“Shithole” Psychedelic Psychobabble, and Menelik’s 3rd

Stunt

Ethiopiancommentator Commentary

On 18 February 1975, 1967, a handful of idealist Tigrayans committed themselves to solve a

fundamental problem bedeviling the people of Tigray. The scope was later expanded to address

Ethiopia’s existential threat posed by the issue of the Nations and Nationalities for self-

determination. For 17 years, the people of Tigray, led by the TPLF, fought one of the most

brutal wars in the history of Ethiopia. They faced a dictatorship of chauvinists backed by

Africa’s largest army armed with advanced instruments of war of all types, and with full military

and diplomatic support not only from the USSR but also the entire Eastern Block, China and

Cuba.

During the war, although the chauvinist camp scotch earthed the people of Tigray which

included not only using food as a weapon, Red Terror, abductions and executions on a mass

scale but also uprooting people from their ancestral land and disposing them in a jungle infested

with mosquitoes. During all this barbarity, never did the people of Tigray advocated ethnic

cleansing, hate against their brethren that are the Amhara, Oromos or any other ethnic group,

burn down cities and towns or economic infrastructures! In fact, let alone ethnic cleansing or

destruction of the public good, the people of Tigray fought the war with a policy to do everything

not to kill but capture the Derg soldiers taught to believe they were fighting foreigners! Despite

the chauvinist total madness and despite relegating the people of Tigray into nocturnal living, the

people of Tigray, just as they did to the Egyptians and Italians, brought the Derg and its

chauvinist back bone to its knees!

Following the destruction of the Derg, the people of Tigray did not fall for an eye for an eye but

for convergence, concordance and building national infrastructure for democratic and economic

development. In a very short time of 21 years (1991-until the death of Prime Minster Meles

Zenawi in 2012), Ethiopia was transformed from the “misery index” of the world into an

economic tiger, and proceeded to build the basics of democratic framework and culture where

the Nations and Nationalities of Ethiopia thrived in self-administration, over thirty universities

and numerous colleges built, expanded health care, power generation including the Gerd, roads,

and rails. In effect, in a very short 21 years, the people of Tigray led by the TPLF changed

Ethiopia from a beggar nation into a self-confident country of international prominence! Clearly,

a cultured people can move mountains! The people of Tigray, armed with 8000 years of their

wisdom, culture, agriculture, architecture, faith and a profound sense of justice and good will,

were able to bring about so much good to Ethiopia.

But then came back the creeping hand of tyranny. Since the death of the late Prime Minister

Meles Zenawi and more so in the last four years (since power transfer to Hailemariam Desalign),

the chauvinist class along with Oromo extremists backed by Shaebia and the Arabs, used the

democratic infrastructure in Ethiopia to not only gain power but also to destroy the economy of

Ethiopia and bring back ethnic cleansing as a national policy! And worst came Perestroika!

There is no question that the current Ethiopian Prime Minister is the Ethiopian equivalent of

Gorbachev in Ethiopia. The then Secretary General of the USSR was a man enamored with being

in the limelight. Not on the stage of his own country and with his people but on stages so far

away from home and with the very enemies of the USSR. And with a sword of Perestroika, he

beheaded his country into fragments. It may not be obvious to those who engineered it and to

those engulfed in ethnic and religious hysteria but virtually an identical dynamics is unfolding in

Ethiopia.

Hope, Delusions, Steel birth and Flameouts: It seems the young Ethiopian Prime Minister

cannot get off stages. Since he became a Prime Minister, he has not been seen working at his

office but on stages where sometimes he is engaged in what amounts to preaching love and peace

and at other times lecturing to cabinet ministers on complex topics which he himself seems

unable to explain in Amharic or in a mix of Amharic and English. And no wonder the faces of

the cabinet ministers told it all.

A similar scene was obvious during his lecture to the Military chiefs or leadership. Utter

disbelief was brightly in full display in the room. Present was a Prime Minister who has never

administered a chicken coop lecturing to generals who made not only the best of the best of the

Derg run out of idea but also those of its East Block backers too.

We have seen the new Prime Minister speak to the Ethiopian people from the Parliament twice.

His first, which was also his acceptance speech, was excellent. He appealed to our best instincts,

although he and his extremist comrades in ANDM and OPDO have spent the last eighteen years

building ethnic and religious fault lines, by brightly spot-lighting or illuminating our common

bond, shared experiences and contributions. He did so with what appeared to be great spiritual

convictions, humanity, humility and sincerity. Clearly, this was his best speech

But the same cannot be said of his second speech to Parliament. The Report he gave seemed to

be simplistic, amateurish, shallow, half-hazard and stunningly incongruent with the dire and

existential thereat Ethiopia faces. It was obvious that he did not come to Parliament to give an

update but to use Parliament for political stunt. That too was poorly conceived, ill executed and

that the whole thing was a fraud did not escape the good sense of the Ethiopian people. What

was witnessed was the Prime Minister answering the very questions he had asked the

Parliamentarians to ask him. But nothing can be further from the truth. Prime Minister Abiy had

one mission on that day and that was to respond to the TPLF’s take on his overture to Shaibia,

and to peddle that TPLF is not Tigray political mischief. Clearly, this second speech to

Parliament was not only a PR disaster but also a costly if not a terminal credibility disaster as

well his political life.

There have been other disasters too. Not only on the home front, but on foreign soil too. It is

truly heart-warming when the Prime Minister can go to the various regions of Ethiopia and speak

to the people in their respective languages and does so with a smile. It is also an icing on the

cake so to speak when he can throw a few jokes and laugh along with the people. This is in fact

a tremendous strength and an asset useful in building lasting friendship and relationships.

Having said that though, what is permissible within the family, is not acceptable at the

international stage. The young man must know that there is something called national honor,

etiquette and protocol.

The Crown Prince of UAE, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, landed at Bole dressed in

his country’s national cloth. It would have been okay had Ethiopia was a product of the

Anglophones or Francophones. It is not. We know for a fact that the Axumauian weaved cotton

into colorful threads and clothing, and farm Teff when the Europeans lived in caves. It would

have been not only honoring our people and country had he wore the Ethiopian national cloth or

one from one of the many stunningly colorful cloth of our nations and nationalities. It would

have been an affirmation and a celebration that which is our own! But he chose the best cuts

from Paris, although he was one who told us that colonial borders are responsible for our

perpetual obituaries we find ourselves! Talk is cheap it has been said. Clearly, no break from the

traditions of a long list of tyrants which bedeviled Ethiopia!

Perhaps, the weirdest of all is his volunteering to chauffer Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al

Nahyan. It was a kind of “Driving Miss Daisy” where Morgan Freeman is the ever happy

chauffer at her finger tips. It is hard to know at this stage whether it is humility or stupidity but

the head of the Ethiopian state chauffeuring an Arab thug is very unnerving to say the least.

