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"Some 1.2 billion Birr revenue was obtained from more than 227,000 tourists who visited Ethiopia in 2005, he said."
Where did the money go? These bandas are robbing Ethiopia from left to right.

I have mixed feelings about the upcoming tourist "invasion".I hope the people involved in the "hospitality" sector are well- trained in defensive hygiene. Ethiopian women's vaunted good looks make them targets of sexual advances which could result in STDs.

"Advice when most needed is least heeded".

We are tired of the bandas. But sooner or later all the bandas will go where they belong,may be to dark jail.

What a poor comment, Thunder!!! It's good to hear that many tourists r visiting our homeland.

How many Anbanians are expected?


Choice

Welcome 30,000 Jamaicans coming to Ethiopia for Millennium celebration.I can't wait to happen until then.

Thunder you and others like you Amhara tribal baboon will bark and cry forever against Ethiopian development. Indeed the country had been secured Some 1.2 billion birr revenue from tourist in 2005 a lone. I can understand your frustration because your tribal thug ruled the country without no progress what's so ever for the last 100 years. Now 16 years of EPRDF administaration, Ethiopian situation is changing dramatically at sound of speed every day. Can't you see that blind? And yet Millennium is approaching and expected to be another 600 million birr revenue from tourists.

What can I say viva Millennium with great expectation a head.

Abet..Ewnet Kehhone Jasdesital...But, Turist Belaw Yemiterut Tewlde Ethiopijawjanen newEko Beteseb selam lemalet yemetutinem Turist Ejalen Kekoteren Awo eske 10Nja YeTuris agere enehonalen Gen Pure Turist Enekoter ketebale 20Nja bet Enehonalen.

What else can I say?

but..

BRAVO Meles administration

that is 5286 dollars per tourist. It must be the most expensive country in the world to visit!

[worldtraveler, the amount mentioned is in Ethiopian Currency Birr. 1 USD = 9.24 Birr Oanda.com]

Welcome to the Future Christian Republic Of Ethiopia, brothers!

Good job if it is true and really if we use the income properlly and write way.
And we should stop to ask help from other if we have our owen good economy and income is that it?
God bles Ethiopia and the poor people
not the rober ledears pocket.

AGIFT FROM TPLF/AGAME GOVERNEMENT FOR MELLENIUM.

1.Stay in power by destroying the opposition and dividing the other political parties by all means possible,by all means necessary.

2.Forming Pupet,symbolic,false political parties,social organization ,false local and regional administrators as true political parties while in truth they are creation of TPLF /AGAME goverement.

2.Keeping and stregthing the economic power of TPLF/AGAME tribal group by looting,corruption,bribery and day light robbery of its foreign currency.


3.Strength TPLG/AGAME troop war machine strong by getting military support from USA as agent of war aganist terrorism in the horn of Afriaca.

4.keep the large population of the country poor,uneducated ,an organized ,terrorized and divided so there will not be any political challange.

ON THESE LAST DAY THE PRISIONORS SAY NO FOLLOWING REASON

1.No power monopoly of one tribal group over the larger population power belong to the larger pupulation choice.

2.No triabal and ethnic dictator ship rather freedom,jusctice and equality under the law for all.

3.Economic,educational,press and human right for all.

MELLINIUM

A DAY OF COMMITEMENT FOR DEMOCRACY,FREEDOM JUCTICE,LIBERTY FOR ALL WITH THOSE WHO ARE KILLED THE PRISIONORS AND THERIR FAMILY.

That is just a public propaganda perpetrated by the TPLF government. Most of us, including the Jamaicans, are not planning on coming to Ethiopia unless the imprisoned democracy leaders are freed and there is freedom in Ethiopia.

With our elected leaders in prison, it is a time of mourning for all of us and not of celebration.

The Ethiopians of the Diaspora and our Jamaican brother and sisters are planning to celebrate the Ethiopian Millenium rather in the US and Europe and not with our oppressors, the TPLF regime. Millenium Celebrations are already in the making in various big cities in the US and Europe.

NO MILLENIUM WITHOUT FREEDOM !!!

Tessema and bekagne

What a foolish neftegna mentality it is?
EPDRF ist the 1st Govt, who make our country full of Democracy and Freedom.
You have A racist policy, that will never exist in Ethiopia.
our People need at 1st Food not your Teretteret...
Your Derg and Amhara Time is gone,
Ethiopia for all Ethiopians ok..
Peace......

