Meles is the meanest trecherous hound that lives on earth. He stole the vote from the rural areas where no observers reach. To add insult to injury, now he told us he will give the yara-money to the poor rural girls. Once again, he knows no one goes to the rural area and check. Shame on you, Meles Zenawi!!!!

WE WILL FOLLOW UP IF THIS MONEY IS REALLY GIVEN TO THE POOR GIRLS!!!!

Earlier and for many years, Meles Zenawi paid a staggering yearly lumpsum of half a million dollors for Eritrean journalist Mohammed Taha Tewekel for covering the Arab world. It is not that there were no Ethiopians who can speak and write in Arabic but it is a matter of trust. Mr. Tewekel has now a research center in Addis, but God knows what that "research center" is all about.
Eritrean Kostentinos G. Egziabher is a private advisor to the UN on Ethiopian affairs. His office in Addis wins occasional contracts from the government. It is not that Meles knows no qualified Ethiopians who can represent Ethiopia at the UN. It is only a mattter of trust: Eritreans and Meles have identical policies on Ethiopia, but not Ethiopians.

When Meles Zenawi's political death became imminent last May when the opposition CUD and UEDF swept most parliamentary seats, including in the all-important Addis Ababa, Amhara and Oromia regions, and Meles lost his key men, including second-in-command Bereket Simon, a political earthquake struck Eritrea, and the epicenter was in Asmara. The political tremors across communities in the Eritrean diaspora left Eritrean wondering whether their darling man in Addis would surrender Eritrea-embedded power through "elections," or would remain firm at the helm of power in the landlocked country? The June 8th killings in Addis assured Eritreans that Ethiopia would remain in the hands of Eritrea's Guardian of the Sea .

While visiting Paris in April, a French journalist, Alain Leterrier, who interviewed Meles in 1998, 1999, 2003, and this year in April 2005, asks Meles how come he is visiting Paris during a hectic pre-election time. And adds, "Will we have a fifth interview in Les nouvelles d'Addis?" To which Meles answers, "Of course, not only for the fifth time but also for the sixth, and...", assuring the journalist (and us indirectly) that Ethiopia would see - despite the "free and fair" elections - no new leader while Mr. Meles is alive."

Though how much Ethiopian tax-payer's money Meles spends to sell himself to the outside world as a "democrat" is anybody's guess, the Eritrean web Meles has woven while masquerading himself as a Weyane leader, which gives the deceptive message that he is from Tigrai, and hence Ethiopian, begs no further research and investigation. His 30-year-old deeds speak for themselves.

When Meles Zenawi's envoy to Tigrai region, Tsegai Berhe, visited Washington, DC recently, his dinner party was graced with the presence of a good number of Eritreans. It was solidarity in action against victorious opposition parties; in other words the chosen representatives of the Ethiopian people, by extension against Ethiopia.

At a recent Eritrean festival in the German town of Kassel, the guest of honor was Hiruy Amanuel, an Ethiopian-born Eritrean appointed as Meles Zenawi's Ambassador to Germany, arguably home to thousands of Eritrean immigrants than anywhere else in Europe. This reminds us of Meles Zenawi's infatuation with Tina Turner's hit: "What has love got to do with it?" What has Hiruy, many a Meles cadres defend as a born-again Ethiopian, got to do with an Eritrean festival?

If the Norwegian Yara Foundation based its report on deceptive “economic growth” reports witnessed during Meles Zenawi’s 14-year-old reign, there shouldn’t be any surprise as Meles Zenawi’s top economist is also Eritrean Neway Gebre-Ab, who has a ministerial portfolio, and hence boss of the so-called “Ethiopian Agricultural Research Organization (EARO), a “think-tank” which Norwegian groups found out recently that the group under Neway Gebre-Ab which has been feeding the World Bank and IMF with documents of fictitious “8 percent annual growth reports” in Ethiopia.

This appointment is like Eritrean tyrant Isaias Afwerki having Ethiopia’s noted economist Dr. Befekadu Degfie as his economic advisor; something unthinkable in Eritrea but a reality in Ethiopia.