But it was not just his behavior with the UAE dictator. We have seen him call the Egyptian

dictator and arch enemy of Ethiopia, the head of a country whose Constitution claims

sovereignty over waters in Ethiopian soil, my brother! And it is not just calling Sisi brother that

is odd but the Prime Minister’s overall child-like behavior is worrisome and unprecedented.

The Prime Minister has never met Sisi before. He never had previous friendship or working

relationship with the Egyptian tyrant. All he knows about SiSi is what he heard from afar, and as

every Ethiopian knows, what we know about Egyptian dictators is that they have armed and

financed forces to keep Ethiopia in a perpetual war and underdevelopment! And yet, the green

Ethiopian Prime Minister was not only beyond himself but also promising the world to the very

protagonist of evil who has Ethiopian blood in his hands!

Speaking of blood, no one has more Ethiopian blood in his hands than Shaibia’s demented small

man, Isayas Afeworki. Never mind about his half a century long blood-letting to make the wall

of evil so erected in our midst by the Italians, permanent. But let us just focus on the recent past

or since the EPRDF to which Mr. Abiy’s OPDO is an integral part, granted Isayas’s wish. Let’s

us set aside Isayas’s crime against the Yemeni people, and the war against Djibouti, the Sudan

and his violence in Somalia. Let us just focus on Isayas’s crime against his Mother country that

is Ethiopia (Isayas is from Yeha, Adowa and Tembien). His mother of all crime was launching

the Ethio-Eritrea war, setting ablaze the home of the same family and the same people divided by

These are the victims of Isayas

Afeworki. When Isayas

launched his barbaric war

against Ethiopia, his first target

was a school in the heart of

Mekelle. Isayas Just as did the

Italian fascist, sent war planes

to incinerate school children at

Ayder School. It is to this man

who authorized cluster

bombing school children, Prime

Minister called a great leader

with whom he has sealed an

oath of common path.

a wall courtesy of Menelik and his colonial buddies! He was responsible for the death of tens of

thousands of Ethiopians/Eritreans! Others have put it well when they have characterized his

pathology as an act of “a mad dog” so engineered by Europe’s worst to serve as a perpetual time

bomb, and to keep us in never ending obituaries. That Isayas has committed all this loss of lives

could never have been a mystery to Prime Minister Abiy but, in the most extreme form of

dereliction of responsibility, he has chosen political survival at the expense of everything noble

and just!

Furthermore, the Ethiopian Prime Minister knew that Isayas has turned Eritrea into an inferno of

hell. No legal framework for the citizens, no independent press, and no freedom of religion but a

one man show accountable to none. This is a regime born and reared on evil currently

pulverizing our people that are the “Eritreans!” The hundreds of thousands of Eritreans in

Ethiopia and elsewhere in the neighboring countries, the Prime Minister knew are not tourists but

refugees condemned to a life misery! So much so that Isayas’s mother is a refugee in America!

This is a regime not only condemned and sanctioned by just about the whole world but also by

his mother! This is a regime too, which dreamed, just as did his colonial masters, to live off the

Ethiopian people! To that end, the Prime Minister knows what Isayas Afeworki has done and

what he represents. In case he needs a refresher, Isayas is the man not only who sent tanks to

Badime but also war planes, exactly as the Italians once did, to incinerate school children!

Remember Ayder Mr. Prime Minister?

But be it the Ethio-Eritrea war, Ayder, the prisons in Eritrea, the imprisoned Eritrean people or

Isayas’s collusion with Ethiopia’s historical enemies to break it into fragments, no shred of doubt

about it, the young Prime Minister knew not only Isayas has committed war crimes and crimes

against humanity but also he is doing it at this very moment! And yet our man in Ethiopia flew to

Asmara not only to act like an attention-starved poodle but also to tell the grieving mothers and

fathers of Eritrea and Ethiopia that Isayas is a great leader!

No doubt the great patriots including the Prime Minister’s brother are turning in their graves! It

was one of the most grotesque demonstration of spiritual, moral and legal delinquency, so

abhorrently repugnant to the conscience as it was fantastically repulsive to the eye! Incredible

and in excusable! All these coming out of a man who preaches justice, law, love and peace, and

reportedly a man of faith! How does love and peace come without justice? But then again, the

man got to do what he must! He has no choice, for he is fighting for his very survival of his

political life, and the very survival of the extremist wing of the OPDO, ANDM and the cocktail

of poisons that are the ethnic arsonists and religious jihadists responsible for the current national

disgrace and imminent apoclypse!

We know the Prime Minister is desperate. He knows what he has done wrong, and he knows he

has crossed the lion’s den. He knows too that we know why all these rallies and the marathon

both domestic and foreign shuttle. The truth is that the Prime Minister’s peace offensive is a

charade designed to camouflage the mischief and some even say the ultimate crime/treason

behind the smile.

Shown above are a coterie of people who have already Tigrayan blood on their hands or

currently setting ethnic and religious wild fires!

For the past eighteen years but more so since the death of the late Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi,

the top leadership of ANDM, OPDO, the former Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Hailemariam

Desalign, Shaibia (to some extent) along with a coterie of Ethiopian extremists in the Diaspora

and their Arab handlers, have been working closely to bring about the current humiliation and

tomorrow’s apocalypse in Ethiopia. So much so that not just war against the TPLF, against the

very mother of the Ethiopian state that is Tigray and the people of Tigray but also against the

territorial composition of Ethiopa! Now that the ultimate crime has been publically ushered,

those who betrayed the TPLF, the people of Tigray, the Constitution of Ethiopia, the nations and

nationalities of Ethiopia and even some of the true patriots in OPDO and ANDM, the owners of

this historic crime are worried ill! Hence why they are making a “house negro” of themselves!

That is why they are trying to play the Menelik card even if that meant becoming, just as the way

Menelik was to the Italians, Isayas’s slaves. But this move is delusional, for nothing can come

between the people of Tigray and the people of Mereb Milash/Bahri Negash, for we are one

people of the same stock; we are Axumauian, Ouritawian and Agazian! Our capital is Axum and

our frontiers past the river Abay in the west, past Adolis in the east, and in the south at least all

the way to Rwanda!

In the past, it used to be Ethiopian tyrants using the great Ethiopian people for their terrible ends.

A case in point is what Emperor Menelik did to our Oromo brethren. Brutality and

dehumanization we once documented and published, would make the most racist European or

Apartheid crusader, cringe! Black on black crime is too mild to describe it. It was something

worse, something beyond the physical pain and devastation, humiliation and degradation, and

beyond the breakup of families and fragmentation of communities! It was a “total war” on the

mind, attempting to erase it clean and in many ways, succeeding and replacing it with a new one!

It was an abomination bent on recreation of a new man complete with new identity! Never was

seen such a horrific black on black social reengineering in the African continent! But now

civilians, the very progenies of Menelik and the very victims who were on the receiving end of

the abomination, are at it!

