Comments on: MDC plans to extradite Mengistu HaileMariam to Ethiopia

By: aba kibret

aba kibret — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:12:22 +0000

what if we were in place of mengistu at a time? the worst of the worst, like we are watching now in melese. forget the 71 year old man.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:58:52 +0000

Send him to the ICC in The Hague!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:26:17 +0000

Mengistu is a criminal with very nationalistic camouflages, he must face justice in the world criminal court not in Ethiopia. I love his speeches though, they show how politically immature he was.

By: Gizew meta

Gizew meta — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:42:44 +0000

Its realy hard to escaped out of the crime he did & must be punished ,the way he killed million innocents like flies, and hoping to see the judgement of this bloody sucker fascist Mengistu Hailemariam as,I were one of the person who lost my parents and relatives with out any trial& made me handycap.

By: JoJO

JoJO — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:41:50 +0000

He might not be able to live in Zimbabe but I do not think he will be extradited to Ethiopia. If he have to leave Zimbabe he will go somewhere else. I do not think it is that easy (in his case) to send him to Ethiopia.

By: Degene kassa

Degene kassa — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:47:46 +0000

Anyone who supports Mengistu is just nuts. We may not like the present government, but Mengistu was much worse than that. I will personally go to Addis to see his death sentence carried out. More than a million people perished under his dictatorship because they dared to oppose his policies and some of you are calling this guy a hero! Well, I, for one, would like to see this “hero” die a hundred times.

By: asbew

asbew — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:38:42 +0000

One at a time, let Mengistu get what he desirve and after this the woyane will soon be the question on the table. That is where we can say justice prevail.

By: mamo

mamo — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:12:00 +0000

This is wonderful news.
Emperor Haile Selaisse will now rest in peace once this anti Ethiopian called Mengistu Haile Mariam pays for his wrong doings.

By: Bisrat

Bisrat — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:43:30 +0000

“He loves his country, yes he was a butcher”. What a logic.

By: zagol gashaw

zagol gashaw — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:56:46 +0000

I agree on principle about Mengistus responsiblities on the atrocities meted on the youth while he was in power. I am one of the survivors due to the grace of the Almighty. But he should not be tried by TPLF. on the other hand if Morgan is a true son of Africa he shold also think twice on the options before rushing to extradict the true son of Africa.

By: Amen from Ethiopia

Amen from Ethiopia — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:58:08 +0000

Shame on you MDC! Make your backyard clear before you start thinking about Mengistu or Ethiopia. First deal with your own dictator Mugabe then you can show us or you can become models. How can this be your priority agenda while this glorious country of yours is not even capable to deal with Cholera? Feed its people? Deal with your own human right and democracy issue. If this news is true? Shame on You MDC!!! Shame on you Morgan Tsvangirai.

Ethiopian from Ethiopia!

By: Geelle

Geelle — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:45:02 +0000

The joke of the century would be Meles and his TPLF trying to judge someone else for crimes against their subjects.Mengistu was a killer but he was better than Meles simply because he was more of a statesman and less of a tribalistic.All Ethiopians were equal for him and all of them were his victims.But,he was the first one who gave my small town in Ogaden its first electricity and clean water untill the TPLF came along and took the waterpumps to Tigray.We never missed him but for us, things have changed only for the worse.

By: feleke

feleke — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:43:51 +0000

i don’t ever think melese will harm his brother. still melese high on the rank. atlist mengistu is a nationalist while melese is giving our land for the sake of his stay in power. Then given all this, isn’t Mengistu FREE.

Thank you

By: EgriMeKel

EgriMeKel — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:37:53 +0000

It is not far-fetched to think of the time when both Menghistu and Melles face the same tribunal under a democratically constituted Ethiopian justice system. Time is running out of such dictators who have caused enormous death and destruction to both the brotherly Ethiopian and Eritrean people; and no amount of rationalization could make one less criminal than the other.

For that possibility to happen, at least the helicopters that are ready to fly off Melles’s palace have to be disabled when that fateful time comes….

Could that be next May?….In the mean time, we have all to do our part for that inevitable moment to arrive SOONER..

By: Ager wodad

Ager wodad — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:20:35 +0000

Leave mengistu alone!! Yes, he was a ruthless dictator and so many had perished when he was in power. But nobody will ever doubt his love for Ethiopia. For mengistu, all ethiopians are of the same race and color. He never discriminated against his brethern according to race. It was mengistu who brought equality between religions and ethnic groups. Muslims were second class citizens before mengistu. All those forgotten minorities (in the south) gained prominence during mengistu. We all belonged to one big Ethiopian family during his regime. Look at what is happening in the country now. Leave mengistu alone!! We have a bigger problem on our hands that is threatening the very existence of Ethiopia. Fascist Zenawi has no moral authority what so ever tp imprison mengistu. None!!

By: Hanfeto

Hanfeto — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:05:42 +0000

Now a days we need aleader like mengistu who can punish these TPLF tuggs and their hodam folowers.

By: Gabra

Gabra — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:05:05 +0000

As a close relative of innocent victims of Mengistu’s red terror carnage, I am glad to hear that justice is about to be served. At this point I don’t really care who will hand him the ultimate justice he deserves. My butchered relatives were not even given a dignified burial. I heard two of them were tortured beyond recognition, summarily shot and thrown to the hyenas. They were just little boys when I left home in the 60′s and they were in their teenage years when they were murdered. The only crime they committed was because their late father owned a modern farm in one of those river valleys. They were accused of economic sabotage because the area government official could not start the tractors sitting idle for almost a year on the overgrown yard. I still have their pictures and my heart bleeds whenever I thumb through my photo album. And that is one of the reasons I do not want to go back home to visit. And it has been more than 42 years now. I will live with my ‘irm’ until I die.

By: rashid

rashid — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:56:52 +0000

both mengistu and meles are equally criminals. they must be tried for turning the country into their fief. catch meles frist and ship both of them to the Hague. neither menegistu is hero as much meles is a thief.

By: dandew

dandew — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:49:42 +0000

I dont think that is a reliable news. It is written by woyanes to distruct attention of ethiopian people from thinking about the arest of Birtukan Mediksa. They will do what ever possible that they think will distruct peoples attention. We will hear a lot of fabrications until the 2010 election. Woyane`s power over the people at this time is not only weapon but they are pre aware of the psychological responses to every action they take. Before we get something done we go to the other thing. We need to make sure that Birtukan is released before doing something else.

By: matti

matti — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:34:58 +0000

I strongly support of handling Mengistu to the Ethiopian court system IF THERE is ANY IN PLACE; however, Legesse Z., Seyoum Mesfin, Azeb Mesfin, Mebrahtu G/hiwot, and the rest of weyane mafia family committed much worse than that of Mengistu and they must face justice first.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:27:53 +0000

He is a Hero!! working all his life for the uity of Ethiopia and its people.
History and God will never forget this truth!

By: Mahidere Mariam

Mahidere Mariam — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:49:45 +0000

Yes, Mengistu had committed grave crimes against humanity. But I still give him a great deal of credit for his grandiose vision and genuine aspiration for Ethiopia. No one can question his allegiance to the nation. Meles, on the other hand, has been committing more dreadful crimes against humanity and yet his motive is not promoting national interest of Ethiopia but disintegrating and destroying it. As such, Meles well deserves the guillotine not Mengistu. Let Mengistu wait for his natural end up.

Death for Woyanie!!! Death for Agazi!!! Death for the Prime Monster Meles!!!!!!!!!!! Long live Ethiopia!!!

By: Reader

Reader — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:00:06 +0000

Good NEWS

Mengistu should face justice in his own birth place.