Who were they then? Who are they
now?
This article tries to dig out and show who
the TPLF leaders were and still are along with their insincere plan to destroy Christendom
and Islam religions and especially the Amhara ethnic group as of the
commencement by the group (TPLF) of the armed struggle in Tigray. From the very
beginning, TPLF has utterly been undemocratic by its nature. I myself have been
expressing in different media outlets that this mercenary group was and still
is anti-Ethiopia and inhuman in general. Though the people of Ethiopia
From the start of 1977, in its „Woyyin‟ (which means 'revolt! ‟) bulletin, TPLF or the then TLF had a
column known as „Christian Religion and the Amhara‟ under which
the following was repeatedly published in bold for years:- “Christian religion
is the major instrument through which the Amhara regime sustains its ruling. Therefore,
the target of our struggle, the Amhara regime, and its ruling tool, the
Christian religion, should both be destroyed.” This bulletin was distributed
among fighters and the common people to distract their attention from staunch
Ethiopianness to the then fledgling anti-Ethiopianness. In its August 1977
edition, this bulletin added that not only the Amharas, but also the Amharic
language should also be eradicated from the surface of the Earth along with the
speakers.
The high officials of TPLF who used to
propagate poisonous anti-Ethiopia(n) and anti-religion stuffs from the
Propaganda Bureau of this devilish group were Sebhat
Nega, Abbay Tseahye, and Meles Zenawi. These three individuals in the higher
hierarchy of TPLF have been known among the fighters, even among the people by
and large, for the hatred-charged madness they exhibited towards the Amhara and
for both the Christian and Islamic religions.
The Public
Relations Office of TPLF was also led by these same mad people. In September
1978, these individuals designed a new wave of campaign to be launched on the
eradication of Orthodox christianity in Tigray. To this end, they organized a
seminar/workshop to sensitize their cadres who will have to carry out that
destructive scheme. In that seminar, which took place in an underground
secretive conclave found in Egela district,
the following rebels had participated.
1. Meresa Redda 2. Haleka(Boss) Tsegay Berhe 3. Tewodros
Hagos
4.
Abbay Woldu 5. Hadas
Alemu 6. H/Silasie G/Kidan
7. Harya Sebagadis 8.
Kidusan Nega 9.
Guesh Gua‟edad
10.
Bitew Belay 11. Hadsh
Gezahegn 12. Roman
G/Silasie
13.
Aferra T/Haimanot 14. W/Gebriel
Modern 15. Addisalem
Balema
The aforementioned cadres were baptized in the
philosophy of anti-Ethiopianism and anti-religion
in the seminar took place for three days. After they finished the training,
they were assigned in three groups to accomplish TPLF‟s mission in
three regional locations.
The allocation
was done as follows:- („L‟ signifies Region Leader)
Region 1 Region 2 Region 3
1. Meresa Redda (L) 1.
Haleka Tsegay Berhe (L) 1. Addisalem
Balema (L)
2. Guesh Gua‟edad 2.Kidusan Nega 2. Tewodros Hagos
3. Abbay Woldu 3.
Hadas Alemu 3. W/Gebriel Modern
4.
H/Silasie G/Kidan 4. Bitew
Belay 4. Aferra T/Haimanot
5.
