As far as the message by Bito is concerned, it’s all true and I don’t understand why people are crying about it. I feel sorry for Blen, but her dad did something bad and he needs to do his time.

Peace for Ethiopia!!

Even Europe is becoming one, but we still are so backward that we can’t even have a proper election and democracy.

I live abroad and I have more rights as second citizen than in my own country.Anyway we can talk and talk about the problems. But we have to fight for this together.

What surprises me, above all is that the so called red cross and human right people not doing some thing about this when people are suffering and been killed every corner.

I do pray and hope that our dads will re unite with family and friends and lead a normal life.

KEEP HOPE ALIVE!

please do not listen to the requests of people who ask you to remov this response. They are misunderstanding his intentions. Sure, Blen is a little girl that deserves to be with her father. But she only received such attention because she is the daughter of a butcher. If Tamrat is ever released, it should be after the freedom of everyone who he put in prison is guaranteed- Those who went to prison innocently or resisting the woyanne dictatorship. Tamrat Layne went to prison because he and his criminal gang had a disagreement over the partition of the loot. So if you remove this article from the site, it should only be to make way for other children’s plea who have parents more deserving to be free.

When he visited the Somali region as a deputy prime minister of minister of defense, Tamirat gathered local elders and criticized their devotion to the Islam religion and the religion itself.

Some of you who post your comments here try to argue that Blen’s letter was intended to PM Meles and Ethiopian government and, as a result, that Bito does not have the right to respond to it. Please do not fool your self and try to fool others. Both PM Meles and the Ethiopian government have their own respective addresses and designated channels to reach them. Their address is not on the web or public forum. The writers of that letter all know that and I guess you have been trying to reach them and negotiate through those channels for the last years. Some of you were/are also insiders to the TPLF – ruling party and as such know the ins and outs more than any body else. Now you are posting that letter on the web for public consumption only. It is your intention for one reason or the other to bring that issue to public attention to benefit from it. Once it is public information any body can say some thing on it. I guess, by publicize that letter written in Blen’s name. You intend to win the sympathy of Ethiopians and get support from the people. Other wise there is no need to publish a letter addressed to PM Meles on public forum when you can reach him through the front or back door as you know. Therefore, by any measurement the intention of that letter is political.

Bito is a brave writer here. He is not unkind as some writers here tried to say. He wrote as very politely and softly as possible but he had to tell the truth. Do you think to win a political game on behalf of a man like Ato Tamirat Layne, who was the second most powerful man in Ethiopia at a time when government – sponsored human right violations were at climax. Are you intending to break our hearts by sympathy and take us to march for and behind Tamirat Layne, who was commander of the butchers? Do want to gain public support for Ato Tamirat, the Chief Corruptologist and the head master of state corruption?

Some of his supporters here argue that he had not real authority. That is nonsense argument. In reality he was part and parcel of the Woyane regime when he was in power and he, equivalent to the position he held, is responsible by commission or omission for every thing that happened. For the ethnic cleansing against the Oromo with the pretext of avoiding the OLF, human right violations throughout the country, government- and party-orchestrated ethnic clashes, corruption, in appropriate use of power (including silly personal things I do not want to mention). He was designing and executing policies and strategies that counter the national interest of Ethiopia and the benefits of Ethiopians. What was the difference between him and Meles Zenawi? Do you think that he is now charged by Meles regime would automatically give him innocence status?

And for some of you, truth is always unacceptable! Why attack Bito for writing the truth? Wasn’t Tamirat Layne the one who was robbing and killing the Ethiopian people less than one year after his arrival? Now we can see the difference: even if he was such a monster man, he is still from the golden race and his daughters are also above the other Ethiopian children who have lost their parents to this terrorist government. After all, he was imprisoned because he was licking sugar and these children have millions of dollars in their name some where in the bank. What do the other children who lost their parents have?

I have no doubt that most of the above comments were written by Mr. Tamirat Layne’s clicks or surrogates who themselves fear of similar responsibilities having participated in the massive attack on humanity and human right they committed in Ethiopia. There is a proverb “ —— yizo zilay aychilum”. Those groups are useless for Ethiopia;s future. Bito has said the reality and “the truth shall set you free” as the Bible says. You want us to lie and lie forever. No, that is not the way we can bring change. May be that has been how we learned from the last generation and came all the way through today doing all the wrong things and walking all the wrong ways. May be you have been told it was alright and correct by your predecessors while they were killing and torturing and while their acts were really bad and ugly. So their children – you – kept on the same line. How can we bring change unless tell the truth and try to find solution? You guys are useless for the future of Ethiopia and cannot be part of the solution, you will always remain sources of the problem. Bito did not deny the sad situation, but he points to the sustainable and inclusive solution instead of narrow considerations like yours. You cannibals (Chirak) you have no sympathy for kids. If you had any, you would worry for the millions of Oromo kids rather than for only a single child who is injoying a luxurious life out side the country. If you had any, you would think of the real solution that would involve millions of kids and that would have lasting effect instead of trying to get one individual out of jail in one way or the other by writing fake letters in the name of Blen. Come to your mind and see the realility.

Blen has the right to hear who her father was and Mr. Layne also has the right and responsibility to hear what he was. Bito is right and did the right thing. We need brave writers like Bito. For my surprise, some of the writers here demand Bito’s real name and identity. The objective of that is clear, As some of those who comment on this web are still active members of the ruling party, they want to pursue and persecute him and his family back home. They mention that Blen gave her name as an example. Yes, she could because she with her family managed to be out of the country. But millions of the victims cannot do that. And Blen’s family may also have some protection from EPRDF internal factions, such as the ones who try to defend her and her father on this web and try to get Bito’s identity.

1. The only thing Belein concerned about is her father like any other child.

2. When you Bito look Tamrat Laine from the prospect of your political view she saw him only as a father.

3. Over all, Belein is not resposible for what ever her dad and the EPDRF has done before and present.

4.As Col. Mengistu Hailemariam is a beloved father to his children,so Tamrat Laine is a missed dad to Belein and her sister.

Finally, Do we have to see every issue politically?

One thing that I want you to urge is please never use the word EPRDF when you refer the Zenawi tyrannical thuggish regime. Say it plain and clear Woyane.

I demand you take Mr. Bito’s response letter to Blen off of this site. I think, Mr. Bito, you are a cold person, typical of freaken Ethiopian politician be it that of Derg or EPRDF; you guys will allways jump at any thing that is deemed to score some political points. Have you no boundaries? I mean what ever happened to the Ethiopian manners? Mr. Bitto, if you really care for the children of Ehtiopia who have no idea where their parents are, the least you can do is to state your actual name. Blen was courageous enough to state her full name and that clearly shows that you can’t even come closer interms of morality to the innocent Blen. You can not even state your real name; that clearly shows that you are either an agent of the monster Derg, or the brutal EPRDF officail or a member of the countless useless political parties who are nothing but a disaster for Ethiopia and a pure night mare to my fellow Ethiopians. A true Ethiopian person free of political affiliation would not use a child’s missery for a political purpose. Ethiopian famiilies since the fall of Emperor Haile sellasie from 1974- have been the victim of all sorts of brute treatment ranging from extrajudical killings, to disappearances at nights, to kidnapings and to mass murder. God save Ethiopia from monsters who call themselves politcians who have no morality, religion and humanity.