(FYI: Neway Gebre-Ab is the older brother of former Ethiopian Press Enterprises manager Tesfaye Gebre-Ab, an EPRDF official who was in charge of all state-owned publications like Addis Zemen, Ethiopian Herald, the Oromo-language Berisso, the Arabic Al-Alam, and many more quarterlies entirely under the control of Bereket Simon. Tesfaye was also author of the Terarawochin YanKetekete Twild, a book which talks about TPLF military achievements the credit of which finally flows like a river toward Asmara's EPLF. After he quit Ethiopian Press Enterprises, Tesfaye was “laid off” by EPRDF, and started as executive manager of Efoyta, an Amharic magazine which entered the Ethiopian market in the mid-‘90s under the cover of “private ownership.” Actually Efoyta, whose editor was also Ethiopian-born Eritrean Arefayne Hagos, was enjoying enough government budget. Tesfaye fled Ethiopia in 2001 during the TPLF split, when Meles was as vulnerable as a trapped mouse then-powerful TPLF officials accused the prime minister of being an Eritrean mercenary. Tesfaye convinced himself there was no way Meles would survive the TPLF threat, and fled to Kenya. He was wrong: Meles took swift actions against TPLF dissidents who were later purged and imprisoned. But Tesfaye had no regrets as he had already bagged a public fund amounting to half a million Birr. On top of that, his older brother, Neway Gebre-Ab, is still the top official who has the strongest say on Ethiopia’s national economic policies, which last week bore the fruit we now know as the $200,000 Yara Prize).

Eritreans come and go in key Ethiopian political life. One such Eritrean activist was Yemane Jamaica, who joined TPLF from inception, and finally in 2000, headed the Ethiopian delegation to The Hague. Documents and maps were passed to the other side, even showing the flashpoint of the two-year-old War, Badme, being in Eritrea. Yemane felt "Mission Accomplished," and with wife and family in London, he basks in the after-glow of an affluent life extended into retirement years. His wealth was accumulated over "years of service to Ethiopia." Yemane has no regrets as Eritrea hasn't run out of her children who play the game pretty well in the Ethiopian power house.

Ethiopia has now entered a new chapter, a chapter by the rule of the gun. Ethiopia pins its hopes of survival only and only on the united action of its children - and no room for political squabbling should be left between Dr. Merera Gudina's UEDF and Engineer Hailu Shawel's CUD. Now, it is not a matter of democracy; it is a matter of rescuing the nation from a direct plunge into what some observers say: "A Military Rule by a Perfect Enemy."

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City: Edmonton

What an eye opener, in case some of us has forgotten how Meles and gangs are in every sense of the word anti-ethiopians.
Thankyou Abebet!

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City: Sydney

This is his another bloody tactic to fool the west as he did the last 14 years in many occasions. He knows them how foolish they are especially when they gave him prize although he massacred mothers and their children in day time at the African Capital city (Addis) in front of them. He make them believe in everything according to his benefit.

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What has Meles been doing wtith Ethiopia's yearly budget of more than 20 billion Birr,which is US$2.5 billion? If he meant to do anything good for the people of Ethiopia,he could have done a lot in the last 15 years--which was a peaceful time to do business of the country.From this point of view,I question his sincerity when he says he is going to donate his undeserved prize of $200,000 towards the education of rural girls.If he does it,well and good.

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City: York

who told you that Meles has stolen election result.cud .do not be fool.cud could not win the may 15 election.
facts
1/cud get no vote inTigrai,afar somalia.gambela harer,benishingul
2/they won only in towns in oromia.the reason is obvious.ie.in the country side there is no Mete(northerners)and gurage
in north they won in few towns and only in gurage zones.
cud knew for sure it is not only now but even in the future,unless it chages its program,itwill not won the heart of these people

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City: addis

Dear Lenchech yaz,

My god this guys are taking us for a ride, democracy or no democracy they have to go.

The silence of the opposition is making Meles & his mad dogs stronger by the day.

I would like to raise one issue -THE CONSTITUTION - This is an agreement between different groups, either parties or ethnic groups. In the case of Ethiopia the only people who has a constitution are TPLF/Tigrai, because we/the rest of us were never part of the political game. This means if there is ever a political change in our country, only then we can have a true constitution (agreed by all ethiopians).
So whene ever Meles say, oh they are tryng to over throw the government and it is agiainst the constitution, his constitution which is full of garbage.

Also the law - they are the law makers and breakers, so even if you want to take them to court, it is just a waste of time.

If we don't use this great opportunity, to establish democracy in ehtiopia, then we will never have the chance to do so.

Peace, Love and Unity to Ethiopia

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