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World Bank is running behind time. This action is long overdue. They should have known that they were sponsoring terror against the interest of the people of Gambella and other regions who are evicted from their ancestral land to facilitate for Land Grabbing by outside shame less hoodlums. I hope something good comes out of this investigation to benefit the locals.

Who will suffer from this hiccup?

No one but the poor!

World Bank on a short leash from Neo liberal interest groups! We will be watching very closely.

Hope it won't be you last chance to work with Ethiopia, before the Chinese deliver again!

"World bank is an institution in acted to disrupt the growth of underdeveloped countries."

To solve such problem the instigators of problem would have start by finding themselves responsible for this shameful and despicable act and disciplining themselves. A far fetched idea when it comes to organization like world bank and IMF who are true deconstructionists of 'third world' countries all over the planet. Their record speaks volumes!

Anuak indigenous are NOT Ethiopians. Ethiopians Are Only ( Amhara and Tigre) Orthodox people. we Orthodox people have been " Force people " from their Land fpr generations. its NOT New.
We Orthodox people have been destroying "indigenous people " from 1887 when our Hero Minilik invaded them and brought under Orthodox Rule.

as a person From Tigray , I know all our Brothers Amhara will support these good dees. We are Like our Belove Israel. They destroy palestinians indigenous people , we too destroy None Orthodox indigenous people. God of israel gave us the Land. Follow Bible , Just like The jews. so , its Ok !!

Support Tigre and Amhara Rule in Ethiopian Empire.

Thanks !!

you are Right Mr Amhara.

Ethiopians are Only Tigre and Amhara Orthodox people. ask others indigenous people like oromo , muslims , far , somalis , benishangul .... so on , they say they are Not ethiopians , even for generations we Ruled them.
those people are bastards,

Long Live Amhara and Tigre !!

Bible is a great book for robbers. Just look at Israelis , they Took other people Country and claim God of Israel gave them. the indigenous Palestinians have Blame God of Israel , Not JEWS who took their Land. so , Ethiopian Bible tells us that " God of Israel " gave us (Amhara and Tigre ) Ethiopia .

indigenous people Go to Hell.

To all land lease for pennies defenders & concerned Ethiopians,

Evicting from their ancestral fertile lands to a very crowded dry land just to collect pennies from leasing and bribes from foreign scavengers is not development for the region or make life better for the people of the areas but betraying the country by a bunch of looter leadership of Ethiopia honestly speaking.

What is the gain for the people who used to live an open space and plenty of lands to use for living before than no land in a crowded camp today???

What is the gain for the country for those who are making decision on behalf of the country???

What is the long term effect for the land and surrounding environment of the region???

If there is plain and simple explanation the country has to lease fertile lands, why not give us explicit explanation for their reasoning for leasing virgin fertile lands for pennies to foreign entities to feed their people and Ethiopia has go back to them to beg their produced crops in Ethiopia Ethiopians to be feed???

Is there anyone who has a brain and most of all caring leader to the people of Ethiopia to look after their short and long term interest beyond his or her own belly???

As a Tigrayan and always speak for the Tigray people well being I do not see any benefit to Tigray from auctioning the southern part of the country and why any Tigrayan leadership allows this very unpopular and very anti the principle of Tigrayan goodwill our heroes like King Yohannes, Ras Alula, Ras Hagos, Ras Mengesha, Ras Mekonen and others who fought the enemy to preserve Ethiopian lands for the next generation of Ethiopians???

Hello Woyane leadership can you hear me now??????????

elcad,...

You should be smarter or wiser than making such accusation of world bank "sponsoring terror".

Wow! Why is everybody crying for nothing here? It is only some letter written by the usual cry baby Obang group with the help of the anti Ethiopia Hayenas group HRW.
This is just another unfounded alligation trying to disrupt our developmental progress and to discredit our govt.
The never ending crocodile tears of Ethiopia's enemies continues!!

Now it is time to pay a price--just about two weeks ago that was a USA citizen shot in Gambela by TPLF?

Before this happened, what was a benefit to interfere with a "villagisation"?

Ethiopia is fighting hard to get rid of poverty unlike the so "civilized" nation and whats wrong with that? Is this a human right violation? You make your own conclusion..

Too little to late.
for starters how about invastigating the illicit money transfers to Malysian, Hong Kong, and Swiss Banks?

Too little too late.

The people of Gambella/Annuk, Ambo, Dire Dawa and Ogaden have particularly been targets of TPLF because they resisted the incoming gurella army during those fateful days twenty-one years go.  Ogaden still fights.

Helen Epstein's article in the New York Review of Books has finally garnered some attention. But hers may as well go down the way of Anna Gomez and others who got silenced by intrigue,  circumstance and marathon of TPLF's lucks.


http://goo.gl/2LZyf

Why not a legal action wouldn't be taken concerning the looting of money by TPLF? It is possible to prepare a petition, open a bank account and fund raise to recruit lawyers for action against TPLF at international court. If this start, developed nations will support the action as a part of removing corruption and combating human right violations.

Micah 2:2

When you want a piece of land, you find a way to seize it. When you want someone's house, you take it by fraud and violence. You cheat a man of his property, stealing his family's inheritance.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible:

And they covet fields and take them by violence - (rend them away) and houses, and take them away Still, first they sin in heart, then in act. And yet, with them, to covet and to rob, to desire and to take, are the same. They were prompt, instantaneous, without a scruple, in violence. So soon as they coveted, they took. Desired, acquired! Coveted, robbed! "They saw, they coveted, they took," had been their past history. They did violence, not to one only, but, touched with no mercy, to whole families, their little ones also; they oppressed a man and his house. They spoiled pot goods only, but life, a man and his inheritance; destroying him by false accusations or violence and seizing upon his inheritance .

This is a good opportunity for the Ethiopian Government to show how the good work is being trashed by enemies of the people.

It is time the world to know the great works and achievements and lies and propaganda war campaign against the Ethiopian poor.

Investigation is a good thing and the only salivation of good people and good work.

The investigation is one more path to glory.

BROKEN RECORD...NON-PROFIT ARE REPORTING WHAT THEY THEMSELVES ASKED WORLD BANK TO DO...WORLD BANK, UN, USAID, UN-DAG ALL HAVE ALREDY SAID NO "VILLAGISATION" EXISTS!

DEDEB DIASPORA DON'T READ, SO NO CLUE ANUAKS ARE AGGRESSORS, NOT VICTIMS!

BBC: Anuaks murder and mutilate UN workers helping Nuer refugees:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3389405.stm

BBC: Anuaks stop bus and massacre Nuer passengers:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5072678.stm

BBC: Anuaks attack Catholic Church, murder State Commissioner:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4392856.stm

BBC: Anuaks massacre 200 people, 10,000 flee:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3483531.stm

MIMI [Visitor]

"NO "VILLAGISATION" EXISTS!"

I am a strong supporter of villagisation, and also know that the Ethiopian government is doing villagisation with is a good thing. Villagisation is a perfect idea, the argument in the article is not whether villagisation exists in Ethiopia or not but the way it is done i.e. compensation, availability of infrastructure and whether it is done by will or force in to the new villages.

I am sure if villagisation is conducted in a proper manner it is going to bring dramatic changes in a short time in those scattered poor people.

MIMI

We don't need a loan from IMF to relocate u and all TEGRE kins to the ancestorial native land BADAME and ASMERA, since nobody will lease or buy an inch of land from the cursed, barren drought stricken desert, usless,garbege, WONBEDES land only produces SHIFTAS and cement. U may Thank GOD the 12-provinces of ethiopia for allowing u stupids keep up with looting and I wonder why the Japans didn't lease the sinners land to store all there nuclear waste by now?

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ethiovistor [Visitor]

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Human Rights Watch says it has evidence that some 70,000 indigenous people in the western Gambella region were relocated against their will to new villages that “lack adequate food, farmland, healthcare and educational facilities”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16590416


When they first came they told us an investor was coming and we would develop the land alongside one another. They didn’t say the land would be taken away from us entirely. Farmer Gemechu Garbaba
http://www.channel4.com/news/africa-succumbs-to-colonial-style-land-grab

“Now, no land, no farm, no food.” Farmer Gemechu Garbaba’s wife.
http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/07/us_investors_and_universities_join_the_land_rush_in_africa.html


“They gave the land to us and we took it… This is green gold!” one of the largest investor in Gambella


Ethiopia is the world champion of “land grabbing” – the practice of renting out vast expanses of farmland to local and, in particular, foreign investors. In 2011, 3.5 million hectares were allocated, while the projected figure for 2015 is 7 million hectares, an area twice the size of Belgium.

The rents are “ridiculously low by any standard” (theoretically starting at US$ 8 dollars per hectare per year), the leases are for up to 99 years, finance facilities and tax breaks are increasingly generous as the share of exported produce goes up. Some are calling it “the deal of the century”.- Open Democracy

ET
i dont know if this is a good for the government, but it sure is a good opportunity for those of us who would like to know exactly what is going on from an independent source. i hope the world bank will conduct through investigation reagrdin the land lease and whether or not people, in large number are being evicted. i also hope the government will cooperate and accept their investigation.