Harya Sabagadis 5. Hadsh
Gezahegn
6. Roman G/Silasie
Grouped and
organized in this manner, they kicked off their destructive campaign in Tigray
and went to the respective regions they were assigned to. After that they
continued to wage heavy-handedly extensive anti-Amhara,
anti-Christian, and anti-Islam propaganda accompanied with forceful
actions such as killings and kidnappings. Following their master plan of
eradicating Christianity which they strongly believe is imposed by the Amhara
upon the people of Tigray to make them submissive, TPLF‟s cadres
launched tough restrictions upon the ordinary people and the churches not to
adhere to the doctrines of this religion; they prevented churches from doing
their routinely performed rituals such as making Holy Mass and celebrating Sundays
as usual. These crooked people of the TPLF exerted their full energy to
dismantle the church and sever the bond between the clergy and the lay. The
people were not allowed to go to churches on Sundays or other days on which
Saints were commemorated due to the fact that holydays were declared to be
working days. TPLF cadres warned the priests and the entire clergy not to go to
churches and give any liturgical service anytime, if they were caught doing so,
they would be punished severely. Occasionally, there were resistances from the
people and the clergy as well. In such instances, the cadres in the lower
echelons used to consult the upper ones and they were advised by Sebhat Nega et al. to mercilessly kill those
recalcitrant priests, monks, nuns, or deacons in front of the congregation so
that that action could be taken as punitive to the rest of the population. That
circular or directive from the above was blindly implemented by the lower
cadres. In light of this, in Endatsahma district
of Adwa province, at a historical church known
as Endasilasie, the leader of the church, Abba Haile Silasie, was killed by Tsegay Berhe in front of the people. The cause of the killing was nothing else but these words – “Please do not desecrate our religion; it is a blessed
religion!” At that time, the people got extremely shocked and rushed
helter-skelter in a bid to save their lives from additional massacre that would
ensue. After the massacre, the killer, Haleka Tsegay
Berhe, along with his friends, looted the church and took away all the
property the church had. In a similar vein, the leader of a church in Zana district,
namely Abba Araya, along with a nonagenarian monk were instantly shot dead by Arkebe
Ouqubai himself, who was sent with Belay Bitew then as reinforcement to the
group, for the simple reason that the priest said, “Please, do not desecrate
our Christian religion.” The anti-Christian group/committee of TPLF led by Sebhat Nega, Abbay Tsehay,
and Meles Zenawi along with all its 15 members
had plundered, destroyed and burnt many churches. Moreover, countless priests
and deacons, monks and other church goers had been kidnapped. Surprisingly, the
whereabouts of all those kidnapped people have not yet been known to date and
it is believed that they all are killed.
Concerning
Islam, though they tried
their level best to desecrate this religion and its leader, Prophet Mohammed,
they couldn‟t succeed as they wished. The followers of Islam were
not as easily submissive as the Christians. Of course, the TPLF cadres
attempted to defame the holy Koran and downplayed the role of the prophet in
front of the congregation when the people gathered for praying. But the cadres
encountered serious protest in all the three regions.Especially in region
three, the Afars decided to fight those anti-religion bandits neck and neck and
managed to check the rein-less whims of TPLF from flourishing in their localities.
To this effect, those Muslims in region three hunted and killed the TPLF cadres
who were assigned there to destroy their religion. Among those killed cadres, Tigist Assefa, Yehualashet
G/Medhin, (Alamin), and Tsehaye Abraha
are just few. Many more unlucky TPLF cadres faced such ill-fate in this region.
But surprisingly, when TPLF leaders were/are asked about the death of those cadres,
they unashamedly keep on saying that the cadres died due to fighting with the
Dergue regime or with this or that rebel group with which they encountered
skirmishes. They are naturally big liars. Other cadres such as Addisalem Balema, Tewodros
Hagos, and Aferra T/Haimanot escaped at
night fearing the fate descended upon their colleagues. Nevertheless, for fear
of reprisal by the Afar people, TPLF couldn‟t dare to enter
the Afar region until the year 1984.
This time around, TPLF‟s stores were full of confiscated and looted holy Bibles and Korans.
According to eye witnesses, the atheist
TPLfites used to utilize those holy books to ignite fire as ordinary pieces of
useless papers. This shows their atheistic nature and contempt to religion.
