Portrait of Ethiopian royal couple Prince Asfawossen and Princess Medferiashwork
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Princess Medeferiashwork Abebe, the wife of the late Crown Prince Asfawossen, has passed away on Sunday at the age of 84. The funereal ceremony was conducted at the Trinity Cathedral in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa yesterday in the presence of family members, dignitaries, and members of the Rastafarian community.
Addis Journal reports the following:
Hundreds of mourners gathered at the church to lay floral tributes where the princess was buried next to that of her mother, Wosenyelesh Mengesha, in accordance with her wishes.
The princess became one of the most popular members of the royal family, admired for her charm and her commitment for various causes.
Born in Dessie town in 1925 to her father Major General Abebe Damtew and her mother Wosenyelesh Mengesha, she began school with the private teacher, as it was the tradition with royal children then. She has studied reading and writing there before joining Etege Menen School.
During the Italian occupation, the princess was sent to Jerusalem in exile where she attended a boarding school. She returned to Ethiopia after victory. She married Crown Prince AsfaWossen, heirs to the Ethiopian throne.
She assumed various ceremonial duties and assisted her husband in various undertakings. Estifanos Menegesha, her nephew, told Addis Journal that she has been very supportive of her husband who was ruling under “the shadow Emperor HaileSelassie.” He described her as strong-willed and determined person.
A year before the Derg came to power, the princess headed to London accompanying her husband who was suffering from stroke.
After the demise of {www:Derg}, she has been coming back and forth and settled in Ethiopia three years ago. Estifanos said she was very religious who had devoted much of her time to charity works, including making financial contributions for monasteries like Gishen Maryam.
The princess was survived by three sons, Prince ZeraYakob, Princess Sihin, Princess MaryamSena and Princess SiferashBizu.
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My condolence:
The death of this beautiful and lovely Ethiopian lady, wife of the departed Crown Prince of Ethiopia, is heartbreaking.
She had seen the bad and the good in her 84 years, living in Ethiopia she admired and loved.
The good she saw was that happiest period she had lived with her husband during her father-in-law Emperor Haile Selassie’s reign.
The bad time she had experienced was the time of Mengistu Haile Mariam and the tyrannical rule of Meles Seitanawi (Zenawi).
I hate to see that glorious and generous family of Emperor Haile Selassie depart one by one from this evanescent world.
Whenever I hear the death of one of this great family, I feel loneliness and isolation; I think I have had too many good things to remember about this godly family. As I type these words of condolence, my eyes are gathering tears and my brains revealing hidden memories of the royal families of His Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie, King of kings, and defender of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church.
May the Almighty God, Jesus Christ, accept her soul until she goes to her final destiny after the Judgment Day!
Assta,
I am wondering if you really believe in God, how dare you compare the current ethiopia with the monarchial period?
You must be crazy or something negative thinker. Those mesafint were living at the expense of the majority. If You dont know history you better go to school.
Leave me alone!
Please, my dear Bontu, leave me alone; I’m now mourning and living in a seclusion and abstaining myself from eating food and drinking water because the root of that great Emperor, King Haile Selassie, has been deracinated, and no one from that illustrious house of David is coming to sit again in the Throne of David to rule Ethiopia. The glory has departed from Ethiopia with the glory of the Kingdom of Emperor Haile Selassie, the father and mother of all Ethiopians.
When I compare the peace the Ethiopian people were enjoying during the time of His Majesty with the peace they are now having, if they have any at all, I wonder if the Ethiopian people will ever again breathe the breath of peace, eat the bread of love, walk and talk freely, take a short nap under the shade of a tree, dance and sing in the streets of Addis Ababa and in the streets of any Ethiopian town, drink all night in any night club or in one’s own house with friends and relatives without a fear of being dragged, intimidated, humiliated, arrested and taken away to an unknown location, beaten up there, and finally mutilated and killed.
Life under Emperor Haile Selassie was very enjoyable but life under Meles Seitanawi and his wife Jezebel (Azeb) Mesfin is hell on earth and unbearable for the majority of the Ethiopian people. I have never seen such a leader like Meles Seitanawi, who discriminates certain people for the sake of his own tribe and treats others as if they were foreigners in their own country. It is such mistreatment of the Ethiopian people that impels me to go back in history and live once again in those enjoyable days of King Haile Selassie, but I know it is impossible to go back in time and live again. Those days are gone and never come back.
