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		<title>By: Haliti rakistan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Haliti rakistan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mugabe is not as the news is rebuking him. He is an extraordinary person who has shown his ability not only by recwivinh seven degrees but also by teaching hundreds during his ten years in prison. Indeed, he is a leader. He took the risk to divide the &#039;land&#039; for the poor. Who can do that, for the people. Even if the white Europeans are hard working individuals, they can not continue to own 90% of the fertile land. And UK opposed the land reform. The next day Mugabe was pictured as a &#039;devil&#039;. And the African &#039;leadres&#039; do not have the required moral level to back him. Other western countries didn&#039;t give attention for the root cause of the problem.As a resuls the economy sanctioned hurt the country. UN or EU sholud help by paying the land fees to the commercial farmers. The opposition leader is opportunist. He just wanted the &#039;power&#039;. But Mugabe is a leader. Know him more.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mugabe is not as the news is rebuking him. He is an extraordinary person who has shown his ability not only by recwivinh seven degrees but also by teaching hundreds during his ten years in prison. Indeed, he is a leader. He took the risk to divide the &#8216;land&#8217; for the poor. Who can do that, for the people. Even if the white Europeans are hard working individuals, they can not continue to own 90% of the fertile land. And UK opposed the land reform. The next day Mugabe was pictured as a &#8216;devil&#8217;. And the African &#8216;leadres&#8217; do not have the required moral level to back him. Other western countries didn&#8217;t give attention for the root cause of the problem.As a resuls the economy sanctioned hurt the country. UN or EU sholud help by paying the land fees to the commercial farmers. The opposition leader is opportunist. He just wanted the &#8216;power&#8217;. But Mugabe is a leader. Know him more.</p>
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		<title>By: Bekele</title>
		<link>http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/2209/comment-page-1#comment-27183</link>
		<dc:creator>Bekele</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yilma Bekele,

Go trick somebody, I am not going to be tricked. You mentioned Mengistu Haile Mariam, yet you never mentioned the [b]TPLF-ETHNO-DICTATORIAL-MINORITY-MILITARY-JUNTA[/b]Their rule is different than Muputu CeCe Ko, only one ethnic is allowed to succeessed. In fact, this is a different that has bnever been seen in the histroy of dictatorship. I like dictators, because they only care for themeselves and you can always catch them by surprise, in the case of Woyannie, you cannot catch them by surprise, because they have wired every Tegerean mind that their stay in power is beneficial for Tegerai, hence the average Tegerean will kill and die for the survival of TPLF.

You cannot mention Mengistu and leave Meles out, he has killed over 123,000 Ethiopians only in a war with Eritrea, a war him and his friends instigated. Not to mention the thousands he killed in Ogadenia, Oromia, and in Amhara region as well as Gambella regions. He has imprisoned thousands more for unknown reasons. He also stashed millions in offshore bank accounts, and practices officially economic robbery, by establishing a separate economic source tapping only profits from Ethiopian market and when a loss come it is transferred into the Ethiopian economy. EFFORT by itself is a self contained economic engine that can raise Ethiopian economy and bring Ethiopian economy down anytime it desires. If Ethiopians refuse to abide by Tegerean rule the economy is brought down by squeezing hard currency, and if they agree with Tegerean rule then the sqeeze is relaxed.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yilma Bekele,</p>
<p>Go trick somebody, I am not going to be tricked. You mentioned Mengistu Haile Mariam, yet you never mentioned the [b]TPLF-ETHNO-DICTATORIAL-MINORITY-MILITARY-JUNTA[/b]Their rule is different than Muputu CeCe Ko, only one ethnic is allowed to succeessed. In fact, this is a different that has bnever been seen in the histroy of dictatorship. I like dictators, because they only care for themeselves and you can always catch them by surprise, in the case of Woyannie, you cannot catch them by surprise, because they have wired every Tegerean mind that their stay in power is beneficial for Tegerai, hence the average Tegerean will kill and die for the survival of TPLF.</p>
<p>You cannot mention Mengistu and leave Meles out, he has killed over 123,000 Ethiopians only in a war with Eritrea, a war him and his friends instigated. Not to mention the thousands he killed in Ogadenia, Oromia, and in Amhara region as well as Gambella regions. He has imprisoned thousands more for unknown reasons. He also stashed millions in offshore bank accounts, and practices officially economic robbery, by establishing a separate economic source tapping only profits from Ethiopian market and when a loss come it is transferred into the Ethiopian economy. EFFORT by itself is a self contained economic engine that can raise Ethiopian economy and bring Ethiopian economy down anytime it desires. If Ethiopians refuse to abide by Tegerean rule the economy is brought down by squeezing hard currency, and if they agree with Tegerean rule then the sqeeze is relaxed.</p>
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		<title>By: Assta B. Gettu</title>
		<link>http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/2209/comment-page-1#comment-27182</link>
		<dc:creator>Assta B. Gettu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It may be true Ham is a cursed race and all his children with him too!

