Fwd: Ato Bulcha Demeksa, OFDM interview

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From: tedla asfaw <yenenehe@yahoo.com>
Date: Jan 31, 2008 10:53 PM
Subject: Ato Bulcha Demeksa, OFDM interview
To: tedla.asfaw@gmail.com

Tedla Asfaw

Ato Elias Kifle short interview(Jan.31), fifteen
minutes, with Ato Bulcha Demeksa confirmed once again
what we have been hearing in the last few weeks
through VOA and German Amharic, this election
registration can be summarized as "Chase everyone and
register only TPLF/EPRDF candidates" which is
estimated according to their spokesperson Ato Tesfaye
Mengesha who is in charge of this "chase them" claims
to register about three million of TPLF candidates and
more than twenty million terrified and intimidated
registered/hostage voters.

What a mockery of election!! and Ato Bulcha Demekssa
when he was asked what step to take he said it is up
to the Ethiopian people and he is right and it is no
wonder the regime jammed VOA/Oromiffa/Amharic and
German Amharic has been jammed while this so called
election registration is going on.

The only information is the propaganda coming out from
TPLF about more than twenty million registered and the
extension of registration for more than a week.

I commend Ato Bulcha Demeksa for coming out at his own
risk on VOA and today on Ethiopian review Radio and
inform us about the worst situation our country finds
itself.

Our people have to say no to this "Chase what we do
not like and register TPLF/EPRDF candidates" and
should pay whatever sacrifice that comes with it.

The Diaspora Ethiopians have to expose this and  no
time to waste of talking about factions of oppositions
be it Kinijit or EPRP because TPLF/EPRDF had made it
clear that they will not allow anybody to participate
as candidate on this local election.

Ato Bulcha's OFDM has been a target in many of his
constituents and the new ARENA Party of Ato Gebru is
boycotting this election and as we know Kinijit is out
of this local election.

The millions who voted for Kinijit in 2005 should stay
home and that demands leadership and for that the
general Assembly of Kinijit is a must and no time to
waste.










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Jendayi Frazer cry Ethnic cleansing in Kenya !!!

Tedla Asfaw

 

Jendayi Frazer, USA Ambassador,  today in Addis Ababa declared that "ethnic cleansing is underway in the Kenyan rift valley". She reached to this conclusion after she talked to people who were forced to move from their homes to be relocated to their "tribal homeland", birth place.

 

"Pack and go before we finish you", this is what has been going on in the rift valley and we have seen similar  movement of humanity in the Kenyan slums in Nairobi by machete waving thugs of unemployed youths and what we saw on TV screen were poor young and old terrified and running for their lives.

 

The question is where to go?  Do they know other homes than these slums? I am not sure these poor victims may  have any place to go because many of them  know poverty and hardship in the slums of Nairobi they call home and are not aware of any "tribal homeland" to go for their safety.

 

Moreover, Jendayi Frazer accused politicians who gave such instruction on radio after the end of the cheated election and this is serious charge and those who are giving such orders should face justice and the party elites who are now pressured to talk seem have no control on the crisis and if it is getting worst the Kenyan army has to rule under martial law.

 

A stable and peaceful Kenya's image is now replaced by waves of humanity moving from one tribal region to the other and slums residents panicking to safe their lives but not sure where to go. 

 

Similar disaster was averted in Addis Ababa in 2005 when the ruling TPLF/EPRDF in Ethiopia applied such such scare tactics in public by bringing the "Interhawe factor" after it lost election in Addis Ababa  and thanks to the Addis Ababans it did not materialize,however,  we did not hear Jendayi Frazer accuse the politicians in Addis Ababa then like she did in Kenya today. 

Dr. Beyan Asoba, AFD is our future.

Tedla Asfaw

 

The Jan. 26 interview  Dr. Beyan Asoba, OLF spokesperson, with Elias Kifle posted on www.ethiopianreview.com  is a must for all Ethiopians to listen and the question of article 39, the reason for some opponents of the regime  not to participate on the Alliance for Freedom and Democracy(AFD) established more than two years ago in Holland did not come  on this interview which may surprise many.

 

However, Dr. Beyan stressed AFD as the basis for the future of Ethiopia and the regime in Ethiopia put as preconditions for those who are now challenging the regime peacefully to take a stand on AFD and on the last interviews the Kinijit delegates gave at the end of their tour in North America  they distanced themselves form AFD, understandably.

 

Being a supporter of AFD is tantamount to  supporting a "terrorist OLF and ONLF" and will land you to jail and no wonder Kinijit is not falling to that trap and disassociate itself from AFD.

