Comments on: Minority ethnic domination of the military in Ethiopia

By: real ethiopian!

real ethiopian! — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:17:11 +0000

I am an ethiopian who is every single second proud of to be an ethiopian. But i am ashamed of ths regime,infact i am tigre and oromo in my father side and tigre amhara and oromo in my mother side. i speak tigrign,and amharic. my parents speak,tigrigna,amharic oromifa.

i hate regionalisime like weyane does and i hate ethinicisim like ONLF does: i like Birtukan who is nationalist.

i do no how we can win the weyane and onlf,specialy weyane. i know them deeply they are selfishhhhh,OMG!

please the tigrean ethiopians think over it to be in the side of ethiopian brothers and sisters to ficht against this regime,,,otherwise the same will happen as the Derg has done before.And this is bad for all. please wake up even the weyane didnt think about the whole tigreans but just collecting money,sitting on chair,laying,killing inoocent my and yours ethiopian brothers,sisters,fathers,kids,,,,how many of them. Alah knows….

there will be time for all,but that day if God will not be as always with as my beloved country might go to the dark,hell,chaos,…. please wach out….

May God remebers my lovely country as he does always!

Ethiopia lezelialem tinur!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:24:43 +0000

Sirafet says

This is for Lemlem. I totally agree with you that this is a deserved government for most of us including you who talk cheap and sit on our ass all day fantasizing and blaming/insulting others. However, if you were literate contrary to what you have said about the writer, you wouldn’t have said “Tigre is a respected tribe” because all tribes are equally respected. No tribe is less respected than others.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 31 May 2009 19:17:53 +0000

My message is not to tyrant Meles Zenawi. It is rather to the two majority ethnic groups. Namely the Oromos and the Amharas. Meles is laughing at you and makes a mockery out of you.The tyrant represents only 4-5% of 80ml.or so Ethiopian population. Yet two of you represent 74% of the whole population.Because of you fighting on past repressions turn by turn Meles is making to crowd the prison cell turn by turn. For the last three years it was only the Oromos who were targeted and have been facing torture and killings by Meles. Many Oromo lives have been perished as the result. 2009 is the Amharas turn the way observe it. As the statistics indicated All the major military and security positions are held by Tigrays who are supporters of the tyrants dictatorial regime. I see the name of two Agews which I do not have problem with though no one except the tyrant and his cronies who know how these two got into this high post. Here is where my message starts. How far or how many times the tyrant has to tell you for you to get it? From the very beginning he divided you along language line to control you. Then through its propaganda machine he continuously propagandized about the past repression in order to cover up his own repression on both of you turn by turn and made you to mock about the ethnic under attack forgetting that you turn on the corner. The tyrants plan even farther. If he could,to create Tigray elite to control the country foe many many years to come to control every thing that Ethiopia has. The economy The military the Social status and of course the political power which is the machine to execute all of the above. Among other things, even if it is very hard to bring down to minority the Oromos and the Amharas, he is doing exactly that by creating uneducated Amharas and Oromoos which he has already started. The evidence i.e. its education policy. So are both of you big ethnic groups waiting for God to come down and preach to you as the futurity of the Ethiopian society is risking danger?For the sake your people and the existence the Country I urge you work to gether and give the people the chance to hie or fire their Government Any time they find it necessary. Unless the Ethiopian peoples are in charge of their own Country The WOYANE lead tyranny will continue, so let specially these two ethnic s work together. I would like to end by saying HUNG togeter or YOU will be hung SEPARATELY by the Tyrant.

By: babu

babu — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:59:10 +0000

I know most of the above listed high rank officials and they do deserve the position. I do not believe wiz the question why all are from a single ethnic group. Merit matters.

