At a time when Ethiopia is once again gripped with the specter of famine, the ethnocentric kleptocrats, led by Meles Zenawi, are spending millions of dollars every single day to fulfil the imperial ambitions of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front. A few days after  Zenawi invaded Somalia in 2006, he declared victory over the Islamic Courts Unions. Despite Zenawi’s “victory” bravado, the volatile nation has become more anarchic, millions of Somalis have been displaced, and civilians have been killed, injured, tortured and starved to death en mass. Now it has been proven, as analysts predicted accurately, that Zenawi is stuck in a bloody quagmire in Somalia. Somali insurgents are gaining the upper hand and Zenawi’s puppet regime in Mogadishu is under threat

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Ethiopia is urging the U.N. Security Council to deploy peacekeepers to neighboring Somalia, where a conflict has killed and displaced thousands of people since last year. More on Ethiopia Calls for UN to Deploy Troops to Somalia