 

However as Dr. Beyan clearly articulated and I fully agree with AFD is for the future and I might add  Kinijit leaders who are peacefully organizing should not  say publicly  that they are for AFD and risk jail terms to end their peaceful struggle and such accusations was made against Ato Bulcha's party when he raised the plight of his constituency in the parliament and so far he escaped imprisonment and we do not know what to come next and no wonder that Dr. Beyan did not mention his name while he thanked Ato Seye for telling what he saw in the jails of Ethiopia and commended Ato Fekade for his piece "The prison speaks Oomifa "based on Ato Seye's account of the thousands of Oromos jailed accused of "member" or "supporter" of OLF.

 

The only one who can curse  AFD and at the same time negotiate with OLF and ONLF, members of AFD, is  the regime in power and the opposition in Ethiopia, Kinijit has to focus on mobilizing its supporters based on the spirit of May 2005 and as we know there was no question of AFD in 2005 and it is tactically  wise to distance from AFD to continue the peaceful struggle which surely scares the regime more than the guns of OLF and ONLF.

 

The other opponents of AFD, EPRP and others, however, should review their stand they took when AFD was established and try to work together in the spirit of AFD to bring an environment for Ethiopians where people can decide their future without the power of gun.

 

Our "fear" of OLF as an organization to diamante Ethiopia is too exaggerated and I quote Ato Seye Abraha, "there is no Ethiopia without Oromos" and more than four hundred years of intermarriage and assimilation can not be discarded by few extremes on both camps, OLF separatists or Ethiopian Nationalists.

 

Ethiopia and its existence is always held hostage by those who came to power by force and we saw it under Mengistu and we are now seeing it under Melese both rule us in the name of keeping Ethiopia "united' and scare us that if they leave the country will disintegrate.

 

The fact is that only Ethiopians full participation on their future freely will bring us hope and unite our people,remember Miazia 30/May 2005 millions rally in Addis Ababa dismantling  tons of propaganda by the regime you can call it whatever you want,  AFD is just "  Acceptance of this Fact without Delay"  and as Dr. Beyan clearly said it many times AFD is still open for all oppositions to join and accept the  will of Ethiopians, Oromos and non Oromos.

 

 

 

 

Fwd: Make-believe election in Ethiopia

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From: Tedla Asfaw <tedla.asfaw@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 28, 2008 9:15 AM
Subject: Make-believe election in Ethiopia
To: "abe. gelaw. addis" <abe.gelaw.addis@blogger.com>

Tedla Asfaw

 

The news of more than fifteen million people registration for local election this spring in Ethiopia is coming through the TPLF/EPRDF's  media and the "loyal" opposition, the likes of Beyene, Merara and others in the parliament, are complaining  as usual and would like to participate to keep themselves paid.

 

Twenty percent of those "registered" are themselves candidates for election and should not doubt that ninety nine percent of them are TPLF/EPRDF's candidates and this is what you call  buying election before voting, indeed learning from May 2005,  and the purpose of such election with or without foreign observers is meaningless.

 

 

There will not be a repetition of May 2005 election in Ethiopia as long as TPLF/EPRDF is in power and that  means the "Kinijit" divided leadership has to come out with a fresh thinking to challenge this regime. It should start by encouraging those who "registered" to vote out of fear of reprisal by the regime not to go out and vote, stay home.

 

All the large gatherings of people for sport or other festivals should be exploited to denounce this make-believe election and rally the people to say no to TPLF/EPRDF's election and the Diaspora Ethiopians who care for their people should rally behind our people and expose this fake election for the world community.

 

Willingness to participate in a make-believe election out of fear is to give license for the regime to continue on its dangerous  track of absolute rule by terror and fear forever. The May/Miazia 30, 2005 public desire for change can now be matched by staying home and  not participating in this "I was forced to vote election for sale".

 

It is a time for the real opposition leaders to be tasted and get respect and the Kinijit leadership who got millions of vote on the May stolen election have to organize a public protest and the Ethiopian students have to take an active role as always and we have to expose the financiers of this regime, USA and UK,  that they are standing with the regime that criminalizes decent and protest and keep power forever by organizing fake election as we have been accustomed in the last days of Mengistu and the last sixteen years of Melese's TPLF.

 

Those who distract us from this struggle and focus on irrelevant issues concerning the division within Kinijit are those who have been benefiting from their association with the regime and are going to lose big time in a free and fair election.