Hagos Harari,

It would have been fitting if you said Ethiopia for a handful of hateful, racist, skinny, locusts, with a number eleven on their eye brow. Askeyami werari, your invasion will be reversed soon

Mongols and Manchus come and go China always is for Chinese.

End the occupation now.

Jamaicans are always welcome to their home.

Oh you silly people. Why are you all sooo blind? Why is everything that happens in the country tied to politics. It seems like every single thing that happens in the country is a reason to either praise or accuse TPLF. If a neighbor got sick it's because of TPLF. If he gets well, TPLF. Every silly thing has something to do with politics.

Yeha & Harari
please live alone my ppl. AMHARA !!
say what ever u want say about the other thing but not about inganeral.... !!
u hear me??
Taker bro.!!

i don't think we got enough green land for our tourists to relax on but BAHERZAF KITEL will do.

YA MAN.

Yeha -

Are you thrilled taht Jamaicans are coming? Do you know why the main reason is? Because they worship your most hated person. Haile Selase, the lion of Judah & the king of kings. Is this bell rings in your mind? or Does it sound familier?
Amen!

I have another proposition. The Ethiopians of the Diaspora in the US, Europe and other places should continue to plan on celebrating the Ethiopian Millennium wherever they are. Ethiopian businesses in the Diaspora need your money and infusion of capital in the Diaspora.

Let's also dedicate some of the proceeds from the Mellennium celebrations in the US and Eruope to go to support our freedom fighters in Ethiopia, such as, the EPPF instead of enriching the repressive TPLF regime.

To Jamaican brothers and sisters, if you really want to celebrate the Ethiopian Millennium, celebrate it with the real people of Ethiopian in the US and Europe not with the oppressive government. My Jamaican brothers and sisters this is the time to show and demonstrate your solidarity with the real people of Ethiopia. The real people of Ethiopia are currently suffering greatly.

OUR JAMAICAN BROTHER AND SISTERS, WE REALLY NEED YOUR HELP NOW! Do not reward the oppressive TPLF government by pouring your tourism dollars in Ethiopia! This is a real call from the real people of Ethiopia.

KKKK..NEFTGHENA CRAY'N FOR HELP. I THINK ETHIO PPL FORGAT ABOUT U. what a losser's. live ETHIO for EPRDF and WACH and LEARN from da BEST OF DA BEST.kkk. WHAT.. bring't on. GOD BLESS DA KING OF NEFTGHENA and SHABYA also da SON OF KING YOHANES P.M.-Z. W.4LIFE.

F all u who got nothing good say all time with your bad vibe

I have never really understood TPLF math. Hear me out...
If 30,000 Jamaicans are going to visit for the millenium, that would mean you need 120 B767/A340 flights to ferry them (with 250 per plane). Now assuming you get them in within one month, that would mean 4 such flights a day. And this is just for tourists from Jamaica. I will go out on a limb here and say it is impossible. I hope i get proven wrong.

Also, it is good to actually say who they are quoting. Anyone can find a Jamaican who will quote you a number, it is much better if the person is a knowledgeable official and not some outlandish guestimator.

To Public mockery and misinformation department coordinator with the ministry, Dr. Solomon Ali :

30,000 Jamaicans ?! Don't be too shy now! It's not in your nature, is it? Why not 300,000?! Also make sure you also bring 300,000 Agazee Jamaicans, if not, your rule might just be over in a blink of an eye. Remember these are not the ones you can slaugther at will!

Ra

Ok, it is the fact that Ethiopia is one of the few places where moslems and christians coexist peacefully, that has contributed to the tourism attraction, Plus it is offensive to the almost half the ethio population that are moslems, to declare their country totally christian.

Yeha, sounds uneducated about the development of Ethiopia. Woyane knows how to divide and rule,and to steal and cheat the poor people not to manage the economy.look the worled economy for the last two hundred years,if you know how to read. Our Ethiopia were always pulled back by your little desert. [It was and is a dry place.] Generally the worled economy grows much faster to day than ever before.

People should welcome the Jamaicans but make sure that they are not going to get the drag addict retards in our country. We should also reward them for good behavior while in our country. How about we dig the remains of the diminutive and retarded emperor and give it to them for burial in Jamaica? It would be a good karma for them.