If the life the Ethiopian people are now living in is better than the life they had lived during their King’s time, I could have denounced the King and praised Meles and his wife for improving the lives of many Ethiopian people; however, the deep hatred the Ethiopian people have on Meles Seitanawi and his wife Jezebel (Azeb) Mesfin and the sincere respect and gratitude they have to their Emperor King Haile Selassie and his royal family cannot be easily described in human terms.
History tells us that King Haile Selassie ruled Ethiopia from the Red Sea to Moyale, from the coast of Somalia to Gambella, and from the coast of Djibouti to Metema; Ethiopia then had two ports: Aseb and Mesewa. History tells us that King Haile Selassie never ruled Ethiopia on ethinic lines; history tells us that King Haile Selassie gave his palace to Haile Selassie I University with out any coast to the University. History tells us that it was His Majesty who created the Organization of the African Union, and history tells us that it was King Haile Selassie who predicted about World War II, and he was the one who liberated Ethiopia from the five-year-Italian invasion. History tells us he was generous in opening boarding schools for the Ethiopian children, free of charge, educating them and sending some of abroad for higher education. For example, Dr. Getachew, Dr. Sirgu Hable Selassie, Dr. Paulos Asrat, and many other doctors are the products of King Haile Selassie’s effort to educate his people.
On the other hand, history is telling us that Meles Seitanawi has committed genocide by indiscriminately slaughtering the Ethiopian citizens on May 7, 2005 and jailing thousands of them in Kaliti. History tells us Meles has sold a peace of Ethiopian land to the government of Sudan without the approval of the Ethiopian Parliament. History tells us that Meles Seitanawi has rendered Ethiopia landlocked and allowed Eritrea to secede from its mother land, Ethiopia. History tells us Meles is ruling Ethiopia on ethnic lines, favoring one tribe over the other. History tells us that Meles has amassed millions of dollars for himself and his family while millions of Ethiopians are starving to death. History tells us that Meles has destroyed the Ogaden people and crushed their aspirations for independence or self rule.
I personally hate this kind of history – the history of Meles Seitanawi and his wife Jezebel (Azeb): it is a history of hatred; it is a history of divide and rule; it is a history of kill, destroy, rob, and impoverish the country. Because of this kind of history in the making in the Ethiopian society for almost twenty years, I always ask forgiveness from God for walking out of my classes during Emperor Haile Selassie’s reign and joining my fellow students who were marching in the streets of Addis Ababa, demanding justice for the starving Wollo and Tigrean people. While we were marching, no one was killed, tortured, jailed for a long time. Some of us were jailed for one night at Fetino Derash Police Department, Kolfie, and on the following day, we were released.
That was His Majesty King Haile Selassie, who cared about his people, who didn’t order his police force to slaughter us indiscriminately; we might have, some of us, some bruises, but we easily got medical care, and we were back to our classes, well and sound.
This is Meles Seitanawi, who does not trust, help, promote, encourage, feed, and educate anybody except his own tribe; this is Meles Seitanawi who begs money from foreign countries in the name of the sick and the hungry Ethiopian children and misappropriates the donated money – uses it for his personal needs. This is Meles Seitanawi who ordered his Agazi Police force to go out, equipped with lethal force, to the streets of Addis Ababa and murdered indiscriminately innocent Ethiopian civilians.
Believe it or not, this is, in short, the history of Meles Seitanawi, and I’m glad I am not part of this bloody history, but sad my Ethiopian people are still living in it, and there is no way out unless the divine hand of God intervenes and gives Ethiopia a person after the heart of the Almighty God.
Assta
Meles is devil we all know this but you are ignoring the man who killed Royal Ethiopia, Mengstu!
The Derg are to be blamed for this
Repent before you are completely destroyed!
My hatred is not by any means confined to the ruthless Derg and to the murderer Mengistu Haile Mariam; it goes beyond that and makes the Ethiopian people responsible for the death of the King and for the destruction of the royal family.
The Ethiopian people as a whole betrayed the royal family for not protecting them from the evil hands of the Derg and Mengistu Haile Mariam. No one raised his/her hands against the detested Derg and against the merciless Mengistu Haile Mariam when they manhandled the King. They all – Amhara, Oromo and others – kept silent. These are the people who most of the time used to say: “Long live His Majesty Haile Selassie.” However, when the King was forced to sit in that ordinary, wooden chair, no one offered him a comfortable chair, instead. In fact, there were some Ethiopians who mocked him and chanted against him, saying: “Kill him; he is from the Amhara.” The fact is that his mother was from Oromo, and he had never established or used the “divide and rule” technique Meles Seitanawi is now using throughout the country.
