Urael

Legesse 'the thief' Zenawi' and the national statistic agency proudly announced that inflation in June 2009 was 2,5 %. I believe this time they are not far from the truth. Of course our excellent macro economist, crime minister of Ethiopia, is lying when claiming that life has become cheaper. Life becomes cheaper, when there is deflation. Actually inflation rates got down, because they rocketed up the same time last year. Government policy is still failing and many people will have to pay more rent starting this new Ethiopian year. Shopkeepers will have to compensate that. The beast of inflation is not teamed that easy. And government spending is on the rise again, one of the main sources of inflation. So as usual their propaganda is besides the truth and is just disguising their failures. The prices of fruit, cereals and so on did not rise because of seasonal influences, but are still at the highest level ever. Prices, for all which have to be imported and has to be paid in foreign currency, such as most of the medicines, fertilizer, seeds, transport and many more, are going up, because of the on going devaluation of the birr.

The economy is more and more getting dependant on foreign investors that find cheap labour and land (including the water required), stealing away opportunities of poor farmers to make a step out of the deplorable life they are living; yet another promise and policy of the rulers that has proven to be just a bunch of lies and deceit. Landownership is forbidden in Ethiopia so successful farmers can almost never expand or invest. They are also often victims of the whims of local cadres, making a lease contract with a foreign investor almost a release. And the sellout continues, the Chinese investor that monopolizes Ethiopian Telecom has introduced wireless internet but the equipment sold to the public is of an inferior quality; the failure rate is enormous, which happened before and ETC engineers have warned for it. The Chinese live up to their reputation to dump their trash in Africa.

Note: the year of 2002 is already on and hopefully there will be some positive developments to be expected such as equality for all so nobody above the law and the economic and other opportunities must be the same, either a member of this party or that party. Freedom to express ourselves and organize and meet including any unions such as labour unions. A serving government, that is from and for all of us. No political prisoners such as our icon Birtukan Mideksa, who is already for 8 ½ months in jail and this for the second time. Why?; because she wants sincerely to serve our country.

A happy 2002 and spring season.

The charade about the leadership of the EPRDF is going on, which for the gang includes the leadership as the crime minister of the country. They want us to believe that an election victory is a natural phenomenon. Without Meta physics, and we know this for a long time, the fact is that they are already organizing the fraud. Intimidation and repression where possible, criminating candidates, printing extra ballot papers, no method is left unused, and more such methods can be copied from the elections at present in Afghanistan. To cover up, a discussion within the ranks of the leading political parties is made up and fed to the international press, which is eager to report and publish about a peaceful transition in an East African country. Well they are not planning a transition and it has not been peaceful either in Ethiopia under the rule of the mafia gang.

They are continuous publishing phony stories on huge successes, glorious predictions but the population is suffering, famine is on the brink and thanks to international organizations, people get some food. And Legesse 'the thief' Zenawi, crime minister of Ethiopia is penalizing them for doing so, because they are revealing the deploring state of the country. Just as the UN and NGO's are forced to call cholera ‘acute watery diarrhea’, as the Deputy Director of Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute- Dadi Lima label it to the press, which is spreading fastly and no adequate measures are taken to prevent it, other than arranging some tents at three of the Addis hospitals (Zewditu, Ras Desta and Yekatit) and watching the starving people. There are now many thousands victims all over the country and the Ministry of Health pretends that they don’t have the time yet to identify the reasons what caused this disease. This is still under study!!! as per their statement. Unfortunately this is not fake news.

In Addis Ababa still most of the time during the night, because of frequent power cuts, the amount of armed federali is growing. Not because criminals take their chance covered by the darkened streets, but because the population has to know that there is only one answer, if any protest against the upcoming election fraud is occurring.
The current rulers take no risk when it comes to planning their future. Any other planning they supposed to do, which is the meaning of governing a country, fails constantly because pretentions are based on false policies and fraudulent/corrupted politicians and civil servants .
And because of that they know that they will be ruling with a comfortable majority, after the next “election”. A toothless opposition of not more than 20%, and among them the paid yes men, will function more as eyewash for the west and other donors. All of them should realize that the memory of the people is long and we will not forget who committed the crimes and who supported them.