The followers of Islam in all the three
regions stood firm in unison and made clear that TPLF should never violate
their right of believing in Allah and following Islamic religion. They
dedicated their lives for their belief and to „die or defend Islam‟ was their communal motto. The leadership of TPLF was highly frustrated
by the unexpected stand of Muslims. The Muslim population in and out of towns
understood that the architects of the anti-religion campaign were Sebhat Nega, Abbay Tsehay,
and Meles Zenawi. The life of these top planners
of TPLF was endangered and because of that they were forced to reconsider their
free movement, rather, they were obligated to have bodyguards for any of their
field trip. On the other hand, that time was a time during which TPLF was
invaded by two resistance movements, namely EDU and EPRP, and hence the
fighting morale of the TPLF combatants was becoming unspeakably low. In this
crucial time, the upper echelon of the TPLF issued an order to the cadres to
temporarily suspend the anti-Islam campaign but to rigorously go on the anti-Christian
one, for the campaign to destroy Christianity did not face that much threat
like in the case of the Islamic one, rather, it was proceeding according to the
plan, even to the surprise of many in the religion, there was substantial
support from the clergy themselves to denounce Christianity and become renegade
in a bid to expanding Marxism and Leninism. Muslim Ethiopian sisters and
brothers in the „liberated‟ areas of the TPLF stopped obeying TPLF as of that time and remained
respected and feared by those bandits for a long period of time. But on the
other hand, the Christianity followers continued to serve TPLF as loaders,
unloaders, and coolies [up until the present time].
In the First TPLF Conference, held in
February 1979, Sebhat Nega was elected as Chairman of TPLF while Meles Zenawi and Abbay Tsehay were
elected as chief propagandists. These three anti-Ethiopian people individuals
united their efforts to implement the newly designed several action plans of
TPLF. The major action plan from which many others had been derived was
formulated in the aforementioned conference:-
In the First Conference held in Feb. 1979,
the leadership of TPLF had unanimously decided the following: In the first
place, we people in TPLF never believe that there is God. In any case, the Ethiopian
Orthodox Church, the main instrument for the Amhara regime to sustain its
ruling, must be wiped out of the liberated Tigrian soils. In the long run, when
we will have established our own Tigrian Government [in the State of the
Democratic Republic of Tigray], we shall create a [communist] society that
doesn‟t believe in any form of God.
Based on the above anti-Orthodox stand of
TPLF, the following actions were taken by its cadres in the Dergue-free areas
of Tigray.
1. All churches were ordered
to deliver their mobile and fixed assets and properties to TPLF.
2. All priests and monks
were instructed to put off their religious head scarves and covers or hoods and
instead, they were ordered to put on TPLF‟s cap which reads „woyyenti‟(rebellions!). This instruction was practically seen and many
priests and the clergy were turned out to be rebellions carrying rifles on
their shoulders, instead of serving God carrying Jesus‟ cross and the Bible.
3. All newlywed deacons and
priests were forced to divorce their wives and join the armed struggle. To this
effect, countless marriages were dismantled and ex-wives and ex-husbands voluntarily
or involuntarily joined the armed struggle, leaving aside the church and the Orthodox
dogma they had been strictly following before.
As a result of
TPLF‟s atheistic actions with respect to the Ethiopian
Orthodox Church in Tigray, parents were left without their children to look
after them at their old age; churches were left closed for not having deacons
and priests to give ecclesiastical services, lots of precious items, such as parchments
of antiquity and crosses, were looted and sold by TPLFites and a great number
of churches along with their historical documents were set on fire in a bid to
erase the old history and write a new one which is devoid of any cultural and
traditional tie with the Ethiopian Orthodox Church [and by the extension the
Amhara people].
The general
command and detailed instructions given to carry out an all out destruction
upon the church was given by those three devilish people of the TPLF; Sebhat Nega,
Abbay Tsehay, and Meles Zenawi. In addition, Arkebe Ouqubai, the Eritrean
Tsadkan G/Tinsay, Awu‟alom Woldu, Zer‟ y Asghedom, Siye Abraha, and Seyuom Mesfin should be
mentioned here as chief collaborators with this regard. These gullible servants
of TPLF and Sebhat-Abbay-Meles syndicate have played a great role in the untold
suffering of Christians and Muslims. They had burnt so many churches in the northern
part of our country, Ethiopia
4. As the destruction of churches by TPLF
was on unabated continuation, the following group of high level cadres was
assigned to give a seminar to those church people who voluntarily or
involuntarily left the church in a bid to serve „their organization‟, TPLF.