Had the white farmers been allowed to continue farming the land until the Zimbabwean farmers learned the skills the Zimbabwean white farmers have had, the people of Zimbabwe would not be starved to death today, and Zimbabwe would have kept its name “the bread basket of Africa” intact, but thanks to the cursed offspring of Ham, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe is not any more the bread basket of Africa. It was indeed the bread basket of Africa when only the white farmers were handling the land skillfully and with great care to the land itself and to their employees.

However, as soon as the nationalistic and the egoistic Mugabe drove out those productive and intelligent white farmers and replaced them by his unskilled, unproductive, and lazy old soldiers, Zimbabwe, a great and a beautiful house that sheltered the white and the blacks for many years, collapsed as its pillars – the white farmers – were removed by a violent wind – Robert Mugabe, the black dictator.

Mugabe removed the white farmers intentionally from their land and hurt his own race unintentionally; some of those white farmers may have gone to England, some to South Africa, and some to the United States, and they are, perhaps, living there comfortably, but the people of Zimbabwe do not know how to figure out about their land they took by force from the white farmers. They have not still produced adequate crops that would feed the people of Zimbabwe. The inability of feeding and leading one’s own people demonstrates that once again the race of Ham may be a weaker race than the Semitic race. To avoid such a genetic weakness (I’m just assuming), we blacks of the cursed race must mix ourselves with the white race so that both races could benefit from each other.

It is not only Robert Mugabe, who is not incapable of leading and feeding his country; in fact, most African leaders are like that, unable to feed or lead their countries, so what is the alternative for us black Africans? May be, the alternative is to invite the white people and allow them to live and stay with us, not to colonize us but to show us how to. There is a big lesson to learn from the white Zimbabwean farmers; their departure from their farm lands shows to the world that we Africans are unable to lead our own productive lives without the leadership of the white race. Otherwise, why do we fail terribly and disappoint our people for so many years unless there is a divine curse upon us the children of Ham?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It may be true Ham is a cursed race and all his children with him too!</p>
<p>Had the white farmers been allowed to continue farming the land until the Zimbabwean farmers learned the skills the Zimbabwean white farmers have had, the people of Zimbabwe would not be starved to death today, and Zimbabwe would have kept its name “the bread basket of Africa” intact, but thanks to the cursed offspring of Ham, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe is not any more the bread basket of Africa. It was indeed the bread basket of Africa when only the white farmers were handling the land skillfully and with great care to the land itself and to their employees.</p>
<p>However, as soon as the nationalistic and the egoistic Mugabe drove out those productive and intelligent white farmers and replaced them by his unskilled, unproductive, and lazy old soldiers, Zimbabwe, a great and a beautiful house that sheltered the white and the blacks for many years, collapsed as its pillars – the white farmers – were removed by a violent wind – Robert Mugabe, the black dictator.</p>
<p>Mugabe removed the white farmers intentionally from their land and hurt his own race unintentionally; some of those white farmers may have gone to England, some to South Africa, and some to the United States, and they are, perhaps, living there comfortably, but the people of Zimbabwe do not know how to figure out about their land they took by force from the white farmers. They have not still produced adequate crops that would feed the people of Zimbabwe. The inability of feeding and leading one’s own people demonstrates that once again the race of Ham may be a weaker race than the Semitic race. To avoid such a genetic weakness (I’m just assuming), we blacks of the cursed race must mix ourselves with the white race so that both races could benefit from each other.</p>
<p>It is not only Robert Mugabe, who is not incapable of leading and feeding his country; in fact, most African leaders are like that, unable to feed or lead their countries, so what is the alternative for us black Africans? May be, the alternative is to invite the white people and allow them to live and stay with us, not to colonize us but to show us how to. There is a big lesson to learn from the white Zimbabwean farmers; their departure from their farm lands shows to the world that we Africans are unable to lead our own productive lives without the leadership of the white race. Otherwise, why do we fail terribly and disappoint our people for so many years unless there is a divine curse upon us the children of Ham?</p>
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		<title>By: Geedi</title>
		<link>http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/2209/comment-page-1#comment-27165</link>
		<dc:creator>Geedi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hallow every one, 

