January 16, 2013
The foiled
plot to assassinate activist/journalist Abebe Gelaw is an issue all
freedom-loving people abhor and condemn. The plot, foiled by FBI, was an act of
terrorism designed to take place in the United States – in the land of the
brave and free and bastion of democracy where the rule of law reigns supreme.
There is no doubt that the TPLF thugs will pay for their lawlessness.
On May 18,
2012, Abebe chanted: “Meles Zenawi is a dictator," and demanded “freedom
before food”. He was right, for it is written in the Holy Bible, in Matthew 4:4
that, “Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the
mouth of God.”
Abebe's heroic act had sent shivers down the
spine of Meles Zenawi, and it was in full view of world leaders and prominent
personalities who had gathered at the Food Security Forum chaired by President
Obama at the Reagan Building in Washington, DC. The panic that had hit Meles
had also crippled the top goons in the TPLF hierarchy, who are fully behind the
assassination plot for revenge.
The bad example set by the TPLF boss to the rest of
Africa
The late
TPLF boss unconstitutionally announced his party the winner in the election of
2005 swiftly declaring a state of emergency to cover up his humiliating
convincing defeat by the opposition. He sent the illustrious victors to jail.
In the immediate aftermath of the election 193 innocent protestors of the
daylight robbery of votes were gunned down in cold blood; tens of thousands
were incarcerated. In the election of 2010 the votes were so heavily rigged;
the TPLF party using entirely government resources in the contest and declared
itself ‘victory’ by 99.6% out of 547 parliamentary seats.
International observers, except the AU or its
predecessor the OAU, ruled that the elections of 2005 and 2010 were neither
fair nor free. The bad example set by the terrorist TPLF regime in Ethiopia
spread like pandemic through the African continent starting in neighboring
Kenya, Ivory Coast et al causing death, injuries, exile, human sufferings and
colossal destruction of property. Robbing of votes became the norm on the
African continent.
Interference
with religious affairs
The rampant
breach of its own constitution by the TPLF party and its government is known to
the international community. Freedom of expression is denied. The brutal regime
does not allow freedoms of conscience and religion as stipulated in Article 27
of its constitution. The present heavy crackdown on the Ethiopian Muslim
community and gross interference to determine the outcome of the forthcoming
election of a Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church are two
examples in point. The followers of the two ancient faiths constitute 77% of
the Ethiopian population and the repressive TPLF regime is scared of the ongoing
unrest throughout Ethiopia scaling to full blown civil disobedience.
Plea to
President Obama
The bad
example set by the TPLF boss to the rest of Africa and Interference with
religious affairs alluded to in the above two sections must be stopped as a
matter of urgency. The unbridled globalized act of terror against peaceful
protestors and genuine political opposition forces by the TPLF party
perpetrated for the last 21 years and continuing in the present must come to an
end immediately to avert catastrophic civil strife in Ethiopia.
The TPLF
deceitful terrorists have been biting the hands that fed them for the last 21
years on the watch of the US State Department officials including Condoleezza
Rice, Aurelia Brazil, Vicki Huddleston, Susan Rice and Jundiai Frazer. I hope
that the Obama Administration will not spare cutting those hands caught red-handed
this time on its own soil – and review its relationship with the top
pathological liars of the EPRDF government, which is still adamantly refusing
to allow democratic dispensation and vowing that the legacy of the late
dictator zenawi will remain intact.
All law
abiding citizens of our global community and freedom loving peoples of our
planet Earth expect the United States in its role as leader of the free world
to condemn the abuse of power of the TPLF regime and bring to justice all those
criminals involved in the recent plot on its soil to assassinate Abebe Gellaw
as part of its (regime’s) global design to silence dissent by providing
political, financial and operational support.
Immediate action required
Meles
Zenawi lived like a sole tall giant tree among his Stalinist close confidants
and greedy followers. He is now dead and his body will naturally decompose like
an uprooted fallen tree. But his evil thoughts and his legacy are left behind
like minefields replete with explosives; his venomous legacy is thorn in the
flesh of Ethiopians, who must therefore remain alert and vigilant to foil any
demonic action his extremist followers plan to take.
The Amaras
and the Oromos are also principal high value targets for the extremists because
the Italian Fascist’s grand plan to eliminate these two ethnic groups has been
adopted and systematically implemented by the TPLF ruling elite for the last 21
years. And the do-as-told Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has declared
outright to the Ethiopian people and the entire world that the policy of his
predecessor will remain intact, thus inviting civil strike as well as
all-inclusive struggle against the EPRDF government. The two ethnic groups
should therefore build trust and act in unison in a coordinated self-defense
until the inevitable eventual demise of the repressive regime in power is
realized. Time is of the essence to that end!
Ethiopia
during the Zenawi era had become the breeding ground of government-sponsored
terrorists such as Guesh Abera masquerading as immigrants but in actual fact on
the loose like rabid dogs to disable genuine opposition refugees in host
countries worldwide. These dogs have to be treated as accomplices to Al Shabab,
which is linked to Al Qaeda, for that is what they actually are. It is
therefore incumbent upon all genuine opposition activists and civic
organizations in the Diaspora to identify these rabid dogs and report them to
law enforcement, immigration and security officials including the FBI.
Finally in closing, I wish to:
• reiterate
that we Ethiopians in the Diaspora are duty bound to render all round support
to opposition forces and civic organizations of our choice at home noting that
only their combined action will expedite the peaceful surrender or otherwise forced
fall of the brutal regime in power.
• extend my profound gratitude to the FBI for
foiling the assassination attempt, which has triggered massive fury and
vehement condemnation of the savage plot by Ethiopians at home and in the
Diaspora.
Release all political prisoners including
Andualem Aragie, Eskinder Nega, Bekele Gerba, Reeyot Alemu, all Muslim Leaders,
et al!
LONG LIVE ETHIOPIA!
rababya@gmail.com
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