አገር ወዳድ!
Tenagenet T.

Bad-mouthing Prof. Mesfin benefits nothing but Woyane. It is essentially we pay attentin to what the Professor says, unless we are going for another Woyane blw.

We coming here and cursing our politicians for what everhappened internally is only gonna make woyane smile. If u really wanna do something about Ethiopian politics don’t come here and write your myopic opinion; just join the people who are on the task and you all know who am talking about!!

Ethiopia will be free by her beloved sons and daughters and its up to you to sit and watch (making the struggle to last longer and to cost more) or stand together now to see the sunrise soon!

Peace and food to all!

Unity for Democracy and Justice Party (UDJ) must form an internal-crisis-management team to overcome its subjective conflicts before it spills over to the other opposition parties.

If the conflict is about personal interest in capturing the higher office and personalizing it since its President is in jail, then the UDJ needs its leader Birtukan Mideksa to solve these deep-rooted crises, but it has to patiently wait until Mideksa comes out from its incarceration, and no one knows when; I hope it will be sooner than later so that she could solve these crises easily.

Such crises are common among a group of people whom the public always admires as its own best representatives. For example, two thousand years ago, there was a very heated argument about getting the highest position, thinking that if one is recognized as a chief or a leader among the rest of the group, he would take the highest office or the highest position or rank. This type of argument was among the future spiritual leaders – the twelve Apostles. Knowing the seriousness and significance of the argument among his disciples, Jesus took a little child and had him stand beside him and said to his disciples: “For he who is least among you all—he is the greatest.” (Matthew 46-48)

In this case, if the conflict is between the acting chair man, Ato Gizachew Shiferraw and Professor Mesfin Woldemariam, leader of the dissident groups, or Dr. Hailu Araya, Vice President and Public Relations, all these higher educated personnel should be reprimanded for not behaving properly and not making themselves humbles like that little child Jesus took and had him stand before him and that he warned his disciples to be the least if any one of them wanted to be the greatest.

At this point, it seems neither of them wants to be humble as that little child; I suspect all of them are upon each other’s throat to take the place of the President of UDJ – Birtukan Mideksa while she is languishing in that dark Qaliti Jail. She is in jail, not in her grave; therefore, I don’t see any significance to fight for her office instead of praying for her release so that she could come and assume her position.

The fight among these position-seeker individuals – Mesfin Woldemariam, Gizachew Shiferraw, and Hailu Araya – looks like the bitter fight among the children whose wealthy mother suddenly passed away without leaving a well-documented will for her poor children.

Assuming Birtukan Mideksa may never come out of her jail to run the UDJ again, these position-seeker individuals within the UDJ Party have no qualms or ethics when they fight for such position still occupied as far as the officially recognized President of the UDJ Party exists among us the living.

So far the behaviors of these position-seekers are unhealthy and their leaderships unproductive, yet they remain as if they were the pillars of the UDJ Party, but their continuous internal fight for a higher position disparages their artificial and domineering personalities, and as the consequences of their unquenchable thirst or greed for power, the UDJ Party has no other option but to disintegrate or break apart into different fragmented faction, each faction following its own leader: one faction following Mesfin Woldemariam, other faction following Gizachew Shiferraw, and still another faction following Dr. Hailu Araya, and that will be the end of UDJ Party.

Does such fragmentations of UDJ Party help foster the over all political positions of the other opposition party? Not at all! Did the separation of the Christian Church that taught the Gospel of Jesus for 1000 years as one voice, and then became divided in 1054, help to spread the word of God to all places? Certainly, not! In fact, its tragic division opened the door wide for Islam to spread all over the world while the Church was arguing about its ecclesiastical hierarchy within itself.

I think the same thing is going to happen within the UDJ Party that would bring a disastrous end to the party and great opportunity to the Woyanne government. In case, the UDJ Party stops to exist or function properly, those three persons I mentioned above will be responsible. The Jewish Prophet Micah declared long time ago, saying: “…a man’s enemies are the members of his own household.” (7:6) How true his prophetic declaration is today in our UDJ Party – a party that has no hope to succeed as far as its leaders are working hard to promote their own self interests rather than the interests of the Ethiopian people and as far as the leader of the party is still in jail for an indefinite time.

For example, he is against the use of force to oust the Woyanes, but he does not come up with any alternative than just talking and patronizing.

I wonder if he can reconsider retirement before joining the flanks of Hailu Shawl and Goshu Woldie, as the disgraced and buffons ever in the history of Ethiopian leadership