Sun rise from East and sets to West, shame is for Wests who are lobbing to attach a value less allegation to one of the energetic and leaders Muggabi, Muggabi is a hero African who managed to regain the dignity and ownership of Zimbabwe farmers. Either follow us or you will day for starvation, encounter economic instability or orchestrated Political unrest &quot;zip up your Mouth&quot; are the behaviors of western countries, who are still parasite to this lovely Continent</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hallow every one, </p>
<p>Sun rise from East and sets to West, shame is for Wests who are lobbing to attach a value less allegation to one of the energetic and leaders Muggabi, Muggabi is a hero African who managed to regain the dignity and ownership of Zimbabwe farmers. Either follow us or you will day for starvation, encounter economic instability or orchestrated Political unrest &#8220;zip up your Mouth&#8221; are the behaviors of western countries, who are still parasite to this lovely Continent</p>
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		<title>By: Engida</title>
		<link>http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/2209/comment-page-1#comment-27157</link>
		<dc:creator>Engida</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It is good to mention some of the barbaric leaders of Africa but there are lots of worse leaders to be mentioned like the Ethiopian Meles who is responsible for the sufering of more than 14 million people and the death of morethan a million. DOWN TO TPLF AND MELESSSSSSSSSS</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is good to mention some of the barbaric leaders of Africa but there are lots of worse leaders to be mentioned like the Ethiopian Meles who is responsible for the sufering of more than 14 million people and the death of morethan a million. DOWN TO TPLF AND MELESSSSSSSSSS</p>
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		<title>By: surafel</title>
		<link>http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/2209/comment-page-1#comment-27151</link>
		<dc:creator>surafel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 06:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Don&#039;t blame Mugabe for the failure of that state.I personally blame the West and it&#039;s allies.If it is not in their interest then they blame the government or the leader.We have seen than in Ethiopia,Somalia,and Rawanda just to mention a few.Stop attacking eachother and start working together to get rid of blood hungry dictators from our beloved Africa.Please visit &quot;surafels.blogspot.com&quot; and drop a comment or two.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t blame Mugabe for the failure of that state.I personally blame the West and it&#8217;s allies.If it is not in their interest then they blame the government or the leader.We have seen than in Ethiopia,Somalia,and Rawanda just to mention a few.Stop attacking eachother and start working together to get rid of blood hungry dictators from our beloved Africa.Please visit &#8220;surafels.blogspot.com&#8221; and drop a comment or two.</p>
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		<title>By: MT</title>
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		<dc:creator>MT</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To Ewenetu:
 Mugabe had done so many good things during his early years of presidency. He would have left power after serving like 8 years with dignity. Had that been, the country would have been  in a better situation.The country is now worse than it used to be under the British colony. If you are not able to feed your kids, forget about your dignity man!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To Ewenetu:<br />
 Mugabe had done so many good things during his early years of presidency. He would have left power after serving like 8 years with dignity. Had that been, the country would have been  in a better situation.The country is now worse than it used to be under the British colony. If you are not able to feed your kids, forget about your dignity man!</p>
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		<title>By: fsih</title>
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		<dc:creator>fsih</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you Ewenetu you have clearly explained it. i 100% agree with the truth you wrote</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you Ewenetu you have clearly explained it. i 100% agree with the truth you wrote</p>
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		<title>By: MT</title>
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		<dc:creator>MT</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Call up on:
A group consisting of peoples from every country in Arica needs to be set up. The group shall be organized through media personnels.The group is supposed to work hard and ultimately  uproot dictators from Africa once and for all. This is just possible!!It is just attainable.Let us start it just now. Elias, you have got work to do!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Call up on:<br />
A group consisting of peoples from every country in Arica needs to be set up. The group shall be organized through media personnels.The group is supposed to work hard and ultimately  uproot dictators from Africa once and for all. This is just possible!!It is just attainable.Let us start it just now. Elias, you have got work to do!</p>
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		<title>By: Ewnetu</title>
		<link>http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/2209/comment-page-1#comment-27104</link>