After in the first week of November 2005 192 people were shot in the streets of Addis Ababa and more than 30.000 were taken from their beds and transported on open trucks to far away concentration camps, where they were tortured, humiliated and/or infected by malaria, hepatitus or aids, because they had to share razors and had to crawl on hand and knees on rough already blooded surfaces, a decision was made that the Ethiopian population had to be depoliticized. In addition many citizens all through the Country were murdered or imprisoned without justification. The ruling gang was so convinced, they would win the elections and that the opposition was too divided, The gang had spies and traitors in the other camp anyhow, they even allowed public meetings and debates on television. Their arrogance was punished beyond believe. If the counting of votes would have been honestly and fairly, the TPLF- EPRDF as a whole would have become a small minority party. But as we all know things went differently.

To secure their power for many more years, the population should hear only fairy tales, look at traditional dancing and pray for a better life here or hereafter. A political debate should be silenced and those who disobeyed punished and shut away. And so it happened. There is an old management trick to keep people obedient; the mushroom method: keep them in the dark and keep them in the shit. Well EEPCO is almost every day cutting the electricity starting at 8.00 a.m. to enable us to prepare and take our tea/breakfast before starting our job. What can be expected on the power supply this and next month is considered as a State secret.

Legesse ‘the thief’ Zenawi, Crime minister of Ethiopia, is blaming the IMF for the power shortages in Ethiopia. Not the ruling gang, that has been in power for more than 18 years, but the international community is to blame. They should have given him more, more, more money, unconditionally, so he could have bought generators and the dieselfuel. It is so shameless that I am actually ashamed myself. Countries have offered to assist in the upkeep and maintenance of the existing dams such as Koka, so they could produce optimal again, many years ago, but there was no need. The idea was to abandon the old dams, when the new mega power projects such as Gilge Gibe II, Beles and Tekeza, would come on stream, which did not happen so far. That the existing dams would be required for many years more to serve the people downstreams, was not a matter of urgency and the responsibility of a different office, which is the Crime Minister’s Office. Part of the depolitizing of the Ethiopian population is to put the courses of the misery as far away as possible. The economic liberalism imposed on Ethiopia is to blame. If it was their own choice (of the gang), they would have remained communists and we would have lived in paradise now.

Note: our thoughts are with our heroin Wz Birtukan Medeksa who, for the second time, is now over 7 months in prison for no other reason than she wants to serve the Country. May she receive the strength to keep the spirit.

“Give us political space to maneuver”. This is a call to end attached aid by Legesse "the name thief", well not only stealing his name, Zenawi, crime minister of Ethiopia. And he goes on one of his favorite hobbyhorse, blaming neo liberalism imposed on Africa for its backwardness. Well let me unveil some things about Ethiopia. There is no neo liberalism, liberalism or freedom in Ethiopia. It is ruled under the leadership of Legesse ‘the thief’ Zenawi for nineteen years now and he could only stay in power, because he rules by the barrel of the gun. Do not give this man one inch more political freedom, because he only uses it to enrich himself and the clique of Tigreans of Eritrean descent, that is surrounding him. Political or economic freedom in the hand of Legesse ’the thief’ Zenawi, only means more repression, nationalization (coffee merchants are his latest victims) and murdering, humiliation and harassing political opponents. Actually he is aiming at an one party system, which failed in all African countries up to now, led by a small gang of Tigreans originating from Eritrea, an ethnic centered small bunch.

Instead of giving money to these people, demand to reject the law, that handcuffs local NGO’s and bring aid directly to the Ethiopian people, neglecting the thieves.

It seems that Legesse ’the thief’ Zenawi, has been working on a thesis in which he is piling up a lot of humbug, defending his totalitarian system in Ethiopia as being the best way to develop.
And throwing opponents in prison or worse, he calls defending the constitution. Democracy is doing what you are told by the rulers, in his concept. Criticism on neo liberal policies is not nonsense, but with Legesse ‘the thief’ Zenawi, it is used to return to his old path of Marxism Leninism of the worst kind, inspired by past leaders as Enver Hoxha of Albania and Pol Pot of Cambodja.