History has repeated itself. For the very first time in the history of Ethiopia, civilian leaders of

political organizations (ANDM, OPDO) along with their domestic, Diaspora and their foreign

masters, have conspired and sponsored crimes against humanity upon their fellow innocent

Ethiopians, and by extension to the very existence of Ethiopia as we know it. This was not just a

Facebook, YouTube, Radio and television bravado but we have seen this translated into an actual

crimes against humanity in Gondar (and the Amhara regional state in general), and to a lesser

extent, in Oromia. The UN estimates about 20,000 Tigrayans have been ethnically cleansed from

Gondar and about 89 murdered. As this holocaust took place, the then Prime Minister of

Ethiopia, Hailemariam Desalign, although innocent people were being murdered and uprooted

on his watch, and with the EPRDF’s leadership watching, we saw no none doing anything to stop

it let alone to bring those murderers and their handlers to justice! But there was more.

As recent as a few weeks back, Bari Dar was the seat of a well orchestrated public derangement

in which not only unsuspecting ordinary Amharas were being primed for an ethnic Armageddon

but also the very leaders of ANDM (the Vice Prime Minster of Ethiopia, Demeke Mekonnen and

all), those already soaked with the blood of innocent Tigrayans not only in the recent Gondar

pogrom but as the backbone of the Derg in the era of “Tigre Gueday,” were seen pouring jet fuel

to the burning inferno! Please note that the Deputy Prime Minister of Ethiopia, in a complete

disregard of the Ethiopian Constitution, was in public view throwing ethnic and religious cluster

bombs! But it was not just the top leadership of ANDM who were seen wielding genocidal

swords but the very current Prime Minister, the new man, supposedly a man of God, law, love,

peace and democracy, endorsed it with his silence! Then again, how could he do anything else?

After all, “yeken jibotch” and “ye-esat egrotch” was first launched and ordained by the Prime

Minister on his rally of desperation of June 16, 2018!

It was not just Fanos in public hysteria in Gondar, Bahri Dar, and Queros decimating the public

good in Oromia. But the pseudo Fanos and Queros in the very heart of the EPRDF leadership,

those who once called themselves Tagayotch, and those who once swore they are servants and

executioners of the hopes and dreams of the Nations and Nationalities of Ethiopia, have been

sawing seeds of ethnic and religious madness, and disemboweling the very soul of the national

covenant which has bound the Ethiopian people whole. It was not just against the charter of the

EPRDF and the Ethiopian Constitution but also against the ones roaring Ethiopian economy, the

economy which vanished, vanquished and atomized “misery index” as synonymous with

Ethiopia. The heart-warming terms of “economic Tiger” and the “fastest growing economy in the

world,” was not only deliberately brought to its knees but also, within a span of four short years,

the pseudo Fanos and Queros of the EPRDF have brought back not only “misery index” as our

national emblem but also begging as a national honor! The leaders of these organizations, just as

Emperor Menelik betrayed Emperor Yohannes and Mother Ethiopia, have committed the

ultimate betrayal not only to the martyrs who made the current Constitution possible but also

they have put a dagger in the well being of the Ethiopian people and in the territorial integrity of

Ethiopia! Gone is a nation of many one! Gone are self-reliance, national pride, self-confidence

and independence! What we are seeing are steel births and flameouts dressed in love and peace

psychobabble! And no wonder Africa has been referred to as a “shithole!”

“Shitholes” and Coconut Heads: A couple of months ago, the president of the United States, the

honorable President Trump, called countries in Africa and Haiti “shit holes.” At the times, there

was a global uproar about the President’s characterization of African countries. It would have

been truly offensive and without foundation had the President was referring to the African

people. But he was not. His observation was in fact directed toward the African leaders who have

condemned their countries to the bottom of the world in just about every measurable index. Such

is the case because the contemporary African leader is full of hot air and devoid of self-

knowledge, self-worth and self-confidence. He is “brittle without solidity!” He is the equivalent

of what Malcolm X called a “house negro!” He has no honorable value, indestructible beliefs and

convictions, integrity and self-confidence! He is too a thief, embezzling the peoples resources

and treasury. And as such, although he would have a beautiful constitution with all the

trimmings for a meaningful governance and life, he becomes not only the law of the land but also

the “God” of the country. To that end, he rules by façade, deceit, deception, and by playing the

ethnic and religious fault line, and when these fail to work, he rules, until his reign comes to a

tragic end, by the barrel of the gun!

There is a Kenyan joke which captures the “shit hole” nature of the African strong but in

substance, a small man. The story goes that there were once three men arguing about their

respective country’s technological prowess. The German told a story about his country’s tennis

superstar’s hand being severed in an accident, and effectively bringing his tennis career to an

end. But then, German science and technology came to the rescue. German scientists were not

only able to successfully put the arm together but they made it even better than it was before the

accident! Following the procedure, the German claimed, that the tennis superstar of Germany

became a global superstar!

Then came the story of the American. He told of his compatriot who was the world champion on

the 100 meters dash. But one day, his leg was cut into two in a car accident bringing his track

and field career to an end. But came to the rescue American technological knowhow and

scientific ingenuity where doctors were able not only to put the leg whole but with his new leg,

the man ran the 100 meters dash in half the time he did before the accident!.

It was then the turn of the Kenyan to tell his story. Upon hearing the German and American

stories, the Kenyan said what the German and American scientists did was no big deal and

proceeded to tell what Kenya’s best science once did. The proud Kenyan told of an extraordinary

story where once in Kenya, a baby was born without a head. But then Kenyan scientists

accomplished an incredible medical feat. They attached the best coconut fruit to the headless

baby and when the baby grew up, he became the president of Kenya! And we know what is

happening in Kenya, South Sudan, Eritrea and elsewhere in Africa today; coconut headed

monsters such as Isayas Afeworki, have reduced many of the African countries into the misery

index “Shit hole” of the world. And Ethiopia is joining that club!

The new Prime Minister of Ethiopia is no exception. He sure sounded like a “field Negro” when

he said the borders between Ethiopia and its neighbors were those erected by colonial powers!

This is indeed a profound observation and a required knowledge for liberation, and indispensable

for coming and thriving together! Indeed the current borders were laid by those who wish us ill

in perpetuity. But the Prime Minister selectively forgot to come clean of the fact that no colonial

master forced Oromia to choose the Latin alphabet over that indigenous African Geez alphabet!

And no one forced The Prime Minister to call on the FBI and sacrify not only his own standing

with the silent majority of Ethiopians but also the national honor and independence of our proud

country!

And no one forced him to kiss the ass of the disciple of Mussolini, and urinate over the graves of

those great Ethiopians who perished fighting those colonial border engineers, and in defense of

the Motherland! It is hate of thyself and hate and brainwashing of anything African and

worshiping all that is of Europe, just like choosing Pentecostal over our own Tewahido or our

indigenous Islam, the one from which the Prophet Mohammed called “the land of peace and

justice and where the King gives religious freedom” and from the one the Prophet Mohammed

warned the Muslim faithful “never to harm the Ethiopians” which at 623 AD was the Kingdom

of Axum!

