The Tigreans have been the leveling rods of Meles Seitanawi for almost two decays.

No one knows how many lashes the Oromos, the Amharas, the Ogadenes, and the Somalians have received from the iron hands of the Tigreans – the double whips of the Woyanne regime.

It is natural in many countries a father occasionally disciplines or whips his child to bring him up in the right way society believes at the time the father trains his child, but Meles Seitanawi straps the Amharas, the Oromos, and the other tribes day in and day out to subdue them, humiliate them, and force them to give up their properties, their values, and their dignities.

The lash includes not only whippings but also kicking on the stomachs, on the shoulders, on the backs, on the thighs, and on the heads, using testa (one’s head against another person’s head). This heating someone’s head with one’s own head is commonly used by most of the Tigrean people, and this is when they don’t have weapons in their hands, if they do, they use the bottoms of their guns and hit the heads of their victims. However, if the victims continue to resist submission, they will shoot them and leave their dead bodies on the main street for other people to see and learn from this cruel murder a lesson that they will never forget. On the other hand, if the victims easily submit themselves to the Tigreans, they still club their heads, drag them into the police car and from there they will take theme to the darkest world – the Kaliti Jail.

Why one tribe has become the headaches of the other millions of Ethiopians is very hard to comprehend.

This particular Tigrean tribe may have been mistreated by the previous government officials during the times of Emperor Haile Selassie and Mengistu Haile Mariam; therefore, the Tigreans, remembering their past sufferings, are now retaliating, instead of joining the opposing party, against the rest of the Ethiopian tribes.

Are they justified to bring too many miseries to the other millions of Ethiopians for their past grievances Emperor Haile Selassie and Mengistu Haile Mariam may have intentionally or unwittingly brought upon them?

I don’t quite recall Emperor Haile Selassie and Mengistu Haile Mariam have purposely oppressed certain tribes, particularly the Tigreans, among other Ethiopian tribes. Even if they did, the Tigreans should not harbor in their hearts the misdeeds done to them by the previous administrations.

The large amount of money the Tigreans are getting, the land they are possessing, and the comfortable lives they are enjoying now on the expenses of the other tribes will soon be replaced by unbearable punishments that the Tigreans have never experienced in the histories of their Tigrean ancestors since their first existence in the annals of the other Ethiopian tribes.

The justified punishments these traitorous Tigreans receive unwillingly from the generous hands of the rest of the Ethiopian people will be according to the amount of damages they have intentionally brought upon the innocent Amhara, Oromo, and the other tribes.

The angry Amharas and Oromos will be forced to apply the old rule against these criminal Tigreans: “teeth for teeth, eyes for eyes, bruises for bruises, life for life,” and properties for properties. In fact, the old rule may not satisfy the desperate and angry Ethiopian mob; therefore, the mob just go unrestrained, take no Tigrean money, no Tigrean properties, and no Tigrean lands, because whatever Tigrean the rest of the Ethiopians will consider abominable in the eyes of God and in the eyes of the Ethiopian people, so that the people will collect the money and burn them all – houses, vineyards, cows, goats, sheep, donkeys, horses, chickens, and many other belongings stolen from the other Ethiopian peasants but save the owners of each property for the last judgment day before a democratically elected prime minister and the Ethiopian judges.

These judges, unlike the present Woyanne’s kangaroo judges, will decide the fates of the Tigreans whether to send them to a labor camp or to their graves.

Then, there will be empty wailings in the camps of the Tigreans, and the walls of Mekelle, once the walls of joys and commerce will be called “the Wailing Wall.” As too much money and businesses have been invested on this particular city, too much wailings will be heard, too, because the glories of Mekelle are now lost within few hours, and never to be restored again; its fallen buildings will be inhabited by the desert awls and nightly creatures instead of by gentle Tigrean men and gracious women.

In short, Mekelle will be like the Biblical Babylon, where Jeremiah and Isaiah spent their times warning the citizens of Babylon to save themselves from the impending judgment of God the Almighty.

As a concerned true friend of the Tigrean people, I will continue writing them to get out of their present laxities and share the sufferings of the rest of the Ethiopian people, if not, don’t snitch on your brothers and sisters of the Ethiopian people and keep quiet. Remember, the luxurious, the glamorous, and the happiest lifestyles of the Egyptians never convinced Moses from joining and sharing the sufferings of his own people. Don’t be deceived by the money you are being paid and by the highest rank Meles Zenawi has vested in you.

I hate to see you going the ways of the Philippians whom St. Paul strongly warned in his own words: “Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame.” (Philippians 3:19) You have plenty of food to fill your stomach; others have nothing; you laugh every day; others cry every day and every night, and your shameful act is your glory, your pride, and your badge of honor.

My dear Tigreans, you are hindering the progress of our movement by supporting the illegitimate Woyanne government. Please, say no to Woyanne and yes to our movement!

