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Fear of growing revolt in Addis Ababa- Ethiopia

09/21/06

Permalink 15:00:57, by urael, 349 words, 292 views   English (EU)
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Fear of growing revolt in Addis Ababa- Ethiopia

They are everywhere now. Groups of three, four sometimes even more unarmed federali,walking in every street and neighborhood. With the food prices still raising and so many uniforms watching, an uneasyness is growing. Or call it tension is building up. The dangerous thing is that this is not a spontaneous or natural phenomenon. I am afraid that a horrific scenario is unfolding in which the Addis Ababa population is going to be put up against each other. With inflation figures raising towards 30 percent, many people are thrown to sheer poverty. They are not able to pay the rent anymore, to feed properly or to take care of their offspring. So we saw that crime is growing to an unknown peak and begging is becoming a menace. This can't go on for ever. It will lead to unrest and revolt. Unrest and revolt that is deliberately created and that they think will give them the tools to finish of the opposition loving population of the capital. I am afraid that the comparison that I made between the Khmer Rouge and the TPLF, in a previous blog, is closer to the truth then I imagined when I wrote it down. They are loosing grip on everything and are now preparing their desperate last evil tricks.

Voices tell me that the interview with defecting officers are widely discussed within the army, specially by the Oromo privates. When officers will take the lead, a revolt and full scale civil war is on the brink. It seems more and more clear that the gang can only really rely on the murderes Agazi. Unless they are able to set up people against each others, which they are doing, they manoeuvered themselves in a position in which it is clear to anybody that they are the evil that has come upon us.

There are inventive ways of financing the repression and resolving the gap that the withdrawal of the direct budget support created. The rents of the apartments at CMC, primarily occupied by ferenji working for the UN and NGO's, has been raised by 125 percent.

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msg Comment from: Alula Yemesker [Visitor]
Wishful thinking, by ferngi!
Let alone now, this didn't happen last year or around 1991-4.

My dear, you said and did all evil things for the last 15+ years. Did one of your bad wishes come to exist? NO! . I give you credit for the persistence, nevertheless

just wish, wish...wi......sh!.
PermalinkPermalink 2006-09-21 @ 16:22

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msg Comment from: GurereB [Visitor]
Alula Yemesker, My dearest king of kings Asi Tewdros gave that name to his son and I don't think you deserve it. One day you will wake up like Mengistu and findout all the good wishes of Ethiopians has come true. Where will you hide then Hodamu???
PermalinkPermalink 2006-09-21 @ 16:57

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msg Comment from: juanvaljan [Visitor]
what has the CMC rent got to do with addis's revolt. Does CMC represent the population. I do not see the relevancy of it; it can not be be incorporated in the inflation we are talking about, can it?
PermalinkPermalink 2006-09-21 @ 17:09

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msg Comment from: kazanchis [Visitor]
Urael, the inflation rate is troublesome. One of my homeboys, who has became a successful local Engineer graduated from Tegibar Ede, is almost without a job. He and his younger brother were active building ground+1s and +2s throughout Addis. Now, with the price of Cement,fuel and other materials, almost everything is at hault. People are not even building fences nomore. My homeboy is one of them dudes who learned the trade from his father(RIP) a well respected mason and carpenter in our Kebele. Then after Highschool, he improved his experience with technical skill and became good at it. I know for sure 20-30 people used to work directly under him on a daily basis.

-The excavation crew, who came from the country side (mostly from Wollo)and the outskirts of Addis Ababa.Because of the land policy they can not survive as a farmer. Age ranging from 16-40. Proffession ranging from Farmer to Priesthood.

-The masonry and carpenter crew, who starts as an excavation crew and worked their way up.

-The laburors who are the same like the excavation crew but includes many females with lesser payment.(female labourers get paid lesser than thier male counterparts; and it is an accepted norm)

-not to forget the "findata" crew, who would do whatever to unload the cement and other materials from the track for the right price.

The infelation rate is not affecting only the Addis Ababans but those who came from thier distant home to get work in the city.

The way different minor government projects has been given for Chinesse companies over the homegrown working force, is even more disturbing.

5 minutes away from Urael
PermalinkPermalink 2006-09-21 @ 17:46

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msg Comment from: Ra'Oeil ራዕይ [Member]
There is a report on EMF website saying that Meles canceled his trip to New York. But the demonstrations are said to go as planned. If on top of this the "Fear of growing revolt in Addis Ababa" and unease that you sense become intense in the following days, it is then understandable that he wants to avoid the Thai scenario and stay in Addis.