Come and visit Ethiopia and leave the asphalt and you will return to ancient Africa, where farmers have to live from a small piece of land with wooden plows and lack of irrigation. This is progress in the hands of Legesse ‘the thief’ Zenawi and his clique. Don’t give this man a penny. His only virtues are that he is a master in begging en deceiving.

Probably Legesse 'the thief’ Zenawi remarks are a solicitation for a high African position, because he wants to leave Ethiopia before it really gets bankrupt. Beware the smooth words of this man is only hiding failure after failure. Ethiopia and Africa are better off without him.

As some was saying: ”There will come a change since the Dictatorship has only guns and some paid slaves”.

As I wrote a few weeks back, the tone of the foreign diplomacy is changing. US Ambassador Donald Yamamoto emphasized in a couple of good bye interviews that the denial of the Ethiopian government concerning human rights abuses is not acceptable. That is a much more firm response than what US diplomats have been given for a long time. It is also hopeful, since this must have been ordered from the top in the US State Department. The other thing is that Yamamoto stipulated that the problems in Somalia have to be solved by Somalis and interference by other countries is only counterproductive. And this message was not for the Eritreans and was made when the Ethiopian army, with its Tigriyan commanders, was once again on the warpath on Somali soil.

The remarks of Donald Yamamoto were a slap in the face of Bereket ‘Goebbels’ Simon, alias Baghdad Bob, the President of the loss making Dashen Brewery, producer of the infamous Bereket’s Piss, which they call Royal Draft. For a long time they could have the illusion that lying, deceiving and denying against all odds was the strategy to follow, but in his farewell interview Donald Yamamoto for once made clear that it is actually understood as plain stupidity, although they never mentioned it. The approach that you stun diplomats by being rude, blunt and impudent beyond any limit is now publicly exposed. What we all thought and have been saying for a long time, is official with this reprimand.

Not only Donald Yamamoto is leaving the US Embassy; a big reshuffle is taking place, indicating that there might be a wind of change from the Americans. With the upcoming elections, as usual accompanied with growing repression, unlawful arrests and human rights abuses, sometimes packed in a law which cannot tolerate daylight like the new anti terrorism act, in which anyone can be arrested and hold on just hearsay, you can almost smell their fear. BTW this anti terrorism law is just a justification for what has been going on since the current gang seized power. I wonder who is going to monitor the elections, after Ana Gomez who was the leader of the European Union monitoring team in 2005, was abused verbally by the Crime Minister ‘name thief’ Legesse Zenawi, in the way described above. And will the Carter Centre have the courage to really write down what is going on, instead of platitudes like a growing democracy or encouraging developments.

Leaves me with saying only once: “well done Donald”.

Notes:
it is my pleasure to quote some statements made during the recent trip to Europe/Ghana by the President of the USA mr. Barack.H. Obama :
XXX Africa’s future is up to Africans
XXX Development depends upon good governance. That is the ingredient which has been missing in far too many places, for far too long. And that is the responsibility that can only be met by Africans.
XXX The four key areas critical to the future of Africa and of the entire developing world are: democracy, opportunity, health and the peaceful resolution of conflict. Hailed are Ghana’s democratic society, calling for strong parliaments, honest police, independent judges and a free press across Africa. Not any person wants to live in a society where the rule of law gives way to the rule of brutality and bribery. That is not democracy, that is tyranny.
XXX You have the power to hold your leaders accountable, and to build institutions that serve the people.
XXX There is no economic development without the operations of free labour unions.

Much more have been said but I just say here amen.
Our independent judge Birtukan Mideksa suffers in jail for 6 and ½ months without any wrong doing but a peaceful development and change.

I wish the people who celebrate to morrow , 14th July 2009, their victory with the promotion of Liberty, Equality for everybody and Brotherhood. Hopefully they will end successfully.