It is really sad to see these moronic woyanes sell our land with dirt cheap price. 13% of Ethiopia’s population still relies on food aid while woyane is selling the fertile lands of Gambella for 60 years at a cost of 158 birr ($9.42) per hectare annually. One Indian looter who bought 27,000 hectares of fertile land of Gambella expressed his joy as follows:

“We never saw the land. They gave it to us and we took it. Seriously, we did. We did not even see the land. (Triumphantly cackling laughter) They offered it. That’s all…….It’s very good land. It’s quite cheap. In fact it is very cheap. We have no land like this in India. There [India] you are lucky to get 1% of organic matter in the soil. Here it is more than 5%. We don’t need fertiliser or herbicides. There is absolutely nothing that will not grow on it. To start with there will be 20,000 hectares of oil palm, 15,000 hectares of sugar cane and 40,000 hectares of rice, edible oils and maize and cotton.”

This tells it all. That Indian looter pays less than $10/hectare per year!!!!! Woyanes first denied the existence of forced eviction but when reporters reveal the truth and expose Woyane’s dirty work of forcefully evicting the locale people these thugs changed their story and said that there will be some resettlement. Haile Assegide, an ex Weyane minister turned CEO of a land-gabbing company under the auspices of Al-Amoudi tried to say the same thing. This may be breaking news for the so called Independent Panel of the World Bank, but many of us already know about this abuse. Good to know that the World Bank is finally trying to see the real picture.
Now lets see what action they take.

Kul,...

How stupid can you be to come up with such blind statment.
World Bank has nothing to do with the above article. Just because some body wrote the name World Bank, doesn't necessarily mean they approved the news.
World Bank said that, they've done all kinds of investigations and found out none of the abuse alleged by the crybabies happend.
Now you telling us, as the World Bank released a supporting statement of the above nonesense unfounded accusations.
When are you people come to your minds and stop claiming land being sold bla bla..
Can you just accept that, the era of LEMLEMITUA HAGERE, without moving a finger to cultivate the land is over?
How do you suppose to feed yourselves, if we don't cultivate that fertile land just by looking at it or admiring it, and by being dependant in natural way of WOFF ZERASH MIGIB?
How long and what could have been the alternative plan of yours anyway?

It is not the first time,and it won`t be the last to an attempt to humilate Ethiopia.The difference is this time, Ethiopia and the people become more resolute ,when ever the country faces a challenge.Don`t understimate the heart of Ethiopians.

EXTRATESTICLE

Right on the money, for tracking the DNA of ur roots as u said it. I feel sorry as a human being for ur's eritrean granny who are suffering from final stage of kidney disease if it wasn't for cross match testing of the antigens i will be the first person to help him out. My friend my suggestion will be to keep looking inside the SAWA-MORGUE frezzer, for identical match since people of the north drived from the same genotype TEGRE tree. I really don't mind to be the living donor to ur granny, the problem is my AMHARA/ GURAGE/ OROMO = ETHIOPIAWEE uniqe Human Leuckocyte Antigen will create an immune reaction since,it has 1 to 100:000 odd to ur old firt recipient granny and beside all that! my high consciousness of ability to acess high energy pattern trait could dangerousonly affect the immunosuppression of the old firt and my best suggestion is to cut off his LEBA hands and transplant prostetic limbs not kidney, my suggestion is to dialysis his rusty cerbrospinal fluid to think of ethiopiawenet not a MEKELE-BANDIT, my advise is to hemofilter his assests and pockets,to ethiopian people,that he has been looting the past 20-years before CHRONICAL POLYGRREDYITIS KIDNEY DISEASE take the old gizzler to MELESE kingdom.

Axumawit,

Before you talk about Ethiopia, tell you Axum and Adwa traitors to unite all Tigrayans and join together and work for Tigray and then show the Axum and Adwa nationalism towards Ethiopia. So far based the hard data we have Axum and Adwa people are simply LISTRO of Eritrea and looting the wealth of the country for their own belly and their families, relatives and QUSHET. I can proof you one by one what the Axum and Adwa have been doing for the last 14 years. The worst of them all is they are advocating for the interest of Eritrea on the expense of Tigray and Ethiopia. If deny,
why the Axum and Adwa cadres were preaching for Eritrea independent and well being than Tigray during the struggle. Would you lie about it now???
Why the Axum and Adwa stopped the war when Ethiopia forces were virtually surrounding the enemy and Tigray and Ethiopia were about to secure the lands belong to us???
Why the Axum and Adwa are the sole member of executive and central committees in Woyane right now???
Why the high ranking in the military are Axum and Adwa despite the Tembien and Shire fought during the struggle more than any other Awrajas???
What the hell the Axum and Adwa cadres are doing in other Awraja of Tigray they do not belong to the clan of the Awrajas except the terrorize them in order the looter Axum and Adwa people to stay in power on the expense of other Awraja Tigaray???

If Raya, Enderta, Tembien, Wokro, Wolkiat, Shire, and Adigrat are not fairly represented in the Executive and central committees , what is Woyane as Tigray organization for the above Awrajas???

Is this not the right time to kick out Axum and Adwa from Raya, Enderta, Tembien, Shire, Wolkait, Adigrat and Wukro once for all if they do not behave like the rest of Tigrayans???

Who are the Axum and Adwa to be the sole owner of Tigray???

What Axum and Adwa have done before other Tigrayans like Tembien, Shire and Enderta have not???

Which Awraja of Tigray the safeguard and defender of Tigray and shaped the proud history of Tigray???

Which Awraja of Tigray should be blamed for the landlocked Tigray and Ethiopia right now???

Which Awraja of Tigray should be take responsibility for the loosing of Kunama the undisputed Shire land and Afar 90% of the population live in Ethiopia side but 10% Afar live in the Eritrea side but the 10% population of Afar controlled the entire Red Sea coastal right now???

Axumawit, tell your brother and sisters from Axum and Adwa to take responsibility and stop auctioning Ethiopian lands for pennies in the name of all Tigrayan.

What is Tigray getting out of auctioning fertile Ethiopian lands the Axum and Adwa leaders to allow such insane things for the country they live in???

Is the reason the Axum and Adwa leaders get bribes from the international land grabbers and betraying Tigray and Ethiopia??? Tell us know!!!

ethiovisitor from artera, the luutty asshole shabian,.

Don't you've a shame when you call yourself an Ethiopian, you stupid fakked up shabia.
Your never ending cry on this website tells who exactlly you're. Whenever yo post here, all you do is curse the day you were born. Nothing else. Don't forget to curse the day you voted for your artera too!
You must have been wounded so bad by the woyanes, you can't even forget PM Meles' name reciting it night and day like a prayer. Looks like you even dream about him, whether a nightmare or fantasy God knows.
Just get out of this Ethiopian website. We are tired of your bitter cry. Stupid mozzafakka shabian!

Ye Addis Zemen Leboch from Dembia.

Hulum Ageru Sigeba Ante Lemn Agerh Dembia Atgebam, Addis Zemen Tefendeso new Eko Gashiye???

This is nithing but the news from them to themselves. Human rights watch, which is led by MrDaniel Bekele has been accusing the villagization of Ethiopian Government in Gambela. Ethiopia is self sufficient in every aspect so Obang dream and Daniel dream will not affect Ethippia's development.

Making this kind of news will boost their supporters egi. So be it. This idiots, opposition groups don't jhave stone unturned to derail the Ethiopian development. Ibang and Daniel have tried a lot worst than this so true Ethiopians know the truth so le tthem confuse their supporters. Did you remember Obang boasting about his group when they are killing Saudi Star engineers were killed. He was getting the imformation from the person who was found in Ethiopia and asked to surrrunder but kept fighting until he was killed according to the news which was found from the area. Obang was complaining tjat the guy was killed when he was fishing. Tjanks for Ethippian TV they showed us that he was killed not on the river or nearby the river but in the woods. So it don't matter Ethiopia will continue to make its citizens out of poverty.

ethiovistor [Visitor]

Bla bla bla idiot shabia, it is a coward who fight in disguise as Iago in Othello. I know Eritreans have only long tong and mighty when undercover.

What happen to the invisibility of Eritrean militarism when you become independent, the reason you are only strong in disguise. Why don't you openly comment as an Eritrean, arab and colonial slave.

Beza [Visitor]

Obang is SPLA/M and he is part of a conspiracy to split that part of people and territory and join South Sudan, even South Sudan think she have territory in Ethiopia, that is why he is squawking for too long and the fools and idiot Diasporas support him without knowing his real intention.

ADDIS ZOMBIE
The same shit different day boaring dog chases shadow of own and found himself a retarded WEYANE-SHIMAGLLE who flees into HOMOOO-SEXXXXUALITY because he has been taught to bend over for his SHABIAN MASTERS when these WONBEDE-PEOPLE lived in a jungle and fakin'g each other all day long.

Tail wagging WEYANE labrador, u seems u have an excessive licking problem of ur own paid-cadre balls. Now i know ur's nightmare with ARETREANS? u WONBEDES were togather destroying the infrastructure of ethiopia for the last 4000 years bombing bridges, railroads and all aspects of economic centers buildings and dams until the badame bogus war who separated u WONBEDES forever and made u slit each other's throat. I advice u better come up with diferrent argument than RECURRINGLY emesis the same pungent reflux and acting like autism rehabilation retarded drop out.

