Well done! You are a true son of Ethiopia. Yes, Ethiopians should be united through dialogue. They have many things in common to work together to bring justice, democracy and hope to Ethiopia. I appreciate your untiring effort to orgznize the people so that they can voice for the voiceless.

Great job!!!

i am sick and tired reading your stories in the internet.
Are you trying to make all ethiopians in diaspora fighters? This cant happen. Just work with the ones you have on hand.
There are no more than few hundred genuine fighters in the diapora. period! The main struggle is in ethiopia, not in the diaspora. Arent you one of the a UDJ sympathisers which went down the tubes with Siye and beyene petros by forminmg medrek?

you claim that you are a law professor, so why could not you try to indict or sue meles and his gangs for crime against humanity?

Victory = G7 + OLF + EPPF + ONLF

If all efforts (dialogue consultation, etc.) are attempts to solve this equation that is OK. Otherwise, if they are attempts to build another alternative model it would be wastage of time and effort.

God Bless Ethiopia

Dialogue and consultation may not avoid someone’s deep-rooted pride in himself that he knows everything; therefore, his opinion is the only one that should be considered as the best one; if not, he may not want further dialogue and consultation with the other group.

Someone who believes in dialogue and consultation and who is very dedicated for the cause of unity may try to convince such an opinionated person to come again to the dialogue and consultation table but he may say to the dedicated individual and honest person: “atneznzegn” (don’t pester me). He would say that he is tired of any political dialogue and consultation.

Those who avoid political dialogue and consultation are not few among the Diaspora Ethiopians. Most of them are happily settled where they are and do not want to be concerned about their homeland – Ethiopia. Others who are in between are usually tormented for lack of decisive action – to live here permanently or to go back to Ethiopia and establish their own family there.

Those who are in between are likely the ones who sincerely want dialogue and consultation so that they can benefit from the fruits of dialogue and consultation: the fruits of dialogue and consultation are the creations of harmony among multifarious groups and finally the establishment of friendship and camaraderie between each group.

Of course, friendship or camaraderie of this kind would lead to a common goal – to find a highly educated and unselfish leader to govern Ethiopia without any bloodshed.

The author of the article didn’t precisely tell us what brings people, especially the Diaspora Ethiopians, to dialogue and consultation without reservation of any ashmoor or shumteta (euphemism) in the heart of their hearts. What are the first steps to be taken before we invite people to dialogue and consultation?

For example, when someone dies in Ethiopia, particularly in the countryside, a neighbor of that departed person leaves his house early in the morning, stands on a hill or climbs a tree, and from there he calls loudly to the other villages and announces the death of his neighbor. As the villagers hear the sudden death of one of their neighbors, they immediately go to his/her funeral. And the cause of the gathering of those people in the church in that particular day is the death of their neighbor, nothing else.

In the same way, someone has to tell seriously the death of Ethiopia, even though it is not yet dead, to the other person so that he may join the dialogue and the consultation cession to improve the lives of the Ethiopian people by changing their leader and appointing them another one.

Dialogue and consultation are sweet words in our mouths, but when we swallow them they become sour and bitter in our stomach.

We can invite hundreds of Diaspora Ethiopians for dialogue and consultation, and when these invited guests sit together, they first look at the person who is conducting the meeting for dialogue and consultation; they immediately interpret or twist his remarks if he has said something unintentionally that he is Gondere or Godjames or Oromo, or Tigre. Then the next meeting will be attended only by the ethnically related to the dialogue and consultation organizer; the rest will never show up, assuming that it is the Oromo or the Godjames or the Gondere or the Tigre dialogue and consultation meeting.

This is the big problem when someone invites people for honest dialogue and consultation, and what is the remedy for this ethnically divided people of Ethiopia in the Diaspora? Perhaps, education? Most of them are highly educated. Perhaps, money? Most of them are wealthy. Perhaps, love of country? Most of them love their country. What is it then that divides them? Perhaps, Pride and Tribalism? Yes!