		<dc:creator>Ewnetu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Yilma, As they say it&#039;s easier to tell than to do..But then again none of us are in Mugabe&#039;s shoe! But let me ask you a question..If you have to choose between selling your country to the west and trying to preserve your country&#039;s dignity which one would you choose? That is exactly what the old and very paitent Mugabe had done in the face of less than three percent white minority owning ninty percent of the land to produce tobacco and pocket every penny to themselves...after waiting in vain over twenty years for the British and the west&#039;s promise of helping him to make land reform and provide him with the money needed, he was tired of seeing his countrymen living in abject poverty. He realized he became a puppet, like meles keles zenaw, and wanted his legacy to be one that brings about a meaningful change in the majority black zimbabewan&#039;s lives. The west responded him by portraying him as a tyrannical despot who  overnight ordered the life expectancy to be dropped from fifty to thirty four years old in less than a year !?! What I really don&#039;t understand is that how come we do not even try to investigate and analyze what went on before we keep on judging every african leader the west seem to demonize without veryfying the facts? Let&#039;s also look at Kenya, whose Economist leader Kibaki brought a relative stability in a country where corruption was rampant and the disparity between the rich was widening just like every other African state. During his reign of power in the last five years without cooking the books and or outright lying like the tplf counterparts he brought a healthy five percent grouwth from a point six(.06) percent he inherited and bringing alongside close to two million Kenyans out of the poverty line, and that should be the barometer we need to require from our leaders when they tell us an outright lie of 11% economic growth. Kibaki, a proven leader also from the majority ki kuyu tribe had every chance of winning by landslide until those whose interest is to make sure that every african should live in abject poverty started a smear campaign against him and left him badly battered, to a son of a historical banda named Odinga..We as africans, instead of taking evrything the west says with a grain of salt, started to shout their concern over our own and end up limiting the powers of those who think for their countrymen while applauding those who wanted to continue to seve the interests of others at the expense of their countrymen... There you go that is what is the &quot;Truth&quot;. So if anyone wants to argue or comment about an african leader I wish they could analyze what&#039;s going on and at the very least offer some kind of a solution based on their understanding. Otherwise we only be serving to become the mouthpieces of those others with objectives that are very different from ours. Hope this would be an eyeopener for some and a lesson to others not to shout while others are shouting without understanding &quot;Why?&quot; .. &#039;Ewnetu&#039;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Yilma, As they say it&#8217;s easier to tell than to do..But then again none of us are in Mugabe&#8217;s shoe! But let me ask you a question..If you have to choose between selling your country to the west and trying to preserve your country&#8217;s dignity which one would you choose? That is exactly what the old and very paitent Mugabe had done in the face of less than three percent white minority owning ninty percent of the land to produce tobacco and pocket every penny to themselves&#8230;after waiting in vain over twenty years for the British and the west&#8217;s promise of helping him to make land reform and provide him with the money needed, he was tired of seeing his countrymen living in abject poverty. He realized he became a puppet, like meles keles zenaw, and wanted his legacy to be one that brings about a meaningful change in the majority black zimbabewan&#8217;s lives. The west responded him by portraying him as a tyrannical despot who  overnight ordered the life expectancy to be dropped from fifty to thirty four years old in less than a year !?! What I really don&#8217;t understand is that how come we do not even try to investigate and analyze what went on before we keep on judging every african leader the west seem to demonize without veryfying the facts? Let&#8217;s also look at Kenya, whose Economist leader Kibaki brought a relative stability in a country where corruption was rampant and the disparity between the rich was widening just like every other African state. During his reign of power in the last five years without cooking the books and or outright lying like the tplf counterparts he brought a healthy five percent grouwth from a point six(.06) percent he inherited and bringing alongside close to two million Kenyans out of the poverty line, and that should be the barometer we need to require from our leaders when they tell us an outright lie of 11% economic growth. Kibaki, a proven leader also from the majority ki kuyu tribe had every chance of winning by landslide until those whose interest is to make sure that every african should live in abject poverty started a smear campaign against him and left him badly battered, to a son of a historical banda named Odinga..We as africans, instead of taking evrything the west says with a grain of salt, started to shout their concern over our own and end up limiting the powers of those who think for their countrymen while applauding those who wanted to continue to seve the interests of others at the expense of their countrymen&#8230; There you go that is what is the &#8220;Truth&#8221;. So if anyone wants to argue or comment about an african leader I wish they could analyze what&#8217;s going on and at the very least offer some kind of a solution based on their understanding. Otherwise we only be serving to become the mouthpieces of those others with objectives that are very different from ours. Hope this would be an eyeopener for some and a lesson to others not to shout while others are shouting without understanding &#8220;Why?&#8221; .. &#8216;Ewnetu&#8217;</p>
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		<title>By: Ewenetu</title>
		<link>http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/2209/comment-page-1#comment-27102</link>
		<dc:creator>Ewenetu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It is a nice article but where is the comparizion with our Melese Zenawi? Why didn&#039;t forget to list out Meles from his friends.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is a nice article but where is the comparizion with our Melese Zenawi? Why didn&#8217;t forget to list out Meles from his friends.</p>
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		<title>By: Bert</title>
		<link>http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/2209/comment-page-1#comment-27100</link>
		<dc:creator>Bert</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>
Ato Yilma,