Bekagne,

You got it the other way around! The real Ethiopians are in Ethiopia.You are a"was-Ethiopian", assuming you were born in Ethiopia,who now finds himself in a pathetic identity crisis.

I hope you find yourself some day, lost cause.

Well the Jamaicans or other Caribeans come to Ethiopia ! So what will be the change for the poor peoples ?Certainly nothing.It's not Zion the land of Jah that they're going to see ,but the hell Babylon of Devil Zenawi . LONG LIVE THE TRUE ETHIOPIANS !!!

dear Lekim,

your first comment regarding Jam's bad habits is right.

your second comment, is dead wrong. HSI's Remains remain in the Holy Trinity Cathedral in his albaster coffin till the Doom's day or the resurrection blik. That instant of all humans arisal after life! See Revealation or ask Ra. If you are a Budhist, then after their reincarnation. God forbid other things to happen to this man and his familes, who have suffered the most. They just start to inhale fresh air now. They have suffered-exiled a lot under the Dergue.

As always, i appreciate your rare remarks and your chime of molding the pen...

a suave penman,

mt

ps. now bring tafesse and let's hear what has he to say on His Highness, HSI and His Rasta faithful ! - i wonder if he ignores this piquant theme of the rastaman and his "divine idol" Taffari. Only i wonder Taf. (read, Tough) still is upset by naz moderator. I am told he is a heartless computer, oracle, or mac.. what have you. I want the taf. computer now.
Moderator, stop censoring lekim and tafesse!

they are the True salts of the Earth (Nazreth) and they make the sauce (Zigny) of Nazreth tastefu to alll!
regards, and Lekim, be some times kind man to your 'imposters'! just try.

We wellcome the True and beloved friends of Ethiopia the Jamicans . We Love you and we wellcome you home always !

God bless Jamaicans ans Ethiopians !

Dear M.T In all honesty I never cared and will never care for the prehistoric emperors and their feudalistic henchmen. My comments about exhuming Hailessilassie remains and donating it to the Rastafarians drug addicts was a joke and obviously an indication of my utter contempt for the tribal emperors and their values. However, I don’t wish his family or anyone for that matter who care for such characters any ills. My friend, I speak with clear conscience and I believe, trust and think what I experienced. And experience I did. I am one of those many people who stood in front of my hut (nehasy) as a child and witnessed the shear brutality of this people and I have nothing but absolute contempt for their sanitized and fabricated history which glorifies primitive sociopaths. I also believe that it is futile to reason out with people who intentionally and deliberately preyed on the weakest and vulnerable members of our society to achieve their myopic objectives. My friend, they destroyed our social fabric and annihilate our cultural and linguistic diversity by forcing their cultural values in all aspects of our lives. They turned, our god given birthplace, Ethiopia into a slaughterhouse for most of us in the name of a monolithic unity that served and celebrated only their interests and values. Ethiopia is a home to all of us and it is not anyone’s personal property. CUD and the rest of the tribal hoodlums who think that they can resuscitate the old tribal system are and will be in for a big surprise. With respect to Nazareth censoring my friend Tafesse, I absolutely agree with your comments. It is beyond me how venomous racist comments from Satenaw, Kokebe and etl get posted and Tafesse’s comments are censored. My Friend the New Moderator, what is the scoop pal? I don’t like to be let down by my heroes. Tafesse is one of those creative and unique characters with a very subtle humor at his finger tips. I am proud that Ethiopia gave birth to people like Tafesse, M.T, Wozeiro Condjo, Yeha, Yirgacheffeeይርጋጨፍ, Selememaster, Coolman and many others. I am also equally grateful that Ethiopia gave birth to people like Gundan, Ra'Oeil ራዕይ, Shewarega, challenger, yehuna, the Assistant professors Che and many others; without them it would have been difficult to find an elite group of willing punching bags. Tafesse, please consider this a personal invitation from yours truly to heed to our request and put in your two cents worth of humor. Cheers Yours LKm

I am proud that Ethiopia gave birth to people like Tafesse, M.T, Wozeiro Condjo, Yeha, Yirgacheffeeይርጋጨፍ, Selememaster, Coolman and many others. I am also equally grateful that Ethiopia gave birth to people like Gundan, Ra'Oeil ራዕይ, Shewarega, challenger, yehuna, the Assistant professors Che and many others; without them it would have been difficult to find an elite group of willing punching bags.

lekim,

Happy to know that you enjoy practicing your trademark “Testa” on our iron fist, your favorite punching bag, right?!