Belay [Visitor]

Trust me it is a good thing for the government if it is true WB investigates it cause it will silence the enemies of Ethiopia. Villagization is mainly not about or connected to land lease, it is happening in many parts of Ethiopia among pastorlist and scattered semi pastoralist communities and is already giving remarkable results in changing peoples life. Neither it is a new project by this government, Derg also tried to move communities from dry land to green land and failed by smear campaign of the West. Yes Villageization can be used to control rebellious communities, many countries had used it for controlling purpose which include the US, UK and Australia etc.

How can you build infrastructure and services for scattered communities without first put them in villages?

If the international community come and visit it I am sure the government will gain praises.

According to the hardcore but surprisingly honest and concerned long time TPLFite, Halafi Mengedi, its obvious that the rift within TPLF is between the Eritrean "listros" Adwans/Axumites faction and the rest of the Tigreans. Halafi reaveals things unlike any which makes him the only known honest person from that region. Halafi's articles give a glimple into the inner workings and phsyce of TPLF. He wants stronger Tigray, independent of Eritrea and Ethiopia. He is a moron but a preferred one.

Reading the article above though brings to home that despite the seeming absence of U.N and others, the ever free-reigning regime would not have been able to build Tigray only because the leash of the donors' countries demanded proof of their money whereabouts thus explains the 30% (?) more development in the northern province (kilil).

AZ

We already know what woyanes are doing with the land in Gambella and other areas way before this report. The fact that woyanes are engaged in illegal land sale is well documented. The statement of that Indian looter is one good evidence. Many displaced people are still crying for justice. So, I know why you call the report “unfounded”. I agree that we should be able to utilize our resources in order to come out of poverty and eradicate hunger. But I can assure you that selling our land with dirt cheap price is not a solution. In fact, those Indian looters already admitted that they are planning to export the rice to USA and other countries. Here is a direct quote from one of the Indian looters about what he plans to do with his new found wealth in Gambella:


“We are planning to cultivate mostly rice, all of which will be exported to the United States (US)....We will use a system of rice intensification (SRI) which uses less water than marshy rice fields.... [Although the company has a rice field in India, which, at 300ht is very small when compared to the land they have acquired in Ethiopia, the land it acquired in Gambella has two advantages over other places]...”“One is the ability to export which we cannot do in India....The other, most important, factor is that the land consists of 7.2pc organic material which is very important for rice cultivation, as opposed to 0.05pc in India.”


Mind you, this Indian looter cannot export the rice he produces in India but thanks to woyanes he can export ALL OF THE RICE he produces in Ethiopia. Now you call this fair? you call this development? Just try to be honest for one day and tell me what this means. I know you don't want to hear this kind of glaring facts.
This kind of deal should make you angry, if you are a true Ethiopian and you really worry about your country and the people who are starving day in day out. Unfortunately, you approve anything those shameless woyanes do no matter how illegal, unfair and treasonous it is. What a pity!!!!!

DEDEB DIASPORA, ERITRIAN TROLLS AND SOMALI HAJIS, A POLITICAL LOVE TRIANGLE...YES, YOU!

DUMB, DUMBER AND DUMBEST.

kul [Visitor]

You are simply blinded, I don't know where to start and end in your blind comment.

Two things in order to save my time: one is that NO ONE CAN SALE AND BUY LAND IN ETHIOPIA; two is if that particular company want to export the rise ETHIOPIA GETS TAXES. He is not the only farmer in Ethiopia, the Ethiopian domestic farmers can produce more than Ethiopia needs at this time, please be informed.

Halafi Mengedi,

You are hypocrite!

Nowadays, Sebhat Nega aka Woldesilasse Nega, who is also from Adawa, is your hero.

During woyane split ten years ago, Sebhat Nega was the key figure saving Meles group by maneuvering his extended in laws, by isolating Siye Abraha group.

without Sebhat Nega help your enemy Meles would not had survived.

Meles promoted Sebhat Nega head of EFFORT until Azeb overthrew him couple of years ago. Now Aboi Sebhat feels bitter and betrayed.

In the trivialized countries and in the perspectives of global arenas, it will be difficult to impose taxes on an exportable commodities. Taxing so will penalize a country who would do it by prominent countries.

Ethiopia as one of less developed countries has a confused engagements and deals with foreign investors. In the first, it appears that the higher officials are getting a brainwash through training from the dominants countries-mainly to be emaciated from managerial role ( that sustain an economic benefit) and administrative role (e.g. enable Ethiopia to waive rule, policy, procedures that easy for the foreigner businesses) but to be bolstered to leadership role (e.g. that motivate people to accept whatever the foreigner propose and operates). I think there is an irreversible knowledge crisis for Ethiopians.

Can't really distinguish between technology adoption that would allow the country's competitiveness and an economic empowerment and that of the foreigner's business or company adoption that simply promotes consumerism on Ethiopians?

For example, do you imagine the effect of a brewery factory on drying up of water that is already scarce? How are foreign companies paying for water usage to produce a bottle of beer?

Generally, Ethiopia is toward servitude if this regime will not take a reversal measures, such as advocate implicitly the resident to reclaim the land grappled. For example, the land owner can get the produced by whatever means.

Extra

I have also two things for you.

1. You said that no one is selling land in Ethiopia. I guess you may be correct. Considering the unbelievably low price the Indian looters pay, they sure consider it a gift than a purchase.

2. You claim that Ethiopian farmers produce more than what Ethiopia needs. If so, can you tell me why 3.7 million Ethiopians are suffering from acute food shortage and are receiving emergency food assistance from WFP?

Oh...one more thing. Do you have any idea why that Indian looter is not allowed to export the rice he produces in India? Don't tell me it is because the Indian government doesn't want the tax revenue from that Indian looter. lol

World Bank has no business to interfere in Ethiopia telling how to manage its house. The majority of high level employees are bunch of corrupted pigs. There are only a handful of respected intellectuals are making sound decisions. I have no respect or take World Bank seriously any of its decisions or affairs. In my opinion, Ethiopia shouldn’t allow any intrusion from any sources regardless of the money we borrow.
I rest my case....yehararworke

This situation of resettlement if forced, must be stopped. Anytime, a govt imposes on the indigenous changes not to their liking, end result is violence. The people will rebel, they will fight back. What is it the GOE is trying to do? If this is to develop land that already belongs to Ethiopians, relocation should be voluntary. If not it is a crime committed by the GOE. How is it most of the woyanees on nazret miss that?

So, I collected a few of you dictators on here with your unreal comments.. lets talk.

zelelew [Visitor]
Who will suffer from this hiccup?
**The only suffering is by those forced off their land dude.
No one but the poor!
**They are still poor, even more so now they got forced off their land.
World Bank on a short leash from Neo liberal interest groups! We will be watching very closely.
**The GOE should not force its own people to begin with. It should not take outsiders to stop this.
Hope it won't be you last chance to work with Ethiopia, before the Chinese deliver again!
**The Chinese will take more than they give in the end. If you have your a thing against IMF and such, you should also include the Chinese in the same thing. Nothing is for free. No nation gives you stuff and not get something in return.


Comment from: tigist [Visitor]
"World bank is an institution in acted to disrupt the growth of underdeveloped countries."
**So they say and I have read much about how they do. IMF and the World Bank is nothing other than an investment Inc. of the West. How about the Chinese?

Amhara Derg Hero [Visitor]
Anuak indigenous are NOT Ethiopians. Ethiopians Are Only ( Amhara and Tigre) Orthodox people.
**A useless post. A waste of time, space and energy.. not worthy of acknowledgement.

Halafi Mengdi [Visitor]
To all land lease for pennies defenders & concerned Ethiopians,
**You are one messed up individual. I say the AZ maybe right about your shabianet, aka AGW.

John John [Visitor]
Ethiopia is fighting hard to get rid of poverty unlike the so "civilized" nation and whats wrong with that?
**Ain't notin' wrong with that if it were tru. But.. it ain't.
Is this a human right violation?
**Yes if you are taking their land by force.
You make your own conclusion..
**I did.. GOE is committing a crime.

Extraterrestrial - Assab [Visitor]
This is a good opportunity for the Ethiopian Government to show how the good work is being trashed by enemies of the people.
**This has noting to do with the people ET. It is your thuggish GOE who are the enemies of the people.
It is time the world to know the great works and achievements and lies and propaganda war campaign against the Ethiopian poor.
**Again, Tplf's GOE is not the people.
Investigation is a good thing and the only salivation of good people and good work.
**Agreed. But if the accusations are found to be true.. then what?
The investigation is one more path to glory.
**So be it... Hallelujah!!!

