By Zenebe Tamirat
In my article entitled President Obama
“Turning Deaf Ear to World Wide Protest,” (Dewol, Wednesday, July 22, 2015), I
submitted my last appeal to the President, to
cancel his visit to Ethiopia scheduled in that same month. If he would not
cancel his visit, I called to at least
include the notorious Qality Prison into his places of visit list; for that was
where he could have seen the real political condition of Ethiopia.
He did not! Because the president
does not listen to the plights of the local people among which is I, the writer
of this and the above mentioned articles am included. Instead, he listened to the advice of Frasier, Suzanne Yamamato, and
others who say they are experts on African
affairs. Consequently, he openly admired the fake election that took
place in Ethiopia just a few weeks before his visit. Later in an interview, Suzanne laughed at him apparently for believing
her story about the election in Ethiopia in which TPLF declared 100% victory.
The situation did not end only by laughter but continued by the uprising of the
people in different parts of the country.
In fact, some five months, after the president’s visit and his appreciation of
the fraudulent election public demonstration
began taking place in many regions. In Gonder, where the Amharas live, the
peasantry confronted the ruling party Militiamen with arm struggle. In West and
West-Central Ethiopia where the majority Oromos live, the people consistently
demonstrated armed with wooden clubs. Their
demand was to let the ruling TPLF
bandits to go away from their region. The uprising spread to East and South
Ethiopia. The Oromos are well known for
their tactics in stick fighting and mass attack. Thus in some areas, they put
Government Officials in captivity and showed their pictures in Social Media such as the Facebook.
A group known as “Tiqur Anbessa”
in North Ethiopia declared that it has started arm struggle against the TPLF
and had an incident in Qobo region where it says had an assault on an Army Unit
killing soldiers and damaging Military Vehicles. The Peasants in North Shoa
known for their bravery and fierce fighting are not pleased with the TPLF. Many
assume that they will pull their triggers in uprising following their brother
in Wolqait, Qobo, and elsewhere.
Imagine, all these took place in
just five months of President Obama’s visit to Ethiopia. The Ethiopian
revolution against injustice the ruling minority led by the TPLF perpetrates is
inevitable. Conditions surrounding the oppressed nation indicate the inescapability
of peoples’ uprising.
Out of Ethiopia, North of its boundary, political circumstances are changing. The war in Yemen seems to have pushed
Saudi Arabia to seek interest in Assab, sea
port of Ethiopia occupied by Eritrea on its secession. There is a rumor that Saudi
Arabia may obtain a long years of contract to use the port as a Strategic
Military Operation Base. Some even doubt that the United States may also come
into partnership with Saudi, in this venture. Many suspect the US abandoning of
the Arba Minch Air base in Ethiopia is to shift the operation base to Assab, which is a closer site to Somalia, Djibouti,
and Yemen and even Eritrea when necessary.
For now, the U.S has responded to the hostile
situations in Ethiopia by advising her citizens to avoid the troubled areas of
Ethiopia especially the Northern part. It has also tried to play a role of a
negotiator urging the Government to
restrain from taking aggressive actions
against civilian demonstrators and at the same time requesting the
demonstrators to cool it down. But now, there is no safety in Ethiopia. Its advice to its citizens to avoid troubled
areas is ridiculous because all parts of
Ethiopia including Addis Ababa are
unsafe.
The United States is a great
nation that claims to have based its roots of Government deep in democracy and
the respect of human rights. Its
constitution forbids its leaders from cooperating with irrational Governments
that kill their people. Unfortunately, many U.S. presidents violate this general code of conduct. President Clinton, Bush, and Obama have consistently worked with the ruthless Government of Ethiopia
in the last two and half decades stiffing the muscles of tyranny in Ethiopia. The actions of
these leaders has allowed the Marxist totalitarian leaders of TPLF mow
the lives of thousands of Ethiopians who seek the respect of human rights and
good governance. The TPLF has continued its aggression on peaceful
demonstrators. It has killed hundreds of unarmed
demonstrators that demanded justice, democracy, the respect of human
rights and maintenance of good governance in
just five months from the visit of President Obama in July 2015. This strenuous activity has not yet stopped yet; it is
just continuing even at this point.
We had repeatedly brought the political situations in Ethiopia to the attention
of President Obama in many forms. In the July article,
we appealed for the reconsideration of his visit to tyrant Ethiopia. We even predicted that the President’s visit
would be incomplete and worthless unless
he considers the real situation in Ethiopia. As well presented in this article, and, to the fulfillment of our prediction, just in five months, the world has proved from the killings of the TPLF
that President Obama’s visit to Ethiopia has been incomplete and unworthy. Bad
Job, Mr. President!
