.
Let me provide some historical facts interlaced with
my comments regarding the harrowing experience that
Ethiopia has gone through in her relations with
foreign powers:
The League of Nations, of which Ethiopia was a
founding member, tacitly condoned the invasion of
Fascist Italy, which brought untold sufferings to the
Ethiopian people;
British Field Officers, soon after World War II,
conceived and created the first Waayane (Tigray
Peoples Liberation Front) to dismember Ethiopia. It
took a lot of sacrifice to defeat Waayane I. The
Ethiopian people are presently engaged in a fierce
struggle to end the tyrannical rule of the Stalinist
Waayane II over the last fourteen years;
Haile Selassie I sent His elite battalion first to the
Korean Peninsula to fight against Communist North
Korea; and then for the second time to the Congo, to
remove Patrick Lumumba from power for his left leaning
ideology. Both military expeditions were carried out
under the United Nations Flag, purportedly to meet
obligations of ‘collective security’. The Communist
countries and the Dergue regime used these two
military expeditions as a potent weapon against the
policy of alliance of the Emperor with the West;
The defunct USSR heavily armed the regime of Ziad
Barre of Somalia for the vicious aim to destabilize
Ethiopia because our country was seen to be an ally of
the West during the cold war. As a result, Ethiopia’s
borders were violated; many Ethiopians were displaced,
injured and killed in cold blood by the Army of
Somalia;
The US government, a staunch ally of Emperor Haile
Selassie, was at one time requested to provide more
military equipment and warheads to deter a growing
military threat from Ethiopia’s neighbors. The request
was turned down on grounds that the Ethiopian Army
possessed enough military hardware and warheads in its
arsenal to fight or deter insurgents within the
country. That meant the US government was providing
arms, not for the defense of Ethiopia against external
enemies, but to suppress internal political dissents
and perpetuate the power of an absolute Monarch;
The US government: threatened to order air bombardment
from its Air Force Base in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia,
unless the Ethiopian Air Force complies with the order
to bomb the Headquarters of the Imperial Bodyguard in
Addis Ababa during the attempt by Brigadier General
Mengistu Neway to overthrow the Emperor in December
1960. The Carter Administration also later refused to
deliver critically needed military equipment for which
Ethiopia had paid, thus forcing the Military regime of
Mengistu Haile Mariam to solicit for arms from the
former USSR to fight Somalian aggression;
The US government was quick and the first to give
recognition to the Eritrean independence, which has
left Ethiopia and her 72 million people landlocked;
this action by the USA resulted in the gravest damage
to the economic lifeline of Ethiopia and her other
strategic interests;
Iraq under its evil dictator Sadam Hussein and other
Arab countries like Saudi Arabia, Syria and Egypt were
financing, arming, and training separatist gorilla
fighters to destabilize, weaken and break up Ethiopia.
Pakistan played a similar role as an extremist Islamic
state;
The US government presently pursues the policy of
making Ethiopia its power base in the fight against Al
Qaeda, a scheme that will intensify enmity of radical
and/or conservative Islamic states who were and are
acting in concert to subvert Ethiopia’s interests. It
would be a wrong policy for the US government to
pursue an alliance with a repressive regime of Meles
Zenawi who has lost the support of the Ethiopian
people through the election of 15 May 2005, which
amounted to a convincing referendum to reject the
dictatorial rule of the past fourteen years of the
traitor.
The historical facts and comments above show that
foreign powers care less about the emergence of
democracy in Ethiopia and welfare of her people, for
their own interest is always paramount. They find it
convenient to deal with dictators in the pursuit of
their interests. I am disappointed that there is no
positive sign that President George W. Bush will honor
his promise to discard the policy of former US
governments of forging alliance with dictators, as he
put it, of the last sixty years.
When asked, what legal authority he had to by-pass the
Parliament and declare a state of emergency, Meles
responded by saying that, after all, the donors did
not object to the action he took. His response is
solid proof, among others, that the monstrous killer
is subservient to the interests of the donors at the
expense of the vital interests of poor Ethiopia.
Donors are cunning actors who alienate African Leaders
from their peoples by corrupting, blackmailing, and
turning them into greedy dictators so that they will
have no choice but obey the orders of neocolonialists.


Our beloved country Ethiopia continues to be a pawn on
the chessboard of foreign players, for which Meles the
traitor is their loyal servant. Meles has deceitfully
and cleverly appointed himself as the champion for the
fight against terrorism in the Horn of Africa,
ironically as if he is not a terrorist himself engaged
in the massacre of Ethiopians. In the fight against
terrorism, the US government would be ill advised to
trust the tyrant vis-a-vis the Opposition Leaders
comprising principled Ethiopians, highly-educated in
the West and currently enjoying the confidence of the
overwhelming majority of Ethiopians. I call on the USA
now, as I always did, to join the vast majority of the
Ethiopian people, which is supporting the Opposition
in order to win the fight over dictators, terrorists
and terrorism!

It is unacceptable to live under the leadership of
Meles Zenawi who is sinking Ethiopia into the abyss.
As civilized and cultured Ethiopians, we cannot
tolerate the vulgar, abrasive, offensive and abusive
words exuding from the mouth of this traitor, killer,
and pathological liar. Therefore I strongly believe
that the only choice for us Ethiopians is to remove
the traitor from power through intensified and
concerted peaceful struggle. The choice of the
Ethiopian people at the polls of 15 May 2005 must be
upheld and sustained. For the arduous and noble
struggle ahead, Ethiopians, given the past and present
bitter experiences of our country, should realize that
they have only their God and themselves to score
victory over tyranny and abject poverty plaguing the
people of our motherland.

God Save Ethiopia!

It would not heart to have the American on your side. Even God loves Americans. Why do you think it made them the richest and strongest nation on earth. Just an observation.

The Mamo Qilo

Robele,
You are a true son of Ethiopia.Please keep on writing to enlighten us.There are a lot of people who look up to you and others like you.

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