Beka is a slogan that calls for an end to the Woyanne rule in Ethiopia. Writing Beka slogan on walls is part of Tinsae Ethiopia’s civil resistance campaign that includes economic boycott, disabling Woyanne’s economic infrastructure, and helping create a transitional government to replace Woyanne. See photos here: http://tinsae.org/index/?p=15099
The arrest of of Tinsae Ethiopia's 2 senior leaders, Col Tadesse Muluneh and Col. Abebe Geresu, by Eritrean government is big setback, but the fledgling organization is regrouping and taking actions again. The two leaders were thrown in jail by Eritrean authorities just us Tinsae Ethiopia prepared to launch a civil resistance campaign in several cities in Ethiopia. I have lost any hope that the Eritrean gov't will play a positive role in helping bring change in Ethiopia. What the Eritrean gov't wants is puppet groups like TPDM that they can install in Arat Kilo -- the same way they brought TPLF to power, which turned out to be a disaster for them. Trying to install puppet groups like TPDM is already backfiring on the Eritrean regime. Currently, the level of resentment among Ethiopians toward the Eritrean gov't is back to where it was when Shabia and Woyanne were working together. This is because of the narrow-mindedness of the Eritrean leadership that resorted to a zero-sum game instead of working for a win-win situation for both Ethiopia and Eritrea. The arrest of Taddesse and Abebe, in particular, is unbelievably idiotic as it has absolutely no benefit for the Eritrean gov't, but the damage it has caused on the effort to forge a working relationship between Ethiopian opposition groups and Eritrean gov't is incalculable. The conventional Ethiopian thinking toward Shabia has turned out to be on the mark, and my theory that Shabia wants a genuine relation with Ethiopian opposition groups has been debunked by the actions of the Eritrean gov't itself. I came to this conclusion very reluctantly, and a recent nasty email exchange with a Shabia cadre in Washington DC named Amanuel Andeberhan tells it all. I will post that email exchange here in due time.