“Mugabe was unable to rise up for the occasion”

Come on be realistic please. It is always easy to criticize someone in hindsight as it were. But, how would you have “risen to the occasion” when the West led by the US and Britain did everything they can to see to it that he never rises from the ashes of Ian Smith. I don’t think it is that difficult to see the evil design he and the Zimbabwean people had to go through in the last 3 decades of independence. If he hadn’t challenged the white establishment of old Rhodesia and if he was to accept the status quo of colonial Southern Rhodesia, I believe he would have been tooted as a “Great democrat” by the double standard modus of operandi that the West has perfected. As much as I despise his “I know it all” attitude, I think he placed himself in an unenviable and untenable position by confiscating and expropriating the land that was owned and operated by the white Zimbabweans and distributed them to poor black farmers with apparently less experience in modern farming and perhaps less capital as well. You see. My friend - that is the danger of getting in the West band wagon. Are you telling us that Robert Mugabe was anymore dictator, ruthless or embarrassing than the Weyane leader who is constantly viewed as a democrat by none other than the West? Is there any logical reason why the West pampers Meles Zenawi and continuously denigrate Robert Mugabe? Could it be then the former may be nothing more than their errand boy while the latter just simply gets on their way?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ato Yilma,</p>
<p>“Mugabe was unable to rise up for the occasion”</p>
<p>Come on be realistic please. It is always easy to criticize someone in hindsight as it were. But, how would you have “risen to the occasion” when the West led by the US and Britain did everything they can to see to it that he never rises from the ashes of Ian Smith. I don’t think it is that difficult to see the evil design he and the Zimbabwean people had to go through in the last 3 decades of independence. If he hadn’t challenged the white establishment of old Rhodesia and if he was to accept the status quo of colonial Southern Rhodesia, I believe he would have been tooted as a “Great democrat” by the double standard modus of operandi that the West has perfected. As much as I despise his “I know it all” attitude, I think he placed himself in an unenviable and untenable position by confiscating and expropriating the land that was owned and operated by the white Zimbabweans and distributed them to poor black farmers with apparently less experience in modern farming and perhaps less capital as well. You see. My friend &#8211; that is the danger of getting in the West band wagon. Are you telling us that Robert Mugabe was anymore dictator, ruthless or embarrassing than the Weyane leader who is constantly viewed as a democrat by none other than the West? Is there any logical reason why the West pampers Meles Zenawi and continuously denigrate Robert Mugabe? Could it be then the former may be nothing more than their errand boy while the latter just simply gets on their way?</p>
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		<title>By: Bezabih</title>
		<link>http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/2209/comment-page-1#comment-27095</link>
		<dc:creator>Bezabih</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Excellent article with historical references and a dose of sad and clear picture of  reality about the African continent. As long as the African people, in every country don&#039;t say,  enough is enough and fight for democratic rule this continent will be doomed for a longtime. The only deficit on the article is that it failed to point out some of the hopeful signs seen in some African countries such as in Ghana, South Africa and Botswana. Even though we don&#039;t see prosperity and democratic governance  mushrooming, there is a trickle of hope seen to be acknoldged.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excellent article with historical references and a dose of sad and clear picture of  reality about the African continent. As long as the African people, in every country don&#8217;t say,  enough is enough and fight for democratic rule this continent will be doomed for a longtime. The only deficit on the article is that it failed to point out some of the hopeful signs seen in some African countries such as in Ghana, South Africa and Botswana. Even though we don&#8217;t see prosperity and democratic governance  mushrooming, there is a trickle of hope seen to be acknoldged.</p>
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		<title>By: anonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator>anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well said , well written.