Axumawit [Visitor]
It is not the first time,and it won`t be the last to an attempt to humilate Ethiopia.The difference is this time, Ethiopia and the people become more resolute ,when ever the country faces a challenge.Don`t understimate the heart of Ethiopians.
**Dude, your Tplf is committing a crime.. its nothing short of genocide.

addis zemen [Visitor]
You should be smarter or wiser than making such accusation of world bank "sponsoring terror".
**Your Tplf is forcing people off their ancestoral land. Finance=World bank. Whatever that money they give you does, makes them part of it.
Wow! Why is everybody crying for nothing here?
**This is not nothing AZ. We are talking about destroying peoples lives. What the hell is wrong with you Tplf people?
It is only some letter written by the usual cry baby Obang group with the help of the anti Ethiopia Hayenas group HRW.
**The only hyenas are sitting @ Arat Killo, displacing killing Ethiopians. I doubt neither Obang or HRW are as you accuse them.
This is just another unfounded alligation trying to disrupt our developmental progress and to discredit our govt.
**Dude, if your govt is forcing people off their land, it is not development but a crime. If this GOE was working for the people and country, it will not let so many foreign corporations in. But this is business for Tplfrs.. we know.
The never ending crocodile tears of Ethiopia's enemies continues!!
**So says the crocodile.

Tazabiw [Visitor]
:::::::TO NAZRET.COM::::::::
I know you are going to say freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom blah blah blah... But I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND you to either sensor some out of touch and hate mongering and hate instigating speeches from your comments section. OR please limit the number of characters people can write in the comment section... OR take down your comment section all together... FREEDOM of speech, self-expression, etc should not be subject to misuse and abuse... That's all I have to say...
**My dear man.. censorship is a no no. I understand your view but trust me when I tell you it is important for people to say what they must. I agree it should be a clean and honorable exchange but you should know no amount of control will change up bringing. Some people are just,, balege.

MIMI [Visitor]
DEDEB DIASPORA DON'T READ, SO NO CLUE ANUAKS ARE AGGRESSORS, NOT VICTIMS!
**When you disrespect people, when you infringe on their rights, their freedom.. it is like JFK said "Those who make peaceful change impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.."

The basic idea here is.. if true, it is hurting Ethiopians what this GOE is doing and if you all claim to be Ethiopians, you should at least try and find out the truth.. then stand by it, stand with those who suffer and not for those who are committing such atrocities.

EthioMan!

kul [Visitor]

When is that the thing blocking your mind to think widely and rationally will be removed.

Trust me I am now TPLF or anything political anywhere at all. I am commenting because most of what diaspora think about the government is wrong with the exception of Eritrea and Assab.

First: understand the difference between selling leasing.

Second: acute food shortage in some area doesn't mean there is no surplus else where, no food is being imported to Ethiopia, only money donation by which food is bought from surplus area of Ethiopian farmers to affected area. Ethiopia's agriculture is being transformed and greater number of farmers are adapting irrigation system farming and use of fertilizers.

Last: you can't compare India and Ethiopia, first the restriction is on Indians commercial farming in India, the particular farmer you refer to is not a foreign investor in India, second India have high populations and food scarcity is very high, and food is being imported on a massive scale in to the country hence, the restriction. We are very very different. Ethiopia imports some food items like oil but, not food crops to feed big number hungry people as was the case in the past. In the past two years government used to import wheat for urban area to stabilize price because of hording.

I am happy to criticize the government in a logical and constructive way, for how long we are remaining a child, are we not supposed to grow up. There are lots of things government to be criticize but not in the area the stupid diasporas are focused on.

I am wondering who is benefiting from this kind of blind hate mongering.

World Bank,

Please stand for what is fair and humane. Ethiopians are suffering from the so called villagization program that is sending people to death, hopelessness, refugees and destitution.

It is so against humanity Pleeeeeaaaaaasssseeee, Stop funding brutal regimes such as EPRDF. Listing to the people not what is coming out of the brutal government. Look at how many Ethiopians are forced to flee to other countries.

How they are suffering and being tortured in Saudi Arabia only for being refugees fleeing from their own government.

Kirose,

Two things I want to clarify to you:

1. Meles is not my enemy but I oppose everything he did about Eritrea and Tigray. And I have different opinion how Ethiopia should be run and protected and developed including the controlling population growth the number on enemy of Ethiopia.

2. Sebhat Nega is not my hero, my hero is my father who did equally fought first Woyane and he was the leader of rebellion against the Italian five years occupation and my father refused to accept King Haileselassie award of land in the south while Haileselassie took Tigray lands form the West and South in Raya. He also refused to show up when King Haileselassie came to Tigray touring all Tigray Awrajas he was invited.

Everything you said about Sebhat is true and I know more what he did during the struggle too but one thing we cannot take away from Sebhat Nega is he is true nationalist Tigrigna (Tigray and Eritrea). I always like his Tigray nationalist but I do not like about his Eritrean nationalist. The main point about Sebhat Nega is despite his past ill decision making and QUSHET attitude since the evil Meles death he recognized that the organization is weak and people are divided and he wants to correct by uniting all ex Woyane with the current one and work for Tigray which is very much I am very vocal about that and I support him and I still support him on that issue.

There is no hypocrisy on me since I say as I see all the issues if they are beneficial or harmful to Tigray, not who I should I support or oppose. Any Tigrayan working for the unit of all Tigrayans should be supported regardless the past history unless you are member of one of the party. I am not member of any party or individual or group of people to voice my view but everything I say is about Tigray, nothing else.

Kul, not so cool,...

"TRUTH IS EVER TO BE FOUND IN THE SIMPLICITY' AND NOT IN THE MULTIPLICITY OF THINGS" Isaac Newton'

Hey dude, stop cheating yourself to make a point. Come on, your friends, the likes of Free will be turned off by your nonesense claim of selling and buying thing. Just rest that "land being sold" blubber and let's talk honestly, will ya?
First of, look where our Ethiopia is these days. If not for your rigid and denial pron attitude, I know very well about your devotion following day to day Ethiopian news in detail. I don't have to tell you anything about the current situation back home.
You know, one thing I like the most when I hear Americans who recently visited Ethiopia, tell me, the first thing is, the peace and tranquility, which you'll never find anywhere else.
No gangesters, no drug dealers, no organized crime, and you're free to go where ever you want at any time of the day, without the fear of being robbed or kidnaped. And they even tell me, Addis Ababa must be the most secured peaceful city in the world.
Can you dig that? All this doesn't come easlly. But ofcourse, "be eji yeyazut worq ende medab yeqoteral" as being said back home, we never appreciated it and already have taken it for granted, forgetting that "sew bella seriat", those days of infamy dergue rigim red/white terror, where thousands of lives gunned down on the streets of Addis in a broad day light.
Think of what ever is going on all over the world these days? Don't even mention the poor people of Sirya, Iraq, Afganistan, Pakistan etc... and let's talk about America. Have you escaped any day in your neighbourhood without hearing news of killing and gun violence, rape, or any kind of crime? Well, could that be the result of being a free society or democratic? May be not, but there must be some kind of fundamental defect why the society is out of control.
Why did I bring all this unrelated issue, you might ask. Well, everything you see going on back home is related to one another, and you can't have one with out the other.
The issue we argue here is not about land grab, or about land lease "sell". It has all to do all with our success and developmental progress, it is all about our stablity, and most of all, it is all about our on going big projects, utalizing our natural resources more than ever.
The land grab issue is only one of the SMOKE SCREENS our enemies chose to use to disrupt our progress. Like the issue of the islamic extrimists, the issue of the "falsly" prosecuted so called journalists, the issue of 219 anarchists the not so peacefull protesters who were killed in 2005, waldiba gedam, ziqualla gedam, what not, our enemies picked and dropped all they can do. So believe me, your crocodile tears will one day dry up, and you'll end up empty, nothing to cry about. Then what you gonna do! AYINUN YAFETTINA YIQERAL TIZIBTU!
BTW, have you watched the ruling govt member parties making democratic discussions in their respected headquarters?
Anyway, like they say, the purpose of arguement is to change the nature of truth.
We don't need to argue with what ever is going on back home. Because which ever way you take it, this is the closest we can come to what ever you expect of to be perfect. There is no any other way. So my purpose here is to awaken your dead consciousnes. To put some realistic image to your people's denial prone brain. No one can make you believe with some thing you don't wanna want to happen. No matter how true and real, as long as your brain keep rejecting it, there is no use of argueing with the issue. Awqo yetegnan biqeseqisut ayisemam!
"THE TRUTH IS NOT FOR ALL MEN, BUT ONLY FOR THOSE WHO SEEK IT" Ayan Rand,

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The residents of Gambella, mainly indigenous Anuak and Nuer, have never had formal title to the land they have lived on and used. The government often claims that the areas are “uninhabited” or “under-utilized.” That claim enables the government to bypass constitutional provisions and laws that would protect these populations from being relocated.


But, But, mass displacement to make way for commercial agriculture in the absence of a proper legal process contravenes Ethiopia’s fake constitution and violates the rights of indigenous peoples under international law.


Donor money is being used, indirectly, to fund the villagization program. A great cooperation and coordination is needed from all , to bring the awareness to the international community!...


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In the face of negative stereotyping against Islam and Muslims in the post 9/11 world, it is very important for Muslims to return to the pluralistic vision of the Quran and establish cooperative dialogue and relations with other religions in their communities.

A dialogue is also necessary to learn about the beliefs of other people. The text books that deprecate other religions and inculcate abhorrence of Christians, Jews, and Hindus, also need to be revised or replaced. Our differences and disagreements are not to be feared, rejected, or stamped out. God wants us to use our differences to learn, through dialogue, about ourselves, about others, and about truth.

