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TPLF’s venom tactic so that they can pit one group against the other. For instance, the best editor and popular website Ethiopian Review,  led by a flamboyant and young man, Elias Kilfe is targeted. The same could be said about Galbeed.com and other genuine and patriotic Ethiopians such as Prof Alemariam

Wahington,Dc (galbeed.com) Editorial: Since the early 1991s, the majority in sub-Saharan Africa has undertaken political liberalization, and most have held at least one round of multiparty elections. This was the outcome when the cold war was over and most of African dictators have not got any place to get armament to subdue the popular movements. Ethiopia was a case in point.

 

 Ethiopia is one of the leading countries in terms of popular movements to organizing themselves to change the existing autocratic regime. In 1991, Ethiopian people managed to kick out the Derg regime, but TPLF had taken the power seat since the majority of opposition parties were so busy on the question of ethnicity, religion and other myopic issues. In nutshell, the opposition groups were not organized on the clear issues that the Ethiopian people have been waiting to have solved and addressed. This has given golden opportunity to the Tigrayan minority ethnic to arrive at the power seat in mischief and misleading tactics. They have pretended to play a crucial game that endorsed the popular agenda of the time.

 

TPLF, moreover, had emerged as powerful party because of its Machiavellian tactic and not honestly presenting its program to the public; they were always lying to their teeth by misleading the public with wrong recipes of solution. For example, they introduced article 39 to facilitate the separation of Eritrea and so that they can be attractive to movements organizing along the ethnic lines such as OLF ALF, WSLF and GLF to name a few.

 

They introduced biased articles in the constitution opposing one ethnic group and made as if that ethnic group has had the benefit and resources of the country. Amahra was singled out as one of the beneficiary ethnics in the old regimes when we were aware of the miserable condition of majority of its population.

 

Recently, its has been narrated in of a major leading newspaper, Nagarit that in Gondar, poor ethnically Amhara mother who lost her only son lamented, “Oh God we are living in Hell on Earth, you are the only one who can deliver us from this Gestapo”; this mother has nothing to do with feudal regime of Haile Sillassie. Her only son raised with her meager resource was killed by Woyane trigger happy soldier in broad day light in Addis Ababa to oppose in a peaceful demonstration TPLF rigged election of 2005.

 

Today, TPLF minority has implemented a system that has taken advantage of resources of the country, the power seats and other factors. For instance, this month they have nominated Minister of Defense, a Tigayan man, and removed the only symbolic leader of Oromo, Kuma Demeksa, who was captured from the bush and baptized to be servant of EHWAT (TPLF). They nominated him to a controversial position, the Mayor of Addis, as result of stolen election of this year.

 

Currently, Woyane has occupied all key positions in the Federal government: Prime Minister, Minister of Foreigner Affair, Minister of Defense, and the head of Security forces, police and all the government institutions such as banks, post office and other income generating ones.

 

In Ethiopia, they introduced one a party system (EPRDF) which is made up of people captured during the civil war and appointed them as Presidents. To mislead the international community, TPLF pretends that EPRDF constituted of four parties; however, the reality is an organ that Woyane party dominated. These symbolic leaders do not make a simple decision; they have to consult Woyane cadres who make the final decisions. For example, the rebel captured soldiers were used to fulfill the minority ethnic hegemony scheme; the so-called Oromo region is led by Aba Dula, Ato Ayalew Gobeze is the President of Amhara regional state, the Afar President is Ismail, and the sadly Somali Region President is  a man who married to Tigrayan lady and recruited from refugee camp in Kenya.

 

Once TPLF consolidated the power at home through the help of US because they were acting as a client to fight terrorism in Horn of Africa, they have moved to North America to destroy the opposition parties in Diaspora. They have begun to appoint cadres consulate along ethnic lines and masterminding to divide the community. In Washington DC, they posted Somali, Oromo, Harari, Amahra, Southern people to spread TPLF’s venom tactic so that they can pit one group against the other. For instance, the best editor and popular website Ethiopian Review,  led by a flamboyant and young man, Elias Kilfe is targeted. The same could be said about Galbeed.com and other genuine and patriotic Ethiopians such as Prof Alemariam.

 

Last week, Woyane has had long meeting to infiltrate and sabotage the struggle of Ethiopians in Europe, America, Australia, Asia and Africa. In North America, Ethiopian regime has allocated 4 millions dollars to destroy movements in Diaspora. They got the money from Sheik Al Hamudi and others accolade of myopic and opportunist people.

  

Despite these changes, money and devilish tactics, political outcomes continue to fall short of the meaningful controlling of TPLF hegemonic style and on the contrary, popular uprising is its highest gear to demand the delivering of true and genuine democracy in Ethiopia. The sad part of this struggle is Ethiopians poor and unarmed are fighting TPLF with bare hands; nevertheless, Ethiopians in Diaspora are fragmented and confused to oppose TPLF’s devil tactics.

 

In several cases, the weakness of popular opposition has facilitated the prolonged rule of authoritarian TPLF guerrillas and its former prisoners Presidents along ethnic lines. In other African and third world countries, however, strong opposition movements have created greater political opening, and cohesive opposition parties to have won significant power through the ballot box. Why are some social movements able to mobilize large constituencies and form cohesive political parties, while opposition in Ethiopia

 

Ethiopia, opposition parties were not able to mobilize voters across ethnic and regional cleavages due to their lack of base in regions. The glaring cases are Kinijit, which was welcome as the vanguard party to defeat Woyane widely in any region, but they do not take advantage of the moment and instead being busy on personalized ego leadership. No wonder, they have splintered in four to six organizations.

 

Secondly, more successful opposition parties emerge from regime transitions during which social movement organizations were able to “channel” mass mobilization. Social movement organizations used several tactics to discipline mobilization and claims-making on the state; among the most effective was the use of polarizing or confrontational tactics, which divided the political arena into two opposing camps. Polarization served the interests of both incumbent and opposition parties. By emptying out the political space between government and the opposition, these parties were better able to enforce organizational cohesion and prevent fragmentation. Where opposition parties were unable to draw on pre-existing mobilizing structures—or where their strategies were based on selective mobilization rather than polarization—opposition remained fragmented.

 

Ethiopian people at home are ready to sacrifice their lives as they have done in 2005 so that TPLF minority regime will be gone with the wind, but the opposition parties have to go beyond narrow and individualized interest and carry the banner of Ethiopian-ness   and unity of the country.  Ethiopia is begging for genuine with a clear-eyed vision leadership that will take her to peace, prosperity and democracy. Without the unity and all inclusive programs of Ethiopians, opposition parties would not find any body to rule. Ethiopian history has been loaded with her children to come together in the worse time and fight for her survival; now it can be done and let us move toward to that direction and remove the cancer of the year, TPLF and its gang rebel presidents.

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