Isn’t it odd that a white American is going to such place as the Oromo region to teach when there are vast populations of Ethiopians in just US alone? We constantly look for aid, but seldom think how we can contribute or give back. Let’s not forget our history, our roots. The only enemy Ethiopia has is ignorance. It is every Ethiopian, Ethiopian-American responsibility to contribute to the well being of our people. Yes, the US embassy came and saved Rory, but what have they done to the people oppressed? And yet, we fail to see that, and instead internalize what the western writers wish us to portray of our own people: identify with our ethnic rather as Ethiopians – a method of divide and conquer.

It’s time to realize and accept that it is the job of every one of us to help our own people. It’s our responsibility and not others. Praising the Americans for their deeds while the Ethiopian is waiting for foreigner to fulfill humane duty is not just shameful, but isn’t going to help our people one bit.

The second person, plural, in Amharic, should be: “thifachu kecheresachu behuala…, instead of “thifew kecheresu behuala” unless you are expressing reverence for the person you are talking to such as “esow, kiburneto….”

You wrote: “To write your comment in Amharic or download Amharic fonts click here.” In stead of continuing writing the Amharic words in the second person, you wrote them in the third person, plural words. Why is it?

What do you want to say here?

In western nations the CCTV is recording you at least 300 times a day without knowing it is happening to you. For Instance in London, one CCTV camera is for 250 people and there you have more than 6 million people.

But in Ethiopia you don’t have that. The only thing the nation buildings, institutions and anything important the country has, its safety kept only with direct human contact/observation.

Are you saying that Ethiopians have to let any one in and do what ever he/she is wishing during the time terrorism is in its highest point?

In this caser, the problem is not the govt but you and your look likes. Even I give credit them for that. And I wish them to be good for Ethiopia including with policy that will be good for all Ethiopians. We are the one making between us peace, unity and harmony for common goal in our country.
Your level of thinking to see the different between Ethiopia and USA is very limited when you think you can behave in Ethiopia the same way you do in Ethiopia. It is a very different world. I’m not thinking here about economic development but the people thinking and way of life.

Her beloved citizens including this blog are doing their best all the time at every level for her sake. So, you cannot get/do anything you want in a beloved nation which is Ethiopia that is representing the oldest as well as the first (new)modern nation in Africa. Modern Ethiopia is created since 1850+. During this time there was no a single nation in Africa as well as in the middle east and beyond in other part of Asia, too. Africa get it’s second nation in 1922(Egypt) and third Ghana(1957?)

So, you have to respect the nation law. You cannot behave in Ethiopia the way you do in USA. However some ignorant western think they can behave as kings and queens in Africa as their forefather have done.
Ethiopians are not getting visa for work or Truism in USA, Western Europe, Canada, Australia and other so called western nations. But you do in Ethiopia as you want. Why things are working this way? Don’t use your tourism visa for business you only know that is for your benefit at the cost of may be Ethiopia. Africa was colonized by those saying religion people and are the children of God to spread in Africa. They gave them bible to look at while the land including they were standing was taken away including their humanity and it took hundreds years to get back and the legacy is continuing affecting blacks all over in many ways.

So, if you don’t keep the nations law, then don’t go there. Why are you so worry teaching English(a language beyond Africa and no black person can say as his/her) in Ethiopia (Africa)?

This is a good example to the Ethiopian people that the US doesn’t care about human rights, rule of law or due course as long as the regime that is trampling on human rights of its citizens is an obidient puppet.

And where were the so called free US media on this issue, not a peep from them or the propaganda arm of the US government the VOA. Not everything is like what it seems, these so called free media outlets are anything but free, they are propaganda tools for the ruling elite of the west. Let this incident be a lesson to every Ethiopian. No westerner will free you from Woyanne, only the people of Ethiopia have to do it for themeselves through their sweat and blood.

Thank you for your courageous job !!
This is a reality that the Oromo people has faced for the last decades as you have witness the situation in Alemya( E.Hararge). Oromo and other non Tigrean peoplesby now are living in a huge terror created by the so called government( woyanne). Thank you once again for witness.

It is very scary this government is using education as a means of penalizing the rest of ethiopians denied decent education. It should be reminded that even during the hailselasie era, ethiopians are educated in all fields regardless of their ethnicity many tigrians, oromos, southerns were given opportunity equally and achieve their goal, but today things are outsourced only to one region, see the fail of AAU and the raise of University of mekel and currently they are employing 123, expatriate professors this budget is coming from the federal government the most astonishing thing is that 90% of the existing staff are from tigrai ethnic group, and they were being sent in massive to europe and other countries for further education, this thing has never done in the past but the woyanes are smart they are telling us a different story the other nationalities are expolited by amharas, so they distract the focus from the real issues, the education system in Oromia also damaging the future of oromo, because most of them do not know amharic language , which is a minus to work, in the rest of ethiopia while the mekele university has department of Amharic, how do you think the afaris communicate in south, or the oromo in somalia if there is at least know how of the language, but the list is endless, i think people should work hard to account the type of facility in each university so that to compare the qulity of education offered to one region compared to other,

The only benfitor from this ethnic saga is the woayan which makes it easier to expoloit in the name of ethnic federalism, but most of us probably feeling the pain right now but the worst is going to come in the future so let us systematically disclose to senators, ambassodors, policy makers of europeans and others the apartheid going on. It is high time to let the world knows the true nature , let us put in a graph, the number of schools, univerities, their quality , industries, roads, and facilities built in region, the population and other stuff, so these people pay the price, we are not going to be fulled by Aboy sebhat telling us that they bring the money from abroad, this should not happened in 21st century let every body do his assignment.

Now every thing is a war field to make your point, let the world not be fulled by few roads, and buildings built in the cities and by fake economical indexes, it is up to us to let the world see the true nature of TPLF- YOU DO NOT NEED TO SACRIFY A LIFE A COORDINATED effort.

The young Americans should know that Ethiopians are known in respecting our guests. We don’t mistreat our guests, rather we treat them with curtsy and respect. The TPLF/EPRDF government is anti-thesis to Ethiopian values and culture. They kill, imprison and torture Ethiopian citizens, for meager of reasons. As dictators, TPLF/EPRDF government agents do not even trust their own shadows. They are so unpopular that they think that everything that moves is their enemy and opposes them. The saddest part, the democratic USA government considers these hard-boiled TPLF/EPRDF dictators as some partners in the Horn region.

I am an Oromo American who left Ethiopia 20 years ago. I was almost killed by the dictator. Please do not think that the Ethiopian people are the same us the ruling barbaric regime. The Ethiopians are civilized people and they love others.The dictator did not want you to educate the Ethiopians. Period. A day will come when you come to Ethiopia to teach.

Please read this:

http://www.ginbot7.org/ and
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/

Thank you for your bravery to go to Ethiopia.

As a fellow citizen of the world, I applaud your courage, decency, and most of all for witnessing the pain and misery to which non-Tigre Ethiopians are subjected to for the last niniteen years by Tigre thugs calling themselves government. The irony of which is that these minority ethnic group now in power were famine victims who were fed and clothed as well as organized by the United States of America that ultimately landed them on the fascistic throne. Sine coming to power they were supported and sponsored by the western aid enabling them to cause untold sufferings including genocide to their subjects – namely Oromos, Somalis, Agnuaks, Amharas among others. I hope you will help to stop the US government sponsoring the killings and tyranny of the Ethiopian people by a minority Tigre thugs led by the criminal Meles Zenawi. Tell the world that Meles Zenawi should face the international court in Hague just like his idol Charles Taylor of Liberia and the President Al Bashir of Sudan.