By: Martha

Martha — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:55:31 +0000

I agree to some extent with Lemlem, as it is most likely that the Tigrai generals fought for the Derg’s overthrow in TPLF, and this is their payback. Nevertheeless, Obama may have been helped by the Jews, but he also made a concerted effort to make his appointments reflect all America, as he was elected by all Americans. Likewise the Derg was overthrown by all Ethiopians, but only Tigrians seem to be the prime benficiaries. I myself have Tigrian parents, and relatives all over Tigrai. My family is ashamed of, and is puzzled by, the deeds of this TPLF-dominated, and corrupt Ethiopian government and its insecurity. While it’s doing well in certain areas, its exclusiveness disgusts my family, and a large segment of the Tigrai population.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:27:16 +0000

The military is one of the major institutions of the Ethiopian government. This report confirms that the military is dominated by Tigrians, although the Derg was overthrown by the sacrifice made by all Ethiopians. Similar disproportionate power and influence of the Tigrians is witnessed in all sectors of the Ethiopian society today, which is the cause of resentment of many Ethiopians in all parts of the country, and the diaspora. The EPRDF/TPLF prides itself as a strong organization, because it corrects its own mistake as they are made. Here is this big blunder TPLF, and calls for an urgent correction before it’s too late. The Ethiopian people had enough of EPRDF/TPLF’s divide and rule policy, and its excesses. They are silently craving for a government that treats all its people equally, and place the country 1st before the party. EPRDF/TPLF ought to listen before its too late.

By: Lebyalew

Lebyalew — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:53:19 +0000

lemlem #24,

are u anti-jews??

By: Gabra

Gabra — Fri, 29 May 2009 06:40:31 +0000

Lemlem has the right observation about the Obama administration. I hope and pray for you that you will not be wrongfully labeled as anti-Semitic. Be very careful, sister. In the meantime, the set up in Ethiopia is quite literally different. There it is based on ethnic politics. Here in the USA it is rather based on accommodations, payback you will. They supported him during his campaign and he is paying back. But his pressure on Israel may create a fissure on this ‘uneasy’ alliance. We will see how it is going to play out. I don’t agree with him putting too much pressure on Israel. It is their homeland and they need space to live. As long Hamas is hurling killer rockets at innocent civilians at will, I will not have any problems with Benjamin Netanyahu building more residential houses for his people. Where is the place Arabs have constitutionally protected human and democratic rights? It is in Israel.

By: Melese

Melese — Fri, 29 May 2009 03:10:56 +0000

This is for lemlem, First of all try to understand the US administration, there is no any region established in line of ethnicity, it is a united (one) nation. Second of all, the assigned people, whether they are Jew, china, India, or semetic, mongol, nigro so and so forth, whoever they may be they are doing everything for the peoples. Mind, not for the jew only, or for Ethio only, but for all. Last of all, would you able to tell me the founder ethnic group of US.

However,

In Ethiopia, everywhere in Addis Tor hailoch hospital, Immigration office, and some key poisition in Ethiopian civil aviation, I can tell you that there is few ( may be for their politics) or no other nation.

The military force in the country

1. They are working to fill their belly
2.The experienced jangle fighter, if you look in to the journey of TPLF especially the tigria son and dau. are all killed.
3.Other nations in the military at least they have 18 years of experience,if the time is important that the intellect.
4. Take Samora, the experienced is the cause of >70,000 inosent ethiopian died in Eritrian soil for no importance. take the somalia case, even the PM said it is not important to talk about the ethiopian died in somali land, and I am not obliged to say anything. This is what you are saying the experience babe

Think about it, it is not fear.

By: hagos

hagos — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:04:16 +0000

stop whinning let’s go out and do something. enough is enough with this blood sucker regime.

By: Kumala

Kumala — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:24:10 +0000

Lemlem,

How come this “intelligent” generals happen to be exclusively from barbaric Tigre tribe? As an Oromo who have observed massacre of Oromo since 1991 by the murderous TPLF regime, I am afraid a situation akin to Rwanda is already on the making.

By: Selam

Selam — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:21:34 +0000

I don’t think this is the right way to talk about the wrong deeds of EPRDF. If we discriminate or talk about ethincity we will not have a peaceful transformation, which may have one time in the future. Such an approach will make things worse. I think this is not the wise way.