In my upbringing and subsequent laborious studies, Islam comes across as a gender, racial, and religiously egalitarian religion. A religion that teaches that all human beings are completely equal in God’s sight and are created as such and that all human beings are endowed with consciousness and wisdom through which he or she can know God personally. The true essence of Islam only emerges after one strips away the cultural, ethnic, and ideological build ups and dross. However the Islam I have found practised is very different in that distinctions based on race, creed, class, religion, and gender occur all the time in the societies that claim to be Muslim models.

Islam and the Quran are clearly appreciative of diversity and dissimilarity -in creation, culture, and beliefs- within human world. Discarding the pre-Islamic tribal culture inculcating tight groupings based on family and lineage the Quran describes all human beings as part of one super unit which is humanity. It addresses the totality of humanity as ‘Bani Adam’ (children of Adam) in several places. For example the following verses from the Quran endorse the principle of diversity as an essential element of the scheme of creation.

“O ye who believe! Let not some men among you laugh at others: it may be that the latter are better than the former. Nor let some women laugh at others: it may be that latter are better than the former. Nor defame nor be sarcastic to each other, nor call each other names…….”

(Sura Hujrat, verse 11)

“O mankind! We created you from male and female and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise each other). Verily, the most honoured of you in the sight of Allah is he who is the most righteous of you. And Allah has full knowledge and is fully informed.”

(Sura Hujurat, verse 13)

“If thy Lord had so willed, He could have made mankind One People: but they will not cease to be diverse.”

(Sura Hood, verse 118)

In the first verse the Quran upholds unity by exhorting its adherents to respect the dignity of all human beings. The next two verses affirm the diversity among human beings through nations and tribes. The Quran recognizes and respects the facets of identity determined by these divisions forming smaller and larger collectives of humankind. While the Quran conveys respect for everyone, it does not confer nobility or higher worth upon any group or ethnicity. Instead the single evaluative standard for the Quran remains moral consciousness of God (taqwa).

In verse 99 of Sura Younus the Quran explains that if it had been God’s Will to not to grant free will to humankind, He could have made all mankind alike and all would then have Faith. Thus the men of Faith must guard against the temptation of forcing Faith by any means of compulsion. Hence the Quran upholds diversity and tolerance as part of the Divine Will. The Quran sees disputations in the matter of religion as futile and urges its adherents to find common grounds of belief through civility, compassion, sincerity, and a genuine concern for the good of others. This also reflects in the following verse from the Quran as it lays down the code for Muslims’ conduct with the followers of other Abrahamic religions.

“And argue ye not with the People of the Book, except with means better than mere argument, apart from those among them who inflict wrong and injury upon you. Tell them that we believe in the Revelation which has come down to us and in that which came down to you: our Allah and your Allah is One and it is to Him we submit.”

(Sura Ankaboot, verse 46)

As mentioned above, the Quran describes that God could have kept us all alike but He chose to give us diversity in religion, language, culture, colour, and race to test our capacity for right conduct and for harmony and peace.

“….. To each among you have we have given a law and a way of life. If Allah had so wanted He would have made you a single people (professing one faith and following one law) but He wished to test you in what He has given each of you. So excel in good deeds. To Allah will you all return in the end and then He will show you the truth of the matters in which you disagreed.”

(Sura Maida, verse 48)

“From among Allah’s signs are the creation of heaven and the earth and the difference of your tongues and the variation of your colours.”

(Sura Rum, verse 22)

The Quran’s respect for diversity in tribal, ethnic, national, and religious differences is at variance with the Biblical depiction of the Tower of Babel, in which God punishes the human race for competing with God by distributing it into different groupings with mutually incomprehensible languages. The Quran also suggests that human nature has also been created diverse in inward disposition and personality and not just in language, colour, and creed. {“… Everyone acts according to his or her own disposition.” Sura Bani Israel, verse 84}

to be continued...

03/20/13 @ 18:22


Comment from: Gragn Ahmed [Visitor]

There is a history of Muslims, Jews, Christians, Hindus, and members of other faiths living together in harmony in a pluralistic society under the Muslim rule. As I wrote in a previous essay, let’s take a look at the major tendencies of a society that conforms to the spirit of the Islam’s ethics. The first thing that comes to mind was the exceptional ethnic and religious diversity that existed in the early centuries of Islam; this was unknown to other civilisations of those times. The Muslims from a diverse origin used to live in perfect harmony with the rest of the population (dhimmis), as the Jews and Christians remained loyal to their faith and were free to fulfil their respective religious obligations. They were not subject to any pressure to abjure their faith and to embrace Islam. Contrary to what would happen quite a bit later, the non-Muslims benefited from a protection that the outsiders did not find in any other society. The Prophet had set the example in his life, when he used to take his allies and his hosts under his wings and would not allow anyone to humiliate them or to treat them harshly. Moreover, these Jews and Christians adopted Arabic language and effectively contributed to the culture of the Islamic society. They were perfectly integrated, more than a thousand years before the Western societies, which after many twists were able to produce the harmony that had once existed in the societies of Baghdad and Cordova. These dhimmis had a special status that guaranteed them a complete protection. They were not only considered as protégés but also as allies. They were described by a term that meant ‘people of the pact’. They could accede to high posts in the State. Some would become ministers. Nourished by strong Islamic culture, one of the great Jewish thinkers, Maimonides, found the inspiration in Averroes to renew the links between faith and reason in Judaism. A few centuries later Levinas –under the influence of German philosophy- would do the same to give scriptures a new hermeneutic. Evidently, these ‘allies’ were subject to taxes, as were the Muslims themselves, they probably had an advantage in that their tax liability consisted of fixed amounts, whereas Muslims were subject to zakat which is proportionate to resources. Thus Islamic society is pluralistic in character, allowing harmonious cohabitation of religions.

Islam respects all religions. When Caliph Umar arrived in Jerusalem after the conquest of the city by the Muslims in 638, he was given a tour of the sites by the Christian Patriarch of Jerusalem. As the time for prayer approached ruing the tour, Umar asked for a place where he might offer his prayers. The Patriarch offered Umar the opportunity to pray where he stood in the Church of Holy Sepulchre. Umar turned down the offer saying where he, the first Muslim ruler in Jerusalem, would offer his prayers, his followers would build a mosque and that he did not want that spot to be with a place of importance to Christians. Thus he prayed outside of the church across the street at a spot where a mosque, called the Mosque of Umar, still stands opposite the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. This shows Umar’s respect for Christians and their places of worship.

Hence, Islam urges its followers to engage compassion, acquire knowledge, and assimilate wisdom regardless of origin and creed. In its early centuries the Muslim civilization was the vanguard of human progress because it was not reluctant to acknowledge truth and to acquire knowledge from whatever source - Muslim or non-Muslim, past or present. Ali, the fourth Muslim Caliph and a highly revered figure by all Muslims, said that one should evaluate a discourse based on what it says and not who says it. The exclusivists, who now seem so rampant and powerful in Muslim thought and society, only became a potent force in the wake of Mongol onslaught and well over six hundred years after the advent of Islam.

Those of you who claimed population is a major problems for the case of Ethiopia. China and India will multiple or migrate over there and will solve your concerns.

AZ & Extra


I have been following what is going on in my country ever since my chilhood. I always try to base my comments based on facts. Everything I said above is backed by evidence. So, I don't expect you guys to accept the glaring facts.
I understand you don't want to hear about the starving millions in Ethiopia. I know you don't want us to talk about the illegal land grab by foreigners in Ethiopia. But know this: no matter how hard you try fact is fact. You can't change it. You may be able to convince yourself and few more. That also can't change the reality. Fact is fact.

Total annihillation of the country by the regime from north to south and from west to east. Gauging the level of arrogance and indifferences of the ruling elites and their cadres every where, it is clear that we have reached the rock bottom. As much as the country is blessed with covenance and it's many aspects, it is also cursed with savagery, backwardness, wickedness and worse.

http://goo.gl/iDVI4

My2cents,

The secret to get rid of and destroy them is so simple so long the Amhara do their parts. How there is already ex Woyane in Eritrea fighting them ready to destroy Axum and Adwa, what they need is to open oen in South of Tigray Wukro, Raya, Enderta and Wolkait to join from the South and they can destroy them in months not years and it will not costly if Amhara youth start in Wollo and Gonder and half of Tigray youth from most of Tigray will join them, the reason is Raya, Wokro, Enderta and Wolkait is a kind of difficult to cross to Eritrea but if a moment starts from Wollo and Gonder the looters from Axum and Adwa are history. It is not from power but from Tigray all together. The Adwa are not true Tigrayans they are immigrants from Dembia and the Axum are nothing without Adwa, any one Woreda from Tigray can liberate Axum within an hour, they are simply nothing and I wonder what the hell are thy thinking to survive in that most hostile barren land with few population do not like to fight.

I guess it is the same failed collectivization scheme of the Soviet-cum-Derg Era in the Abyssinian exploited masses with one more twist: this time around the land, resource and people are for sale to highest bidder. It is something the wanna-be communist of Menge & Co. could have dreamed only.