Clearly, although the Prime Minister tries to have us believe he is a man of faith, impeccable

character, visionary, confident, educated and with noble goals, in fact, the facts on the ground not

only of the past four years but also of the recent past, tell a different story, mainly, as is the case

with the “shit hole” leaders of Africa, his “mouth is in gear before his brain is engaged!” The

discord between what he preaches and his private values is huge. There is no congruency

between what he preaches and what he practices. In fact, it is doubtful that he has non-

negotiable core values which are not available for the highest bidder! That such is the case is

perfectly clear to the people of Tigray-Tigrigni, the TPLF, and the overwhelming majority of

Ethiopia’s Nations and Nationalities who know the horrors of chauvinism and colonialism!

Crime does not pay goes the good old wisdom. As stated elsewhere, the extremist wing of

ANDM and OPDO leaders along with the former Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalign, have

committed crime against humanity against the people of Tigray, crime against the charter of the

EPRDF, the Constitution of Ethiopia, the Nations and Nationalities, and against the economic

development of the Ethiopian people. On their watch, 20,000 people have been uprooted and 89

people killed, and the economic and investment trajectory of Ethiopia has been profoundly and

irreparably damaged. But worst, they have engineered and opened up a Pandora’s Box which no

doubt will result in inter-ethnic Armageddon and the disintegration of Ethiopia! We have on our

file the records of the Facebook, YouTube, radio and television campaign runs. And we have too

records of what took place and what is taking place behind the façade in Addis Ababa and

elsewhere in the country. We have the record of the betrayal, the coup, and of course we are

following the rallies and shuttle diplomacy designed to set off ethnic and religious wild fires

against the people of Tigray and against the well being of the Ethiopian state. Nothing new here;

Tigray has seen it before, and as in the past, there is no question, she will not only prove them

wrong but hold them accountable!

Setting the History Straight: Meanwhile, let’s set the record straight. For too long, our silence

was mistaken for consent. For, for too long too, we have seen our history appropriated, and we

have seen a concerted and sustained effort to brush us foreign in the land we have lived before

the pastoralists, prisoners and settlers did! The extremists in ANDM, OPDO and their Diaspora

mouth pieces as well as their Arab benefactors have used many code words to bring about our

demise, and they have called us many names too. Our advice? Please do not waste your time.

We are not only stainless steel, gold, pure diamond and pure as a whistle but also we are as

sublime and immortal as a spirit!

Projection will never get one anywhere. Keep that which is not our own but that which is yours

for yourself, is our advice! Never forget we are a people with a golden foot prints some eight

thousand years long. We have lived where we live now, where you live now and beyond for that

much. We did not just live but build civilization second to none. We have farmed Teff and

baked bread when others competed with wild animals for their daily sustenance. We have

seasoned our food when others ate it raw, and we have lived in a house when our detractors lived

in caves or in the bush with wild animals!

We have been a people of faith since eons of time too distant to contemplate and measure. We

have worshiped gods, God, angels and saints. We have practiced Judaism before Christianity.

We not only have been a part of the ministry of Christ but also we were present during his birth.

No, the Ethiopian eunuch or Syrian missionary European “shithole”! We have too, introduced

and declared Christianity as our national religion, and also became the only people in the world

who put the cross in a currency. And for time immemorial, not only faith was second to none to

us but our daily routine has been governed just about by the Ten Commandment!

We are a welcoming people. We have welcomed refugees including some of the family members

of the Prophet Mohammed. As believers in religious freedom, long before many allowed

religious plurality, we were the first to grant legal protection for those who wanted to worship a

faith different than our own. Please understand that it was not by coincident that the Prophet

Mohammed called our Kingdom “the land of peace and justice” and our King one who “gives

religious freedom!” The Prophet Mohammed knew we are a people who lived and died by faith,

peace, justice, honor integrity and freedom not just for ourselves but for all of God’s children! It

was because He saw us live not only by the law we codified into daily practice but because He

saw us live by the law of God that the Prophet Mohammed forewarned the faithful “never to

harm the Ethiopian” which then was the kingdom of Axum. How sad it is those who claim to be

followers of the Prophet violating his Word!

We have been a people of law and government with emperors and queens more than some 225

and even more. Our leaders have been, just like the people from whom they were born, leaders

of an incredible courage, honor, integrity and foresight, and leaders, like the people they lead,

with a premium on freedom, justice and independence, and ones who would never choose bread

over honor!

We have been explorers, merchants, philosophers, architects and engineers whose masterpieces

are currently standing tall in Yeha, Axum, Senafe, Adolis, Debre Damo, Abuna Yemata Guh,

Mikael Debre Selam, Abuna Abraham, Abraha We Atsbeha, and yes even Lalibela, and some

say two hundred sixty others in all. Indeed we are a people with knowledge of lines and curves,

angles, triangles, squares and polygons, half circles, circles and ellipses, and gates, doors, and

windows, that we are all those, is evident on the time and nature defying architectural and

engineering marbles standing tall all the way past your neck of the woods, those works of ours

without common denominator, which are the symbol and substance of who we are!

Pioneers not only in time, language, art, music, literature and agriculture but also in architecture,

engineering and geometry not only in carving and molding the toughest rock or iron there is but

in minting coins of gold, silver and bronze. Remember that the crosses that are the symbol of

our faith, the rings that represent our oath during matrimony, the necklaces, anklets and many

others to many to count which adorn the Ethiopian landscape, are the product of the genius of

Axum. The swords, shield, spear, Negarit, Kebero, Embilta, Tchrawata, Meleket, Bengena, and

Tsenatsil are the arts and crafts we pioneered. And remember too that those crowns of just about

all the kings and queens who ruled Ethiopia were not only crafted in this mountain kingdom

that is Axum but also remember that, throughout the long history of ours, no Ethiopian could

become King, Emperor or Queen without the consent of Axum! And that includes the late

Emperors Menelik and Hailesellasie!

We are from forefathers and mothers of great mind and foresight. Not only did they live a life of

glory, invention and innovation for themselves but they lived for their progenies too, leaving us a

legacy without common denominator and one that is the envy of the world. An envy of the

world but more importantly, for us, a fountain of pride and a spring of inspiration which like the

sun keeps us warm, energized and empowered to become a resolute people, a people galactically

proud of our identity and heritage, a free people who would never live as executioners devoid of

thought, convictions and conception, or as a pair of hands or as human robots or someone’s slave

but as a people of mind in control of our own future and destiny.

Yes sir, we are a people raised on paradise, nourished and nurtured on legacies that never age.