Thank you Yilma, May God bless you</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well said , well written.<br />
Thank you Yilma, May God bless you</p>
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		<title>By: fish</title>
		<link>http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/2209/comment-page-1#comment-27093</link>
		<dc:creator>fish</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>who ever wrote this article make it like mugabe had a free hand and failed. but imagine when 400 000 white mens control 90% of the economy and judiciary. Beside the west giving it suport for the anti zimbwabian  white minority, sabotaging the economy. Now they become more catholic than the pop. accusing mr Mogabe for the Zimbuabe fall. in my openion the west especially Britian the main factor for the fall of Zimbuabwe. Ofcourse the white farmers should give up thier ill gotten land for the black ppls who fought for the land. What is wrong   if mugabed did that but as soon as he touched the root cause the operesive mechanism they impose sanctins after sanctions just to show africans shouldn&#039;t stand for their right with out the blessing of teh west. That is what is happening in Zimbuabue.mugabe is an old man and i don&#039;t think he has any desire to live another 30 year but he want to make good things for his ppls at the end his life time. Now he is not afraid of the white intimidation and he is working with is free mind. He can&#039;t be a pupet for the remaining short life his. This put in direct collision with the west. He shouldn,t alow this so called oppostion to take power at any coast he has retain power and chalenge the west.When the ppls wann change in our ethiopia the west was not ready so they help to rigge the vote through delaying tactics now in Zimbuabwe they want the result to come out becouse they know what is happening when there is a delay. It is their tactic both in kenya and ethiopia. Mugabe should stay in power untill the west removed their sanction if they worry about the ppls of Zimbwabue it is their sanction not mugabe wich hert the couuntry.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>who ever wrote this article make it like mugabe had a free hand and failed. but imagine when 400 000 white mens control 90% of the economy and judiciary. Beside the west giving it suport for the anti zimbwabian  white minority, sabotaging the economy. Now they become more catholic than the pop. accusing mr Mogabe for the Zimbuabe fall. in my openion the west especially Britian the main factor for the fall of Zimbuabwe. Ofcourse the white farmers should give up thier ill gotten land for the black ppls who fought for the land. What is wrong   if mugabed did that but as soon as he touched the root cause the operesive mechanism they impose sanctins after sanctions just to show africans shouldn&#8217;t stand for their right with out the blessing of teh west. That is what is happening in Zimbuabue.mugabe is an old man and i don&#8217;t think he has any desire to live another 30 year but he want to make good things for his ppls at the end his life time. Now he is not afraid of the white intimidation and he is working with is free mind. He can&#8217;t be a pupet for the remaining short life his. This put in direct collision with the west. He shouldn,t alow this so called oppostion to take power at any coast he has retain power and chalenge the west.When the ppls wann change in our ethiopia the west was not ready so they help to rigge the vote through delaying tactics now in Zimbuabwe they want the result to come out becouse they know what is happening when there is a delay. It is their tactic both in kenya and ethiopia. Mugabe should stay in power untill the west removed their sanction if they worry about the ppls of Zimbwabue it is their sanction not mugabe wich hert the couuntry.</p>
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		<title>By: Tokichaw</title>
		<link>http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/2209/comment-page-1#comment-27092</link>
		<dc:creator>Tokichaw</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>He is yet to fall. He is reading Meles Zenawi&#039;s play book. Accuse the oppostion, shut out the journalists and take them all to prison. Accuse all the oppostion of trying to kill your tribe,Tell the judges what to decide or as in Meles&#039;s case have experts write the sentnce. Kill domnstrators on the streets and harass the entire country. Tell the west you will fight terrorism and they will give you aid and cover. Send Ambassadors and dignitaries to the prison to advise the oppostion to ask for pardon. Then everything will be OK. Other people will keep dying of hunger Mughabe will have his power

