The United States Africa Command has issued the following brief statement denying Ethiopian Review’s report that it is pressuring the ruling TPLF junta in Ethiopia to appoint Dessaelgn Hailemariam as a replacement to the disappeared dictator Meles Zenawi:
STUTTGART, Germany, Aug 20, 2012 — Allegations that General Carter F. Ham, Commander of United States Africa Command, influenced Ethiopian politics in any way are false. The mission of U.S. Africa Command is to work with African nations to strengthen their defense capabilities in order to deter and defeat transnational threats and to provide a security environment conducive to good governance and development. Command leaders and staff members do not meddle in the domestic affairs of African nations.
– U.S. AFRICOM Public Affairs
Ethiopian Review stands by its report. The truth will come out sooner or later and we will see who is making false claims. The fact that Africom is training the TPLF regime’s special forces itself is meddling in Ethiopian politics, knowing full-well that the army in Ethiopia is under complete control of the ruling minority junta. Also, instead of issuing a brief statement, Gen. Ham is well-advised to present himself to the independent Ethiopian media and answer questions regarding Africom’s involvement in Ethiopia, and particularly its military assistance to Meles Zenawi’s genocidal regime. By supporting the corrupt, brutal dictatorship in Ethiopia, the Pentagon and Africom are doing a disservice to the long-term interest of both the United States and Ethiopia.
CAPTION: A U.S. officer mentors Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF) TPLF officers in Tolay, Ethiopia, July 2009. The program is part of a 12-week course coordinated by soldiers with CJTF-HOA to assist Ethiopian TPLF NCOs in becoming sergeants major. Sergeants Major from U.S. Army Africa and U.S. Africa Command also participated as mentors in this program.
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USA !!!!! hands off Ethiopia’s internal affair by helping tyrant to butcher the people of Ethiopia who are starving for freedom and democracy !!!!
Elias, I knew this may be your undoing when you reported that story. You have lived in this country for more than 25 years but you still don’t get the resolve of your adoptive mother (the USA). Don’t try to undermine her as she can break your back and don’t try to mistreat her as she can annihilate you. Don’t fabricate story for your selfish propaganda as your mother (the USA) has all the resources to check and double check every event in the face of the planet.
we know USA is a super power but why meddling in the internal affairs of small & poor countries. It is better to understand the behaviours of African governments,once they came into power they are afraid to let that power go, as they consider it a (Tigers tail). we know US Army is trying to capture the LRA chief in Uganda & now assisting the TPLF junta to kill innicent Ethiopins,DON´T forget what has happened to US troops in Somalia. Remeber there were elite soldiers trained in america before Gen Ham was born.
There is press freedom here -and you , Woygud, might have lived here for ages-can you please stop and think, for a minute and only once in your lifetime, to get the concept of freedom-? You might die- like your master Meles by mentally living in 4×4 tribal ritual- and without expriecing the twentieth first century- where commitment to values and freedom is the hallmark of life. Elias is doing great and he will do much better in a crook-free Ethiopia.
i know Elais himself is a US citizen i do not know why is interfering on Ethiopian politics.