We are a people with knowledge of ourselves, and with a powerful knowledge and insight into

those shiny without substance, willing slaves of the evils of colonial Europe or the menace of the

degenerate Arab thugs. We are never like those in our neighborhood, a liability and utter

embarrassment not only for themselves but more importantly to a continent of good people! That

why we salute mother Tigray, the Agazian and Oritawian state, the mother of Ethiopia, our

wonderland, paradise and garden of Eden combined, for it is a paradise for the young, and a

pride for the grownups!

Get this! It was not by coincidence the frontiers of Azena or Kaleb were from southern Egypt to

Sana in Arabia, Yohannes and Alula Abanega prevailed over the Italians and Egypt, and the

TPLF prevailed over the Derg and its entire backers from the East Block to Cuba, it is because

we are a people of not only extraordinary faith, culture, history, wisdom and foresight but also

because we are a people tested throughout time, by the hottest fires and prevailed! Yes sir, we

are a people born to live free and do so by our own blue prints!

If we may serenade you further with the music of ours. We are from the garden of wonders

blessed not only with the rare and exceptional spiritual treasures but also adorned with historical

firsts that awe the deepest rim of the imaginations not only to those of us born to these Garden of

Eden whose nourishment and nurture produced free men and women of great calibers that are the

Azenas, Kalebs, Yareds, Zera Yacobs, great Kings and Queens to many to count, and heroes and

heroines without equals, but also awe the great minds of those from distant places the world

over! We are from the root of it all, the seat of law and power, the beginning of Ethiopia’s great

civilization, and the site where the Kings and Queens of Ethiopia were coroneted. It was from

this, this heart of Tigray, it was from this mother of Ethiopia, the great Kings and Queens

embarked to build a civilization that is second to none, and from where they ruled territories not

only across the Red Sea but all the way to Monroe! We belong to a people of great history and

civilization and a people of great heroes and heroines who, before anyone else, did put premium

on freedom and independence!

We are too, the conscience, faith and culture of Ethiopia. We are authors of that uniquely

Ethiopian. From that spiritual belief to that reverence for life, from that archeological treasures

to our architectural wonders, from that mystic and timeless smile to that culinary paradise, from

that courage and valor to that premium on freedom, from the taste in our food to the heavenly

sound of our music and from the selflessness and humility to our humanity, it was all born in

Axum!

We are a people who live forever too. We never die. We are immortal living for ever in our

timeless works and wonders. We are Teff, the Queen of Sheba, Emne Melek, the Arch of the

Covenant, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. We are Yeha, Axumauian, Adolis, Agazian, Geez,

time, calendar, the great obelisks and rock churches, castles and palaces, Palace of the Queen of

Sheba, Fasilodos Gondar and Abraha Castle. We are of kings and queens all the way from the

Queen of Sheba to Azena, Kaleb, Aste Fasilodos, Emperor Tewodros, Yohannes, Ras Alula,

Zera Deres, Hayelom, Amora and Samora. We are in the timeless crosses, rings, necklaces,

anklets and bracelets we designed and crafted. We are too in Yared and Zera Yaekob alive in

our timeless thoughts, selflessness, inventions, innovations, and compositions. As such, we are

in our Negarit, Kebero, Embilta, Tchrawata, Meleket, Bengena, and the Tsenatsil we pioneered.

We are freedom and independence with a badge of honor known as the only people who met

European fire with fire and proved that we are invincible, indomitable and unconquerable! It is

not by coincidence that we adorn our churches with divine images that look like us. It is because

the divine images affirm not only powerfully and divinely the extraordinary regard we have for

ourselves, the value we attach to our lives, the reverence we have for our heritage, and the

meaning we attach to our faith but also that we are in fact immortal! “Never harm the

Ethiopians” taught the Prophet Mohammed; it was not for blind submission or spiritual, cultural

and intellectual fraud but for living true to the callings of our faith, heritage, culture and

viewpoint!

Finally, let us set the other record straight. It has not just been code words and name calling, you

have also tried to define our boundaries too. Caution may be the best practice here, for you may

get what you wish for! You have killed and uprooted us from Gondar interestingly, waving

placards of our kings. It was quiet a site to see where a mass of people victimized by a

deliberately falsified historical education, fallen for the absurd. But it should have been obvious

that one cannot hate Emperor Yohannes and love Emperor Tewodros and Atse Fasilodos or one

cannot worship the latter two and uproot Tigrayans, for they are all of the same stock! Similarly,

one cannot hate Axum and love Gondar, for it is Axum, just like Adolis, Lalibela and Asmara,

that founded Gondar and not the other way around! Historical jumbo-mumbo can only result in

monumental discombobilation as evident in the placards at Gondar, Bahri Dar and elsewhere in

the Amhara regional state! For the truth is that Atse Fasilodos and Emperor Tewodros are

Tigrayans with the descendants of Emperor Tewodros not only currently living in Tembien,

Shire but some of them in Washington, D.C.!

As to the border prescription of Tekeze, our foot prints and maps say, you are in our territory

(see map above). If there exit archeological, anthropological, and legitimate written documents

and maps that we do not know, that good old Professor Pankhurst would sure have liked to get

his hands on them! But the legitimate maps made before the onslaught of appropriation, in fact

do not show Gondar, Gojam, Shewa and others anywhere where they are today but Yeha, Axum

and Adolis! And this raises a profound question, and that is who really is Ethiopian with “3000

years” written history?

Clearly, it is that the current Ethiopian history is so intentionally debased, defaced and

adulterated, it has become not only un-Ethiopian but also it is driving others to claim ownership

of history that which has no legitimate historical fact. We strongly believe that the current history

of Ethiopia is heavily corrupted by ethnic barbarity courtesy of Ethiopian despots and their

intellectual gigolos. The current debacle of Welkayit Tsegede is a tip of the iceberg. We

therefore strongly support a constructive study and discussion on who is who, which belongs to

whom, and who is indigenous to which, who did what good or harm to whom, and who

contributed to Ethiopia what! We supremely believe that having an authoritative history of

Ethiopia, will free us from the historical psychobabble and blunders, and orient us to live within

our legitimate historical means! But we will leave it at that!

Final Thoughts On:

TPLF, Tigray and Eritrea: Prime Minister Abiy must never become delusional into believing

TPLF or Weyane is not Tigray. In fact, we do not believe he truly believes TPLF or Weyane is

not Tigray but he is trying his best to see if he can create such a scenario. It is true we have some

“shit holes” and bad apples with coconut heads in the leadership of the TPLF or Weyane. And

we have pointed who they were when the Prime Minister was, as the Americans say, kissing

their rear ends so to speak. We have in fact been one of the most virulent critics of the

TPLF/EPRDF leadership long before the Prime Minister sold himself to become a willing

servant of the “Shitholes” in the EPRDF. We have condemned the greatest blunder of the

EPRDF leadership in breaking the Ethiopian people into Eritreans and Ethiopians. We protested

the legitimization of the abhorrently illegitimate, mainly acceptance of the Italian-Arab

inhumanity so designed to have us live by the enemy’s blue prints, condemn us to a life of

eternal war, obituaries, poverty and disease!