1. Mulugeta Chaltu 6. Gobezay W/Aregay
2. Zer‟ay Asghedom 7. Abbay Woldu
3. Meresa Redda 8.
Kidusan Nega
4. Aklilu Denbarqay 9. Gidey Berhe
5. G/Kidan Desta 10. Bitew Belay
As of the year
1981 and the following six months, these cadres were dispatched to region 1 and
2 to pollute the clergy in changing
their religious mind and force them to rebel against their God, to Whose
service they once dedicated their soul and flesh, and make them ready to serve
TPLF. After being hammered for about six months, those ex-clergy traitors
started to serve TPLF as political cadres to preach Marxism and Leninism among
the congregation they used to preach the words of God. The ones who once upon a
time promised to sow the words of God and save the non-believers from eternal peril
literally became not only anti-religion but also anti-God. The priests, upon
their graduation ceremony, sang and danced along with the then TPLF‟s music band leader, the late Eyasu Berhe.
They condemned God for their stupidity to believe in Him up until then, and
most of all those ex-priests and deacons shouted a slogan in all the openings
of meetings and conferences:- “Down with the Amhara and their Orthodox Church.”
Who knows, some of the clergy might have regretted for their being „foolish‟ to serve God before they „received‟ their new
religion, TPLFism, coated with the cursed communion
of Marxism and Leninism.
The following
social events were forbidden by law in TPLF‟s free
territories.
1. Wedding feasts
2. Memorial services to the dead and
funeral prayers
3. Baptism to the newborn or any baptism to
a convert
4. Traditional memorial feasts made in the
name of this or that Saint
5. Annual ceremonial holidays of churches
in the name of this or that saint/ark
Anyone who tries
to disobey the aforementioned instructions would be labeled as anti-TPLF and
would as a result be harshly punished after taken to a secretive underground
known as „06‟[bado shidshte], a code given to their hellish
prisons. The Public Relations Office orders its ferocious staff to take strict
punitive actions and they promptly confiscate all the property of victims who
were said to have transgressed those unfairly and unjustly imposed jungle rules
and regulations of TPLF. In line with implementing this rule, so many people
were accused of breaching this directive, at times even falsely to take revenge
those who were not on good terms with them, and as a consequence thousands of
people were sent to „06‟(Halewa Woyane – Security of TPLF) and all
of them were executed there. This policy of TPLF which was begun in early 1967
went on unabatedly for the ensuing decades up until today. As a result many
people lost their lives; churches and monasteries were changed to nothingness
in both material and human resources.
In 1967, TPLF
incorporated its core belief that „Amharas are arch enemies of Tigrian people‟ into its program and that stand was enshrined in its documents as one
of the vanguard policies the organization should fight against. Let us see the
following anti-Amhara mantra stated in the political progrm of TPLF.
The Amhara
[regime] has impoverished Tigray and its people to the extent of exposing
Tigrians to economic exploitation,
absolute poverty, starvation, migration and displacement, and finally as a
result of these and other oppressive measures by the Amharas the entire people
of Tigray were subjected to have a contemptible social status to which people
were ashamed of their being Tigrian. This suppression and segregation upon
Tigrians was purposely enhanced by the Amhara [regime]. As a result, Tigrians
were forced to lead an atrocious life everywhere; they were obligated to suffer
low standard of living, unemployment, beggary, immigration, and prostitution.
In addition, Tigrians were influenced by the Amharas to go off their own
history, forget their own language, and detach from their culture. The Amharas
snatched the 3000 years rich history of Tigrians and used it to glitter theirs
in front of the rest of the world. Today‟s history of Ethiopia Ethiopia Ethiopia
The Amhara nationality subjected Tigrians to
pay high taxes and tributes to the central government led by the Amharas and
thereby impoverished the region to the extent of changing the social and
economic life of its people into a nonentity. The people of Tigray have been
considered by the Amhara regime as speaking animals and have been immersed in
an untold oppression characterized by inhuman handling and boundless cruelty.
In addition, the people of Tigray have been discriminated against and none of
its human and political rights have been respected by the regime. The
oppressive Amhara ruling class [TPLF uses the „she‟ pronoun to
address the „Amhara ruling class‟] has employed suppression and subjugation
to elongate her system of exploitation upon Tigrians.