Had the Ethiopian people denounced his mistreatment by that uncivilized Derg and by that ambitious man, Mengistu Haile Mariam, the Derg and Mengistu could have refrained from humiliating and finally from killing the King because of the support of the Ethiopian people, but the King never got any support from his people he served honorably to the end.
Therefore, his precious blood is not only in the hands of the Derg and Mengistu Haile Mariam, but in the hands of all the Ethiopian people who failed to protect and save their old King from his enemies – the Derg and Mengistu Haile Mariam.
The Church, the Mosque, and the Synagogue – all of them – were silent: never came to the King’s aid in his final hour. For example, when someone tries to harm the queen of the bees, all the rest of the bees will attack the intruder and chase him/her away from the queen’s hive. Why then the Ethiopian people didn’t do the same help to protect their old King? What harm had the King done to his people throughout his reign, except that he had modernized Ethiopia and made the country known throughout the world?
He was not perfect, but he should not have ever been treated like a killer or like a criminal. His death brought the curse upon the heads of the Ethiopian people, and that is why God purposely raised from the ashes of the earth Mengistu Haile Mariam and the Derg to punish the Ethiopian people for the death of an innocent King, who died without help from his people whom he served until his death. How true David was when he said: “Even my close friend, whom I trusted, he who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.” (Psalm 41:9)
Since the Ethiopian people have not regretted for what they had done upon their King Emperor Haile Selassie, the Almighty God once again raised from tibia (inferior soil) another monster by the name Meles Seitanawi (Zenawi) to torment them, and he has been tormenting them for almost twenty years. God will never forget the humiliation, the suffering, and deep sorrow of his servant King Haile Selassie. May God reward him eternal felicity!
Dear Assta B. Gettu,
You say you are morning but you are filled with hate.
You implicate, that meles is worse then mengistu… the one who brought down the monarchy…
I too am a monarchist, but i know that God took away our glory to punish us his people.
Ethiopia’s leaders are elect from God, so stop crying about Meles and Azeb… God chose them…
Start crying about the people… me and you…
Dear bahir negash,
I am filled with passion, not with hate, about the good days most Ethiopians enjoyed with their renowned King, King Haile Selassie.
If a person cries aloud because he hates the Devil, you cannot tell him to stop crying and to stop hating the Devil, our number one enemy. No one loves the Devil, if he does, he belongs to the Devil, and no one, in his right mind, loves the two devils – Meles Seitanawi and his wife Jezebel (Azeb) Mesfin, but, of course, you are free to love them and go hell with them.
As it was one of the Ethiopian traditions, King Haile Selassie, before he became King, was anointed with the holy oil by Abune Baslios at St. George Church; then he became King with the blessing of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church.
Are you telling me and the Ethiopian people that Mengistu Haile Mariam and Meles Seitanawi (Zenawi) were anointed with the holy oil; if you believe they were, tell me at which church and by whom?
History tells us that Gragn Mohammad was once the leader of Ethiopia, and you believe he was elected by God; it is true though God raises evil leaders to punish a nation that sinned against its God.
We remember God brought Sennacherib King of Assyria to punish Hezekiah, King of Judea (Isaiah 36:1-22); also, God sent Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon against Jerusalem for its disobedience to God (2 Kings 25:1-29).
In the same way, God has raised the evil leaders, Mengistu Haile Mariam and Meles Seitanawi to punish the Ethiopian people for the sin they had committed against the anointed King, King Haile Selassie, breaking the eternal word of God, who said through the mouth of David, his servant: “Do not touch my anointed ones….” (Psalm 105:15)
I hope you believe that Mengistu Haile Mariam and Meles Seitanawi have been sent by God to punish the Ethiopian people; they have come as a curse, not as a blessing to most of the Ethiopian people but to you.
So, when I cry out I’m crying to God to save the Ethiopian people from Meles Seitanawi and his wife Jezebel (Azeb) Mesfin, and never send them another evil leader like Meles Seitanawi or like Mengistu Haile Mariam. I will continue to cry in passion for the house of my King, King Haile Selassie “…for zeal for your house consumes me, and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.” (Psalm 69:9)
I love King Haile Selassie for he had educated me, fed me, clothed me, and sheltered me free, so I will praise him until I join him and fight against those who try to blemish his remarkable history.
Yes, some Ethiopian leaders such as Gragn Mohammad, Benito Mussolini, Gudit, Mengistu Haile Mariam, and Meles Seitanawi were elected by God purposely for the destruction of the Ethiopian people, their properties, and their places of worship, for they are found guilty of killing their King in the eyes of the Almighty God.