Africas Goons Stink. But Mugabe is a mother Terressa compated to Meles Zenawi. At least he has not killed as many as Meles Zenawi and he has let the parliamentary votes get counted.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He is yet to fall. He is reading Meles Zenawi&#8217;s play book. Accuse the oppostion, shut out the journalists and take them all to prison. Accuse all the oppostion of trying to kill your tribe,Tell the judges what to decide or as in Meles&#8217;s case have experts write the sentnce. Kill domnstrators on the streets and harass the entire country. Tell the west you will fight terrorism and they will give you aid and cover. Send Ambassadors and dignitaries to the prison to advise the oppostion to ask for pardon. Then everything will be OK. Other people will keep dying of hunger Mughabe will have his power</p>
<p>Africas Goons Stink. But Mugabe is a mother Terressa compated to Meles Zenawi. At least he has not killed as many as Meles Zenawi and he has let the parliamentary votes get counted.</p>
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		<title>By: Arat Kilo</title>
		<link>http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/2209/comment-page-1#comment-27089</link>
		<dc:creator>Arat Kilo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The best article ever written by Yilma Bekele. He usually is one sided, partisan and off the facts. But this time he nailed it. 

Gee - are we Africans not capable of leading ourselves? By all account Zenawi is the worst in Africa. He has beaten all the brutal tyannts of Africa in every category.

One thing we have to look at in the future is creating &quot;The Tyrannt hunter organization of Africa&quot; an organisation that may be similar to Simon&#039;s &quot;Nazi Hunter&quot; of Austraia which brought so many Nazi criminals to justice after the 2nd world war.

I am now convinced that sometimes it is important what we do to the tyrannts and follower after they leave power. Mengistu&#039;s luxury life after power is not a good example to eradicate dictatorship.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The best article ever written by Yilma Bekele. He usually is one sided, partisan and off the facts. But this time he nailed it. </p>
<p>Gee &#8211; are we Africans not capable of leading ourselves? By all account Zenawi is the worst in Africa. He has beaten all the brutal tyannts of Africa in every category.</p>
<p>One thing we have to look at in the future is creating &#8220;The Tyrannt hunter organization of Africa&#8221; an organisation that may be similar to Simon&#8217;s &#8220;Nazi Hunter&#8221; of Austraia which brought so many Nazi criminals to justice after the 2nd world war.</p>
<p>I am now convinced that sometimes it is important what we do to the tyrannts and follower after they leave power. Mengistu&#8217;s luxury life after power is not a good example to eradicate dictatorship.</p>
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		<title>By: Zena</title>
		<link>http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/2209/comment-page-1#comment-27088</link>
		<dc:creator>Zena</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What about today&#039;s Ethiopian rulers. Sneaky systematic, and the new version of the election manipulators in Africa.  Rubbing it on the neighboring countries Kenya, Somalia....

Today&#039;s Ethiopian leaders as cancerous as the &#039;60s, 70&#039;, 80&#039;s African leaders, if not more.  Divide and rule a typical 18th century white colonial&#039;s/modern day apartheid philosopy.  Please don&#039;t leave out today Woyane monsters.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What about today&#8217;s Ethiopian rulers. Sneaky systematic, and the new version of the election manipulators in Africa.  Rubbing it on the neighboring countries Kenya, Somalia&#8230;.</p>
<p>Today&#8217;s Ethiopian leaders as cancerous as the &#8217;60s, 70&#8242;, 80&#8242;s African leaders, if not more.  Divide and rule a typical 18th century white colonial&#8217;s/modern day apartheid philosopy.  Please don&#8217;t leave out today Woyane monsters.</p>
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