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Fear of growing revolt in Addis Ababa- Ethiopia

09/21/06

Permalink 15:00:57, by urael, 349 words, 306 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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