No Power or Army is invincible: it’s not about size & it’s not how much support u may get from External forces – if there is no public support then their ‘D woyane Junta’ fall is inevitable. The question is: ‘How do we accelerate their downfall?’
By a mixture of VIOLENT & NON-VIOLENT struggle …

Peace be to you & to all peace-loving Ethiopians!

1.Pro-Woyane Scam-Websites are trying to hijack and/or infiltrate to confuse ER readers on the search engine (such as Google) – 'they' are trying to use the same URL as ER's; I would alert ER readers of these sad scambags futile attempts.

2. I like the idea of the mixture of VIOLENT & NON-VILOLENT means of struggle to accelerate the assisted suicidal of the shaking Woyane Junta such as the above – 'sending money (remittances) Using differnt channels' – Could there be a FORUM where these kinds of GOOD suggestions be better organised & fascilitated. Coz sometimes, we kind of make nice suggestions but there are no follow-ups – we need to keep up til the end. What do you suggest?
ጥያቄው ለሁሉም አገር ወዳድ ኢትዮጵያዊ ነው::
Many Thanks.

You have been barking like a mad dog for the last 18, 19 years with no result to accomplish.

The US has a powerful military advantage over its enemies (who nonetheless are demonstrating that even military power has its limitations). Ethiopia's opposition does not (yet) have such an advantage. Until it does, it should exploit the advantages it does possess– the power to cut off the dictatorship's money and other vital support. A smart warrior chooses terrain to his advantage.
As to what I know of Ethiopia's crisis, I would turn the question around: have you really studied what has worked and not worked around the world? If you do, you will come to realize that there is a far wider range of tools available to you than you may realize. For example, have you ever wired money back home? If so, did you realize that you were financing the Agazi when you did so?
With respect to the use of violence in domestic American history, the verdict is mixed. The American revolution used violence, of course. But there is also the example of the civil rights movement, which used non-violent action to defeat seemingly more powerful opponents.
My article explains that violence sometimes works, sometimes non-violence alone and sometimes a mix. Pick and choose what works. Don't be like a boxer with only one good move.

We have millions of men and women of words – men and women, who write and write, talk and talk, and spend a considerable of time discussing, arguing, and commenting about how to oust Meles Seitanawi (Zenawi) from his addiction of power.

Among us, there are people who even went far, crossed the Atlantic Ocean, met with dignitaries, toured cities and mountains, and talked with the Ethiopian patriots and reported back their talks to us thirsty of words from abroad. After we heard the reports full of words, analyzed them carefully, using those beautiful pictures and videos, we were satisfied for the time being and encouraged by those words we had heard so far.

Actually those words we have heard about Issayas Afeworki and the Ethiopian patriots soon will be evaporating from our memories because they are not followed by speedy actions.

For example, Jesus taught his disciples using words and those words never disappeared from the memories of his disciples because they were accompanied by parables and concrete actions.

Parables Jesus used: The Mustard Seed; The Weeds; The Lost Sheep; The Ten Virgins; The Talents; The Sower, and so many other parables.

Concrete actions Jesus used: A man with leprosy was healed; five thousand people were fed with five loaves and two fish only; a dead little girl got up after she died and many other actions.

The duty of a journalist is to go everywhere on this planet, gather information, new or old, and report that information as they are to us his audience, but the duties of us the audience are to execute the words to carry our guns, join the Ethiopian patriots, and fight our enemy – Meles Seitanawi.

We are not short of words, thanks to Elias Kifle, a hard-working, honest, and lover of his country; he has been feeding us tirelessly day and night what others say about us Ethiopians in the diaspora and what we say about them at home, but we are short of actions, unlike our enemy Meles Seitanawi, who, most of the time, uses concrete actions by jailing everybody he suspects as a threat to himself and to his family.

Those of us who hate Meles are in millions, and those of us who support, protect, and die for Meles are in hundredth. Meles supporters are wealthy and have guns, grenades, fighter jets, and mechanized army; the sky and the ground may be theirs, but through our words, the hearts and minds of the Ethiopian people are ours, and once we start the real war in a small scale somewhere in a small town far away from Addis Ababa or Mekelle, it will be like multiple lightening that confuse and frustrate Meles Seitanawi’s war plans and deafen his soldiers’ ears.