I don't know how to make gragn Ahmed understand that most people on this website are not interested in region, the moment he starts writing about islam this, copt that, people put off skip his comment to the next person, but he thinks he is doing good job, he doesn't get it how boring he is... sometimes he writes ok under Seattle name when he is not influenced by Chatt Mirqana, he uses gragn Ahmed nick name when he is drunk by chatt after visiting Wahabi shisha club.

Aziz,
If you keep allowing Assta, I will be here forever. He is the one who is using my name when I am not here. He is defaming me. You are his follower.

Aziz [Visitor]
you are Deptera Assta Ebdu in desgise. you not fooling any one. now go back and come with better deptera sounding name.this one never go with you.

kul the fool,...

What reality or fact are you talking about? You've been talking and talking for the ages. Talking trash doesn't count as fact dude!
What's new? Ethiopia is still a poor country. The difference between you losers the FOOLS & IDIOTS OF THE DIASPORA and the rest 90 million people of Ethiopia is that, you crybabies always like to remind us millions of people starving, but the rest 90 million Ethiopians accept the reality of our poverty and work hard to eradicate it. Can you dig that kul the fool?
We don't need people to tell us how many millions of people starving in Ethiopia. Your idole almaria has made it his every year ritual to tell us Ethiopia is suffering in famine. Just wait another week his annual singing of "famine in Ethiopia" will be out.
Kul the fool, Ethiopia is not any more for your kinds of jockers, who write and insult Ethiopia from the comfort of their burger joint, about millions of people starving to death. Ethiopia is for people who would like to work hard, for mutual benefit of everyone regardless of our differences, per chance to grow and prosper together.
If you think calling Ethiopians starving nation, would demoralize and prevent us from working hard to eradicate poverty, think again. Modern day Ethiopia is not the country you know in your uncles' dergue era. We have moved some light years away from your old decayed mentality beyond your imaginations.

Halafi Mengedi,

This girl say...
Any Tigrayan working for the unit of all Tigrayans should be supported regardless the past history unless you are member of one of the party. I am not member of any party or individual or group of people to voice my view but everything I say is about Tigray, nothing else.....

DONT YOU REMEMBER - THE DREAM OF GREATER TGRAY IS BURRIED 2FT UNDER WITH YOUR CHIWAWA FACE A YEAR AGO?

Again she said.....
The Adwa are not true Tigrayans they are immigrants from Dembia and the Axum are nothing without Adwa, any one Woreda from Tigray can liberate Axum within an hour, they are simply nothing....

WHAT CAN I SAY...BE MY GUEST AND EAT EACHOTHER ALIVE. BUT STOP CALLING YOUR OTHER SIDE FROM DEMBIA..AS A DEMBIAN I ASSURE YOU I DO NOT HAVE A TGRE BLOOD IN ME...YUK! lol

ETHIOPIA TIQDEM
WOMBEDE HULU YWDEM

How dare u build school for me, how dare u u take away my poverty, my backwardness away from me, how dare u take away my sadness away from me, how dare u give me drinking water, how dare u u clean my drinking water, how dare u educate my children and give them hope... How dare u...u come to my village with my blessings....u take away my sickness, my suffering, my hungry and famine away from me and u give me health, happeness and food...

How dare u...

If u sale me happeness I will refuse it because happeness might worth less then my sarrow and suffering...

So go away with ur happeness I will keep my sarrow and suffering for gernration to come...

That is why the white man want paying us one birr to take our picture... Just like zoo anamile... If this is not abuse then what

! …….. “ኣሸባሪ” ነኝ ………..!

ትናንት በሰሩት ነገር ገርሞኝ ወድያ ወዲህ ስል ስለ ህወሓት ጉባኤ መረጃ ኣላሰባሰብኩም ነበር። ወደ ማታ ኣከባቢ በማላውቀው ስልክ ተደወለልኝ። ከተወሰነ ሰጣገባ በኋላ “ኣንተ ኣሸባሪ ነህ። በኣሸባሪነት እንደምንትያዝ ኣትጠራጠር” ኣለኝ።

“ኣዎ ኣሸባሪ ነኝ። ያሸበርኳቹ ያህል ነው የሚሰማኝ። ምክንያቱም ባላሸብራቹ ኑሮ የኔን ፌስቡክ ለማስዘጋት ባልተረባረባቹ ነበር” መለስኩለት።

ስልኩን ጀሮየ ላይ ጥርቅም ኣድርጎ ዘጋው።

“ለካ እንዲህ ለነፃነት የሚቆሙ፣ የፈለጉትን የሚፅፉ፣ ስለ ፍትሕ የሚዘምሩ ግለሰ...ዎች ናቸው ‘ኣሸባሪ’ ተብለው በኣምባገነን ገዢዎች የሚሰየሙት” ስል ኣሰላሰልኩ። “ኣሸባሪ” የሚለውን ስም ወድጀዋለሁ። “ኣሸባሪ” መሆን ደስ ይላል። ጥያቄው መሆን ያለበት ‘የሚሸበረው ኣካል ማነው?’ (ሰለማዊ ህዝብ ወይስ ገዢው መደ&#4709 ነው። ምናልባት እኔ “ኣሸባሪ” ከተባልኩ በኔ የተሸበረው ገዢው ፓርቲ ብቻ ነው።

ግን ገዢው መደብ የሚያሸብሩ ሰዎች ሌላ ስም ሊሰጣቸው ይገባል እላለሁ። ምክንያቱም መሪዎቻችን ስልጣናቸውን ያለ ኣግባብ ተጠቅመው ሰለማዊ ህዝብ ሲያሸብሩ ምን ብለን ልንሰይማቸው ነው? መንግስትን የሚቃወም “ኣሸባሪ” ከተባለ፣ ህዝብን በጭቆና የሚያሸብር ባለስልጣንስ ????

ከጭቆና በላይ ሽብር የለም። ምክንያቱም ጭቆና ማስፈራራት፣ ግድያ ……… ምናምን (ሰው ፈርቶና ተሸብሮ ሳይቃወም እንዲገዛ ለማድረግ የሚደረጉ ጥረቶች የሽብር ተግባራት ናቸ&#4813። “ሽብር” ማለት’ኮ ኣንድ ኣካል ራሱ የሚፈልገውን ተግባር በሌሎች ሃይል በመጠቀም ወይ በማስፈራራት ለመጫን ሲሞክር ነው። ሌሎችን እያስፈራራ ያለው ማነው??? እኔ ወይስ ገዢው ፓርቲ? ኣሸባሪ ማነው? ማነው ሰለማዊ ዜጎችን በማፈን እያሸበረ ያለው?

ይሄንን ሳስብ ከቆየሁ በኋላ ትንሽ ቀለል ኣለኝ። ‘መንግስትን መቃወም ትክክል ነው’ ማለት ነው ብዬ በራሴ ተፅናናሁ። ምክንያቱም መቃወም ኮ የሚያስፈልግ የምንቃወምበት ምክንያት ሲኖረን ነው። ይሄው ምክንያት ኣገኘን። የሚቃወም ሰው ማፈን ዓፈናን በመቃወም መንግስትን ለመቃወም በቂ ምክንያት ነው።

ዛሬ ጠዋት ኣንዳንድ መረጃዎች ደረሱኝ። ባለፈው ቅዳሜና እሁድ (ለህወሓት ጉባኤ ድጋፍ ለማሰባሰብ ሰልፍ በተጠራ ግ&#4828 ስለ ሰልፉ ኣስፈላጊነትና የትእምት ንብረትነት ፅፌ ነበር። ከዚህ በመነሳት የተወሰኑ የፖሊስ መኮነኖችና የደህንነት ተጠሪዎች በጉዳዩ ተወያይተው እኔን ለማሰር ሓሳብ ኣንስተው ምክንያት በሚያፈላልጉበት ግዜ ሳይስማሙ ቀርተዋል።

የማክሶኞ ኣጀንዳ ባብዛኛው ‘የመለስ ታሪክ’ መተረክ ነበር (ከጉባኤው ኣጀንዳ ዉ&#4909። ሰኞ በፃፍኳቸው ነጥቦች (ስለ ጉባኤው ኣሰራርና የድርጅት ሥራ ተግባራት፣ ስለ ፍትሕ ጉድለት፣ ስለ ህወሓት ምስጢር ባጠቃላ&#4845 ትናንት ሮብ ኣጀንዳ ሁነው ውለዋል። “ሚስጢር እየወጣ ነው። የጉባኤው ምስጢር መጠበቅ ኣለበት” ተብሎ ከመድረክ ከባድ ማስጠንቀቅያ ተሰጥተዋል። ከቤትም “ምስጢራችን ከሌሎች ከምንሰማው በራሳችን የሚድያ ሰዎች ቢነገር ኣይሻልም ወይ?” የሚል ኣስተያየት ስለተሰጠ ሬድዮ ፋና ኣንዳንድ ነጥቦች (በተለይ ስለተቀነሱ የህወሓት ኣመራር ኣባላት ስም ዝርዝ&#4653 ማሰራጨቱ ሰምቻለሁ።