Dingay-ras: Keep knocking your head for eternity while you repeat your monologue: "Tribal bandit!", "Tribal bandit!", "Tribal bandit!", oups... did you just knock yourself out? Come on! Get up and do it again. "Tribal bandit!", "Tribal bandit!", "Tribal bandit!"

What else do you know anyways?!

Ra

I love the news but hate the negative commentators

My friend Ra'Oeil ራዕይ, indeed I have been blessed with the temperament of a northern. Once you pull a punch, there is no turning back. You wouldn’t want someone like me smelling your forehead without your frontal headgears on.

lekim... that is if you were tall enough to reach the heavens...

"Tribla bandit"... 666 seconds!

Ra

My friend Ra'Oeil ራዕይ, I must admit that the T & B keys are the most frequently used keys on my keyboard and they have been replaced once. My friend, I am guilty as charged and I fully expected it that it will be pointed out to me by “Testa di gallina” like you. So are you telling me that a 6’ 2” tall nicknamed “halengay” wouldn’t be able to plough into your old skull and check out if you have any frontal gray matter? If you are over 6’ 2”, there are various ways of bringing you down to your knees my friend. I haven’t lost a bet on this one yet. However, I am fully aware that the key word is “yet” and I hope the 6th sense will be there to recognize that moment when it finally comes.

Dear Lekim,

Ameseginalehu, 'Abiyi Hawei' or 'Minaeseei' for your kind and very thoughtful words. And as i said the chime of your words are as always most pensive and touching that penetrates even the hardest crunches of living matter, so to say aphoristically, your words have dipped in in the unsensitive thick rhino (hard) skin. Like mine. The first European travellers used to sketch and write about the Biblical (Noah) rinho as they 'fictively' imagined it, but seeing the animal but not grasping what they saw. Lying simply to themselves out of fear or exaggeration to demonstrate the hard work they have done in their travel back in uropee. They said a rinho has an iron skin which is hard like tempered steel. Impenetrable, the Rhino is a beast that wear war garments like a human but with four legs and with heavy middle age armory. May be, you have seen some illustrations and texts of the depictions of James Bruce and other Africa crazed 'explorers', from middle-ages books reproduction. Look now with four hundred year (hi)stories, the westerners seem to know much better about us; but still not the whole thing and it is not adequate. Althoug one thing is not still changed, but they pronounce that they know us. Africa is an exotic stop, mysteriously and mischieviously dark, and by teeth or clench their ego reavels what they seek: /t/o win over the deal. That is why, some sensitive people are annoyed. Instead of focusing to throw to gargoyle our bad habit, ignorance and poverty; we seem to be proud of it. That is day in and day out. It is not rumour, we accuse, hit and kill eachother. Our northern brethrens - i mean the Westerners - didn't have one cent idea about Africa and its inhabitants: wild life and humans which is better than the indigeneous folk, inspite of their most voluminous publications about other multitudes. Simply this is Western syntax and grammar and they are perfect at it and we are learning it from the pcs now in soft illuminated light. To come back to your point, whether your message spiced with slight humour or not, i take your comments for granted. Indeed, i think about them very seriously. I know there are many grivances that our societies carried on their bare shoulders for centuries. The heaviest burdens of social ills that they have experienced from its rulers and their accomplices is immense. It has not been a perfect world, everywhere and most of the time, even for the coming years, if we don't change it, trapped we will always be there. At the "0" point.
Bro. Lekim, Besides, i have a very modest - probably poor - Existential school background, and i always happen to see, this way or the other, problems that we can't dissolve and constantly faced with. We are very endangered as especies - as frail humans. We are on the edges of great despair and failure, as ordinary people. When we think, we are almost to come out of the dark tunnel, another long dark impasse once again starts. And i feel, we are part of the problem choosing the labirynth paths not the 'open Broad Ways' -to use Gabre's terms - and we are trapped in the snail coat, being the very People who cause the problem and thereafter caught by it. I don't know, if i was lucky to think as 'holist' because of my model teachers who were close by to us - to me. To learn under their auspices was not easy time, but it worth it. Optimist all and astute Ethiopian scholars - Tegaru, Amharu, Aderes, Oromos, etc.., they were the finest bunches of people around us once upon a time. Historic fate. Is it not? I think all of us have learned by some enchanting figure heads everywhere. We should keep that memo very close to our heart. Remebering those fine people,make me strong all the time and try to act like them, even. So my knowledge about Ethiopian things and aspects is not pure and have no one source - call it a curse or a blessing -may be idyllic but it is of mixed offspring refinement. So it happens, i'm sensitive to all Ethiopians Eroro. But i know, what has happened in the province of Tigray for around 150 years - the biggest tragic events, in superlative degree, i leave this for future epic writers as his/her inspiration source. I don't say, let's forget that. But let's solve our common problems first and foremost. I share your sensitivity because i know what 'Tegaru' in partcular as Ethiopians and their own locales have endured in these hard times. Head up, but we have to see now the light out of the tunnel which is the future that upholds our life. Other wise, we will be a-game-trophy as African wildlife subjects and rare items of anthropology for exotica hunters. Unless, we rise up, bit by bit and become self-sufficient; we will become evbd's sisay (zjigraa, not koks --quaquih /?/) an easy spot in the bloodyfool competing world. We would be their 2 pennies. Their cheaps to spare Hulet Frank::