What does it take for him to understand that he can not indefinitely keep the leaders in prison and expect business as usual?

Keep up your good work Urael,

Ra
PermalinkPermalink 2006-09-21 @ 18:33

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msg Comment from: Yirgacheffeeይርጋጨፍ [Member]
This dude Urael needs a job,

He's trying to attention by creating the news.

Incase you can't get it into your thick skull, the cheap revolt of Kinijit was crushed once and for all,---period!

The Federalis are there only to protect you from stone-throwing duruyies---so stop panicking.
PermalinkPermalink 2006-09-21 @ 18:48

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msg Comment from: On the Ground [Visitor]
Urael;

Like all the others who wrote before me, you are looking for any sign to interpret to the way you want people to view the current situation in Ethiopia. Granted there are plenty of people out of work as a result of prices going up mainly cement since the major employer is the construction sector.
The few "Federali" you saw patrolling the streets should NOT nurture a doomsday mindset "the eminent of civil war", on the contrary, they are there to protect the citizens from the people like you who constantly feed garbage like this to create the unrest thus get our people killed. Instead you should write to mobilize your readers to create jobs and invest in the economy to lift our people out of poverty. Our country's problem is not Woyane or Kinijit, it is an economy issue and we all know what it takes to fix it, there are no short cuts but pure job creation and investment in the economy. Let's stop talking and start creating jobs.
PermalinkPermalink 2006-09-21 @ 20:53

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msg Comment from: k [Visitor]
Dear leader meles
what going on ?please think some. you got a good mined i know.you know what is better for all of ethiopia peopel.so,just give first for ethiopia & make agood history.
PermalinkPermalink 2006-09-21 @ 21:15

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msg Comment from: iain [Visitor]
I am planning to visit Ethiopia in December with 8 friends from the usa. The description of events on the streets of Addis Ababa are disturbing. Is it safe for us to visit?? We plan to travel on bikes into the Rift Valley area south of Addis and cross the Omo river gorge to Jimma.

PermalinkPermalink 2006-09-21 @ 21:54

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msg Comment from: Free [Visitor]
Cheffee,

We never seen Bandas appreciating true and couragous patriots of Ethiopia selfless actions. On the contrary, patriots feel sorry for your kinds extreme selfishness, and their fighting with the destroyer enemy of the nation is free of any discrimination hence they always librate all, including the Bandas who were shooting on them. I understand you are just one simple clown, however i do require you to grasp the idea that such a man like Urael and his work is beyond your comprehension and certainly not subject to the critique of your filthy thought.

I am sure he will forgive you though.

Thank you Urael!

PermalinkPermalink 2006-09-21 @ 22:54

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msg Comment from: ZERUBABE [Visitor]
On the Ground, you are absolutely right when you say job and economic progress is what the country needs. But how can thye private sector creates jobs when you and your woyane comrades controlling every thing from cement poroduction and importing to selling all the teff almost throughout the country and CONTROLLING literally every sector of the economy in the name of endowment?
by the way, your fesam idol, the butcher of Anuaks and other innocent Ethiopians is not coming to NEW YORK.
PermalinkPermalink 2006-09-22 @ 00:48

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msg Comment from: Gudu Kasssa [Visitor]
I admire Urael's persistence and courage to write under a tense and at times dangerous condition in Ethiopia. But most of the conclustions drawn are superficial and at times flawed. Urael presents it self as well versed with the nitty gritty of economic analysis but most are the type of analysis we often hear from 'tej bet'. So Urael. keep on enlighening us but reserve the wild and sometimes flawed conclustions for your self.

Rather go to Pickock and other hot discussion cafe's and bring us how the public percieves AFD.

Gudu Kassa
PermalinkPermalink 2006-09-22 @ 01:58

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msg Comment from: HAYAL [Visitor]
So Meles the Prime Monster is not going to New York!
Hurrah! He is scared the army will do the Thai thing and say to him "beat it!"
Oh! Diaspora you are doing a fantastic job! Congratulations!!!
CHeffe the skin disease guy and Lekim of the parasite tribe aka kemal, will you please shut up!!!
About Addis I heard about those New Year cards of KINIGIT! So happy and proud and relieved to see a tangible sign that the Spirit is alive!
About the stoopide agazi they are swarming our town, these morons!
I don't think we will kill each other, we are too civilised and tolerant our problem is not the ethnic background of our neighbours it's the stoopid cadres!
But Urael made a very disturbing point when he mentionned the inflation acting as a catalyst for revolt...Because when I walk around in Addis or even drive around there is so much heartbreaking misery...
May this eprdf be cursed! It brought so much evil in our land!
But we shall overcome!!!
PermalinkPermalink 2006-09-22 @ 03:54