We have also pointed out long before the Prime Minister made it to the public square that not

only TPLF and Tigray are one and the same but Tigray and Eritrea are the same! For us, the idea

of Axum without Adolis, and a flag of the Italian-Arab over the graves of our heroes so buried in

Gurae, Gundet, Dogali, Kesela and elsewhere in Mereb Milash is not only an earthly Mother of

all Shame but a sin in the eyes of God! We have in fact pointed out that the people of “Eritrea”

are in fact a part and parcel of the core of the Axumauian, Oritawian, Agazian or

Abyssinian/Ethiopian state (hence Ethiopians), and that their best interest is exclusively

covalently bonded with those of their brethren that are the Ethiopians. And so, the Prime

Minister is best served if he stays clear of such psychobabble! After all, it did not work for the

Derg and the coterie of liberation movements of the last fifty years!

And there is more to be said of the TPLF or Weyane. TPLF or Weyane is really special. Do not

get us wrong. We have nothing against EDU or Arena. TPLF, EDU and Arena are all Tigrayan

organizations with a different take on the issues we face, and we do care for each of them! We

would love to see even more Tigrayan organizations with different ideas peacefully and legally

contending in Tigray and in its parliament. We believe that a contention of ideas can only lead

us to better ideas and a better future! It makes us very sad that we are not there yet. After forty

years of tremendous sacrifices, plurality of ideas or call it democracy, this core and central cause

of the struggle, remains to be achieved. Having said that though, we must congratulate the TPLF

or Weyane for the spectacular organizational effectiveness, strategic and tactical military

brilliance, for the peaceful transition of power from the Derg to EPRDF, and for the incredible

institutions it built to propel Ethiopia into the economic tiger and international prominence!

We would even want go further and make it clear that we are so proud of those Tegadelti of

TPLF and awed by what these children of Tigray accomplished over the last forty years! Yes,

extraordinary accomplishments and many firsts. We are proud of the fact that the TPLF has

unleashed historical firsts too many to count in our beloved country. Some say bringing the

Egyptians to their knees is the greatest accomplishment of the TPLF. Indeed, this is an

extraordinary feat but for us, comparatively speaking, the GERD is minor in relation to the other

extraordinary accomplishments. For us, the greatest accomplishment of the TPLF is its choosing

forgiveness over revenge following the capture of Addis Ababa and the other major cities from

which those who made our people die dead by the hundreds of thousands, lived! The TPLF did

not only leave the entire soft power of the Derg intact but the way it dealt with the top echelons

of the Derg is truly incredible. Maybe one or two of those caught during attempts to flee the

country were taken to prison at a gun point but the overwhelming majority of the top echelon of

the Derg were given forty eight fours to report to the authorities, and reported so without an

armed guard! And subsequently, none faced a firing squad and after years in prison, many were

released alive to their families!!

They were let go although the Derg and its bureaucratic backbone had waged a war of

annihilation over the people of Tigray and Eritrea. We are not talking about the army versus the

guerrilla fighters but the Derg against civilians. There are those who say that justice was not

done, and that the victims should have gone after the criminals that killed them dead by the

hundreds of thousands. We understand the grief, pain and the temptation to go for an eye for eye.

But we strongly disagree with those with a view of an eye for an eye. First, an eye for an eye is

incongruent with the Calling of our faith, and secondly, we believe that forgiveness is a

precondition for healing, rebirth and renewal all of which supremely in demand in our beloved

country at the time!

It is also the right thing to do to follow the path of the spiritual, moral and ethical Calling and

bring the best in us instead of appealing to our worst instinct and draw us to the path of the

abyss! In this regard, we recall the words of those Tegadelti when they told us that their

comrades did not die and the living ones are not still struggling to become other killers but to

become guardians of life! Well said! What a sunshine in the land of seventeen years of darkness

and how correct the TPLF was in choosing the path of forgiveness and healing, and never that of

settling scores!

There are more firsts. Maybe the revenge free takeover of Addis Ababa and the other major

cities is of the distant past. Maybe focusing on the realities of the last twenty seven years is a

must. For us, we know for sure that in the Ethiopia of the past 27 years, there existed so many

opposition political parties within Ethiopia whose leaders can say just about anything against the

ruling party and government both at home and abroad, and at the end of the day or when all is

done, returned to their family and never to prisons or to unmark graves! We have seen it with our

own eyes too that, although infrequently, leaders of the opposition parties going after the ruling

party with vengeance on Ethiopian television, and others even throwing flames of ethnic fires

courtesy of Aljazeera and other media outlet from the comforts of Addis Ababa! Never have we

seen anything like this in the history of Ethiopia! Yes, it may be far and few and we should have

had more and frequently and maybe the government is throwing this raw meat to give a

semblance of democracy but no matter what the driver is, the reality is that they did occur in the

Ethiopia of the last 27 years! We strongly believe that this was a great start and it should have

been that as we worked hard on our challenges, we never should have forgotten to count the

blessings we had at hand! If we have done so, maybe the current national humiliation, economic

destruction, inter-ethnic cannibalism, and setting Ethiopia in a trajectory of fragmentation could

have been prevented!

Progress, we believe, has been made in other fronts as well. Look at the Ethiopia which existed

until the passing of the late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, objectively, dispassionately and with

the conscience and justice our faith dictates. If we do, we can never miss the enormous

expansion in education, health care, power, transportation, agriculture, defense and diplomacy. It

would be an act of cruelty to Mother Ethiopia for anyone with love for our country to stand a

false witness in the face of the extraordinary expansion in agriculture, education, health care,

power generation, defense and diplomacy! Over thirty universities and numerous colleges in just

about all the regions in the last quarter of a century! The same for health care, transportation,

defense and diplomacy!

One can argue on the quality of the expansion although we must never fail to recognize that

quantity has its own quality! But for us, with the exception of the blunder in Eritrea, and at that

not only on authorizing the referendum and granting recognition but also the act of treason in

saving Shaebia and the debacle at the Hague, it would be false witness to deny our country’s

unprecedented growth at home, and equally extraordinary ascent into international prominence

courtesy of the TPLF or Weyane! From Ethiopia’s contributions to peace missions, representing

Africa at the G20, membership in the security council, prevailing over the Egyptians by molding

the riparian countries against the Arab menace, galvanizing a global sword for the jugular of the

Italian-Arab seed of evil at the helm of power in Eritrea, breaking the Sudan in half and

leveraging it against Ethiopia’s historical enemy that is Egypt, peace efforts for South Sudan and

Somalia, and good neighborliness with Kenya, the Sudan, Somalia and Djibouti, Ethiopia’s

diplomacy and influence has indeed sky-rocketed under TPLF or Weyane! It is our sincere

assessment, based on facts on the ground brightly obvious to the mind of balance, and eyes with

a caring heart, that although our country has a long way to go and many mountains to climb and

valleys to cross, the land of many one that is our beloved Ethiopia has, under TPLF or Weyane,

made a commendable stride in the right direction.