Keep the good work up Weddi Adei - Yeageer Liidje!
Call the oracle del'man Tafesse back.
we need tough writing (Read Taf.,), DeMan to dip in facts and reconcile on what is left plenty-lot-plate called Ethiopian intellectual discourse.

selam, yager lidje, God bless you...
mt

Lekim -

When I see your name a word always clickes in my mind " PSYCHO ".

To the T.B. above,

How dare you confuse the light of the rising “occhio di Ra” to the chant of the “gallina”?

That chant, which I admittedly provoked, has been signaling you the moment has finally come. Just don’t talk too much BS as you will never know when and how I will come knocking… I do not have the habit of making false promises, Dear Dr.

The power of my golden eye is only matched by the one of my iron fist, listen up Tribal Bandit!

Ra

My friend M.T, you would be surprised to know that we are not that all different. I may not agree with all of your views but I can clearly see that you are an individual of reason. Ethiopia has plenty of so called “educated individuals” with worthless papers and titles in obscure fields. However, Ethiopia also has a lot of brilliant sons and daughters with loads of commonsense and admirable values of fairness. My friend, I see you as a courageous and brilliant Ethiopian with solid core values of what is right and wrong. You should be proud of yourself. Cheers

Greetings in the name of Ethiopians to da Jamaicans broda and sistas,

Ya man,Have a blessed time
man.

Ire man,I'a man have been outa da country for long time u no,wish all da best.

GOD bless Ethiopia & Jamaica

Lekim,

The problem is you have become what you are accusing others to have been in the past. That is the core of the issue you are missing. I want to be honest with you, the overwhelming majority of Ethiopians are victims of the Dergue. We have been shot,killed, imprisoned, tortured, exiled, you name it we had it. I grew up hating Dergue, I opposed them in any way I could. But when the change came, there was this issue about Eritrea, that the current TPLF government came with. Something never done in the history of any country, that those who profess to adminster a country go around the globe lobbying for the separation of part of their country, without a say from the Ethiopian people. Second they go there to celebrate Eritrea's independence. They make the country the largest land locked country on Earth. Everything that was done was done without a say by the Ethiopian people. It was I have the gun, I am the winner, as you like to mention here, I have the T54 s, I do as I please. Then, this ethnic thing was imposed on us. A very alien and inappropriate division, that is a time bomb waiting to explode. Provinces that have existed for centuries, were wiped out over night. People's identity completely destroyed. I give you myself as an example. Ethnically I am mostly Oromo, I have a good deal of Amara, some Guraghe and Dankale (Adal), and even a tiny bit Tigre, since I know one of my ancestors was Sehul Mikael. But from the time I was born til now, I have always viewed my self as a native of Ethiopia, and a Shewan. Nothing more nothing less. For me Gondarae, Gojjamae, Tigrayan, Hararae, or Welloye are distinct heritage. This new system, which many claim was made to elevate the hope of greater Tigray, only kept one name which is Tigray. The rest were wiped of the face of the Earth. Also most of the provinces have their boundaries drawn by rivers. For example, the boundary of Tigray and Gondar has always been Tekeze. The same argument many in Tigray used to say about the boundary between, Eritrea and Tigray, is Mereb. Just because currently the people of Gondar are not armed, does not give Tigray a right to take their land. Plus this constant attack on the ancestors must stop. It is the main reason for the cancer growing among us. You see, Jefferson might be a bloody slave owner for black Americans, esp the extremist Louis Farakhan types, he is the most brilliant person that ever lived for the Anglo Saxons. They even go as far as calling their system of government, Jeffersonian democracy. I know its a bit apple and oranges, but I am trying to show to you that ,if you attack other's heroes you should expect to receive retaliation, or add to the cancer growing among you and them. I also want to let you know the best way to overcome the past is to let it go.

