The former president of Ethiopia’s western region of Benishangul-Gumuz, Ato Yaregal Aysheshum, has changed his story about defecting and now he claims that he is in Canada for medical treatment. Click here to listen:
On January 17, Ethiopian Review had reported that Ato Yaregal defected and has joined the opposition camp. The same day the story was published, an internet discussion forum that is run by the Woyanne propaganda chief Bereket Simon, brought Yaregal for interview from where he was hiding. Apparently, he still keeps with him a mobile phone that the Woyanne regime assigns to all its puppet regional officials to keep tabs on them.
In the interview with the Woyanne internet forum, Yaregal denied that he has defected and that he has received permission from Meles Zenawi to get medical treatment abroad.
First of all, this fool further exposed himself what kind of puppet he is by saying that he asks permission from Meles Zenawi to get medical treatment abroad, although he was president of a bantustanized region. Imagine the governor of Texas or California asking permission from the U.S. president to to travel abroad.
Secondly, why did he have to travel through Uganda, stay there for several days, fill out political asylum forms with the local UNHCR office, before traveling to Canada?
The truth of the matter is that when Meles sacked him in November 2008 from his position as president of Beninshangul-Gumuz and appointed him to some commission, Yaregal was angry and started contacting Ginbot 7 officials, telling them that he wants to defect and join the opposition. He wanted to use his membership in Ginbot 7 for his political asylum case. Ginbot 7 officials facilitated his trip to Uganda where they took him the office of the UNHCR’s director.
But once he arrived in Canada safely, he refused to speak out against the regime’s atrocities and corruption in the Benishangul region, which he had told about to the UNHCR office in Uganda. He told those who assisted him to come to Canada that that he has hotels and other properties in Ethiopia and that the Meles regime will confiscate them if he speaks up. He also expressed concern about the safety of his children who are still in Ethiopia.
It was at this point that Ethiopian Review decided to publish the story him. It seems that Yaregal wants to be in a safe country and live a life of luxury with the money he looted without taking accountability for his part in the Woyanne crimes in Ethiopia. At the same time, he is too greedy in that he wants to save his ill-gotten properties in Ethiopia.
Yaregal Ayshesum had played a major part in all the atrocities and massive corruption that were being committed by the Meles regime in Ethiopia for the past several years. The Government of Canada should thus deny his asylum request.
When Yaregal contacted Ginbot 7 officials, he told them that he could not continue to see the crimes being committed by his boss Meles Zenawi and that he wants out. Thinking that this man perhaps has a sliver of human conscience and that he may want to do the right thing from now on, they helped him escape to Uganda and then to Canada.
Even while in exile, Yaregal continues to prostitute himself for the Woyanne brutal dictatorship.
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FORUM | 14 Comments
If this guy came through Uganda, that means he is granted refugee status.. that means he got Permanent residence. He should been granted a visa right in Addis Ababa consulate if he is here only for medical reason. We should expose him to authorities for lying to Canadian immigration.
Let’s make a petition to canadian government and expose him who he is. Canada is not a hiding place for woyane thugs!
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January 19th, 2009 at 8:32 PM
I agree we should expose his evil did.And his lie to secure political asylum to the concerned official. His interview with woyane media could be used as a good instrument.
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January 20th, 2009 at 12:54 AM
Hi there, i call upon all Ethiopian to stand for this criminal.I am from Benishangul and every body in Benishangul agrees that Yaregal has committed crimes against humanity in this region, and he looted the region with woyane officials. We should stand together to stop Canadian government offering him a secure heaven where he might enjoy the wealth of our nation, he needs to be brought to trial.
Really i know this guy the day he was brought to Asosa, i know where he was living and the conditions went through, but i am surprised to hear that he owns properties. What a jock. Really we are third world nation, no wonder we are considered backward.
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January 20th, 2009 at 5:22 AM
there is no candaian embassy authorized to give visa in ethiopia. Only in Nairobi they process visa for east african countries.
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January 20th, 2009 at 9:14 AM
Yaregal is the most corrupt person of all. 1. ethnically he is not from BENISHANGUL-GUMUZ REGION. 2. he was the one who ochestrated the fighting between Oromos and Gumuzes which has costed hundreds of lifes and destroyed uncountable properties. Now he is afraid for his safty in that region and that is why he has run away from Ethiopia.
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January 20th, 2009 at 1:14 PM
yehe dedeb he is like meles
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January 21st, 2009 at 2:22 AM
ኢትዮጵያ ሪቪውን እናመሰግናለን፡፡ ይኼንን ወንበዴ ግን ማጋለጥ የሁላችንም ተግባር ነው፡፡
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January 21st, 2009 at 7:18 AM
It is a good idea to expose this geedy indivudual he must have a UNHCR document since he has applied in Uganda. the Canadian gvt should be informed and this man could be denied Canadian stay
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January 21st, 2009 at 8:23 AM
I know Yaregal.He was very submissive and passive individual who think nothing but to full fill Meles’s dream.But Ethiopian Review, please write professionally. You are better than using the word “Yaregal continues to prostitute himself” and the like.
Such poor choise deminishes the vital message of the subject matter.
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January 21st, 2009 at 2:55 PM
Another proof of the severity of the grip Meles and his mercinaries have on those slave kabos(officials)even abroad.These so called high officials will offer their own mother to gratify Meles.Seems like there is no limit to what they do to hide the truth.
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January 21st, 2009 at 6:41 PM
To Lakew,
Shame on you to tell Eth. Review not to use the word prostitute in describing one of meles’s slave. Prostitute or whore is the perfect word to describe him. You could one of the melese’s thugs too that is why you did’nt want to hear the word. He is a PROSTITUTE. He is a WHORE.
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January 22nd, 2009 at 3:14 PM
To Lakew,
Yaregal is a PROSTITUTE. Yaregal is a WHORE.
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January 22nd, 2009 at 3:43 PM
Please write professionally. Try to make yourself a person different than you are criticizing .Sad to read the words, “whore”, “prostitute himself”, and the likes also in your other writings. Show your maturity by not reflecting your emotion in any to inappropriate manner. You know,most people prefer to read articles if it has some attractive topic/ title.
Thanks for the info though
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January 22nd, 2009 at 9:41 PM
well i dont care what he said after he got the hell out.but what i care about is how Ginbot 7 is shinning better than any other group in its style of struggle.
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February 11th, 2009 at 1:33 AM