Some people who benefit from this type of democracy are the ones directly related to the ruling party that has introduced tyranny in the country in the name of democracy. In the old days, as the prophet Jeremiah denounced those false prophets who declared “…peace, peace…when there is no peace” in the land, unfortunately we do not have many courageous people, except some at home and many abroad, who oppose those ruling false cadres who declare: “There is democracy; there is democracy in Ethiopia,” when, in fact, there is no democracy in the country.

How can one say there is democracy in Ethiopia when one sees those who want to participate in the election are barred from participating because of their political affiliation or their ethnicities? Real election in a democratic country is an election that includes every person who wants to run for an office of his/her own choice. Here in Ethiopia, we are confronted with a false democracy that prohibits people of different ethnicities and different political organizations.

In 2005, we saw how tyranny in the name of democracy performed its ugly duty by murdering those innocent Ethiopian civilians who happened to believe in democracy without knowing they had been out numbered by the enemies of democracy and gave their precious bloods for those few democracy lovers at home and abroad.

We cannot say for sure there is real democracy in Ethiopia when the undemocratically elected Woyanne officials enrich themselves where as the common people of Ethiopia have no say to the election process and are being ruled and robbed by the people whom they have never been allowed to put their ballots for in the ballot box. Such undemocratic officials whose languages strange to the Oromo and the Amhara people are sent to rule over the Oromo and the Amhara people; then the Oromo or the Amhara people must pay some money to the person who interprets their languages to the state officials sent to rule them, and it is possible the interpreter can be bribed to twist the words of the person who would like to talk with the new officials sent by the Woyanne regime to terrorize the people, not to govern them in a democratic way.

The Woyanne regime is based on fear and terror, and Meles knows that if he introduces real democracy, he will be out of his office within few days, so he has to continue terrorizing his people so that they can be submissive to him for a long, long time. The clear indication that Meles does not want to share power with other people is that most of the highest offices in Ethiopia have been held by his relatives for many years without the approval of the Ethiopian people. The reason he gave those high offices to his relatives is fear of the other Ethiopian people – fear that tells him to surround himself with his own people whom he trust – people who do not follow the rule of democracy are preferred to those who follow the true democracy.

Meles is abhorrent to the rule of democracy because he knows he has come to power without tough competition, and if he introduces real democracy in Ethiopia, he knows there are more educated and more qualified people than him to run Ethiopia in a democratic way; therefore, he will never, ever, bring real democracy to Ethiopia unless it is “on his dead body” because he knows the benefit, the power, the comfort, and the joy that tyranny has given him so far in the name of democracy, so why change tyranny into real democracy when he knows that real democracy treats him equally with the common people while tyranny isolates him from the poor Ethiopian peasants and puts him in a kingly throne.

From the time he took office until now, Meles Seitanawi has known the difference between tyranny and real democracy, and his political advisors have clearly told him never to run a real election; if he does, he will lose. Real election is part of real democracy, and deceptive election is part of tyranny, so Meles chose deceptive election rather than the real one; therefore he continues to deceive his own people and the people of the world, especially the United States and the European Union by telling them that he is for democracy and for the rule of law.

The Ethiopian people, especially the Oromo, the Amhara, and the Ogaden people know from their experiences the type of democracy they have been under for almost seventeen years is Adolf Hitler’s terror of reign – tyranny, not democracy. For example, does democracy allow a Woyanne soldier who claims he believes in democracy put a rope around a young girl’s neck and drag her to die? I cannot write all the cruelties that most of the Ethiopian people have been under in the name of democracy; in Ethiopia, the name of democracy has been tarnished more than undemocratic African countries.

A democratic person never claims to stay in power for life, but in the case of some African leaders, the evidence that they want to stay in power for ever is clear, starting from Emperor Haile Selassie to the present ruler of Ethiopia – Meles Seitanawi. Haile Selassie was over eighty years old, and Robert Mugabe is eighty-four years old, and they both refused to give power to the young, and I think Meles Seitanawi has in his mind something that tells him to stay in power like what King Haile Selassie did. He well knows the Ethiopian people are used to be ruled for forty or fifty years by one person, whatever bad or good the ruling conditions are under that person.

However, having known all the facts without realizing the consequences of those rulers who waited longer and finally dragged down from their palaces and killed by their own people, Meles Seitanawi has preferred to take the risks for holding political offices to relinquishing his power to another Ethiopian right now, so he will continue to fool the Ethiopian people in the name of democracy, but it is a mystery how he is able to deceive the west, particularly the United States and the European Union.

More or less, the western countries don’t care what is going on in Africa as far as they have been occupied by the Iraq and the Afghanistan war, and they don’t even care about the terrorists’ threats. Of course, the United States is still hunting the terrorists wherever they are, be they in the Middle East, Pakistan, or the Horn of Africa. So, any country that supports the United States in the war against terrorists is not suspicious of abusing human rights according to the United States State Department. The United States knows that there is no real democracy in Ethiopia, and that Meles Seitanawi is a dictator that does not allow fair elections in his country; however, at this time, as far as Meles is helping the United States by crushing the suspected Slummiest terrorists in Somalia and is continuing to be a friend of the United States, America gives deaf ears to the Ethiopians here and at home who cry for the real democracy and the rule of law tin heir country, Ethiopia. But one waits for a while until America finds the smallest errors Meles may commit knowingly or unknowingly against the United States foreign policy; then Meles is gone, and America may reward Meles an asylum in the United States for his previous friendship with America against terrorism.

In the mean time, one wonders what kind of democracy the Ethiopian democracy is; to find out to what type of democracy the Ethiopian democracy belongs to, one examines all types of democracy in the world and comes up with one similar to the type of democracy in Ethiopia. For sure, Ethiopian democracy is not a representative, a parliamentary, a liberal, a direct, a socialist, an anarchist, a consensus, and an Iroquois democracy. What is it then if it is not any one of the above? Take your breath, and I will tell you.

The type of democracy in Ethiopia is a “democracy without actual election,” which is called “sortion,” and we have seen Meles and his political gangs randomly choose certain people to the offices of their choices, thinking these people would meet the interests of the other people; they assume they will be unbiased and more “fair than the elected officials.” The truth is, however, they will be fairer to their political parties than to the common people who have never elected them.

Ethiopians are big winners. During 2005 election, millions voted for democratic leaders consequently the victory went to the overwhelming majority of Ethiopians; however, there were losers too. Those who trusted Meles Naziawi and undermined the power of the trusted population lost too.

Meles Naziawi, Professor Beyene Petros, Bulcha Demeksa, and Merera Gudina were shrewd and untrusted lost a big time. Millions of Ethiopians heard professor Beyene Petros complaining and speaking bitterly that he spent time in the Kangaroo parliament yawning and sneezing, and spoke he was bored to death. Now quitting the fake election, Professor Beyene Petros has taken a break form his yawning and sneezing and is ready to visit a doctor for his allergic pain. The question is, will he get a remedy for his planned failure of betraying the genuine leaders and the trusted public?

No future for Dr. Merera Gudina, and Bulcha Demeksa too. Because they betrayed the elected democratic leaders and millions of citizens for they collaborated with the crime boss, Meles Nazaiawi only now to be dumped and become unemployed.

The three amigos have no place in the hearts of Ethiopians as they have no any value and usefulness before the evil eyes of Meles Naziawi.

Thanks Fekade

Finally the only thing that I can say to the so called “our leaders in power”, is the time will come for them to regret for what they have been doing to the entire nation. It will be too late by them.

Let us keep hope alive! God will rise to rescue our people.

God bless Ethiopia.

Hab.

Thanks.