Contrast the accomplishment of the TPLF or Weyane with that of the current leadership. In three

months, we have ethnic and religious wild fires, national assets are being cannibalized, Ethiopian

banks have no foreign currency, and we are, once again, at the gate of the “Misery Index” of the

world! Gone is the great country basking in a cacophony of ethnic and religious roses, and a

bouquet of people bursting with radiance of heavenly colors! Yes sir, gone is the bouquet of

Nations and Nationalities blessed with extraordinary culture and energy running their affairs in

ways that serves them best, and yet demonstrating unequivocally that what serves the Nations

and Nationalities best also serves best the collective good of the Ethiopian people!

On the people of Tigray Tigrigni: The misguided wing of PODO to which Prime Minister

Abiy belongs, and the chauvinist wing of ANDEM as well as the remnants of the Derg are

currently desperately trying to execute Menelik’s third stunt. Just as Menelik sold Mereb Milash

to the Italians, and betrayed Emperor Yohannes in the face of the Derbush onslaught, the

collection of toxicants of Ethiopia are doing everything to once again keep Tigray-Tigrigni

divided. Fortunately, our people are more aware of the terminal nature of this foray. We are

aware that so long as the wall of evil so erected in our midst is allowed to have longevity, ours

will be a life of red tears! Isayas and company, as engineered robots will no doubt do everything

to maintain the Italian-Arab status quo, for their very survival depends only as guardians of this

wall of evil! But it is high time for our people north of the Mereb to hold hands with their

brethren south of the Mereb and destroy the wall of evil not only on the ground but in our minds!

It is truly child rearing going insane, and a sin to condemn our newly born to a life of death and

destruction while fully aware that this predicament is courtesy of the very enemies far and near

who want us dead for their benefits! Why, why and why would we have allowed this for almost

one hundred years? No wonder we have become the living hell and the playground for every

scourge, both natural and man-made, on earth! The time has come to go to the time back in time

when we had our sacred soil swallow those with ill will toward us, and when the Yohannes,

Alula and Zerae Deres showed us the best in us as they together prevailed over those forces of

evil who dared to subjugate us to their will!

ANDM and its Chauvinist Wing: We are vehemently opposed to any protest baked in the

darkest ovens of both internal ethnic arson and religious jihadism, and in the tradition of

Ethiopia’s living will, we are uncompromisingly without sympathy for those in the payroll of

Ethiopia’s historical external enemies, hired to ethnic-cleansed our people from their very land

which for eons of time held their own with their lives! We believe that it is one thing to protest to

bring about justice, rule of law, equality and equity for all peacefully but something entirely

different to go after the heads of fellow citizens of different Ethnic background! Not just going

after the heads of fellow citizens but ethnic-cleansing them from land of their country is a totally

different beast! What we saw in Shifa, Gondar, Bahirdar, Debarik, Debre Markos, Addis Ababa

and elsewhere in the Amhara Region was not a protest but a march for ethnic Armageddon with

potential catastrophic consequences for the Ethiopian people, and a coup d’état of all time for

those historical enemies whose dream has been to not only control the Nile but to change our

faith!

Sad we are but not surprised however that the most demented wing of ANDM and its domestic

and Diaspora backers are lighting the fuses of an Armageddon whose explosion not only could

set our country ablaze but also would no doubt result in their own destruction. We have known

it all along that ANDM (Amhara National Democratic Movement) not only has been the weakest

link but a liability not only to the family of the EPRDF but to our beloved country! We have

followed ANDM just about since its very inception and the record is clear. It is a cesspool of

ideological imposters and derelicts irremediably irredeemable, deviants devoid of any spiritual,

moral and ethical backbone, delinquents and opportunists ready and willing to be bought and

sold for scraps of bones, gigolos who choose bread over honor, and a disaster without equals, be

it at the battle field or the national stage. They are in fact born failures.

It is heart breaking to see that the land of one of the greatest hero of the Ethiopian people, Belay

Zeleke, has been taken over by ethnic jihadists the likes of Demeke Mekonnen and Gedu

Andargachew! It is inconceivable to believe that the land of that Prince of heroes has become the

playground for anti-Ethiopian obsequious dotards! It is unimaginable to believe that, the Amhara

which gave birth to the national treasures the likes of Menguistu and Germame Neway has

become the citadel for everything diametrically opposed to the very fundamental interest not

only to our Amhara brethren but of mother Ethiopia! But then again, should we be surprised, for

be it Belay Zeleke or the Neway brothers, those who stood for the interest of all the Ethiopian,

were hanged by those whose stood for personal aggrandizement through ethnic fault lines!

Not surprised at all that ANDM gambled with the well being of our people but surprised as to

how the TPLF could have ended up with such a fraud. Indeed, what a surprise it has been for

those of us who have known the TPLF as the consummate King of due diligence to have ended

up with an ultimate liability not only to the family of the EPRDF but to the Nations and

Nationalities of our beloved Ethiopia!

Make no mistake about it though! The ethnic fires which appeared in Shifa, Gondar, Bahirdar,

Debarik and elsewhere in the Amhara Region have been smoldering ever since the late Meles

Zenawi beheaded the TPLF leadership, and converted it from a leadership by consensus into a

one man show! And we know for sure that it was that creeping hand of ANDM which, contrary

to the just stand taken by the leadership of the OPDO at that time (God bless Dr. Negasso

Guidada), served as the master of ceremony in the crime not only against the TPLF, the people

of Tigray but more importantly against the greater good of the people of Ethiopia! It was ever

since that day of infamy, ANDM, known as one with very little to show for but graded with the

curve for a major role in the national convergence and concordance in post Derg Ethiopia,

morphed into a role never orchestrated for, but into another role of a perfect fit- an undertaker in

the dark side! It is from this underworld of the dark that, that cunningly destructive hand of

ANDM began to sow that seed of ethnic fire currently germinating to scotch-earth our beautiful

country.

The crime of this diseased collection of misfits is substantial. Its mission on the dark side was

not just volunteering to serve as masters of ceremony against the TPLF, people of Tigray, the

EPRDF, and the Nations and Nationalities that make up our beloved Ethiopia, but also it has

been engaged in an economic and historical genocide not only against the people of Tigray but

also against the very foundation of the Ethiopian state. We have been following this aspect of the

war for a while now, and we know with complete certainty that not only ANDM but also the

entire residue of the power structure which reduced Ethiopia into the “Miser Index,” has been

engaged in act of historical treason against our country, and economic crime and sabotage

against the people of Tigray. For these architects of historical and economic genocide, the history

of Ethiopia does not begin with the state of Tigray but Gondar! For this cesspool of historical

accidents, clueless they are that Axum not only created Gondar but its Kings are Axumauian!