ሌላው ሳይታሰብ (በህወሓት ጉባኤ ታሪክ ለመጀመርያ ግ&#4828 ኣጀንዳ የሆነው የትእምት ጉዳይ ነው። “ትእምት ላይ ያነጣጠረ ዘመቻ ተከፍቶብናል” የሚል ሓሳብ ኣንስተው ድርጅቱ ጥሩ እየሰራ እንደሆነ ተሳታፊዎችን ለመጀንጀን ሞክረዋል። ትእምት ሌላ የብረታ ብረት ፋብሪካ እንደሚከፍትና በመሰቦ ሲሚንቶ በኩል ደግሞ የፕላስቲክ ፋብሪካ (በ ስድስት ቢልዮን ብር ካፒታ&#4621 እንደሚገነባ ተነግረዋል።

ትናንት ማታ ዛሬ ለሚመረጡ 45 የማእከላዊ ኮሚቴ ኣባላት 50 እጩዎች መርጠዋል። ኣርከበ ዕቁባይ፣ ስዩም መስፍንና ብርሃነ ገብረክርስቶስ ጨምሮ ዘጠኝ ሰዎች ከማእከላዊ ኮሚቴ ኣባልነት ተቀንሰዋል። ኣብዛኞቹ (የተቀነሱ&#4725 ከነኣርከበ ዕቁባይ ቡድን ናቸው። ጉባኤው ዛሬ ይጠናቀቃል።

ባጠቃላይ ግን በፌስቡክ የሚነገሩ ወሬዎች በህወሓት ጉባኤ ከፍተኛ ጫና ፈጥረዋል። በርስበርሳቸው ኣለመተማመንና መወቃቀስ ተያይዘውታል። የኔ ፌስቡክ ለማስዘጋት ከተቋቋመ ግብረ ሃይል የተወሰኑ የማእከላዊ ኮሚቴ ኣባላት በኣስተባባሪነት ተሳትፈዋል። ከተወሰነ ኣከባቢ ወይ ወረዳ በመጡ ሰዎች (You may guess) የኔን ፌስቡክ እንዲዘጋ ለማድረግ “የራሱ ስም ኣይደለም” በማለት (ጉባኤው በሰላም እንዲጠናቀ&#4677 ወደ Facebook Admin ሪፖርት እንዲያደርጉ መመርያ ተሰጥተዋል።

ኣዎ ኣሸባሪ መባል ደስ ይላል። ህወሓቶች እንዲህ በጣም ፈሪዎች መሆናቸው ኣላውቅም ነበር። በፌስቡክ እንዲህ ይሸበራሉ ብዬ ኣላሰብኩም ። ኣሁን ግን ራሳቸው ኣጋለጡ።

የህዝቦች ነፃነት ይቅደም።

It is so!!!

source: Abraha Desta fb

Dear William Lloyd George,

I rembeber u when u and father come to south and take a nude photo of The residents of Gambella, mainly indigenous Anuak and Nuer, I rembeber u u were child.... With our father ur father took those nude photo to show the America how the African lived....

Then ur father took u to zoo to take more photo of the anmail in the zoo to complate him album set.... That was good old day before civilization come and destroy every thing.

AZ,

You are having these two men turn in their graves for opening and closing your hollow rethoric with their quotes.

Nenewe,....

Rather I turned you in your bed ha! Go back to your sleep!
Sweet dreams!

Axumawit,

The real question for the majority of Tigrayan is why Axum the land mass the size of goat face has more executive and central committees than any other Awraja of Tigray???

What is the contribution of Axum and Adwa to have such almost 50% exectives and central committess in Tigray region???

Why is the looters and corrupts solely from Axum and Adwa???

Why is Raya, Enderta, Tembien, Wukro, Wolkait do not have representatives and why they feel themselves part of Woyane or tigray any more???

To Raya Enderta, Wukro, Tembien, Wolkiat, Humora, Shire, Adigrat, do you like to be represented by looters and corrupt Axum and Adwa or honest who respect you Amhara or any other ethnics???

vilegization old derge system by woyannie time.

Halafi Mengdi [Visitor]

People are said to be narrow when they think about they country above others, people are called narrow tribal people when they think about their ethnic group about others. What is that you will be called when you go down below the ethnic line?

Tigray Adwa Axum bla bla bla IDIOT!

endante ayenetu ye doro munnaie chenkelate yebalale lol

gragn Ahmed, Seattle, Ethiopiawinut and so on..

Assta Gettu is antivirus for cockroach islamist like you from infecting this website, everytime you popup he puts you back to your desert cage.

When the Derg regime re-settled people from drought stricken norther regions, woyanes opposed the villegization program fiercely. They called it, "Drying the pond to kill the fish".

When woyanes forcibly re-settle people now under their villegization program and giveaway indigenous people's fertile land to foreigners, they call it, "socioeconomic development". We call it "land grab". They don't.

The people re-settled under woyane plan are actually vulnerable to natural and man-made disasters more than any time.

Just consider this: what will happen to people and all those Tukuls built close to each other if fire breaks out (intentionally or unintentionally).

No problem!!! Woyanes will send their brigade and emergency services from Addis and extinguish the fire just like that. Then we will be told every one is safe and fine, except a few lost their lives and property.

Lets assume the following happen: flood, communicable diseases, ethnic conflict,etc, etc. One can easily imagine what the fate of those people will be like.

All is okay for woyanes as far as they are concerned. "What is good for the goose is bad for the gander".

The northern problematic cry-babies should be more advised, and well concerned to harvest a bushell of WHEAT out of all the above listed ASHANTI towns and broken AZZ GHETTO BUNDAXS; rather than talking bulshit! out of empty pride,. inorder togive a breathing room for 12 ethiopian proviences preyed on thus far. Who give a FAK about AXUM or ADWA. :IT HAS NEVER BEEN OUR KILIL: These places were the curse of war, violent, battle ground of strife since the birth of ETHIOPIA and they contribute "ZERO" to ethiopia and it's people. Why don't u immigrate all of u losers to addis?

debtera,

Where and when? He is a christian terrorist terrorizing Ethiopian Muslims. You are with him? I know where you are from.

You should feel ashamed you are with him.

Hey Adgi your American so called friends have surely abused of Tchat and the Sheik 's Yohanes Aramde Bottles for taking Addis as Monte Carlo or the Lienchtestein ...Next time they will certainly tell you that Mekele has become the Horn of Africa's Silicon Valley and Adigrat the New Salt Lake City and even Manhattan....LOL !!!!

If there is any one want to hang himself we can't help it.

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is to celebrate its 2nd year in a few days. In the following year the concrete work will start, every inch of the territory and being monitored on the ground and from the sky.

IT IS REAL AND HAPPENING.

IF THERE IS ANY ONE WANT TO HANG HIMSELF LET ME KNOW I CAN HELP WITH A ROPE

Extraterrestrial - Assab

Ye Dembia Lij Hulum Ageru Sigeba Ante Lemn Agerh Atgebam, Tibeqaw Mendnew FROG Meles is already dead???

Halafi Mengdi [Visitor]

Yemitebkewma endante ayentu ye shabia kenatenga be ethiopia edegete ayneu deme yemilebse wede gedebu siega be ayanu mekakele teyete lesedede newe.

Gebahe ahune?

Maro Mario


Re:-Just consider this: what will happen to people and all those Tukuls built close to each other if fire breaks out (intentionally or unintentionally).

Answer:-

If I am not Ethiopian I will say u make sense.. But I am Ethiopian and I group up in AA where 98% of Ethiopians lived in shanty town where the houses are very closed to each another no fire car can enter to those shanty town because the road are narrow or road doesn't exist...so I don't know what the hell u talking about? By the way mud house is fire proof.... Only the roof we have problem for that too we have new technology that we can adopt ..

When I think about it we don't even need roof.. In south

BREAKING NEWS:

In the coming few days the river Abay for the first time in its history under the Ethiopian sky will be completely diverted to another direction to start the concrete work.

ET-A,

Do you people have enough concrete? Or are you selling lottery tickets, concert tickets, stocks.. bonds to buy concrete? I was under the impression it was over 15% complete already. What the hell have you people been doing all this time?

This here is a post on some site, AlertNet to be exact. Both GA and Ash left their comments which is fine except.. Ash's writing. It is amazing how the idiot on Nazret is so articulate on AlertNet. Ash is not who he seems to be and there may be a connection between GA and Ash. Who and what are these two, GA and Ash, could be the same guy. Acting stupid Ash confuses while GA does his thing. Who are you people..? I really am totally at a lose for words but yo'll read the comments and you be the judge.


Nile dam project a hydropower hope, but regional sore point

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 23:45 GMT
Source: Alertnet // E.G. Woldegebriel


People look at the Blue Nile falls, 30km (19 miles) from Ethiopia’s Bahir Dar, on April 19, 2011. Since 2003, a hydroelectric power station and dam built upstream has significantly reduced the volume of the falls but the water collected is being used for a government irrigation programme that has doubled agricultural production in the region. REUTERS/Flora Bagenal

By E.G. Woldegebriel

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AlertNet) – Ethiopia has begun construction of a 6,000 megawatt (MW) hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile river, a move that has been greeted enthusiastically by many Ethiopians but that is causing concern in the downstream nations of Sudan and Egypt.