The anti-Amhara
statements of TPLF which I have randomly expressed here above are explicitly
indicated in the political program of the organization from pages 8 – 14, 15 –
16, and 18. Generally speaking, this document of TPLF incriminates the Amharas
from the beginning to the end. … TPLF staunchly claims that the Amharas would
never get any peace and stability until the time their doom eventually comes to
effect. (cf. page 16 of the document)
As all
Ethiopians know, there is no such a thing as “Amhara Regime”; there has never
been as well up until this period of history. In Ethiopia Ethiopia Addis Ababa
The seat of
Emperor Haile Silasie I was Addis Ababa Addis Ababa Axum , Lasta-Lalibela,
and Gonder have served the same purpose in
the past. In those past relays of power, the people of Ethiopia
Like the
previous ones, the government of Emperor Haile Silasie I as well was composed
of all able Ethiopians irrespective of their religion and ethnic background. In
light of this, that government had Cabinet Ministers from the Oromo, Tigray , Eritrea
On the other hand, we can say that Tigray
province has been one among the beneficiaries of the national pie; the reality
was not like the TPLF talks to fool citizens and get poorly calculated blind support.
The health and education sectors were budgeted in not less a degree than the
others in the nation. There was no budget discrepancy from region to region.
Nothing special has been seen in Tigray other than the plight or the delight
that has been observed in others. There was no national or ethnic based
discrimination then like what we see now vividly. To speak the truth,
especially the government of Haile Silasie I had a motto known as “The best of
things to Tigray!” Due to this, the people of Tigray used to love Haile Silasie
I as he was also fond of Tigray and its people.
When the people of Tigray knew that Dergue
had killed him during the [hijacked and failed] revolution, the new military
junta was severely condemned in Tigray among the youth and the elders. After
the fall of Haile Silasie I, it was eminent that Tigrians became exposed to
harsh economic life and social problems. But that was the fate of not only
Tigray but also that of other regions as well. Tigray didn‟t face any particular problem different from other regions; truth be
told, Tigray had never been treated differently in both past regimes. On the
contrary, the Dergue regime was not that much cruel and harsh to Tigray when
compared to others. For example, it did not implement the declaration proclaimed
on arable land, considering that the arable land Tigray had was and still is
comparatively very little. Dergue never mistreated Tigray or Tigrians. Even in the
time of the red terror, it was not Tigray which was much suffered; relatively,
it was rather the Amharas who lost many lives and encountered much suffering.
It doesn‟t mean Tigray was safe with this specific point of
discussion; it is to mean that, comparatively speaking, the Amharas were
victimized in a degree more atrociously than Tigray or maybe some other
provinces. Therefore, it is not the Amharas who have brought the suffering mentioned
in the political program of TPLF upon Tigray and her people; it is rather TPLF that
has produced untold suffering and historical wound upon the people and the soil
of Tigray.
Let us see some points as to how TPLF has implemented
its program.
But before that,
it is better to see some other points as an introduction to this particular
section of this article. Let‟s remember the fact that the government of
Emperor Haile Silasie I was all inclusive; it never belonged to this or that
ethnic group. Frankly speaking, no ethnic group had a special privilege. By the
same token, the Amhara people had nothing as special privilege from both the previous
governments. They suffered or delighted the same cruelty and equal opportunity.
If we deny this fact, history will never forget the objective reality that had
happened in the past and what is happening now. History never knows bias and
prejudice. We all will be judged upon based on our merits and demerits. The
fact being this, TPLF always condemns the Amharas as its arch-enemy and wants
them to be eradicated for good. While the fact on the ground is diametrically
different from what the TPLFites say, perhaps bad luck has made it inevitably
clear that the mantra of TPLF happened to be “Down with the Amharas!” I tell
you the truth that the 48 pages of the TPLF‟s political program,
which is intended to incriminate and attack mainly the Amharas, is an absolute
insanity and even a genocidal crime. No one else designed such a 48 pages of
document to attack one specific ethnic group except TPLF. Now, even after it
has assumed the leadership of the entire nation, its crave for eliminating this
ethnic group is not quenched; rather, it has continued the ethnic cleansing and
genocide upon the Amharas and other opposing citizens including Tigrians
themselves using all the state machineries it controlled by force. No world
history has seen such group of mafias in a form of government.