Of all the brutality that was done to me the one that hurt the most was the death of my sister. She was shot by a bunch of Mengistu's revolutionary guards returning from school, without a single provacation. They just simply did not like her face, or may be she had a car, or any other phsycotic reason. I used to go with her most of the time, but that day I did not. Have I been there, the bullet that killed her would definately had hit me instead. For years I asked GOd why I did not go that day. But one day I decided to let go, and the pain has been much less since.

We are all the product of our experiences, I see your anger, but this time around I also see that there is a human face under that too. Which in turn brought out the human face in me too. My advice to you. Do your best to save our country and our people. Just thinking all is ok, would not return us from the abyss we are facing. Especially, this trial of the prisoners.

I have been where TPLF is now. As a young kid, I used to sit in front of Haile Sealssie, with other dozen or so kids. All kinds of dignitaries, from King Baudin, to Pompidou, to Moharegi Desay, to Queen Juliana behind me, and thousand with chibo, in front of us marching singing "eyoha ababaye Meskerem Tebaye."

I know how power blindes. And trust me I am no fan of Haile Selassie, I won't say mean things about him, but he has a lot of responsibility, for many wrong things. I used to see those in power then, they were so full of it. They thought they were IT. Haile Sealssie always used to think he was the best thing that ever happened to Ethiopia. And trust me he did believe it. But we all know the rest of the story. I see the same blindness from supporters of TPLF now. All I ask you is try to understand the pain of others. The things that need to be changed are few, but they have cling to them as, Breznev did to Communism, and Botha did to apartheid. If those things are not corrected, I assure you at best the country will break apart, at worst it will be a complete bloodbath. What are the few things? First and foremost free all political prisoners, 75 year old men should not scare you. Second, negotiate the return of Assab, and any of our Afar brothers who want to be with Ethiopia.Third, return the land taken from Gondar, and Wello. Dismantle the ethnic division, and restore the provinces.Just call it an experiment that failed, and move on. Fourth, the Prime Minister should go on TV and ask for all forgiveness, for past wrongs, also if any in the opposition have threatned any ethnic group, they should do the same. Fifth, this attack on the ancestors should cease at once, its not helping anyone, trust me. Sixth, all parties should be allowed to express their free will and participate in any elections, without any molestation.Including OLF. Seventh, dismantle the statue in Mekelle, bring it to Adiis Ababa, and present it as a gift from the people of Tigray for the rest of the Ethiopian people for the rememberance of the victims of the Dergue. That will turn it from a symbol of hatred into a symbol of love overnight. Not in the history of Ethiopia did one region win a war against another and put up a statue, that kind of act is reserved for froreign invasions. This my friend is the way out. Other wise its the same winner keeps all, zero sum game. But unlike past times, this time the very survival of the country is at stake.

Take care

Shewarega
"without a say from the Ethiopian people. Second they go there to celebrate Eritrea's independence"

What are you talking? The only people who should have a say about this matter, are the Erythreans not the ethiopians. It is their land that haile annexed it with that fake referendum.

“For years I asked God why I did not go that day”

my friend Shewarega, I truly understand the burdens that survivors have to carry and that is a lot of weight to be dragging around. There was nothing that you could have done and you can’t blame yourself. Entire families were vaporized in a flush and lives have been changed for ever. People wished of moving mountains and disappearing in thin air (my favorite childhood fantasies) to escape it all and save their loved ones. Some may still feel guilty for surviving all of this and having to deal with the end results.

As they say, “if it doesn’t kill you, it will make you stronger.” Now every thing is on the open my friend, open for discussion, challenges and account. No more facades and that is the blessing in disguise my friend of all these tragedies. If we can all acknowledge & accept the past, learn from it and forge a common & compelling future, it will be worth all the heartaches and soul numbing deep sorrows it took us to get here.