The project, which is scheduled to take six and a half years to complete, is being managed by the state-owned power utility company, Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo). The dam is being built about 900 km (560 miles) north-east of the capital, Addis Ababa, and just 40 km (25 miles) from the Sudanese border.

Ethiopia’s government hopes to capitalize on the energy potential of a river that is revered by the Ethiopian population but that until now has not been significantly exploited to feed the country’s growing need for electric power.

Ethiopia is the source of the Blue Nile, and its territory contributes up to 86 percent of the river’s water. The Blue Nile in turn is responsible for more than half of the water in the Nile, the world’s longest river system. The other main source, the White Nile, originates on the Ugandan side of Lake Victoria.

The new project is not the first dam to be constructed on tributaries of the Nile in Ethiopia. Three smaller projects with a combined capacity of about 760 MW have already been completed, and EEPCo is seeking financing for a 278 MW dam on another tributary, the Chemoga-Yeda River. But the planned Grand Renaissance Dam (GRD) dwarfs these projects in scale and cost.

The 6,000 MW dam will be built by Italian construction company Salini Costruttori, which received the construction contract in late 2010, while electromechanical work is being done by a local company, Metal and Engineering Corporation.

Ethiopia has been dubbed “the water tower of east Africa” because of its numerous river and lake systems. The Nile is an emblematic part of the country, immortalized in poems and songs and even on coins and bank notes. But its potential for hydroelectric power has until now gone largely unused.

For many Ethiopians, the new planned dam is not only about lighting their houses and providing power for businesses and to export, but it also holds a symbolic significance, a way of looking forward from memories of famine and conflict.

WORRIED NEIGHBOURS

Despite its popularity among Ethiopia’s population, the dam project has caused consternation in neighbouring Sudan as well as in Egypt, both downstream countries that rely upon the Nile for almost all their water and fear the dam will cause a reduction in water available to them.

The new dam will eventually create a lake containing more than 60 billion cubic metres of water, twice as much as Lake Tana, Ethiopia’s largest body of water.

There are also concerns about the potential environmental impact of the dam, although the scale of opposition has been smaller than that provoked by the Gibe III dam. Gibe III has provoked opposition from groups concerned about the drying up of Kenya’s Turkana Lake, the world’s largest desert lake, which is fed by the Gibe river, and the possible displacement of tribal people in Ethiopia and Kenya.

Gossaye Mengiste, an official of the ministry of water and energy, which oversees EEPCo, said he believed the environmental impact of the project would be minimal and that because the area around the dam is sparsely inhabited, no mass relocation of people would be necessary.

“The dam will lessen evaporation in downstream areas in Sudan and Egypt, as well as (providing) a reduced risk of flooding and siltation which the Aswan dam in Egypt is particularly affected by,” Mengiste said.

Ethiopia has periodically had tense relationships with Egypt and Sudan, countries which rely heavily upon the Nile for water and agriculture. Concerns about the effects of an Ethiopian dam upon water levels in the Egyptian Nile date back to the late 1970s, when then-president Anwar Sadat reacted angrily to Ethiopia’s announcement of a plan for a dam on the Blue Nile.

Recent articles in Ethiopian newspapers, referring to documents leaked to Wikileaks, have suggested that Egypt might be preparing contingency plans to sabotage the dam with air strikes if it is built.

Magdy Amr, Egypt’s assistant foreign minister for Nile Basin state affairs, dismissed the reports, pointing out that the files in question date back to 2010, before construction of the new dam was even announced. Egypt has about $2 billion in business investments in Ethiopia.

Abdelrahman Sirelkhatim, Sudan’s ambassador to Ethiopia, firmly dismissed Ethiopian fears that his country is conspiring with its northern neighbour to damage the dam, widely known by its initials, GRD.

“I don’t know how we can threaten the GRD when we are trying to contribute financially to build the dam, and our engineers are contributing technically,” Abdelrahman said.

Despite broad public support in Ethiopia for the GRD, the government still faces the challenge of securing enough financing to cover the $4.8 billion cost of the project. The money is meant to come from within Ethiopia, and the government is selling five-year treasury bonds, but a recent report by the International Monetary Fund warns that the dam could be a great burden on the country’s economy, costing as much as 10 percent of the country’s estimated GDP in 2012-13.

The fund said Ethiopian authorities have acknowledged that raising domestic financing for the flagship project for the country is a challenge, but the government emphasises that the GRD is a high priority and that other projects may be postponed if necessary in order to ensure its completion.

E.G. Woldegebriel is a journalist based in Addis Ababa with an interest in environmental issues.

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Gragn Ahmed
Sat., November 24, 6:40 AM
Well, one brilliant idea is for Egypt to fund the project and sudan as well. That way they will get free power initially until paid in full, then they start to pay and may be hold some royal stakes in the dam for irrigation purposes. Until guarantee is given as for one as an Ethiopian will not agree with the project. we need secure development and we need collaboration not old mentality of enemies. Plus, the local population such as Benshangul and Weyto people should hold the higher stake although now Abbay river is mainly populated by late comer amhara. Egypt should put this on the agenda so future disputes of ownershipdon't compromise development. Ethiopia should understand that Abbay is a communal property. so it has no primary upper hand. It is Allah's gift to saw life in the desert people and land.
Ash
Thu., November 29, 5:11 PM
Thanks so much for such a nice piece. One minor correction the article needs is about the location where construction of the dam is going on; it is in western ETH not "north east of the capital." Given its online publication in Nov. 2012, writer of the article apparently hasn't researched enough about Sudan's position with regards to development of the GRD. To begin with Sudan has not officially voiced any opposition right from the time the project kicked off; it rather expressed its support. The author should at least be aware of the symposium Sudan held in June 2012 entitled “Ethiopia’s Millennium Dam and future of development in the Sudan.” The opinions expressed አንድ the consensus reached among participants of the symposium were all positive. For instance, during the symposium Prof. Saif Addin Hamad Abdallah (Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources) has revealed what Sudan will be gaining from the GRD project: (1) Sudan would benefit a great deal from reduced amount of silt resulting from construction of the GRD and would save Sudan millions of dollars annually; (2) the regulated water the dam will be providing would help Sudan in irrigated agriculture; and (3) Sudan will be able to address its power shortage by either importing power from ETH or developing proposed hydrpower projects. One can visit the Sudan-Vision to learn what the discussions were about; will help to prove that opinion of the Minster was shared by attendees from Sudan's opposition political parties, and Sudanese scholars (can follow the links below). Regards, http://news.sudanvisiondaily.com/details.html?rsnpid=211415

Dear HagreEthiopia
You sound and act like too good to be true What really happened to yours 30 years struggle in the name "libration".

Hagere,

You rubbish bastard. Do not bring something that is not related to the topic or is not the issue of nazret.com.

I do not want to hear from you. Wayane.

Hey Extraidiot ,Behelm nehu woyes be ehuneh woyem be Agazi Television...LOl !!!Why not to Tigrai to irrigate your desperate Rocky Lands...LOL !!!!

Yo Jonny.. are you Ash the amedam? what 30 years struggle you talking about? What do you mean by too good to be true? It does not make sense. If you are Ash or GA, I can see what it is you are trying.. if not, you may want to elaborate a bit more cause.. what you are saying.. well lets just say is fking vague.

John john [Visitor]

Dear HagreEthiopia
You sound and act like too good to be true What really happened to yours 30 years struggle in the name "libration".
03/21/13 @ 23:57


GA my man.. I like this one in particular.. "Well, one brilliant idea is for Egypt to fund the project and sudan as well.."

Really? Did you read your comments, related to nazret or not what you posted is.. WOW!! You are both the Ash and the GA, right? Is that why you sound pissed? I hate people like you, but I hate woyane more so fak you ass wipe terrorist.. i got your number now mr Ash aka Grang Achemed

Comment from: Gragn Ahmed [Visitor]
Hagere,

You rubbish bastard. Do not bring something that is not related to the topic or is not the issue of nazret.com.

I do not want to hear from you. Wayane.
03/22/13 @ 00:05

Here it is one more time from AlertNet about the Nile Dam.. your post GA. READ it again.. kekeekeke.. you are busted.

Gragn Ahmed
Sat., November 24, 6:40 AM
Well, one brilliant idea is for Egypt to fund the project and sudan as well. That way they will get free power initially until paid in full, then they start to pay and may be hold some royal stakes in the dam for irrigation purposes. Until guarantee is given as for one as an Ethiopian will not agree with the project. we need secure development and we need collaboration not old mentality of enemies. Plus, the local population such as Benshangul and Weyto people should hold the higher stake although now Abbay river is mainly populated by late comer amhara. Egypt should put this on the agenda so future disputes of ownershipdon't compromise development. Ethiopia should understand that Abbay is a communal property. so it has no primary upper hand. It is Allah's gift to saw life in the desert people and land.

World Bank lend the money to countries where they expect to create bloodshed and exodus like Ethiopia.
World Bank is there to make profit of the customers.
Ethiopia is one of the best customers who the world bank is expecting to buy in exchange to their dollars.
Ethiopia is there for brokers to make money. Ethiopia is on auction!