Indian Ocean Newsletter N° 1191 29/07/2006
The partisans of the Ethiopian government in the United States are making endless propaganda on the radio against the hard wing of the opposition.
For several months now, Selam Radio and Hager Fikr Radio have been making an endless number of programmes denouncing “the hardest line anti EPRDF elements”. Selam Radio broadcasts in Washington and is owned by the Ethiopian government coalition, the EPRDF. Hager Fikr Radio is subsidised by the Saudi-Ethiopian magnate Mohamed Hussein Al Amoudi. This campaign frequently takes the form of attacks against the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party (EPRP, opposition), a formation which refused to join the Ethiopian opposition front recently formed entitled Alliance for Freedom and Democracy (AFD).
The Hager Fikr radio station has been at the head of this media campaign for some time and has devoted half of its six hours of airtime on Sundays. The guests invited on the show to criticise certain radical opposition leaders by name are dignitaries of the Ethiopian regime, like the Consul in Los Angeles Taye Atskesellasie, but there are also some former Tigrayan dissidents who have rallied behind the present government in Addis Ababa. One such is Bisrat Amare and more surprising still, Abraham Yayeh, who spoke on the last two shows broadcast by this radio station.
This former dissident of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF, governing) has long been a scathing critic of the present regime in Addis Ababa and its Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. Yayeh lives in exile in Copenhagen but would nevertheless appear to have become a partisan of Zenawi. He now reserves his most virulent attacks for the opposition, which he considers dominated by the Amhara ethnic group and motivated by anti-Tigrayan feelings. What is most surprising is that Yayeh has been to Eritrea several times and recently was still collaborating with the government of Asmara, which supports certain Ethiopian opponents.
TPLF’Firing…’!!!For heaven’s sake, that’s nothing compared to what it has so far done and is doing right now by the second!!!
Come on brothers and sisters,it’s been ages ever
since’Woyane’had resorted to FIRING deadly weapons on unsuspecting people including school children; like America did in Iraq and Israel is right now doing in Lebanon.
Not firing of words men,not anymore!It’s the real thing.Bullets & bombs,finished!!!Of course,and most likely, all America & British makes!!!
What’s more,I keep wondering why so many of us able-bodied,educated and competent people need to make so much sound out there.Sadly enough,dis-integratedly and unashamedly,with much hate-mongering words,names and what have you, attached to it.’Abesku geberku’alle Habesha!!’Mettnei Legna’!
‘Cheresku’,'Ameseginalehu’
Thank you for exposing the crime of TPLF. TPLF is our cancer.
I think the above mentioned radios stations are giving us an opportunity to see Ethiopia from anathor angle. It is clear that the diaspora politics is dominated by people from the former regimes of Haileselassie and Mengistu who are mainly of amara origin. Those groups have been dissipating hate propoganda directed against Tigryan ethinic group. The cause for the shift of former Tigrean dissents is the hate propognada spewed by those chauvinst groups from diaspora. Peope of Tigryan ethinic group were intimdiated by ” Tigre wede Mekele nebretu wede Mekele” motto. It was a threatening motto to deport Tigryans by confisicating their property from Addis Abeba and other parts of Ethiopian.
There fore Hager fikir and Selam are simply exposing the chauvinst motives of the diaspora politicians. The are fighting the hate propoganda dissiminated by other radio stations. These radios should be encouraged if we are dreaming to see peaceful and democratic Ethiopia where its citizens are enshirined equal rights.
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On July 30, 2006 at 2:45 pm Wanzaw Said
“… FIRING deadly weapons on unsuspecting people including school children; like America did in Iraq and Israel is right now doing in Lebanon.
Not firing of words men,not anymore!It’s the real thing.Bullets & bombs,finished!!!Of course,and most likely, all America & British makes!!!”
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This is how an open forum could become a tool to identify an ignorrant or an enemy within.
The good news is unlike the ignorant, both America and the Brits knew a lot better than this sily man.