Comments on: U.S. slow to react to election crises in Kenya, Ethiopia – Donald Payne

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:23:49 +0000

Donald Payne, a man of integrity, a man of iron will who always dare to back the truth defying the misgided foreign policy of the Bush Adminstartion desrves our praise and thanks.
The truth is the long term interst of the United States itself can only be maintained if honest judgment is in place and practiced as supposed to pushing the cart of lopsided thought for a short term gain. Where is it that then United State can say we are the leading democratic nation?
It is the silence and the do nothing work that is deliberate by the this adminstration which largely fired up the violence in Kenya not to mentionm Frazeer’s added fuel to the already burning ethnic fire. If the Bush adminstration came out quickely as Europeans and others did and condemend the stealing and rigging of the vote by the ruling party like Melese did in 2005, and backed the opposition who won the election, the dead count of kenyans might have been much less and the vilence stopped much faster.
The current ruling party of Kenya’s refusal to adhere to democratic principles and clinging to power at all cost is a disgrace and a bad omen to a growing political tranparancy of African nations. What a shame!

tesfaye mengestu

By: Koratu

Koratu — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:02:42 +0000

Guys i am so embaraced
Here we have Eng Hailu, Dr Tyae and the Chaikashum clan fighting against the demoratic struggle and we have a brave American Donald Payne fighting for millions of Ethiopain people.

Eng Hailu Shawl you are a shame to our country

By: Minale

Minale — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:09:24 +0000

God Bless Mr. Payne for showing us a window of hope in America’s foreign policy towards East Africa. The ‘woyanes’in Ethiopia are exploiting the misguided US policy. They create food shortage and conflict every where in order to make themselves important for the US and UN humanitarian and peace operations. It is not only inappropriate, but also inhuman for the US and UN to attach more importance to the role of ‘woyane’ in Somalia and elsewhere than the need of the Ethiopian people for good governance, justice and respect for their basic rights.

What a shame and disappointment when the administration of the United States of America, a pioneer in democracy, turns to be an obstacle to the fulfilment of the aspiration of oppressed people for justice and democratic government. What else can best ensure US’s security other than democratization? How can an armed group like ‘woyane’ that doesn’t have a mass base and hated by the people become an ally for US? If the US wants to do a long lasting favour to the Ethiopian people this is the right time; and the people want US to stop supporting ‘woyane’ blindly in the pretext of ‘ally in the global war against terror’. US has to change its policy before it becomes too late. The best favour to the people of Ethiopia, this time, is HR 2003 not food aid. Surely, with democratic governance the country of the 80 million people could be food self-sufficient and become reliable ally for US in the global war against terror.

Good Bless Ethiopia

By: ewnetu

ewnetu — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:43:38 +0000

I love this guy. As most politicians, he is not talking a “politically correct talk”. He talks the “truth”. I wonder how he understands the feelings of our people. God bless him.

By: Abiy

Abiy — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:09:24 +0000

I know why US is quiet. It is because their budy-Kibaki-is in trouble. They do this all the time. They tried to save Kibaki but it did not work. You remember they are the first ones who acknowledged Kibaki immediately after the sham election.

It seems they can’t save this CIA agent for the rage of Kenyans is so powerful and unstoppable. It is not like we Ethiopians are. Kenyans have got guts even though I don’t like the destruction. But that is what happens when hurt people finally decide to fight for justice with determination. That is the price to pay if anyone wants freedom in earnest. I know most of us want everything for free including freedom. We don’t call if free though when we do it. We gave it another name. We call it a peaceful struggle. A peaceful struggle with killers?!!

We should learn courage from Kenyans. The struggle for justice is more often dirty and bloody especially when dealing die-hard dictators with CIA behind them. The only way with these kinds of dictators is the Kenyan way and not the other way round. Begging a dictator is appeasing him and encouraging him to kill more. That is exactly what happenedto Ethiopia. Meles Zenawi and his gang of killers executed 200 people in broad daylight. Instead of confronting them with determination like the Kenyans, we retreated and continued to preach peaceful struggle. The result is what we are witnessing now. The killers practically took away even the right for a peaceful struggle by outlawing the Kinijit party turning it into a lame duck party.

We should learn from Kenyans. There is no beautiful way to get freedom from the hands of dictators. I am afraid it has to be all blood and sacrifice. I personally don’t like it but it does not matter whether I like it or not. Unfortunately, It is the only way that works with the Weyane killers in Ethiopia. Trust me. If we had tried this method a long time ago, we would have put the Zenawi and his killer gangs behind bars a long time ago.

Appeasement for dictators is the wrong approach in the name of a peaceful struggle. I was a fan of peaceful struggle until recently. But I think it is a naive approach with a dictators like the Weyanes. By comparison, Kibaki is a moderate thug. You can’t call him a killer dictator. Even he needed a good dose of a bloody confrontation by the Kenyans.And they have succeeded into forcing him into a joint government. If a mild thug like Kibaki needs this level of confrontation, can you imgagine what level of rage is needed to challenge the killer thugs in Ethiopia? Does anyone of us in the right mind think the killer Weyanes will respect a peaceful struggle? What a joke! Even Kibaki didn’t care for a peaceful struggle let alone the Weyane killer whales in Ethiopia.