I can honestly put myself in your shoes and understand your reasoning. However, I disagree with your basic premise that the changes after 1991 are all about Tigray. I see it as new beginning for all of us, a journey with many challenges and pitfalls along the way, but still a journey in the right direction. I do know and truly believe that those courageous boys and girls who were left behind in mass graves did not die to replace one form of tyranny by another.

With respect to Eritrea, my friend look at the history of the relationship and why it ended the way it did. Hence, my firm beliefs that our social fabric and unity were decimated beyond recognition long time ago and we all arrived in a broken household in 1991. I personally believe that the Eritreans made the wrong choice in 1993. Time is the best judge of all things and if their present sate of affairs is a good indication of what is to come, there will be a home coming or a union in some common grounds. However, that is their choice and I believe no one else’s. Ignoring centuries of criminal policies towards the different nations and nationalities of Ethiopia and blaming EPRDF and or TPLF for the separation of Eritrea is a travesty to the reality of our history and I know you can do better than that.

You take care too.

dear Lekim,


thanks for your comment, you swathed me with kind words. Thanks, but feel also most flattered. Am proud of you too.

keep up your wondeful writing style and critical stand, i appreciate that..

For the rest, what i say, to You, Challenger, Tafesse Shoarega and the rest is, don't punch each other, don't. Our house is in ruins. Let's build our house first and let's fight it out in the courtyard..if we have too. But Now all African picture is grimace to add another sad spectacle. Thanks.

greets,

mt

Bring DeMan of Nazreth.
Bring Tough Tafesse.
we need sharp critics, coloured of colourless of political sways -ideological persuasions...

Shewarega,

That was another CLASSIC from you my friend.
could you copy it to the top topics so that everyone will read it, i nearly missed it. normally i read top articles and comments come with them because of time. KEEP IT UP!!!


Wozeiro EKEKAM can only picks out negative words.

respect.

Lekim,

Thank you for the positive response. I pledge to you that I will never speak to you in a negative way, guaranteed that you live that man alone. The one whose name starts with M and ends with K.LOL. I also felt my message was not heard, but given the current political climate I know it will take time. Please remember that, as I try to point out here many times, mountains and mountains of our ancestors have also been buried in Tigray, fighting from Adwa to Maychew. All I say is we have to look at things in a broader way, in the context of all sacrifices, not just sacrifices in a limited window of our history.

Balageru,

Thank you my friend, I will do so when I have time. I also value your opinions too.

It is a bad idea for Ethiopia. If anyone has lived in a country where tourism is rampant, you will know what I am speaking of. It degrades cultures and traditions. What have we gotten from the so called Ras tafarians? I wont list here what we have gotten from them, but it is not something that would make a country productive and proud etc...I know the money is good, but I would rather we find other means to make money than have all the so called tourists invade our country...I hate it with all due respect

WHERE IN THE HAM AND EGGS DID THE 115,000 TOURIST THAT VISITED ETHIOPIA IN JAN-MAY 2006 SLEEP?

ADDIS HAS ONLY 3500 HOTEL ROOMS

SO IF THEY STAYED JUST 7 NIGHTS THEY WOULD NEED TO SHARE A ROOM WITH 229 OTHER PEOPLE!

GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT………………………. EVERYBODY WHO TRANSITS THROUGH ETHIOPIA TO ANY PART OF AFRICA IS INCORRECTLY COUNTED AS A TOURIST. WHAT ABSOLUTE RUBBISH



.......And now breaking news 30,000 Jamaicans are coming to Ethiopia to celebrate the Millenium?........>



Oh my God you guys kill me with your endless chest beating!!!!!


Where will they all stay, how will they get around Opps…… the Addis Taxi Mafi are already spending their “windfalls” from over charging every Rastafarian , even those who do not show up and all the Street Hookers are washing their underwear to smell nice and sweet for business!!!!

No doubt people will come to Ethiopia but not in the exaggerated numbers that are being misquoted

I was in Ethiopia recently and there is no festive atmosphere even the Almighty Ethiopian Millennium website has no detail of any event planed or time table and it is 6 months away? Hmmm I smell a rat here another excuse to show we cannot do anything right

Hey where is Bob Geldof and Bono let them organise it for us

on a final note:
DID YOU GUYS KNOW THIS WEB SITE IS BLOCKED IN ETHIOPIA?

may God help Ethiopia in her dark days.