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msg Comment from: ABEBE BOKE [Visitor]
TO: The so called ORAEL
Your blog seems to me your own idea which is your own lam-pens dream. One day you and your blog will be thrown away like trash in the garbage.
You are the real enemy of the people .
If any civil war happen are you sure that all neft pappies were safe?
PermalinkPermalink 2006-09-22 @ 07:11

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msg Comment from: Aregawi Berhe [Visitor]
I fear to see ETHIOPIA THE NEXT SOMALIA'

I fear just like Mohamed Sied Bare the former president of Somalia Legesse Zenawi is trying to make Ethioia the next Somalia. This hidden strategy of TPLF wil not also benefir the Tigray people as it is expected.

Selam (From South Omo Region, Jinka)
PermalinkPermalink 2006-09-22 @ 07:46

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msg Comment from: bekagne [Visitor]
Hey, On the Ground! You said that the Federalis are on the streets to protect the citizens of Addis. Oh, Ya??? You sound like you care about the citizens of Addis while at the same time you are doing you dirty works. That has been the trademark of the TPLF regime since it took over in 1991 saying, “We are here to help you.” Oh, Ya???

The Generals and the Colonels that defected to the AFD said that things are very tense in the military. The military has lost its trust in the TPLF regime and almost everyone in the military is very angry against the TPLF regime. So, what do you make of that?

It is also a kind of funny, that you wanted us to invest in the country. Most of us would be willing to invest, but not under this type of government – a government who does not have the trust of the people and a government that oppresses its own people. If the TPLF government resigns, millions of us would invest there and may also build homes there. We love our country and that is why we are very angry at the current government.

The only way for you guys, the TPLF, will have a future in the Ethiopian politics is for your guys to hand over the government peacefully to the truly elected leaders of the opposition who are now languishing in prison. The US administration will not come to your rescue when the people of Ethiopia rise up against you. That is my advice for you guys, you might even call this a prophecy of what is to come
PermalinkPermalink 2006-09-22 @ 09:04

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msg Comment from: Dechasa Andarge [Visitor]
Alula Yimeskir and Yirgachefe are the two full time tplf agents who can not see history is in the making in Ethiopia.Meles and his genocidal followers vey soon will be deposed and Ethiopians will form their own government.Then we need to discuss about the status of Tigray.Very many Ethiopians want to see Tigray to be separated from Ethiopia and this will give peace and stability for the rest of the country.
Why should we live together with those who killed our children coming in to our own land?
PermalinkPermalink 2006-09-22 @ 10:07

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msg Comment from: Bole [Visitor]
Dear Urael,

I have been reading your blog for the last 4 months at least, and I wanted to congratulate you.

We can see that the TPLF propagandists are now becoming very active (the same who used to trash Addis Ferenji's blog). It surely is a sign of recognition in the fight for freedom.

Keep going, I am delighted to see those morons worried. You are doing a great job exposing them!
PermalinkPermalink 2006-09-22 @ 12:51

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msg Comment from: Anonymous [Visitor]
The most important power is of course the army, but it has to be backed by the people.

Dechasa wrote:
"Then we need to discuss about the status of Tigray.Very many Ethiopians want to see Tigray to be separated from Ethiopia and this will give peace and stability for the rest of the country.Why should we live together with those who killed our children coming in to our own land? "


Maybe we should buid a wall like the one Germany build in Berlin????
PermalinkPermalink 2006-09-22 @ 13:27

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msg Comment from: Bedada [Visitor]
Dear All
pls. let us understand eachother,we all are Ethiopians, let us learn some tolerance, let us respect each other, let us not dig graves for others and try to build our empire, better to communicate in a matured way, and to the eprdf, pls. try to understand peoples demand as a government,and share the power with other ethiopians as well,the steering wheel belonges to u.
GOD BLESS OUR PEOPLE AND OUR COUNTRY
PermalinkPermalink 2006-09-22 @ 14:13

