Meet Dr. Birhanu Nega in New York City

Tedla Asfaw                                                                                                                                            August 31, 2007

 

It is possible to receive Ethiopian 'Esra Meete" or 2000 by welcoming the true son of Ethiopia freed  from two years in Ethiopia's jail to tell us what is like to live without the right to move, speak and meet loved ones and the fate of thousands of others who are still in prison because no one knows them or speak on behalf of them.

 

Keeping the visa debate aside may be dealt with if the abugidainfo web site is correct let us focus now on the coming meeting at New School in New York City with Dr. Birhanu Nega on September 6, 2007.

 

This up coming meeting has not yet been advertised very well and I personally forward freenega.org/talk to all the Ethiopian Internet sites and just today I see it in Abugida and Ethiopiwinet site and the first one to advertise before all of us is the pro Meles site Aiga forum.

 

Aiga instructed its followers to track down Dr. Birhanu and check with him if he is following the TPLF "constitution" and I will not be surprised if they come in force and try to control the debate and frustrate the discussion about the human right violations going on in Ethiopia since TPLF lost the May 2005 election and Dr. Birhanu and all the Kinijit leadership jailed for almost two years and thousands of their supporters  unaccounted for and many exiled and hundreds shot dead by the regime security agents in broad day light.

 

Ethiopians and their friends also contacted the Abyssinian Church in Harlem,  New York City to come to the meeting and meet Ethiopians and arm them with facts and also encourage them to visit areas in Oromo and Ogaden and meet with locals there and learn the truth when they go to mission next month in Ethiopia.

 

We also contacted Addis Dimts host Ato Abebe Belew to publicize Dr. Birhanu's appearance in New York City so that many from D.C. and Boston area can join us to welcome him and rally behind him and his party who gave  big credit for the Diaspora Ethiopians "united" struggle without which they might have been still in jail.

 

The respect we give to Dr. Birhanu is also to show support to the millions of Ethiopians who voted for him and his party and who are still not  allowed to make any political rally and were forced to show their admiration and love for them by organizing nonpolitical gathering like the one we saw in" Ferensai Legassion" last week in Addis Ababa neighborhood where Ms. Birtukan Midiksa grew up.

 

It will be shameful to disrespect Dr. Birhanu after he gave two years of his life separated from his children and wife to the struggle by listening to some Diaspora agitators who hated him for standing with the people.

The elected leaders and Diaspora politics

Tedla Asfaw

The politics of fragmentation is in full swing in theDiaspora and this has been the case for the last sixteen years in all so called oppositions to the ruleof TPLF in the diaspora and the armed movements.

Now the drum of splitting Kinijit in the so called wings of Dr. Birhanu and the veteran leaders has already started following the division started between KIL and KIC.The supporters of these groups may be in hundreds are making big noise and are now waiting to receive the elected leaders in their own camps.For that purpose the so called visa from USA was not issued for all of them to come together as planned and we heard now from sources Dr. Birhnau is in Europe and speculations are high.Why the veteran leaders/Eng. Hailu and others are not coming as planned together and is this designed by proMelese USA policy makers and how comes those senators who pushed for HR2003 were not asked to help if there was a visa problem and who is to benefit from this separate trip?The drama surrounding the release of Kinijit leadersis now going to its final conclusion and the Ethiopian people are watching and any movement of division to split Kinijit as Dr. Birhanu Vs Veteran leaders that has been orchestrated by selfish and some led byforeign nationals that are working for foreign interest will die here in foreign land and our heroeswill rise up from the ashes of May 2005 and get their freedom though it might take them a bit longer and many sacrifices.This is just another failed Diaspora politics unadulterated and backward that is in a collision course with Kinijit spirit for which millions in Miazia 30 two years ago came out and show their support which culminated on the victory vote of May2005 and for which hundreds lost their lives and many imprisoned and exiled.

Ambassador Samuel Assefa fails miserably

Tedla Asfaw
Ambassador Samuel Assefa's interview with Foreign Policy magazine clip posted on Nazret.com is really interesting. He might have been shocked with the first question directed to him.

Is Ethiopia a failed state? or it might have been rephrased and should be asked a failed state which comes to help another failed state Somalia and be an exemplary for being a good friend coming to an aid with good heart.

The best question might be is Ethiopia a contracted state run by USA and UK Embassies in Addis Ababa similar to the occupation forces in Iraq.

The Ambassador could not explain the reason for the gap between very few rich and the majority poor who can survive with 25 kilo subsidized wheat from USA.

The answer is simple as Gebremedhin Araya former TPLF insider puts it, TPLF turned itself from small farm and small business in to multimillion business by confiscating the property of government and private owned business which were confiscated by Derg.

The very few in Ethiopia are living at a level of the rich and famous like the Western world and they will never give up this luxury life peacefully.

Ambassador Samuel is a defender of our rich and "famous" in a failed country by doing so he himself failed miserably.

Bereket Simon's big lie

Tedla Asfaw

Bereket Simon opened his foul mouth in Tigreana and alleged that the elected leaders fall on TPLF shoes for forgiveness . What a joke!!, we will be seeing the video footage soon. Such person totally disregarded the role of Shiemagelis and our culture by angering millions of Ethiopians like me and he is responsible for starting another fire which he will not control for the future and this is summed by Ethiopian saying "Besewe Kusel Inchete Sededebete".

First of all he chose the Mekele media for his insult to try to divide the Tigreans from others and one thing he forgot is that the majority of Tigreans will never believe this lie and the insult he throw is on millions of Ethiopians including many Tigreans who voted for Kinijit.

Except showing his arrogance he will not get a single one convinced by him to believe otherwise and we know very well the TPLF intention to bring this elected leaders back to jail when they find suitable time and place.

It is also not a secret that TPLF agents will be watching the leaders trip to North America to document what they say and not say possibly to deny some of them return to Ethiopia and spent their life in exile.

Bereket Simon has also started the TPLF campaign for 2010 and his party will never sleep until the released Kinijit leaders leave politics for good and replaced by those cowards who are sleeping in the fake Parliament in the name of Kinijit.

It is sad the peaceful way of conducting change seems to be closing down and it is hard for the elected leaders of Kinijit to think otherwise and the young generation of Ethiopia will be forced to sacrifice to finish those arrogance once and for all.