It is during this trial time that the defection from Meles army will be in thousands, and as a result the number of the Ethiopian patriots will quadruple.

Dismayed by this extraordinary event, Meles Seitanawi will announce a cease-fire to negotiate a peace deal with the Ethiopian Patriots. This type of cease-fire, if achieved, will give him time to evaluate his military strength and to see how much public support he has for the war to continue. To win the hearts of his soldiers, he will double their monthly salaries by borrowing money from the west or by stealing from the Church or from other resources.

I know, Ethiopians by nature are peace-loving people whether they are at war or at peace. Therefore, the Ethiopian Patriots, when they think they are winning the war, may deceive themselves if they indeed negotiate for cease-fire with their enemy – Meles Seitanawi. They should know that Meles, when he asks for cease-fire, is buying time to build up his demoralized army and come back later with an overwhelming power to crash the Ethiopia Patriots’ army. Once the war is started, there will be no cease-fire until Meles Seitanawi is completely defeated and capitulated.

After victory is achieved, the number of people who would be killed, rejoicing, dancing in the streets, and avenging the blood of their friends, would be more than the number of people killed fighting against Meles Seitanawi.

It will be unthinkable for some people such things will actually happen once Meles is defeated, fled the country, or jailed or killed in the battlefield with his daughter on his side, and his wife is to be found in a church holding and reading the book of prayers. But it may happen, and before it does, the Ethiopian Patriots must have a plan to keep peace and order in all Ethiopian cities and towns; they can do this by converting most of their fighting men and women into a police force and immediately sending them to those regions that have some chaos and disorder, especially those regions where the Tegarues, the Amharas, and the Oromos live in large numbers.

We will have a temporary prime minister until the “dust settled down” for at least two years, and then the Ethiopian people will hold a general democratic election; the person who wins the election will be our first democratically elected prime minister for the next four years.

In the words of war, we have been always the winners; our writings, embellished with appropriate words and phrases have, like Demosthenes’ writings, shattered the sophistries of Meles Seitanawi and his close political advisories.

Meles and his political supporters have been the winners for 18 years with their guns, lies, and stolen money, but with our sharp and penetrating words, we have dominated the Ethiopian press as well as the diaspora media in Europe, North America and South America. And that is why Meles, when he could not ignore us any more, ordered the most powerful Web site – the Ethiopian Review – to be shut down and never to be heard again in the Ethiopian web sites.

Meles Seitanawi could not take the vocabulary we use to domesticate or tame him and his entire household. In fact, he has recently sent Chief Bereket Simon and his assistant Ermias Legesse to Washington to complain about the VOA Amharic program for dissecting and disclosing the Woyanne’s crimes to the Ethiopian people.

Those who are fighting Meles with their guns in the scorching desert heat and freezing night temperature and those of are attacking him relentlessly to weaken him, and at the same time to inspire our Ethiopian Patriots deserve credits, and more credits should be given to the Ethiopian Patriots.

Yes, I am not against the combination of multifacated strategies of struggle that combines alternating applications of peace and war in order to achieve the common and cherished end goal of justice for all through the effective transformation of an unjust brutal system.

It is also more than good that different people with different capabilities contribute to the struggle in ways that fits their temperaments and coincides with their world views. But those who are not interested or incapable to struggle even when they actually can for justice and freedom deserve neither justice nor freedom.

"When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered." Dorothy Thompson :)

I just want to remind all of you that this same high sounding barrage of none-violent struggle propaganda used to populate this very forum and the other forums well before the 2005 election too.

This so called fluffy opposition groups could not even unite and form any broad based nationally and internationally trust worthy common front for the last close to 20 years and as such I assure you that it can never stand together and conduct any significant and successful viable none-violent struggle that may surely transform a dedicated dictatorial minority rule in to anything of democratic society in a multinational empire stae like that of Ethiopia.

It sounds beautiful to read and write about none-violent struggle as a pacifist community of helpless sheep or frightened cunning hyenas but in reality it mainly serves and buys time for the hyenas to build more strategies hunting and feeding on the inherently weak and helpless sheep community.

