It is surprising that, he didn’t write a single chapter (Not even a single page) about Shabia. Ethiopia was under the control of Shabia during the first 10 years of the woyane regime. Isn’t it a public secret.? Who were the first beneficairies? what were Shabians doing at that time? What was their intention? out of many to be mentioned, Tesfaye lacks the gut to say few about them. Why ?????????

I have also read the book “Ye Burka Zimta” a couple of years ago. Genuine Ethiopian were very upset while few overjoyed. The book was not a big deal other than its intention to provoke conflict between two major ethnics. It is not as he tried to promote in his current book. He is a good salesman!. (Ewnetim Negade!).

Tesfaye, You are not Genuine. You didn’t say a word about Shabians and Eritreans. Big Question for you. Credibility Lost..

1. The prodemocray movement is a strong movement with tested leadership, the notion that it would be led by these once TPLF/EPRDF honchos is way overblown. The struggle can accommodate the contributions of these defectors with no fear that they would be able to manipulate the struggle. Actually, the role for the likes of Tesfaye would be to bringing more and more of their earlier comrades to defect from enemy camp. Their future redemption infront of the Ethiopian public would be by the number of their ex-comrades they have helped defect.
For that to happen opposition activists should help by lowering the emotional tantrum which would not help the desired goal.

2. The prodemocracy movement is surefooted movement or a tsunami (MAEBEL) with its eyes focused on the prize and the time to jump from the sinking TPLF-navigated-ship is now with no fear of retributions, while those who waited would not escape the wrath.

3. Counter the message that TPLF wants to convey i.e defiance to the regime or being in the opposition camp would bring only miseries to your personal life or your family members (the case of Birtukan and Teddy Afro being current example) while those who are on its side would prosper and would have power over others. It is true it has been that way because we particularly in the diaspora did not use our financial muscle and abandoned those who have defied to their own fate. The way to counter this powerful message is the diaspora using its financial muscle and compensate/reward those who dare to defy. NOTE that I am not proposing MITSIWAT. Nobody likes our MITSIWAT to their family out of pity. What they need is our AGARNET. The way to show it is, when the regime crackdown and jail editor inorder to closedown or silence a newspaper, reward the newspaper from the ‘defiance’ fund so that it can hire another editor with higher salary and keep on publishing. The kind of message residents of FERENSAY LEGASION sent when they contributed money and awarded Birtukan a new car. These are the kind of messages the prodemocractic opposition has to covey in order to shorten the the days of Meles’s regime.

Such messages:

YE SEWUN LIB YADENEDINALU

QETLOM

KE ATR LAI YEQOMEWN KE TELAT CAMP WEDE WEGEN GORA INDIGEBA YAREGALU

ALEYAM

YELEYELET TELATN YASDENEGETALU

The writer of this article is following the foot steps of Prof. Alemayehu Gebremariam(Al Mariam). The similarity between Mr. Zeleke and Prof. Al is their effort on how they practice diction in their writings. They both try to articulate their articles by using jargons, heavy weight words and quoting known personalities from the west. One can easily identify their weakness of not understanding their society. How many of the internet browsing crowd know most of this heavy words.
I can somehow sympathize with a Prof. who is day in day out engaged with this types of vocabularies, and the same with Mr. Zeleke who sound like a book worm. But they both need to Tezibt college and correct these eroneous misunderstanding of the majority of our society. It is a very well known phenomenon in the west and particularly in the U.S. that “simplicity adds beauty to your substance in the story” means you have to write in the simplest way possible. One can look into New york times, The Post and amny other News papers editorials.
While I consider myself a fairly educated person. What education has done to me is, it allowed me to know that I don’t know any thing that I have to open my mind to continually learn, let alone be arrogant about it. What I have observed about Some educated Ethiopians is that they want to prove that they are better or they are well read, by the vocabularies they use. If you already earned your Phd or MA that is good enough for me, though I really have to know what kind of grades you made in college. There is no need to try to look like you know it all. I don’t have to look far. Though I don’t agree half the time, Elias does write some times and it is understandable to any person above ninth grade student. To understand the writings of both mentioned writers, you have to know some of the latin used by phylosophers and lawyers. To really have the grasp of thier articles, one has to be above the MA Degree level.
Not to go around the bush, I can say that this is typical arrogance. I am not going to put percentage because most of us know how many percent of our educated has this type of arrogance. But the really genius educated person with confidence wouldn’t worry about using elegant and complicated words but great ideas. My advice again is read popular editorials in famous news papers and you will understand what I am talking about. I hope this would do it because it is my first time to see some one bring this issue for discussion. This is good to impress westerners, like Meles does. Meles doesn’t have to worry about the substance as long as he keeps studying his vocabulary. That makes up for his jerky ideas. Most like him do use the vocabulary as an intimidation tactic. Though I know vocabulary is the sign of expanded critical thinking, it has no merit in this type of situation. I don’t think people would carry dictionary to read stuff like this. Simplified, short and to the point articles will be the choice of readers. Unless the subject is written for few elits or as a tit for tat type of war among the know it all types.

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I tried to read this above comment but I did not finish because I can’t undersand what the writer is talking or writing about.

So those of you wo wants to react, please make yor comment as clear and undarsandable as possible. Otherwise do not kill our time. Secondly, try to be timely and try also to say some thing new and worthy.

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