Urael

The production of my blogs is low at the moment. Blame it to personal circumstances and/or the frequent non availability of the utilities such as electricity, telecommunication. It is certainly not that there is a lack of events or subjects that need commenting or to be revealed. The atrocities in the Ogaden, Oromia and Somalia are going on. There are messages of many arrests in Oromia; political repression is still getting worse. The land of our forefathers (Gondar) has been squandered to the Sudan dictatorship for obvious reasons. The hunger because of mismanagement and communistic agricultural policy is spreading all over the country. Addis Ababa has changed into an occupied city again with thousands of soldiers, armed with Kalashnikovs patrolling the streets and neighborhoods.

Yesterday I got the figures about the cost of the most basic commodities people have to buy, to live and stay alive. The official inflation according to the Dictatorship/government has reached 32 percent now. But this is as usual a blunt lie. According to my figures, and they have proven to be very accurate, inflation is climbing to the 100% annual. To be precise it is now at 87.5%. So with the 58% of last month the raise of teff ( now 10 birr per kilo), meat (55 birr per kilo), butter ( 115 birr per kilo) is making life extreme expensive.

So the Crime Minister is addressing the population and blaming the jalala (middlemen) to be the source of the inflation. And the only thing they are really good at, that is threatening and taking repressive measures is their answer. I wonder if anyone has ever seen price tags in our shops. No is the answer. But now the gang forces all shop holders to use price tags and the one that doesn’t, or who asks a price which is too high, will see his shop closed. This is the miracle answer to the inflation.

And while around Ginbot Haya Ethiopian television could not show us anything else than the successes of the “freedom” fighters from Tigray, the population is suffering.