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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.