The Messengers of the butcher of Addis, Melesse Zenawe had
attempted to convene a meeting in Dallas yesterday, June 22nd, at
4:00 pm at the Radisson Hotel located at Hwy. 75 and Campbell to spread
propaganda about Ethiopia and their regime.
They came prepared to deliver their
well known talking points: the politics of Ethiopia is democratizing and is in
good custody; leave the politics for us --- just come home and spend money as
tourists --- send your remittances and of course invest. Melesse’s stooge
officials: Ato Hilawe Yosef (EPDRF’s campaign manager during the bloody 2005
election), Ato Demeke Mekonnen (so called Vice President of the Amhara Regional
State who is involved in orchestrating the regional cover for ceding of
Ethiopian territory to the Sudan) and Ato Mulae Tarekegn from the Ethiopian
Embassy in Washington, D.C and their operatives amongst us know very well that
it is impossible for them to sell this idea to Ethiopians. Their aim is clear.
It is to go every where the Diaspora is and get a handful of people in a room
for a propaganda consumption. Knowing this, the opposition activists in Dallas
came prepared to change their talking points.
The meeting ended in being a total fiasco as the Woyane representatives
were
forced to abandon their prepared speech and agenda of political stability and
economic development in Ethiopia and instead were forced by patriotic
Ethiopians to go directly to questions and answers focusing on the
Ethio-Sudan border, the on-going drought and famine and the grave
dissatisfaction of the Ethiopian people with the endless lies, dishonesty and
corruption of the dictatorial regime of Melesse Zenawi.
The Woyanes were given an earful
about the dreadful situation prevailing in Ethiopia: the absolute lack of
democracy and gross abuse of human rights; the famine that is afflicting 14
million Ethiopians; the ceding of sovereign Ethiopian territory to the Sudan;
the EPRDF government’s lies about Badme and the loss of 70,000 Ethiopians in
the war between Eritrea and Ethiopia; the grinding poverty prevalent in
Ethiopia despite EPRDF’s false claims regarding development; and many other
such important facts demonstrating the utter failure of the current regime in
Ethiopia.
The response by the Woyane
representatives was totally inadequate as they were teetering in shock at the
strong opposition and incisive remarks and questions directed at them. Some of
their responses were pitifully and obviously unconvincing. One of them alleged,
for instance, that no land has been ceded to the Sudan although the Sudanese
government has confirmed to the contrary; and the very Ethiopian people whose
land and property has been ceded to and occupied by the Sudanese have testified
to that fact repeatedly on VOA. It was particularly tragic to note that
according to the Woyane representatives, the on-going drought and famine
occurring in Ethiopia was an exaggeration and that it was a figment of
imagination of the international community!
After expressing the bitter
frustration of the Ethiopian people with the corrupt regime and dominating the
forum which was organized by operatives of Woyane for three hours, most of the
participants walked out in protest leaving the Woyane representatives and their
handful puppets extremely frustrated and confused. It was a good opportunity to
identify their operatives among us conspiring to penetrate and silence the
Diaspora under the guise of "consensus forum". They need to be fully
exposed and be under the watchful eyes of patriotic Ethiopians. We ask fellow
Ethiopians in the Diaspora, to challenge the TPLF propagandists where ever they
come and most of all identify their operatives amongst us.
Let other Woyane meetings result
in a total fiasco!
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