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msg Comment from: KUMA KULLO [Visitor]
Urael,
I guess you are blogging from mars or so . A friend of mine just arrived from home after spending 2 months there(he travelled extensively from wollo to Arbaminch . Dire dawa to Jimma.)Apart from high cost of living mentioned by you the rest of the things you are talking i.e Revolt, Civil war are your wishful thinking/expectations/dreams/fantasies devoid of the reality.I like your drammatization but there are also people who want to cross check what is said with what is real.Could you please double check your sources?? Or -----just to help you with your halluciniation.
PermalinkPermalink 2006-09-23 @ 01:33

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msg Comment from: Hagos [Visitor]
A typical nefetgna paranoia in progress at all time. This is thier daily mode of operation of all the place "tertere ke genfom yegegnal sinter".When i read URAEL i say what good have you been bestowed other than horrible story cooked up in your genetical inherited mind. Brother/Siter you need to see your doctor before it sweeps you away.
PermalinkPermalink 2006-09-23 @ 06:09

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msg Comment from: lekim [Visitor]
Anonymous and Dechasa,



A couple of points for you my friends;
•Tigray is the heart of past, present and future Ethiopia and the people of Tigray are proud Ethiopians. If you guys want to split, you can take you village and hit the road.
•You should also remember that the people you call your leaders are the ones who raped, murdered and mutilated peaceful Ethiopians for over a century, hence, if one was to apply your logic, you would have been banned from the union of the Ethiopian family for eternity.
• Anonymous, have you seen the wall around Kaliti? That is the Berlin Wall for you my friend and guesses who is trapped behind that walls?



Hayal

How could you afford to drive with the high gasoline prices that you and the Urael cow are complaining about?

Are you sure you are not driving a car and bank accounts that belong to the Red Terror victims? I smell a classic tribal leech.


PermalinkPermalink 2006-09-23 @ 11:57

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msg Comment from: yoni [Visitor]
You guys called EPRDF fear mongers and you turn around and do the same thing. Nice try. why don't you write about your friends AFD, Shabia, and how the people of Addis Ababa feels about it now. It is nice to be self-critics sometimes.

Beside, if Addis goes in flames because of the set-backs mentioned in the article, so will most of Africa and other countries with similar situations.

You guys should not also get your hope so high thinking if Addis revolt there will be a government change. Time has changed, this is not the past.

Your assesment on Addis is very poor and BIAS.
PermalinkPermalink 2006-09-23 @ 12:03

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msg Comment from: Yegeremew [Visitor]
Urael,

I wish you knew how boring you sound. Get a life, dude.
PermalinkPermalink 2006-09-23 @ 19:16

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msg Comment from: Wedi Bole [Visitor]
All the talk in the galaxy is not gonna do didlly squat.
Kebetohachuhn tebek argachu lemn bereha atzemtum?
Oh i forgot, you got no balls.
PermalinkPermalink 2006-09-24 @ 10:46

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msg Comment from: Wedi Bole [Visitor]
What army are you talking about?
All the rank and file plus the intelligence is filled with patriotic,loyal eprdf tegadelti.
The Kemal Geltus are nothing but ahyas that we use to defuse a land mine.We like to work behind the scenes but Gemechu on the spot and let Gebru do the real work.
PermalinkPermalink 2006-09-24 @ 10:49

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msg Comment from: yoni [Visitor]
Aregawi Berhe

Is that your real name or YOU NAMED YOURSELF AFTER THE EX-TPLF GENERAL IN EXILE , NOW LIVES IN EROUPE?

Eventhough, the name is the same the level of IQ is ARAMBA ENA COMBA.
PermalinkPermalink 2006-09-24 @ 20:41

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msg Comment from: BANDA BUSTER [Visitor]
You Woyanes and the other Hodams!
be ware, your days are in numbers.
The mighty people of Ethiopia will
reduce you to ashs. You may wish this as a wishful thinking to help you calm your hidden inner fears.
Alas! it is as a universal fact as the Sun Set in the West is as absolute as you will be damped.Ethiopia will triamph! Down with Banda Woyanes and Hodams!

PermalinkPermalink 2006-09-26 @ 09:32

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msg Comment from: BANDA BUSTER [Visitor]
You Woyanes and the other Hodams!
be ware, your days are in numbers.
The mighty people of Ethiopia will
reduce you to ashs. You may wish this as a wishful thinking to help you calm your hidden inner fears.
Alas! it is as a universal fact as the Sun Set in the West is as absolute as you will be damped.Ethiopia will triamph! Down with Banda Woyanes and Hodams!

PermalinkPermalink 2006-09-26 @ 09:33

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