After all Mr. Obang needs to know the reality on the ground before he jumps to write about tigray or its people. He does’t have the legitmacy to write with his biased information. The matter of fact most tigryans differ with other fellow ethiopians is that no one has recognized the reality in tigray. Every one of you take ur time to understand the dynamics of the region, understand what the people does, how it is progressing. then u can write and we might listen u.

After all, tigryans prefer to live in peace with other fellow ethiopians at any cost, as history does tell us. but if people don’t want to live in peace, then we repeat the history, as every one of u understands unless u want to lie.

Hence, Mr.Obang better to do some thing important for ur people than to serve as instrumental for the old reminances of ethiopia. History is taking a different course these days. try to cope up!!!!

Your long letter to the greedy Tigryans has no effect at all because those Tigryans are multi-milliners; they are not going to give up their lucrative businesses and join the rest of the Ethiopian people in the struggle against Meles Seitanawi. They are too wealthy, and your well-crafted letter will never convince them, and they will never stop supporting their leader, Meles Seitanawi, until that final day, the day of doom. On this subject, I wrote an article on August 11, 2008, and the title of that article was: “That Day! What will happen to the Tigreans?” Some of these wealthy Tigryans were very angry about my article because they thought they would defend themselves with whatever weapons they would have in their hands. This means they will fight against the rest of the Ethiopians who try to oust Meles Seitanawi from his power. They are determined never to give up their wealth and support us, because, again, they are too wealthy.

You remember what that great teacher of all time, Jesus Christ, said: “Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.” (Matthew 19:24)

The only time they can understand the gravity of the seriousness of the Ethiopian people is that when the Ethiopian people equipped with machetes, knives, swords, spears, start cutting their heads, splitting their necks and exposing their mutilated bodies to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the nights. At that time, you and I would say to them: “We told you so, but you refused to listen to us!” There are few days left for them to repent and to ask forgiveness and permission from the Ethiopian people to join our movement before they get trampled by the angry Ethiopian mobs and be destroyed completely.

It is true the Tigrean peasants are living from hand to mouth just like the rest of Ethiopians. But, these people do not have any voice to do anything about their misery. The Tigrean elites though, they could if they wanted to. But, the will is not there for they are selfish, greedy, crooked, irresponsible, envious, liars, cheats etc. etc.

It is true the Tigrean peasants are living from hand to mouth just like the rest of Ethiopians. But, these people do not have any voice to do anything about their misery. The Tigrean elites though, they could if they wanted to. But, the will is not there for they are selfish, greedy, crooked, irresponsible, envious, liars, cheats etc. etc.

Thank you for bringing this up Obang

Does it look like that they are going to share any tiny amount of power now or in the future or Tigrians may dislike power monopoly and all the benefits of economic and other virtues? Some kind of make believe and totally insignificant lip services concerning some sort of disatisfactions by the Tigrians against the Tigrians may be heared from here and there but only for strategic reasons of calming down those who cry day and night for the support of the so called “Ethiopian Tigrians”

You recall that the entire Tigrian population were completely reduced to a single bunch of destitute wretched beggars both under king Haile Selassie and dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam and were living the life of total hell on earth.

But now the table have been effectively turned upside down as the Tigrians are the current omnipotent and omnipresent majestic rulers of all the rulers and enjoying prime quality hedonist life in an enclosure of paradise surrounded by the hell of poverty and wretchedness.

They have been treated inhumanly and brutally and they have also learned and taken up the role model and are only applying their own brutal collective experiences unto all others also collectively and blindly instead of applying justice for all but not only for themselves alone.

But let us keep appealing for support to Tigrians whether to those in power or those in a vibrant beneficiary supportive role and privillages even though it may NEVER WORK truelly speaking but a copy of the appeal letter may stil be filed and kept documented in the museum of modern literature, or even better in Tutankhamun’s tomb at Thebes and let the jackal god, Anubis to guard the enterance just for the record :)

Here I mean that Tigrians will never come to change their new found super privillages even for the entire planet. So why don’t you guys and gals device a better way or ways out of the impass even after some 20 odd years? :)

Hope, this helps some people to come to their sense.

I know your article is well intentioned, but this is another distruction. We are now setting our agenda and the momentum is building and we need to be firm and not invite distractors. No real Ethiopians need a letter to undersatnd the suffering of the Ethiopian people.

I remember in 2005 election, we were sitting in a coffe shop and when we were questioning the wisdom of killing of our young kids. Those Tigrayans you call Ethiopians were telling us that they deserve to die because they are criminals.

So, it shouldn’t be us sending a letter to them, it should be the other way around. The Tigrayans should be sending a letter to us to appologize and joins us. And I know they would, because they are opportunist and have no shame.

Make no mistake. We will be free with or without them.

Sorry for me being harsh, but that is how I feel.

Thanks

GOD BLESS ETHIOPIA!!