The following are members of TPLF who drafted and
implemented the poisonous anti-Amhara political program.
1. Aregawi Berhe 2. Sebhat Nega 3.
Meles Zenawi
4. Abbay Tsehay 5. Seyoum Mesfin 6.
Aw‟alom Woldu
7. Tewolde W/Mariam 8.Gebru
Asrat 9. Arkebe Ouqubai
10. Tsadkan G/ Tinsay 11.Zeray Asgedom 12.Siye
Abraha
In addition to
these, Ataklt Ketsela ( a TPLF rebel who was
shot dead by Sebhat Nega
himself), Asfha
Hag‟as (who died of natural causes), and Gidey Zer‟atsion (who deserted TPLF in 1985 after trying
for so long but finally failing to correct the undemocratic nature of TPLF)
were among these ulcerous committee members. By the way, in this document of
the TPLF, on page 16, there it says that the Dergue regime is that of the
Amharas. But in actual fact, Dergue was free of ethnicity; it was rather a
mixed nature. The cause of all the lies propagated by TPLF against the Amharas
was to get ground for attacking this nationality so that it can easily fulfill
its target of dismantling the country‟s history and territorial integrity. That
is why the motto of TPLF is [The oppressive Amhara] „She shall never get social
stability and peace of mind!‟
In TPLF‟s “Woyyin” bulletin, it is indicated from
the very beginning that the Amharas should be eliminated from the surface of
the earth or at least should not get any peace of mind and social stability wherever
they live. This has been the central motto, the primordial objective of the
core leadership of the group which was expected to be strictly obeyed by the
rank and file as well in a long and short term plan of action. In the plan it
was/is clearly stated that TPLF would take a radical action against the Amharas
and their elite leaders. Then, due to such reprisal revolutionary actions, the
Amharas would never get any chance to settle peacefully anywhere and gradually
they will face extinction [like dinosaurs?]. In line with this basic fiery
interest of TPLF, the program was in its full swing as of 1967 and as a result
an all out genocidal massacre on the Amharas was
declared in Tigray and Wolqait Tsegede of the
then Gonderite area; unfortunately, so many innocent citizens lost their lives
and/or (im)migrated to other areas of the planet. There was a manifesto which
states, among others, the following:-
1. Any Amhara in
the liberated areas of Tigray should immediately leave that place leaving behind
all what they have. The Public Relations Office of TPLF carried out an
amazingly alarming campaign to loot and eradicate Amharas who used to live in
Tigray as retired pensioners of all kinds of state jobs such as military,
police, and finance, or those who were merchants, or those dwelling in any form
based on a variety of social interactions intermingled by marriage with
Tigrians and who had seen two or three generations out of their interethnic
marital bonds. All those with the Amhara blood were ferreted out and sent to
„06‟, inferno of TPLF, from where no one has a chance to
come out alive and see the sunlight again.
2. EPRP should go
out of Tigray, lest, they shall be wiped out by force. The stronghold of EPRP,
Asimba, is known to be located in Tigray. They went to that place to start the
armed resistance with the Dergue after they failed the battle in the townships.
But when TPLF got strength and began controlling some part of Tigray, it sent a
message to them and warned them to leave Tigray immediately. But they refused
to heed the autocratic instruction from the TPLF saying that Tigray is also Ethiopia Ethiopia
TPLF‟s “Woyyin” bulletin, as of its first edition tries to reflect the
central objective of the rebel group TPLF. It stresses that both the Amharas
and their language Amharic will gradually but definitely face their inevitable
death and the resultant historical burial.