It is not for ethnocentric reasons that we object mind you but for historical accuracy, and against

the historical crime being committed and perpetuated against Ethiopia! It should be a no brainer

that an Ethiopia without the extraordinary history of Tigray would be one that is very young in

age and without the history of one of the most extraordinary history and civilization of global

awe and wonder that we cherish so dearly, but also an illegitimate one! Moreover, the whole

claim by Emperor Menelik and the late Emperor Haile Selassie as descents of the Sheba-

Solomon dynasty would in fact be without an iota of historical truth (if it had any at all) if in fact

Ethiopia existed without Tigray! Equally, the current flame throwers must know and as

evidenced in the historical map above, that one cannot boast as a guardian of the Ethiopian state,

the Ethiopian flag, and three thousand of written civilization without that cradle of Ethiopian

civilization that is Tigray! In fact, the ethnic jihadists must remember that without Tigray, they

themselves would in fact become non-Ethiopians without any right to talk of Ethiopia or to carry

the flag!

And yet, with a few exceptions, not only Axum (Tigray) which is the cradle of Ethiopian

civilization is last in the historical publications put forth by those ethnic arsonists but also they

have a massive bureaucratic network of historical and economic assassins in Addis Ababa and

elsewhere committed to render Tigray/Axum invisible to tourists and to the outside world! Just

take a look at the websites of the travel agents and tour operators in Ethiopia and abroad. With a

few exceptions, the history or presentation of Ethiopia does not begin from where it must but

from where it must not! Just take a look at the history of Ethiopia in our text books, the travel

and tour operators including Ethiopian Airlines use, its history is so debased, defaced and

adulterated that we dare say historical genocide has been and is being committed against

Ethiopia even in the 21st century! In fact, what ANDM and its co-conspirators are doing is a

replica of what they once did in Oromia! Just as they tried to erase the history and identity of our

Oromo brethren, they are at it again but this time at the very Mother of the Ethiopian state! It

seems nothing is sacred and everything goes for these aspiring drivers but unfit for a national

driver’s license!

ANDM is the first to usher this crime of all crime so foreign to the Amhara and Tigrayan people

in the history of Ethiopia, and in so doing it has crossed the redline of biblical magnitude! Those

guns we saw in Gondar and elsewhere were aimed not at some Tigrayan political entity but at the

very existence of each and every one of the people of Tigray! We seek no atonement and expect

no redemption from ANDM. That it is incurably irredeemable has been in plain view just about

since its very inception. As such, there is nothing left but disbanding it, banning it and its top

henchman tried in a domestic and international courts of law!

It has not been long since the Derg and its intellectual backbone scotch-earthed our people not

only with ethnic fires but also killed them dead first with the Red Terror and later with Africa’s

largest army armed with guns of all types, including state of the art helicopter gunships and jet

fighters. For a span of seventeen years in Tigray and in Eritrea, our people north and south of the

Mereb were subjected to ethnic barbarism never seen in the history of Ethiopia! As a result, the

people of Tigray and Eritrea who are the nucleus of the Ethiopian state were not only murdered

by the hundreds of thousands but also condemned into a life of nocturnal existence for decades.

How quickly they have forgotten, not only their crime but that we have not and will never forget

the crime of all crime which devastated the people in Tigray, Eritrea and Oromia.ray. But what

the ethnic fire throwers and jihadists must never forget is that our grief is in fact still raw and the

trauma eternal. Forgetting such monstrosity, and starting a new round, the architects of the

crimes of all crimes must know that it will boomerang with a ferocity never seen in the history of

Ethiopia! The obvious must be crystal clear, that the victims of yesterday are in a position and

with the expertise to right the wrong in ways light-years away, both in dimension and magnitude,

than the architects of the Gondar ethnic cleansing could ever mount. It is of profound wisdom to

make use of that good old wisdom which tolls “the bell tolls, it tolls for thee!“ And never forget

the other one too. The one which tolls that those in a glasshouse must never be the first to throw

a rock!

The extremist in ANDM and their cocktail of toxicants must stop pouring gasoline on our

Amhara brethren. Let us be blunt about it, despite what previous Ethiopian dictators did to divide

the Tigrayan and Amhara people, the people never rose against one another. In fact, these two

people have been there for one another in times of national emergency. In so doing, despite the

challenges of Mother Ethiopia, these people along with compatriots from the other nations and

nationalities have held Ethiopia together for the current generation. At this very juncture though,

the extremist at ANDM have pulverized that bond. As authored of this historical madness, they

now own the consequences!

OPDO and the Kush delirium: It his recent visit to Mekelle, Prime Minister Abiy told the

Tigrayan people a lie when he said there were only a few prisoners of Tigrayan origin in

Oromia! That our people have been framed and killed is obvious. What the latter and the current

charade are, in effect, examples of “biting the hand that feeds you” and more! We need not

remind our Oromo brethren that it was not the OLF which ushered the current Oromia complete

with its own self-administration. OLF has in fact been the laughing stock, born before everyone,

left behind and with zero to show for! It has in fact been a steel birth! And it was not OPDO

which created the stage for the Quero to have the gut and rise on its behalf. In fact, OPDO

would not have been possible without the curve grading courtesy of the TPLF! It would be a

herculean mistake if our Oromo brethren do not realize where they are today is exclusively a

function of the blood and sweat of the Tigray people!

“The dark side of Teddy Afro’s fame and fortune”

Conclusion: That both extremists in OPDO and ANDM have lit an ethnic and religious fire is obvious.

We have seen and heard the presentation live on Ethiopian Television. We have documented it too. The

pogrom has already caused many deaths and destruction. People have been ethnically cleaned and by all

indications, there will be more. Even if common sense was to set in and the course was stopped and even

reversed, we believe the ultimate damage has been done. It is irreversible; the idea that Ethiopia as know

her will continue to be is a pipe dream! The Gondar and Bahri Dar episodes have irreparably,

irremediably, irrevocability, and permanently dismembered Ethiopia not only psychologically but

physically!

We are truly seeing a total delirium. Weyane is defeated is the hoopla of the day. Weyane is surrounded

is the toast of the day. Weyane is on a death row is the giggle of the day. Isayas-Abiy partnership has

rendered Weyane anaerobic is not only the talk of the season but also the policy of the season. And Prime

Minister Abiy is no doubt complicit in this delusion and crime. However, nothing can be further from the

truth. As mentioned elsewhere, Weyane/TPLF can neither be defeated, nor killed; Abiy and company

must know that like the people of Tigray, Weyane/TPLF is indomitable as it is immortal. It can never be

surrounded too, for it is AIR surrounding all and a lifeline for the very life of its detractors. Anything else

to the contrary is nothing but a “Shithole” psychedelic psychobabble, and a pipe dream for Menelik’s 3rd

stunt, courtesy of those with coconut heads!