Thankyou for seeing first hand how our life is lived who the so called leader-humanlike-animals are.

Yes it is we the people who have to change our own suffering but still making the world know, understand, feel and give all the possible assistance in eliminating these enemies of any humanbeing is also highly instrumental.

Can you please elaborate on what you meant by “condescending.”

In spite of your identity confusion, you raised good point. But that wasn't really the focus of Mutch's writing at this time. Of course that is a legitimate concern but exasperating, too.

Neo-cons are not really interested in feeding hungry kids abandoned by their government. Their concern is their own bottom-line not some black bottom-line. And Mr. Mutch is talking about economic rather than political/military aid.

Regarding how neo colonialism is aiding and abiding dictatorship, bad governance, economic downfall and war, I have no doubt the west enabled our small time dictator to grasp beyond his reach. If it weren't for the west, I wouldn't be writing this comment sitting in a cold alien land.

Thank you donors, you stoked my rage.

The Ethiopian government is a "government" in name only. It is a tribal oligarchy, which runs the Ethiopian state as a personal fiefdom.

Styled after the harshest form of communism, Albanian communism, the Oligarchy had its roots as a “liberation front”. Tigray people liberation people terrorized Ethiopia for 17 years seeking independence of their province – Tigray. Circumstances favoured them and ended up controlling the entire nation instead. How and why they ended up controlling the nation is itself an interesting story, but I have no intention getting into that.

Limited by their own narrow interpretation of tribal nationalism, they abhorred and feared relaxing the stronghold. They even controlled the intellectual development of the nation's youth by deliberately diluting the quality, rigor and intensity of education in Ethiopia, so that they will only have to deal with semi-literate juveniles.

Their stronghold is not only complete, it is deadly. Virtually in every government and public institutions they installed their own ethnic people (mostly former TPLF fighters) as shadow heads of departments – ostensibly working under the real department head – but actually they control and undermine the authority and independence of the actual department head. Yes, they were a front when they started and they still function as a front. Only when a prosperous Tigray emerges as a sovereign nation will they drop the labels “Front” and “Liberation”

In the mean time they are transferring wealth to their province while enriching their own ethnic cronies, who will be the future industrialist of independent Tigray – all at the expense of the rest of Ethiopia.

In reality if not for the constant infusion of economic, military and political aid the Woyanne regime wouldn't stay in power for a few months on its own. To me Mr. Mutch's bias against Africans is plain to see. He didn't ask himself that question because he is convinced that the "donor-recipient" system can work, in reality it will never work because it is designed to promote tyranny in the third world, that's why it is called neo-colonialism.

My fellow Ethiopians, the answer lies in self reliance not in constant waiting for help from Europeans. I can understand aid helping people in an emergency for one time relief but not forever. Time to change that kind of mind set.

What you, however, didn't indicate, clearly, is that among the causes of the desperate plight being faced by the 81 million Ethiopians is the fact that donor countries and international agencies such as the World Bank and IMF are accomplices of the brutal regime in Ethiopia; and that the opposition parties and civic society organizations who fail to unite are, therefore, extending the prevalence of the authoritarian regime's rule.

When will the donor countries and aid agencies say enough is enough? When will the opposition parties and civic society organizations stop quibling about petty issues and unite to throw out such an evil regime in Ethiopia?!!!!!