I clearly remember cases even during the so called creeping coup(over throw) against king Haile Sellassie's feudal regime when a large number of military officers went completely confused as to go the easiest and safest way of pacifism advocating none-violence and many of them went home and tied themselves to their beds and practically died there with out participating either in support or in opposition to the transformational activities whether violent or peaceful. Well, their soul might have inherited the kingdom of God but I don't also know know as to how that active revolutionary transformationalist Jesus Christ might be treating such helpless and damn coward confused small souls.:)

What these egoistic self centered and lunatic pacifist cowards don't understand in the multinational ethiopian context is the fact that some 80 million people have been and are still living day and night under the most agonizing constant direct and indirect violences and brutal human rights violations of the worst kind.

This high sounding none-violent propaganda is simply for the sole purpose of dividing and weakening the opposion but strengthening, empowering and leading Wayane to more stronger and consolidated minority power holding.

History repeats itself folks. And now again just before the next 2010 election the same to populate the whole damn world wide web just for the purpose of dividing and weakening the opposition and empowering the increasingly frightened Wayane dictatorship who lost its long standing God Father, that is to say ex-president Bush who left the town for his ranch.

Struggle is always both peaceful and armed even if armed may mean just your own loud and cursing voices for democracy and against brutal dictatorship along the city's high ways and streets coupled with none-violent features and positively and defebsively violent essentially in response and against inhuman brutalities.

My strong suspicion is that the same Wayane dictator is manipulating from behind the scene such self serving propaganda and may soon put these same words in to the mouth of those civilian and military captives in its subhuman dangeons and may force themm to sign fake documents and let them free to preach pro Wayane lithurgies to the entire world.

"The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals."
Alfred North Whitehead :)

If you grossely condemn violence regardless of the ends it is aiming to achieve, you are advocating the perpetuation of even the worst kind of brutal institutionalized multidimensional inhuman violence to keep breeding unchallenged.

That kind of none violent strategy can only be planned, funded, promoted and propagated by the same cunning fox dictators dressed in sheep skins and manipulating the frightened cowards to go home to sleep and snore in their grand self contentment.

Well, the 2010 election is approaching and minority dictator Wayane badly needs to tranquilize the opposition and will accelrate the funding of foreign tranqilizing experts and witch doctors to do the tranquilization and sterilization warfare job.

Change Wayane dictatorship by cutting resources and economic sabotage? What is cunning Wayane with all the resources and its soon 20 years experience doing then?
Sit there like a duck watching you do the sabotage? Don't fool yourselves even for a minute!

This is very good news, a great relief and a fitting ideology for all those FAT comfort loving big talking oppostion bosses on whose behalf innocent poor people are being crusified like Christ every single day. Look at all those opposition guys enjoying free and hedonistic life style while a poor young martyr lady (BM)and a mother of a small baby is rotting in a facist sub human dangeon.

I am sure all of these guys recently captured and placed in Wayane jail will soon sign a declaration of none violent struggle and confession of criminal activities and treasons aganist the destitute "constitutional state" They re being reeducated and will soon come out completely reformed and educated Ethiopians with the right spine to work for Wayane.

I suggest that we pay trips to Burma in order to visit the famous prisoner, lady Suu Kyi who is sitting in jail for the last 20 years for democracy and none violent struggle. :)

But how can we apply it in this divided country? Woyane had known this would be coming. That is why they have destroyed national feeling from the outset. National sentiment has been greatly damaged by the subtle and sometimes direct attack from Meles Zenawi. They have destroyed Ethiopianism by consistently attacking the Amharas. If you show strong national feeling, no doubt that you are an Amhara for the Woyanes, regardless of your exact ethnicity. They have created this false brand and linked Ethiopianism with Amharanisim. It is very sad to see that the language – Amharic – has been the sole and perverted evidence for the destructors woyanes. The fact of the matter is that Amharas are not better Ethiopians than the others and Ethiopia is not exclusive to the Amharas. Other citezens were very late to understand this evil system. But the 2005 election witnessed that national sentiment is not dead but burried alive that can come out any time. Bad news for the woyanes!! Some innocent citizens often heard saying that Woyane is refering the Amharas all the time because they fear Amharas. This is not true. As far as they have all the weapons they don't fear any one. But the main reason for consistently attacking the Amharas is because it is the shortcut to destroy Ethiopia as a nation. (again, I am not trying to say that Amharas are best ethiopians). I would have explained this further but I would go out of the context of this discussion.

Let's wake up, be united and create a "strong united & democratic Ethiopia".