O, I believe you that you are a monarchist, and that is why you are supporting Meles and his wife, thinking they may stay in power for many years to come as the Queen of England or the Emperor of Japan. I will not cry either for you or me; yes, I will cry to God for the Ethiopian people to remove Meles Seitanawi from their backs. It is a back-breaking disease to carry such a useless person for a long time without a break.
Bontu,
How dare you say “don’t compare the current ethiopia with the monarchial period”? Are you telling us that in the current Ethiopia there is no poverty? ha ha your true colors are showing – let me guess is that your EPRP/DERG or WEYANE background that makes you blab that those mesafints were living at the expense of the majority? By the way, those mesafints are those ethiopians who fought against fascist Italy for five long years against all odds and under difficult and harsh conditions. Please use your common sense if you have some. There were well to do Ethiopians as well as those with less means like everywhere else in the world. This is not a unique Ethiopian phenomenon. Our country was and is underdeveloped because we did not have the financial resources or the technology even to develop what the country is endowed with. The West did not want Ethiopia or any other African country to develop, as they feared losing their colonies. If Ethiopia was given as much aid at that time as is given to Meles now, you would have seen real development – not the kind Meles is touting about as he enriches his family and his Weyane cronies and even steals gold bars from the National Bank of Ethiopia and imprisons innocent geologists to cover up his theft! But you probably don’t want to hear what I’m telling you – as you have already made up your mind to support a thief and a murderer.
So, when I cry out I’m crying to God to save the Ethiopian people from Meles Seitanawi and his wife Jezebel (Azeb) Mesfin, and never send them another evil leader like Meles Seitanawi or like Mengistu Haile Mariam. I will continue to cry in passion for the house of my King, King Haile Selassie “…for zeal for your house consumes me, and the insults of those who insult you fall on me.” (Psalm 69:9)
I love King Haile Selassie for he had educated me, fed me, clothed me, and sheltered me free, so I will praise him until I join him and fight against those who try to blemish his remarkable history.
Yes, some Ethiopian leaders such as Gragn Mohammad, Benito Mussolini, Gudit, Mengistu Haile Mariam, and Meles Seitanawi were elected by God purposely for the destruction of the Ethiopian people, their properties, and their places of worship, for they are found guilty of killing their King in the eyes of the Almighty God.
Kamilah Willacy
somalian morraccan princess or the tanzanites married to Italian heir.
O, I believe you that you are a monarchist, and that is why you are supporting Meles and his wife, thinking they may stay in power for many years to come as the Queen of England or the Emperor of Japan. I will not cry either for you or me; yes, I will cry to God for the Ethiopian people to remove Meles Seitanawi from their backs. It is a back-breaking disease to carry such a useless person
The death of this beautiful and lovely Ethiopian lady, wife of the departed Crown Prince of Ethiopia, is heartbreaking.
She had seen the bad and the good in her 84 years, living in Ethiopia she admired and loved.
The good she saw was that happiest period she had lived with her husband during her father-in-law Emperor Haile Selassie’s reign.
The bad time she had experienced was the time of Mengistu Haile Mariam and the tyrannical rule of Meles Seitanawi (Zenawi).
I hate to see that glorious and generous family of Emperor Haile Selassie depart one by one from this evanescent world.
Princess Kamilah Willacy has finally married Italian Heir Federico B after 5 years. Her family, Ethiopian & morrocan royals, were reportedly upset that she decided on a non traditional format wedding. Princess Kamilah has already disapointed them in the past by not taking into the family oil firm located in UK. Instead she chose to live as a designer in NYC for a small firm. Her now Husband, wealthy Italian heir, has pressed her…..
Whenever I hear the death of one of this great family, I feel loneliness and isolation; I think I have had too many good things to remember about this godly family. As I type these words of condolence, my eyes are gathering tears and my brains revealing hidden memories of the royal families of His Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie, King of kings, and defender of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church.
Emama Medferiash, may GOD rest your soul. I will never forget you. I will never forget how you called me on the phone and consoled me when my mother passed away and I was all alone in this world. The day the memorial was done in Washington DC for His Majesty, with hundreds of people bowing and passing bye after the ceremony, in front of you and Princess Tenagne, the minute you saw me, you stretched out your hands. You never took time to think, but rather a natural reaction because of your true love for my family. I also saw how you quickly fold it back, because of the eternal fear you endured, of those that surrounded you, including your sister in law. We all know, ceremony and diviness has been so importnt to them. And it also played a great part in their demise, and Ethiopia going straight to hell with them. But I know you were far different than that, and forever you will stay a true mother for me even after death.
RIP Your majesty…
Ethiopia will rise again… someday