By: Solomon Bakir

Solomon Bakir — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:16:26 +0000

Hello Neamin,
You did great. There is no need to go around the bush and you have strted to tell the true nature of TPLF – We should fight TPLF by telling the truth to the world and Africans how apparteid is instituted in Ethiopia in the name of Ethenic Federalism. We need to collect information and data on what they are doing on all sectors of the economy, their colonization of part of Wollo and Gondar, the genecide they conducted on ethinic bases especially in Wolquit and Humera (ask the Wolquit group). The tragic error of the Ethiopian intellectual was to go on writing about matters that are irrelevant for the struggle- I think we are now discovering where to focus the enormous intellectual power: on the crucial nature the Woyannes and their disgusting moral depravity.I hoped some Tigrean intellectuals will tell the secret- but to my dissappointment the overwhelming majority are either silent supporters of TPLF or people who are creating another copy of TPLF just to oppose Meles or outright-fascist-and-nuerotic zombies.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:12:55 +0000

PLEASE TRY TO AIR ON VOA (AFAN OROMO AND AMHARIC) Program.

Eebbaa

By: tezibt

tezibt — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:00:36 +0000

By the way the writer seems to be illitrate about ethiopian ethnic names. Tigre is a respected and great ethnic that is in a nieghbouring Eritrea.

By: Tezibt

Tezibt — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:57:57 +0000

I guess any society gets leader that it deserves. For people who like to talk cheap and sit on their ass all day fantasizing, this could be a deserved government.

By: Helina

Helina — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:41:35 +0000

lemlem:
I don’t want to argue with you.I think the other ethnic groups like Oromo, Amhara, Sidama, Afar, Kefa, Anuwak… have the right to be leaders. Tigrians were not born with all the titles. They have got the opportunity and have been trained.If the other ethnic groups had the chance they would have been better than Tigrians.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:28:26 +0000

i like the points of lemlem

By: lemlem

lemlem — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:28:07 +0000

As to me those military leaders are well experienced and have the knowledge to lead.

By: Helina

Helina — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:27:36 +0000

To lemlem #14:
You don’t understand Ethiopian politics or what equal justice under the law is all about,if you will.Do you know what democracy is?First of all you are comparing USA and Ethiopia,two different countries which have nothing in common.No need of listing Obamas’s staffs.Ethiopian people is unwilling to work with woyannes because woyannes are lawless and don’t know equal justice under the law.They are doing every thing possible to build their region by oppressing others.

By: lemlem

lemlem — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:04:12 +0000

i did not say woyane is as democratic as the US. what i am saying is that the jews are eating the bigger slice of the pie under the obama administration. may be the jews make only 1% or less of the US population but they are over represented in the corridors of power in the obama white house. the reason is simple obama is comfortable with them and they contributed a lot in the civil right movement and it is now a pay back time.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:51:27 +0000

This kind of absolute dominance by TPLF won’t help Tigrians in the long run in any way rather; it is up to Tigrians to oppose and correct this kind of total ascendancy.

By: skewed lemlem

skewed lemlem — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:47:39 +0000

“…to be honest obama is doing the same: look how many jews are in key position even though they make less than one 6% of the US population”

how “brilliant lemlem” is to compare tyrany with the world’s best democracy!!!
don’t LOL, that is how woyanes think, skin depth, no see tomorrow. a dictionary of bad words does not suffice to describe them.

By: Tola

Tola — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:30:45 +0000

WOREGNA Lemlem, please do not try to compare the Barbarian criminal Woyannes with the American society and the Jew ethnic group.

Tola

By: Nagasso Gidada

Nagasso Gidada — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:29:43 +0000

My only frustration is that there are tens of thousands of privates and non-commissioned Oromo, Amara, Wolayita, Gurage, Sidama, Kambata, Agnuak etc in the Army under this illiterate so called Tigre “Generals and Colonels” – why can’t the non-Tigres mentioned above take care of this Tigre thugs – of course you know what I mean!!!