As clearly
stated in the political program of TPLF and incessantly propagated by “Woyyin”,
TPLF believes that the sole enemy of the people of Tigray is the Amhara ruling
class and hence the major objective of this organization remains to be
eliminating Amharas along with their obsolete social system that oppresses
Tigrians and favors Amharas to get richer and prosperous. “Woyyin” elaborates
that destroying the Amhara is the first vital step for the realization of eliminating
Ethiopia Ethiopia Ethiopia
In the first
place, TPLF has never had an ambition or dream to rule Ethiopia USSR Ethiopia US
TPLF has been doing whatever it could to
psychologically belittle the Amharas and diminish their regional land. Its
efforts to hammer the Amahars are infinite. Apart from detaching them from qualitative
and standardized education and healthcare facilities, the TPLF‟s evil deeds upon the Amhara include annexing and selling their fertile
arable lands to foreign countries such as the Sudan
1. It is obvious
that the Amharas, like others, are proud of their country Ethiopia Ethiopia Ethiopia Ethiopia
2. TPLF‟s nature is charged with divide and rule method. Therefore, the
leadership believes that the divisive wedges it employs, i.e., ethnicity and
language, are vitally important to create havoc and distrust among communities
in the country that would help TPLF to stay in power at least until the time
they believe is conducive to go to Tigray and establish their own dreamy state
on the fairy land they have in mind, as per the nightmare of the „founding
fathers‟.
3. Thousands of
languages are spoken in this world. Some countries may not have one definite official
language. But in Ethiopia Ethiopia
In light of the
above, TPLF believes that Amharic is a language of the enemy and should go away
with the speakers. And this notion has been put in practice since the time TPLF
was emerged as a rebel group. As soon as TPLF seized the central political seat
in Addis
Ababa
1. When people lose
their common identity, they gradually lose their national sentiment and in the long
run the country remains to be lacking owners that bother about her existence.
2. If people do not
have national language(s), they are confined to only their local languages and
in spatial terms to a narrower identity that may not enable them to higher
privileges. Accordingly, the new generation of TPLF in Ethiopia
3. When people are
forced to be confined to certain areas and culture, they forget their common identity
and become prisoners of man-made new identities.
4. If there is no
national language, it is not possible to think growth and development that
benefits all. Indifference and carelessness would prevail and the development
of the country would at last be stunted.
The aim of the
action of TPLF that divided the country into language based regions is to eliminate
the role of Amharic and destroy Ethiopian-ness. When people are divided into
various pockets of linguistic and cultural entities, it is likely that they get
into discord and conflicts. TPLF is a renowned architect in creating commotions
and chaos among communities. But I would personally like to say that the people
of Ethiopia
Let me list down
those responsible individuals who exerted their maximum effort to destroy Ethiopia
1. Meles Zenawi – himself traitor, his
Eritrean parents as well traitors
2. Sebhat Nega – his mother Eritrean
traitor, his father Tigrian
3. Abbay Tsehay – son of a traitor, Axum
4. Seyoum Mesfin – son of a traitor,
Eritrean5. Arkebe Ouqubai – son of traitor, Adwa
6. Dr. Solomon Enquay – son of traitor, his
father Eritrean
7. Tsegay Berhe – son of traitor, Eritrean
8. Tsadkan G/ Tinsay – son of traitor,
Eritrean
9. Tewodros Hagos – son of traitor,
Eritrean
10. Abbay Woldu – son of traitor, his
father Eritrean
11. Tewodros Adhanom (now Dr. and Minister
of FA) – son of traitor, Eritrean
12. Debretsion G/Michael – son of traitor,
was member of Eritrean suicidal mission
13. Azeb Mesfin – brought up in Tsegede , Sudan Eritrea
It is the irony
of history that that all of the aforementioned ambassadors of the satanic
mission to destroy Ethiopia
Finally, I would like to suggest that TPLF‟s destructive moves cannot be stopped by condemnation or simple protest
such as demonstrations and the like and hence we all have to be united leaving
aside our minor differences. It is when we mobilize our people and all our
efforts in unison that we can remove these historical ticks and bugs that are
changing our mother Ethiopia
Let‟s all unite to save Ethiopia
Gebre Medhin Arara, Perth , Australia
Translated by Yinegal Belachew , Ethiopia
Note from the translator (‘the hyena’s belly?’):
For any comment to this translation – yinegal3@gmail.com
I am impatiently waiting any comment from my dearest brother Gebremedhin
Araya, if he is in a position to read this work of his in English.
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